Two remarkably luminous galaxy candidates at z≈ 10–12 revealed by JWST

RP Naidu, PA Oesch, P van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The first few 100 Myr at z> 10 mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the
universe, where only a single galaxy (GN-z11 at z≈ 11) is currently spectroscopically …

Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10

BE Robertson, S Tacchella, BD Johnson, K Hainline… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered
candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have …

Stellar population inference with Prospector

BD Johnson, J Leja, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Inference of the physical properties of stellar populations from observed photometry and
spectroscopy is a key goal in the study of galaxy evolution. In recent years, the quality and …

On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z= 9–11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times

S Tacchella, SL Finkelstein, M Bagley… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright (H< 26.6) galaxies at z= 9–11
(three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical enrichment and growth of …

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) …

Bursty star formation naturally explains the abundance of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left
(z\gtrsim 10\right) $ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In …

Low-mass bursty galaxies in JADES efficiently produce ionizing photons and could represent the main drivers of reionization

C Simmonds, S Tacchella, K Hainline… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We use deep imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) to
study the evolution of the ionizing photon production efficiency, ξion. We estimate ξion for a …

The synchrony of production and escape: half the bright Lyα emitters at z ≈ 2 have Lyman continuum escape fractions ≈50

RP Naidu, J Matthee, PA Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ionizing photon escape fraction [Lyman continuum (LyC) f esc] of star-forming galaxies
is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit …

Feedback-free starbursts at cosmic dawn-Observable predictions for JWST

Z Li, A Dekel, KC Sarkar, H Aung, M Giavalisco… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. We extend the analysis of a physical model within the standard cosmology that
robustly predicts a high star-formation efficiency (SFE) in massive galaxies at cosmic dawn …

Pre-supernova feedback mechanisms drive the destruction of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It is a major open question which physical processes stop gas accretion on to giant
molecular clouds (GMCs) and limit the efficiency at which gas is converted into stars. While …