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 …

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 …

Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early Universe

P Arrabal Haro, M Dickinson, SL Finkelstein… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed,
seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

JADES: Probing interstellar medium conditions at z∼ 5.5–9.5 with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

AJ Cameron, A Saxena, AJ Bunker… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present emission-line ratios from a sample of 27 Lyman-break galaxies from z∼ 5.5− 9.5
with− 17.0< M 1500<− 20.4, measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec multi-object …

Life beyond 30: Probing the− 20< M UV<− 17 Luminosity Function at 8< z< 13 with the NIRCam Parallel Field of the MIRI Deep Survey

PG Pérez-González, L Costantin… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the ultraviolet luminosity function and an estimate of the cosmic star formation
rate density at 8< z< 13 derived from deep NIRCam observations taken in parallel with the …

Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density 300 Myr after the Big Bang

B Robertson, BD Johnson, S Tacchella… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field, the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of ancillary Hubble Space Telescope …

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 …

Galaxy build-up in the first 1.5 Gyr of cosmic history: insights from the stellar mass function at z ~ 4–9 from JWST NIRCam observations

A Weibel, PA Oesch, L Barrufet… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Combining the public JWST/NIRCam imaging programs CEERS, PRIMER, and JADES,
spanning a total area of, we obtain a sample of 30 000 galaxies at that allows us to perform …