Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space Telescope

BE Robertson - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in late 2021 marks a new start for
studies of galaxy formation at high redshift (z≳ 6) during the era of cosmic reionization …

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 …

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 …

Two remarkably luminous galaxy candidates at z≈ 10–12 revealed by JWST

RP Naidu, PA Oesch, P van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The first few 100 Myr at z> 10 mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the
universe, where only a single galaxy (GN-z11 at z≈ 11) is currently spectroscopically …

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 …

A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z= 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH∼ 106–108 M⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties

Y Harikane, Y Zhang, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z> 4 identified by
JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec= 3.8–8.9 confirmed …

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 …

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: A candidate z∼ 12 galaxy in early JWST CEERS imaging

SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, PA Haro… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z∼ 12 in the first epoch of
the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science …

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 …

CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam imaging: reduction methods and simulations enabling early JWST science results

MB Bagley, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the data release and data reduction process for the Epoch 1 NIRCam
observations for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). These data …