Environment of galaxies in the 5 CANDELS fields

We apply this method to galaxies brighter than Hubble Space Telescope/F160w<=26 AB mag in the redshift range 0.4<=z<=5 in the five CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, UDS, and COSMOS). We then use these measurements to explore the environmental dependence of the star formation activity of galaxies.

We find strong evidence of environmental quenching for massive galaxies (M>~10^11^M_{sun}_) out to z~3.5 such that an overdense environment hosts >~20% more massive quiescent galaxies than an underdense region. We also find that environmental quenching efficiency grows with stellar mass and reaches ~60% for massive galaxies at z~0.5. The environmental quenching is also more efficient than stellar mass quenching for low-mass galaxies (M>~10^10^M_{sun}_) at low and intermediate redshifts (z<~1.2).