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Distribution of mass and Hα-derived SFR of our sample of 1598 galaxies (purple contours). Also shown are the main sequence fits from Ciesla et al. (2024) for 6 < z < 7 galaxies, from McClymont et al. (2025) for z ∼ 6, and from Cole et al. (2025) for 5 < z < 6. The shaded green area represents the 0.5 dex scatter in the main sequence reported by Ciesla et al. (2024). The starred points are the 14 dormant galaxies selected in this work and the filled circles are those reported to date at z > 5: at z = 5.2 (Strait et al. 2023), at z = 7.3 (Looser et al. 2024), at z = 7.3 (Weibel et al. 2025), and at z = 8.5 (Baker et al. 2025a); Hα cannot be observed for the sources at z > 7.4, and therefore we plot SFR10 instead of SFRHα for those literature sources. We observe that all of our dormant galaxies lie below the main sequence and span a stellar mass range of M* ∼ 107.6 − 1010.5M, without an empty gap between the low- and high-mass regime.

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