J/AJ/168/113ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/168/113doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51680113CDSChworowsky K.Finkelstein S.L.Boylan-Kolchin M.McGrath E.J.,Iyer K.G.Papovich C.Dickinson M.Taylor A.J.Yung L.Y.A.,Arrabal Haro P.Bagley M.B.Backhaus B.E.Bhatawdekar R.Cheng Y.,Cleri N.J.Cole J.W.Cooper M.C.Costantin L.Dekel A.Franco M.,Fujimoto S.Hayward C.C.Holwerda B.W.Huertas-Company M.,Hirschmann M.Hutchison T.A.Koekemoer A.M.Larson R.L.Li Z.,Long A.S.Lucas R.A.Pirzkal N.Rodighiero G.Somerville R.S.,Vanderhoof B.N.de la Vega A.Wilkins S.M.Yang G.Zavala J.A.2026-02-11T20:01:51Z2025-02-06T13:53:13ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiesinfrared-sourcesredshiftedinfrared-astronomyspectroscopyinfrared-photometrystellar-massesWe analyze the evolution of massive (log_10_[M_*_/M_{sun}_]>10) galaxies at z~1-4 selected from JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey (CEERS). We infer the physical properties of all galaxies in the CEERS NIRCam imaging through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting with dense basis to select a sample of high-redshift massive galaxies. Where available we include constraints from additional CEERS observing modes, including 18 sources with MIRI photometric coverage, and 28 sources with spectroscopic confirmations from NIRSpec or NIRCam WFSS. We sample the recovered posteriors in stellar mass from SED fitting to infer the volume densities of massive galaxies across cosmic time, taking into consideration the potential for sample contamination by active galactic nuclei. We find that the evolving abundance of massive galaxies tracks expectations based on a constant baryon conversion efficiency in dark matter halos for z~1-4. At higher redshifts, we observe an excess abundance of massive galaxies relative to this simple model, resulting in a shallower decline of observed volume densities of massive galaxies. These higher abundances can be explained by modest changes to star formation physics and/or the efficiencies with which star formation occurs in massive dark matter halos, and are not in tension with modern cosmology.2024AJ....168..113Chttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/168/113CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toJ/A+A/523/A64 : UV properties of starbursts (Raiter+, 2010)J/ApJ/777/18 : Stellar mass functions of galaxies to z=4 (Muzzin+, 2013)J/MNRAS/462/4336 : GAMA. Stellar mass budget (Moffett+, 2016)J/ApJS/229/32 : CANDELS: multiwavelength cat. in the EGS (Stefanon+, 2017)J/ApJ/898/171 : CLEAR. II. SFRs of quiescent gal. (Estrada-Carpenter+, 2020)J/ApJS/253/4 : SuperBoRG: HST parallel imaging data (Morishita, 2021)J/ApJS/258/11 : The COSMOS2020 catalog (Weaver+, 2022)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/168/113https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/168/113http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/168/113https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/168/113https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/168/113http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/168/113GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/AJ/168/113/table1 (Properties of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey (CEERS) massive galaxy sample)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/168/113/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/168/113/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/168/113/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true214.7372152.727420.0055555555555555566/114256.400783204917538e-20 8.242830545463164e-20https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/AJ/168/113?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/AJ/168/113/table1Properties of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey (CEERS) massive galaxy samplerecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintCEERS[1179/100748] CEERS identifiermeta.id;meta.mainintRAJ2000[214.7/215.2] Right Ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000[52.7/53.1] Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainF277Wmag[22.9/27.4] Apparent JWST F277W band AB magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.KfloatlogMs[10/11] Log stellar masslog(solMass)phys.massfloatE_logMs[0/0.4] Upper uncertainty in logMslog(solMass)stat.error;stat.max;phys.massfloate_logMs[0.07/1] Lower uncertainty in logMslog(solMass)stat.error;stat.min;phys.massfloatzphot[4/7.64] Photometric redshiftsrc.redshift.photfloatE_zphot[0/0.6] Upper uncertainty in zphotstat.error;stat.max;src.redshift.photfloate_zphot[0/0.7] Lower uncertainty in zphotstat.error;stat.min;src.redshift.photfloatzspec[4.48/6.75]? Spectroscopic redshiftsrc.redshift;em.IRfloatnullableMIRI[0/1] Available MIRI detection (1=true)meta.codeintERO[0/1] Classified as an "extremely red object" (1=true)meta.code.classintWFSS[0/1] 1=NIRCam WFSS spectroscopic redshiftmeta.code;instrintPRISM[0/1] 1=NIRSpec spectroscopic redshiftmeta.code;instrintSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar