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  "abstract": "Understanding how galaxies populate and grow within dark matter haloes is essential for linking the observed evolution of galaxies to the hierarchical growth of structure. We present a galaxy clustering analysis using optical and near-infrared data from the UltraVISTA and VIDEO surveys covering $9.3$ deg$^2$ across the COSMOS, XMM-LSS and ECDF-S fields, $\\sim 5\\times$ larger than previous comparable studies, providing sufficient volume to determine the halo occupation of the most massive galaxies to $z\\sim 4$. We measure the angular two-point correlation function for stellar-mass-selected galaxies over $0.25<z<4$ and by combining the three fields, we reduce the cosmic variance by a factor of $\\sim2$ compared to the individual fields. The stellar-to-halo mass ratio peaks at a halo mass of $M_{h}\\approx10^{12} {\\rm M}_{\\odot}$ and is a maximum at $z\\sim 1$. For the most massive galaxies, the peak halo mass ($M_{h}^{\\rm peak}$) increases from $z=1\\rightarrow 0$, while the peak stellar mass in such haloes remains approximately constant, indicating that at $z<1$ massive galaxy formation becomes less efficient. We also find a steady increase in the satellite fraction since $z\\sim 1$, from which we infer that massive halos continue to grow hierarchically while their central galaxies experience suppressed stellar-mass growth. We suggest this is due to the central massive galaxies having their growth controlled by feedback from active galactic nuclei feedback, likely from low-power stochastic radio emission.",
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      "name": "Natalia Stylianou"
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    {
      "name": "Matt J. Jarvis"
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    {
      "name": "Rohan G. Varadaraj"
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    {
      "name": "Peter W. Hatfield"
    },
    {
      "name": "Joel Hamlett"
    },
    {
      "name": "Catherine L. Hale"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tariq Yasin"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dn508sf6028ny.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2610.19030",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.19030",
  "pmcid": null,
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  "published": "2026-10-13",
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  "title": "The connection between massive galaxies and their dark matter haloes from $z=0.25$ to $z \\sim 4$ from the combined COSMOS, XMM-LSS and ECDF-S fields",
  "title_text": "The connection between massive galaxies and their dark matter haloes from z=0.25 to z ∼ 4 from the combined COSMOS, XMM-LSS and ECDF-S fields",
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  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:29:31Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dn508sf6028ny",
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