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 …

Are the ultra-high-redshift galaxies at z > 10 surprising in the context of standard galaxy formation models?

LYA Yung, RS Somerville, SL Finkelstein… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A substantial number of ultra-high redshift (8≲ z≲ 17) galaxy candidates have
been detected with JWST, posing the question: Are these observational results surprising in …

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) …

The impact of the first galaxies on cosmic dawn and reionization

JB Munoz, Y Qin, A Mesinger, SG Murray… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The formation of the first galaxies during cosmic dawn and reionization (at redshifts z= 5–
30), triggered the last major phase transition of our universe, as hydrogen evolved from cold …

Near infrared spectroscopy and star-formation histories of 3≤ z≤ 4 quiescent galaxies

C Schreiber, K Glazebrook, T Nanayakkara… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We present Keck–MOSFIRE H and K spectra for a sample of 24 candidate quiescent
galaxies at 3< z< 4, identified from their rest-frame UVJ colors and photometric redshifts in …

Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II): a new radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the self-consistent coupling of galaxy formation and reionization

P Ocvirk, D Aubert, JG Sorce, PR Shapiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II) is a new, fully coupled radiation-hydrodynamics
simulation of cosmic reionization and galaxy formation and their mutual impact, to redshift z< …

No evidence for a significant AGN contribution to cosmic hydrogen reionization

S Parsa, JS Dunlop, RJ McLure - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We reinvestigate a claimed sample of 22 X-ray detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
redshifts z> 4, which has reignited the debate as to whether young galaxies or AGN …

Reionization with galaxies and active galactic nuclei

P Dayal, M Volonteri, TR Choudhury… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In this work we investigate the properties of the sources that reionized the intergalactic
medium (IGM) in the high-redshift Universe. Using a semi-analytical model aimed at …

Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST – II. Physical properties and scaling relations for galaxies at z = 4–10

LYA Yung, RS Somerville, G Pop**… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The long anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be able to
directly detect large samples of galaxies at very high redshift. Using the well-established …

The prevalence of galaxy overdensities around UV-luminous Lyman 𝛼 emitters in the Epoch of Reionization

E Leonova, PA Oesch, Y Qin, RP Naidu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Before the end of the Epoch of Reionization, the Hydrogen in the Universe was
predominantly neutral. This leads to a strong attenuation of Ly α lines of z≳ 6 galaxies in the …