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In the Local Group, nearly all of the dwarf galaxies
($\mstar < 10 ^ 9 \msun$) ($\mstar<10^9\msun$) that are satellites within
$300 \kpc$ $300\kpc$ (the virial radius) of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) have quiescent star formation and little-to-no cold gas.
This contrasts strongly with the more isolated dwarf galaxies at larger distances, which are almost all actively star-forming and gas-rich.
This near dichotomy implies that environmental processes within the halos of the MW and M31 \emph{rapidly} remove gas and quench star formation in satellites after infall.
We combine the observed
high quiescent fractions
of for satellites of the MW/M31 with the virial-infall times of satellites in the ELVIS suite of cosmological simulations of MW/M31-like halos to infer
statistically the
typical timescales over which
environmental processes quench satellite dwarf galaxies
are environmentally quenched. after infall.
The quenching timescales at $\mstar<10^8\msun$ are short: $< 2 - 3 \gyr$, depending on whether environmental preprocessing in lower-mass groups is important.
We compare with the timescales for more massive satellites from the literature, which suggests that environmental quenching timescales
are longest ($\approx 9.5\gyr$) for satellites increase rapidly with satellite mass to $\approx 9.5\gyr$ at $\mstar \approx 10 ^ 9 \msun$
and but then rapidly decrease to
$<5\gyr$ $\less 5\gyr$ at $\mstar>5\times 10^9\msun$.
Thus, Magellanic-Cloud-mass satellites have the longest environmental quenching timescales.