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 …

JADES imaging of GN-z11: revealing the morphology and environment of a luminous galaxy 430 Myr after the Big Bang

S Tacchella, DJ Eisenstein, K Hainline… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRCam nine-band near-infrared imaging of the luminous z= 10.6 galaxy
GN-z11 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey of the GOODS-N field. We find …

Galaxy Formation in ΛCDM Cosmology

JR Primack - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
This is a golden age for galaxy formation: Existing and especially new telescopes are
providing observations that challenge and illuminate rapidly improving theory and …

EPOCHS VI: the size and shape evolution of galaxies since z ∼ 8 with JWST Observations

K Ormerod, CJ Conselice, NJ Adams… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
We present the results of a size and structural analysis of 1395 galaxies at 0.5≤ z≲ 8 with
stellar masses log (M*/M⊙)> 9.5 within the James Webb Space Telescope Public CEERS …

Seen and unseen: bursty star formation and its implications for observations of high-redshift galaxies with JWST

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Both observations and simulations have shown strong evidence for highly time-variable star
formation in low-mass and/or high-redshift galaxies, which has important observational …

The JWST Hubble sequence: the rest-frame optical evolution of galaxy structure at 1.5< z< 6.5

L Ferreira, CJ Conselice, E Sazonova… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present results on the morphological and structural evolution of a total of 3956 galaxies
observed with JWST at 1.5< z< 6.5 in the JWST CEERS observations that overlap with the …

Regular rotation and low turbulence in a diverse sample of z ∼ 4.5 galaxies observed with ALMA

F Roman-Oliveira, F Fraternali… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The discovery of galaxies with regularly rotating discs at redshifts≥ 4 has been a puzzling
challenge to galaxy formation models that tend to predict chaotic gas kinematics in the early …

Are we surprised to find SMBHs with JWST at z ≥ 9?

R Schneider, R Valiante, A Trinca… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST is unveiling for the first time accreting black holes (BHs) with masses of
106− 107 M⊙ at z> 4, with the most distant residing in GNz11 at z= 10.6. Are we really …

Dynamically cold disks in the early Universe: Myth or reality?

M Kohandel, A Pallottini, A Ferrara, A Zanella… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
Context. Theoretical models struggle to reproduce dynamically cold disks with significant
rotation-to-dispersion support (V rot/σ) observed in star-forming galaxies in the early …

The rapid onset of stellar bars in the baryon-dominated centers of disk galaxies

J Bland-Hawthorn, T Tepper-Garcia… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations of high-redshift galactic disks (z≈ 1–3) show a strong negative trend in
the dark-matter (DM) fraction f DM with increasing baryon surface density. For this to be true …