Average CVC profiles. Left: median curve of the CVC profiles for each quenching stage group from star-forming to fully retired galaxies. Right: median of the CVC profiles, normalised with respect to the asymptotic velocity for each quenching-stage group. The uncertainty bands correspond to the 25th percentile (below) and the 75th percentile (above) of the median distribution. To smooth the median CVCs and the percentile profiles, we apply the Savitzky-Golay smoothing filter (Savitzky & Golay 1964) by adopting a third-degree polynomial and a 21-point wide sliding window (see Sect. 3).