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 …

Cool gas in high-redshift galaxies

CL Carilli, F Walter - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, observations of the cool interstellar medium (ISM) in distant galaxies
via molecular and atomic fine structure line (FSL) emission have gone from a curious look …

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: A candidate z∼ 12 galaxy in early JWST CEERS imaging

SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, PA Haro… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z∼ 12 in the first epoch of
the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science …

Early results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy candidates at z∼ 9–15

M Castellano, A Fontana, T Treu… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a first search for galaxy candidates at z∼ 9–15 on deep seven-
band NIRCam imaging acquired as part of the GLASS-James Webb Space Telescope …

Pure spectroscopic constraints on UV luminosity functions and cosmic star formation history from 25 galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20 confirmed with JWST/NIRSpec

Y Harikane, K Nakajima, M Ouchi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present pure spectroscopic constraints on the UV luminosity functions and cosmic star
formation rate (SFR) densities from 25 galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20. By reducing the …

Evolution of the UV LF from z ∼ 15 to z ∼ 8 using new JWST NIRCam medium-band observations over the HUDF/XDF

RJ Bouwens, M Stefanon, G Brammer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the first constraints on the prevalence of z> 10 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field (HUDF) leveraging new NIRCam observations from JEMS (JWST Extragalactic …

The brightest galaxies at cosmic dawn

CA Mason, M Trenti, T Treu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent JWST observations suggest an excess of z≳ 10 galaxy candidates above most
theoretical models. Here, we explore how the interplay between halo formation time-scales …

JWST UNCOVER: extremely red and compact object at z phot≃ 7.6 triply imaged by A2744

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, A Plat, S Fujimoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent JWST/NIRCam imaging taken for the ultra-deep UNCOVER program reveals a very
red dropout object at z phot≃ 7.6, triply imaged by the galaxy cluster A2744 (zd= 0.308). All …

The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9

X Shen, M Vogelsberger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations have revealed a population of galaxies bright enough that
potentially challenge standard galaxy formation models in the Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) …

The galaxy UV luminosity function at z ≃ 11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs

DJ McLeod, CT Donnan, RJ McLure… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function
(LF) over the redshift range 9.5< z< 12.5 based on a wide-area (> 250 arcmin2) data set of …