We study the stellar mass function (SMF) of quiescent and star-forming galaxies and its dependence on morphology in ten redshift bins at 0. 20. 6) dominate the quiescent SMF at ̊m log ̊m M_⊙) >10 at all redshifts, while disk systems (B/T10 quiescent galaxies are lower than in the recent literature by 0. 1-0. 7 dex, but agree well with cosmological galaxy formation simulations at 23, simulations increasingly underpredict the observations. Finally, we built a simple empirical model to describe the redshift evolution of galaxy number densities by parameterizing the quenching rate of all and bulge-dominated galaxies, stellar fraction, and bulge formation function. Our model is consistent with an evolutionary scenario where star-forming galaxies grow a central bulge before permanently quenching in massive halos.
Shuntov et al. (Fri,) studied this question.