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 …

JADES: The production and escape of ionizing photons from faint Lyman-alpha emitters in the epoch of reionization

A Saxena, AJ Bunker, GC Jones, DP Stark… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We present the properties of 17 faint Lyman-α emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z> 5.8 from the
JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) spectroscopic data in the Hubble Ultra …

Cosmic Reionization in the JWST Era: Back to AGNs?

P Madau, E Giallongo, A Grazian… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Deep surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an emergent
population of moderate-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at 4≲ z≲ 13 …

Rapid reionization by the oligarchs: the case for massive, UV-bright, star-forming galaxies with high escape fractions

RP Naidu, S Tacchella, CA Mason, S Bose… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The protagonists of the last great phase transition of the universe—cosmic reionization—
remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are found …

The synchrony of production and escape: half the bright Lyα emitters at z ≈ 2 have Lyman continuum escape fractions ≈50

RP Naidu, J Matthee, PA Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ionizing photon escape fraction [Lyman continuum (LyC) f esc] of star-forming galaxies
is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit …

Low-redshift Lyman continuum leaking galaxies with high [O iii]/[O ii] ratios

YI Izotov, G Worseck, D Schaerer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present observations with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope of five star-forming galaxies at redshifts in the range 0.2993–0.4317 and …

Inferences on the timeline of reionization at z ∼ 8 from the KMOS Lens-Amplified Spectroscopic Survey

CA Mason, A Fontana, T Treu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Detections and non-detections of Lyman alpha (Lyα) emission from z> 6 galaxies (< 1 Gyr
after the big bang) can be used to measure the timeline of cosmic reionization. Of key …

The Lyman continuum escape survey: ionizing radiation from [O III]-strong sources at a redshift of 3.1

TJ Fletcher, M Tang, BE Robertson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the LymAn Continuum Escape Survey (LACES), a Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) program designed to characterize the ionizing radiation emerging from a …

Lyman continuum leaker candidates at z∼ 3–4 in the HDUV based on a spectroscopic sample of MUSE LAEs

J Kerutt, PA Oesch, L Wisotzki, A Verhamme… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. In recent years, a number of Lyman continuum (LyC) leaker candidates have been
found at intermediate redshifts, providing insight into how the Universe was reionised at …

MMT/MMIRS spectroscopy of z = 1.3 - 2.4 extreme [O iii] emitters: implications for galaxies in the reionization era

M Tang, DP Stark, J Chevallard… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Galaxies in the reionization era have been shown to have prominent [O iii]+ H β emission.
Little is known about the gas conditions and radiation field of this population, making it …