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Upper panels: Field-to-field variations in the SMF with the same selection criteria as previously. We also plot the fitted SMF from Weaver et al. (2023) in blue for their quiescent galaxy sample. Left for z = 2 − 2.5, middle for z = 2.5 − 3.0 and right for z = 3.0 − 3.5. We see significant field-to-field variations underlining the effects of cosmic variance in small field observations. This increases at higher redshifts. Lower panels: Same, but using a stricter UVJ cut to better replicate the selection criteria of previous works McLeod et al. (2021), Weaver et al. (2023). The observed quiescent galaxy SMFs from this strict UVJ selection are denoted by the green line. We find greater consistency with the Weaver et al. (2023) and McLeod et al. (2021) results, highlighting the importance of selection criteria in obtaining as many quiescent galaxies as possible. We plot the SMF for the sample with our main selection criteria as the black line, showing how the largest difference between the selection criteria is for low-mass quiescent galaxies and at higher redshifts.
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