COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

CM Casey, JS Kartaltepe, NE Drakos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hr
treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of …

Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025‏ - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

The James Webb space telescope mission

JP Gardner, JC Mather, R Abbott, JS Abell… - Publications of the …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We summarize the history, concept, scientific program, and technical performance of the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, Webb; Gardner et al. 2006). This paper points to and …

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 four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3–13.2

E Curtis-Lake, S Carniani, A Cameron, S Charlot… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Finding and characterizing the first galaxies that illuminated the early universe at cosmic
dawn is pivotal to understand the physical conditions and the processes that led to the …

A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre …

Y Harikane, M Ouchi, M Oguri, Y Ono… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a comprehensive study on dropout galaxy candidates at z∼ 9–16 using the first
90 arcmin 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images taken 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 …

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 …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates

M Boylan-Kolchin - Nature Astronomy, 2023‏ - nature.com
Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a bevy of high-
redshift galaxy candidates with unexpectedly high stellar masses. An immediate concern is …