Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Observations of the Lyman-α Universe

M Ouchi, Y Ono, T Shibuya - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen Lyman-α (Lyα) emission has been one of the major observational probes for the
high-redshift Universe since the first discoveries of high-z Lyα-emitting galaxies in the late …

JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman-α emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in az= 10.60 luminous galaxy

AJ Bunker, A Saxena, AJ Cameron, CJ Willott… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present JADES JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of GN-z11, the most luminous candidate
z> 10 Lyman break galaxy in the GOODS-North field with M UV=− 21.5. We derive a redshift …

A JWST/NIRSpec first census of broad-line AGNs at z= 4–7: detection of 10 faint AGNs with M BH∼ 106–108 M⊙ and their host galaxy properties

Y Harikane, Y Zhang, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z> 4 identified by
JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec= 3.8–8.9 confirmed …

A population of red candidate massive galaxies~ 600 Myr after the Big Bang

I Labbé, P van Dokkum, E Nelson, R Bezanson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified,–
out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang. It has been difficult to …

Spectroscopic Confirmation of CEERS NIRCam-selected Galaxies at z≃ 8–10

PA Haro, M Dickinson, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of seven galaxies selected from Cosmic
Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey NIRCam imaging with photometric …

Most of the photons that reionized the Universe came from dwarf galaxies

H Atek, I Labbé, LJ Furtak, I Chemerynska, S Fujimoto… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The identification of sources driving cosmic reionization, a major phase transition from
neutral hydrogen to ionized plasma around 600–800 Myr after the Big Bang,–, has been a …

The complete CEERS early universe galaxy sample: a surprisingly slow evolution of the space density of bright galaxies at z∼ 8.5–14.5

SL Finkelstein, GCK Leung, MB Bagley… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a sample of 88 candidate z∼ 8.5–14.5 galaxies selected from the completed
NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science survey. These data …

A CEERS discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: identifying a progenitor of massive z> 6 quasars

RL Larson, SL Finkelstein, DD Kocevski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z= 8.679. This galaxy,
denoted here as CEERS_1019, was previously discovered as a Lyα-break galaxy by …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …