Quasars and the intergalactic medium at cosmic dawn

X Fan, E Bañados, RA Simcoe - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Quasars at cosmic dawn provide powerful probes of the formation and growth of the earliest
supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe, their connections to galaxy and …

New insights into the evolution of massive stars and their effects on our understanding of early galaxies

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The observable characteristics and subsequent evolution of young stellar populations is
dominated by their massive stars. As our understanding of those massive stars and the …

Hidden little monsters: spectroscopic identification of low-mass, broad-line AGNs at z> 5 with CEERS

DD Kocevski, M Onoue, K Inayoshi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery of two low-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at
z> 5 identified using JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release …

CEERS key paper. I. An early look into the first 500 Myr of galaxy formation with JWST

SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic
Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS programs …

Little red dots: an abundant population of faint active galactic nuclei at z∼ 5 revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST surveys

J Matthee, RP Naidu, G Brammer… - The Astrophysical …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Characterizing the prevalence and properties of faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the
early Universe is key for understanding the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) …

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 …

The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

CT Donnan, DJ McLeod, JS Dunlop… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
We reduce and analyse the available JWST ERO and ERS NIRCam imaging (SMACS0723,
GLASS, CEERS) in combination with the latest deep ground-based near-infrared imaging in …

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 …

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 …

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 …