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Figure 4

From: A population of faint, old, and massive quiescent galaxies at \(3<z<4\) revealed by JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy

Figure 4

The best-fit SFHs of our galaxies. The blue vertical lines indicate the time at which each galaxy formed 50% of its stellar mass, with the associated \(3\sigma\) error parameterized by 1000 MCMC iterations is depicted by the blue shaded region. We show the quenching time, as defined by S18 (the time at which the galaxy’s Star Formation Rate (SFR) falls below \(10\%\) of its primary SFR episode, as detailed in Section 4.1 of S18), by orange vertical lines. The associated error is shaded in orange. The black vertical line represents the age of the Universe when the galaxy is being observed. For each galaxy, the top panels depict the improved constraints acquired through our JWST/NIRSpec observations. The lower panels (below the dotted lines) present constraints reported in S18. For clarity, we use vertical dashed lines to represent the best-fit S18 values.

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