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Blue circles show the satellite galaxies in the MW and M31, and we shade the lowest $\mstar$ bin lighter to highlight caution in interpretation because of reionization, as explained above.
We derive error bars from the 68\% uncertainty in the observed quiescent fractions in Figure~\ref{fig:quiescent_fraction}; these uncertainties are typically larger than the host-to-host scatter in satellites' infall times in ELVIS.
As explored in \citet{Wetzel2015}, many satellites first fell into a another host halo (group), typically of $\mvir=10^{10-12}\msun$, before falling into the MW/M31
halo. halos.
Because the importance this environmental preprocessing in lower-mass groups remains unclear, we present quenching timescales both including and neglecting such group preprocessing.
Thus, the left panel of Figure~\ref{fig:quench_times} uses time since infall into the MW/M31
halo, halos, ignoring group preprocessing, while the right panel uses time since infall into \emph{any} host halo, including group preprocessing.
The latter results in longer quenching timescales, though it primarily shifts the upper 16\% of the distribution.
Both panels show shorter median quenching timescales for less massive satellites: $\sim5\gyr$ at $\mstar=10^{8-9}\msun$, $2-3\gyr$ at $\mstar=10^{7-8}\msun$, and less than $1.5\gyr$ at $\mstar<10^7\msun$, depending on the inclusion of group preprocessing.
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Altogether, Figure~\ref{fig:quench_times} indicates a complex dependence of the environmental quenching timescale on satellite $\mstar$.
Specifically, the typical timescale for satellites in the MW/M31 halos increases with $\mstar$, from $\lesssim1\gyr$ at $\mstar<10^7\msun$ to $\sim5\gyr$ at $\mstar\approx10^{8.5}\msun$.
\citet{Wheeler2014} indicate that this mass dependence continues, though with a rapid increase ($\sim2\times$) to $\approx9.5\gyr$, and no change from $\mstar\approx10^{8.5}$ to $10^{9.5}\msun$.
This rapid increase implies some tension with our results, specifically, the two satellites of M31, NGC 205 and M32 ($\mstar\approx10^{8.5}\msun$), unless either (1) both experienced unusually early infall
$>9.5\gyr$ replace_contentgt;9.5\gyr$ ago, or (2) M31 quenches its satellites particularly rapidly, even compared with the massive hosts in \citet{Wheeler2014}.
%(\citeauthor{Wheeler2014}'s results are consistent with the star-forming LMC/SMC of the MW.)
Finally, \citet{Wetzel2013} indicate that the quenching timescale rapidly \emph{decreases} at $\mstar>5\times10^9\msun$ and continues to decline with increasing $\mstar$.
Overall, the typical environmental quenching timescales are shortest for the lowest-mass satellites and is longest for satellites with $\mstar\sim10^9\msun$ (roughly Magellanic-Cloud mass).