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astro-ph.HE2025

Peering into the heart of darkness with VLBA : Radio Quiet AGN in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field

Payaswini Saikia, Ramon Wrzosek, Joseph Gelfand +27

We present initial results from the 4.8 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field (TDF). From 106 radio sources found in the Karl…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Extended [CII] under Construction? Observation of the brightest high-z lensed star-forming galaxy at z = 6.2

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Akio K. Inoue, Dan Coe +26

We present results of [CII] emission line observations, and report the spectroscopic redshift confirmation of a strongly lensed () star-forming galaxy, M…

astro-ph.GA2019

Using ALMA to resolve the nature of the early star-forming large-scale structure PLCK G073.4-57.5

Rüdiger Kneissl, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Clement Martinache +10

Galaxy clusters at high redshift are key targets for understanding matter assembly in the early Universe, yet they are challenging to locate. A sample of >2000 high-z candidate str…

astro-ph.CO2019

Inflation and Dark Energy from spectroscopy at

Simone Ferraro, Michael J. Wilson, Muntazir Abidi +140

The expansion of the Universe is understood to have accelerated during two epochs: in its very first moments during a period of Inflation and much more recently, at , when D…

astro-ph.GA2019

Metal-enriched Galaxies in the First ~1 Billion Years: Evidence of a Smooth Metallicity Evolution at z ~ 5

Suraj Poudel, Varsha P. Kulkarni, Frances H. Cashman +4

We present seven new abundance measurements of the elements O, C and Si at z > 4.5, doubling the existing sample of weakly depleted elements in gas-rich galaxies, in order to const…

astro-ph.GA2020

RELICS: Spectroscopy of gravitationally-lensed reionization-era analogs and implications for CIII] detections at

Ramesh Mainali, Daniel P Stark, Mengtao Tang +17

Recent observations have revealed the presence of strong CIII] emission (EW Ã ) in galaxies, the origin of which remains unclear. In an effort to understand…

astro-ph2001

Near-infrared Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of a Dusty Starburst ERO

Graham P. Smith, Tommaso Treu, Richard Ellis +3

We present near-IR spectroscopy and HST imaging of EROJ164023, an Extremely Red Object (ERO) with R-K=5.9 at z=1.05. EROJ164023 is a disk galaxy, with an optical/IR spectral energy…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity History

Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Simon P. Driver, Claudia D. P. Lagos +23

The combination of the cosmic star formation history and active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history as inferred by the James Webb Space Telescope is connected to th…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS Paper II: The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function from using 180 square arcminutes of deep, blank-fields from the PEARLS Survey and Public JWST data

Nathan J. Adams, Christopher J. Conselice, Duncan Austin +34

We present an analysis of the ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) and star formation rate density of distant galaxies () in the `blank' fields of the Prime Extr…

astro-ph.CO2018

Dark matter under the microscope: Constraining compact dark matter with caustic crossing events

Jose M. Diego, Nick Kaiser, Tom Broadhurst +12

A galaxy cluster acts as a cosmic telescope over background galaxies but also as a cosmic microscope of the lens imperfections. The diverging magnification of lensing caustics enha…

astro-ph.CO2015

The Detection and Statistics of Giant Arcs Behind CLASH Clusters

Bingxiao Xu, Marc Postman, Massimo Meneghetti +10

We developed an algorithm to find and characterize gravitationally lensed galaxies (arcs) to perform a comparison of the observed and simulated arc abundance. Observations are from…

astro-ph.GA2022

RELICS: Small-scale Star Formation in Lensed Galaxies at

Brian Welch, Dan Coe, Adi Zitrin +13

Detailed observations of star forming galaxies at high redshift are critical to understand the formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies. Gravitational lensing provides an i…

astro-ph.GA2025

EPOCHS IV: SED Modelling Assumptions and their impact on the Stellar Mass Function at 6.5 < z < 13.5 using PEARLS and public JWST observations

Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan J. Adams +31

We utilize deep JWST NIRCam observations for the first direct constraints on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) at . Our EPOCHS v1 sample includes 1120 galaxy candidates…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST's PEARLS: TN J1338-1942 -- I. Extreme jet triggered star-formation in a luminous radio galaxy

Kenneth J. Duncan, Rogier A. Windhorst, Anton M. Koekemoer +25

We present the first JWST observations of the luminous radio galaxy TN J1338-1942, obtained as part of the ``Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science…

astro-ph.GA2022

JWST's PEARLS: a new lens model for ACT-CL J01024915, "EL Gordo'', and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST

Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena, Nathan J. Adams +27

The first JWST data on the massive colliding cluster El Gordo confirm 23 known families of multiply lensed images and identify 8 new members of these families. Based on these famil…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWSTs PEARLS: NIRCam imaging and NIRISS spectroscopy of a star-forming galaxy lensed into a near-Einstein Ring by a massive elliptical galaxy

Nathan J. Adams, Giovanni Ferrami, Lewi Westcott +30

We present the discovery, and initial lensing analysis, of a high-redshift galaxy-galaxy lensing system within the JWST-PEARLS/HST-TREASUREHUNT North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Fiel…

astro-ph.IM2024

JWST's PEARLS: Improved Flux Calibration for NIRCam

Zhiyuan Ma, Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun +23

The Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS), a JWST GTO program, obtained a set of unique NIRCam observations that have enabled us to significantly…

astro-ph.GA2025

Explaining JWST counts with galaxy formation models

Giorgio Manzoni, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +18

A distinct power-law break is apparent m_AB approximately 21 in the deep Near-Infrared PEARLS-JWST galaxy counts. The break becomes more pronounced at longer wavelengths, with the…

astro-ph.GA2024

PEARLS: Discovery of Point-Source Features Within Galaxies in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field

Rafael Ortiz, Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen +36

The first public 0.9-4.4μm NIRCam images of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time Domain Field (TDF) uncovered galaxies displaying point-source features in their cores as seen in the…

astro-ph.GA2022

JWST's PEARLS: A JWST/NIRCam view of ALMA sources

Cheng Cheng, Jia-Sheng Huang, Ian Smail +33

We report the results of James Webb Space Telescope/NIRCam observations of 19 (sub)millimeter (submm/mm) sources detected by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). The accurate…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail +22

Ring galaxies are an uncommon class of galaxies whose morphology is closely related to dynamical processes that govern galaxy evolution. Some ring galaxies, known as "collisional r…

astro-ph.CO2023

JWST's PEARLS: Mothra, a new kaiju star at z=2.091 extremely magnified by MACS0416, and implications for dark matter models

J. M. Diego, Bangzheng Sun, Haojing Yan +28

We report the discovery of Mothra, an extremely magnified monster star, likely a binary system of two supergiant stars, in one of the strongly lensed galaxies behind the galaxy clu…

astro-ph.CO2019

RELICS: High-Resolution Constraints on the Inner Mass Distribution of the z=0.83 Merging Cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 from strong lensing

Ana Acebron, May Alon, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing (SL) is a powerful means to map the distribution of dark matter. In this work, we perform a SL analysis of the prominent X-ray cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 (…

astro-ph2004

The Nature of Blue Cores in Spheroids: a Possible Connection with AGN and Star Formation

Felipe Menanteau, Andre R. Martel, Paolo Tozzi +9

We investigate the physical nature of blue cores in early-type galaxies through the first multi-wavelength analysis of a serendipitously discovered field blue-nucleated spheroid in…

astro-ph.GA2022

Webb's PEARLS: Bright 1.5--2.0 micron Dropouts in the Spitzer/IRAC Dark Field

Haojing Yan, Seth H. Cohen, Rogier A. Windhorst +35

Using the first epoch of four-band NIRCam observations obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science Program in t…

astro-ph.GA2015

MApping the Most Massive Overdensities Through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH) I: Methodology

Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan, Sebastien Peirani +8

Modern cosmology predicts that a galaxy overdensity is associated to a large reservoir of the intergalactic gas, which can be traced by the Ly forest absorption. We have undert…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST NIRCam+NIRSpec: Interstellar medium and stellar populations of young galaxies with rising star formation and evolving gas reservoirs

Sandro Tacchella, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant E. Robertson +37

We present an interstellar medium and stellar population analysis of three spectroscopically confirmed galaxies in the ERO JWST NIRCam and JWST NIRSpec data of the SMACS J072…

astro-ph.CO2018

The Projected Dark and Baryonic Ellipsoidal Structure of 20 CLASH Galaxy Clusters

Keiichi Umetsu, Mauro Sereno, Sut-Ieng Tam +24

We reconstruct the two-dimensional (2D) matter distributions in 20 high-mass galaxy clusters selected from the CLASH survey by using the new approach of performing a joint weak len…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA and JWST Imaging of Quasars: No Spatial Position Offset Observed Between Quasars and Their Host Galaxies

Aurora Wilde, Marcel Neeleman, Romain Meyer +4

We present a study determining the spatial offset between the position of the supermassive black hole (as traced through their broad line regions) and the host galaxy in six $z > 6…

astro-ph.GA2024

Magellanic System Stars Identified in SMACS J0723.3-7327 James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Observations Images

Jake Summers, Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen +23

We identify 71 distant stars in JWST/NIRCam ERO images of the field of galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327 (SMACS 0723). Given the relatively small () angular separ…

astro-ph.GA2021

RELICS-DP7: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Dichromatic Primeval Galaxy at z ~ 7

Debora Pelliccia, Victoria Strait, Brian C. Lemaux +12

We report the discovery of a spectroscopically-confirmed strong Lyman- emitter at , observed as part of the Reionization Cluster Lensing Survey (RELICS). Thi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Resolving the ionizing photon budget crisis with JWST/NIRCam HII clumping constraints at z=6

Duncan Austin, Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice +18

We present a comprehensive study of the ionizing properties of 1721 galaxies at using deep JWST/NIRCam photometric imaging from the NEP, JADES, and PRIMER surveys spann…

astro-ph1997

Discovery of Red Selected Arcs at z=4.04 behind Abell 2390

Brenda Frye, Tom Broadhurst

We describe the properties of a system of red arcs discovered at z=4.04 around the cluster A2390 (). These arcs are images of a single galaxy, where the lensing is compound…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk

Belén Alcalde Pampliega, Kevin C. Harrington, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis +21

We present a detailed analysis of J154506, a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy behind the Lupus-I molecular cloud, and characterisation of its physical properties using a combin…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS IX. When cosmic dawn breaks: Evidence for evolved stellar populations in galaxies from PEARLS GTO and public NIRCam imaging

James A. A. Trussler, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +28

The presence of evolved stars in high-redshift galaxies can place valuable indirect constraints on the onset of star formation in the Universe. Thus we use PEARLS GTO and public NI…

astro-ph.HE2025

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-domain Field III

Ross Silver, Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao +28

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF) has been monitored by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton with a regular cadence for five years starting i…

astro-ph.GA2014

Herschel Extreme Lensing Line Observations: Dynamics of two strongly lensed star forming galaxies near redshift z = 2

James E. Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, Sahar Allam +11

We report on two regularly rotating galaxies at redshift z=2, using high resolution spectra of the bright [CII] 158 micron emission line from the HIFI instrument on the Herschel Sp…

astro-ph.GA2020

The BUFFALO HST Survey

Charles L. Steinhardt, Mathilde Jauzac, Ana Acebron +91

The Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields and Legacy Observations (BUFFALO) is a 101 orbit + 101 parallel Cycle 25 Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program taking data from 2018-2020. B…

astro-ph.GA2019

A Sub-Damped Ly Absorber with Unusual Abundances: Evidence of Gas Recycling in a Low-Redshift Galaxy Group

Brenda Frye, David V. Bowen, Todd M. Tripp +3

Using Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph G140M spectroscopy, we investigate an absorption-line system at =0.07489 in the spectrum of the quasi-stellar o…

astro-ph.GA2022

JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift

Brian Welch, Dan Coe, Erik Zackrisson +60

The gravitationally lensed star WHL0137-LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a photometric redshift based on images taken with the Hubble Space Tele…

astro-ph.IM2021

Strong Lensing Science Collaboration input to the on-sky commissioning of the Vera Rubin Observatory

Graham P. Smith, Timo Anguita, Simon Birrer +10

We present the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration's (SLSC) recommended observing targets for the science verification and science validation phases of commissioning. Our recommen…

astro-ph.GA2024

Cosmic Stillness: High Quiescent Galaxy Fractions Across Upper Mass Scales in the Early Universe to z = 7 with JWST

Tobias A. Russell, Neva Dobric, Nathan J. Adams +25

We present a detailed investigation into the abundance and morphology of high redshift quenched galaxies at using James Webb Space Telescope data in the NEP, CEERS and…

astro-ph.GA2025

PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon

Nicholas Foo, Kevin C. Harrington, Brenda Frye +24

Investigating the processes by which galaxies rapidly build up their stellar mass during the peak of their star formation () is crucial to advancing our understanding of the…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS I. The Discovery and Star Forming Properties of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization at with PEARLS and Public JWST data

Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey +32

We present in this paper the discovery, properties, and a catalog of 1165 high redshift galaxies found in deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GTO PEARLS survey combine…

astro-ph.CO2026

VENUS: Strong-lensing model of MACS J1931.8-2635 -- revealing the farthest multiply imaged supernova

Joseph F. V. Allingham, Adi Zitrin, Vasily Kokorev +42

We present a parametric strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster MACS J1931.8-2635 (), accompanying the detection of the spectroscopically confirmed SN Eos at $z = 5…

astro-ph.GA2023

High-Redshift Galaxy Candidates at as Revealed by JWST Observations of WHL0137-08

Larry D. Bradley, Dan Coe, Gabriel Brammer +25

We report the discovery of four galaxy candidates observed 450 - 600 Myr after the Big Bang with photometric redshifts between z ~ 8.3 - 10.2 measured using the JWST NIRCam imaging…

astro-ph.HE2026

A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13

David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88

Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…

astro-ph.CO2019

Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST

Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Kevork N. Abazajian +177

Astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, empirical measurements of dark matter. In the coming decade, astrophysical observations will guide other experimental…

astro-ph.CO2022

JWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen +82

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS"…

astro-ph.GA2025

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions

María Carranza-Escudero, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +31

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a previously unseen population of compact red objects, known as ``little red dots`` (LRDs). We study a new photometri…

astro-ph.GA2019

Highly Magnified Stars in Lensing Clusters: New Evidence in a Galaxy Lensed by MACS J0416.1-2403

Alexander A. Kaurov, Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav +2

We examine a caustic-straddling arc at in the field of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 () using archival multiband HST images and show that its surface bri…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST's PEARLS: Transients in the MACS J0416.1-2403 Field

Haojing Yan, Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun +27

With its unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window for time-domain discoveries in the infrared. Here we report…

astro-ph.GA2021

A Planck-selected dusty proto-cluster at z=2.16 associated with a strong over-density of massive H emitting galaxies

Yusei Koyama, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Ichi Tanaka +6

We discovered an over-density of H-alpha-emitting galaxies associated with a Planck compact source in the COSMOS field (PHzG237.0+42.5) through narrow-band imaging observations wit…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST reveals a possible galaxy merger in triply-lensed MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Dan Coe, Abdurro'uf +63

MACS0647JD is a triply-lensed galaxy originally discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report new JWST imaging, which clearly resolves MACS0647JD as ha…

astro-ph.GA2024

A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field

Armin Nabizadeh, Erik Zackrisson, Fabio Pacucci +31

Direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) of mass - that form in HI-cooling halos in the early Universe are promising progenitors of the $\gtrsim 10^9 {M}_\odo…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEARLS: 21 Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope

Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +39

We present 21 transients from our three-epoch, four-band NIRCam observations covering 14.16 arcmin^2 in the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field (IDF), taken by the JWST Prime Extragalactic Are…

astro-ph.CO2018

RELICS: Strong-lensing analysis of the massive clusters MACS J0308.9+2645 and PLCK G171.9-40.7

Ana Acebron, Nathália Cibirka, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters has become a powerful tool for probing the high-redshift Universe, magnifying distant and faint background galaxies. Reliable strong…

astro-ph.GA2019

Mapping the Interstellar Reddening and Extinction towards Baade's Window Using Minimum Light Colors of ab-type RR Lyrae Stars. Revelations from the De-reddened Color-Magnitude Diagrams

Abhijit Saha, A. Katherina Vivas, Edward W. Olszewski +21

We have obtained repeated images of 6 fields towards the Galactic bulge in 5 passbands (u, g, r, i, z) with the DECam imager on the Blanco 4m telescope at CTIO. From over 1.6 billi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Self-Consistent JWST Census of Star Formation and AGN activity at z=5.5-13.5

Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Simon P. Driver, Claudia D. P. Lagos +24

The cosmic star formation history (CSFH) and cosmic active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history (CAGNH) are self consistently measured at . This is achieved by an…

astro-ph.GA2023

EPOCHS VII: Discovery of high redshift () AGN candidates in JWST ERO and PEARLS data

Ignas Juodžbalis, Christopher J. Conselice, Maitrayee Singh +24

We present an analysis of a sample of robust high redshift galaxies selected photometrically from the `blank' fields of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization Science (PEAR…

astro-ph.GA2018

A bright lensed galaxy at with strong Ly emission

Ian D. McGreer, Benjamin Clément, Ramesh Mainali +10

We present a detailed study of a unusually bright, lensed galaxy at discovered within the CFHTLS imaging survey. With an observed flux of , J141446.82+54…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS Paper X: Environmental effects on Galaxy Formation and Protocluster Galaxy candidates at from JWST observations

Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice, Florian Sarron +16

In this paper we describe our search for galaxy protocluster candidates at and explore the environmental and physical properties of their member galaxies identified t…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Dust and Molecular Gas in the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in MACS 1931.8-2635

Kevin Fogarty, Marc Postman, Yuan Li +6

We present new ALMA observations of the molecular gas and far-infrared continuum around the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the cool-core cluster MACS 1931.8-2635. Our observatio…

astro-ph2001

Spectral Evidence for Widespread Galaxy Outflows at z>4

Brenda Frye, Tom Broadhurst, Narciso Benitez

We present discovery spectra of a sample of eight lensed galaxies at high redshift, 3.7<z<5.2, selected by their red colors in the fields of four massive clusters: A1689, A2219, A2…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy Mergers in the Epoch of Reionization II: Major Merger-Triggered Star Formation and AGN Activities at 4.5-8.5

Qiao Duan, Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice +29

Galaxy mergers are a key driver of galaxy formation and evolution, including the triggering of AGN and star formation to a still unknown degree. We thus investigate the impact of g…

astro-ph.GA2026

A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2

Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu, Sirio Belli +34

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies grow together over time, producing correlations between the black hole mass and various galaxy properties. Determining the evolutio…

astro-ph.CO2024

JWST's PEARLS: 119 multiply imaged galaxies behind MACS0416, lensing properties of caustic crossing galaxies, and the relation between halo mass and number of globular clusters at

Jose M. Diego, Nathan J. Adams, Steven Willner +26

We present a new lens model for the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.12403 based on a previously known set of 77 spectroscopically confirmed, multiply imaged galaxies plus an…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Distribution of Quenched Galaxies in the Massive z = 0.87 Galaxy Cluster El Gordo

Rachel Honor, Seth Cohen, Timothy Carleton +27

El Gordo (ACT-CL J01024915) is a massive galaxy cluster with two major mass components at redshift . Using SED fitting results from JWST/NIRCam photometry, the fraction…

astro-ph.CO2020

RELICS: A Very Large () Cluster Lens -- RXC J0032.1+1808

Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin, Dan Coe +38

Extensive surveys with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) over the past decade, targeting some of the most massive clusters in the sky, have uncovered dozens of galaxy-clust…

astro-ph.CO2018

RELICS: Strong Lensing analysis of the galaxy clusters Abell S295, Abell 697, MACS J0025.4-1222, and MACS J0159.8-0849

Nathália Cibirka, Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin +37

We present a strong-lensing analysis of four massive galaxy clusters imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey. We use a Light-Traces-Mass t…

astro-ph.GA2026

We Must Preserve Hubble given its Unique Complementarity to Webb, Roman, and Euclid

Rogier A. Windhorst, Gibson B. Bowling, Kevin S. Croker +17

We present compelling arguments -- focusing on galaxy science -- for preserving the main imagers and operational modes of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for as long as is technic…

astro-ph.GA2025

EPOCHS XI: The Structure and Morphology of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization to z ~ 12.5

Lewi Westcott, Christopher J. Conselice, Thomas Harvey +29

We present a structural analysis of 521 galaxy candidates at 6.5 < z < 12.5, with in the F444W filter, taken from the EPOCHS v1 sample, consisting of uniformly reduced…

astro-ph.GA2020

Discovery of an Enormous Ly nebula in a massive galaxy overdensity at

Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan, Yujin Yang +12

Enormous Ly Nebulae (ELANe), unique tracers of galaxy density peaks, are predicted to lie at the nodes and intersections of cosmic filamentary structures. Previous successful s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy Mergers in the Epoch of Reionization I: A JWST Study of Pair Fractions, Merger Rates, and Stellar Mass Accretion Rates at

Qiao Duan, Christopher J. Conselice, Qiong Li +30

We present a full analysis of galaxy major merger pair fractions, merger rates, and mass accretion rates, thus uncovering the role of mergers in galaxy formation at the earliest pr…

astro-ph.GA2023

Hidden giants in JWST's PEARLS: An ultra-massive z=4.26 sub-millimeter galaxy that is invisible to HST

Ian Smail, Ugne Dudzeviciute, Mark Gurwell +32

We present a multi-wavelength analysis using SMA, JCMT, NOEMA, JWST, HST, and SST of two dusty strongly star-forming galaxies, 850.1 and 850.2, seen through the massive cluster len…

astro-ph.GA2020

A Strong-Lensing Model for the WMDF JWST/GTO Very Rich Cluster Abell 1489

Adi Zitrin, Ana Acebron, Dan Coe +18

We present a first strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster RM J121218.5+273255.1 (; hereafter RMJ1212; also known as Abell 1489). This cluster is amongst the top 0.1\%…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST's PEARLS: A z=6 quasar in a train-wreck galaxy merger system

Madeline A. Marshall, Rogier A. Windhorst, Giovanni Ferrami +35

We present JWST NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy observations of the z=5.89 quasar NDWFS J1425+3254 from 0.6-5.3 microns, covering the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical at a sp…

astro-ph1999

A Spectroscopic Redshift for the Cl0024+16 Multiple Arc System: Implications for the Central Mass Distribution

Tom Broadhurst, Xiaosheng Huang, Brenda Frye +1

We present a spectroscopic redshift of z=1.675 for the well-known multiply lensed system of arcs seen in the z=0.39 cluster Cl0024+16. In contrast to earlier work, we find that the…

astro-ph.GA2026

VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

The paper reports the discovery and detailed study of a type IIP core‑collapse supernova (SN Eos) at redshift 5.13, whose ultra‑faint, strongly lensed host galaxy is extremely meta…

#high-redshift supernovae#gravitational lensing#ultra-faint galaxies#metal-poor environments
astro-ph.GA2023

PEARLS: Low Stellar Density Galaxies in the El Gordo Cluster Observed with JWST

Timothy Carleton, Seth H. Cohen, Brenda Frye +23

A full understanding of how unusually large "Ultra Diffuse Galaxies" (UDGs) fit into our conventional understanding of dwarf galaxies remains elusive, despite the large number of o…

astro-ph.GA2016

MApping the Most Massive Overdensities (MAMMOTH) II -- Discovery of an Extremely Massive Overdensity BOSS1441 at

Zheng Cai, Xiaohui Fan, Fuyan Bian +10

Cosmological simulations suggest a strong correlation between high optical-depth Ly absorbers, which arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM), and 3-D mass overdensities on sc…

astro-ph.GA2022

A Highly Magnified Star at Redshift 6.2

Brian Welch, Dan Coe, Jose M. Diego +26

Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or…

astro-ph.GA2023

The AGN fraction in high-redshift protocluster candidates selected by Planck and Herschel

Caleb Gatica, Ricardo Demarco, Hervé Dole +4

A complete understanding of the mass assembly history of structures in the universe requires the study of the growth of galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as a fun…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST view of four infant galaxies at z=8.31-8.49 in the MACS0416 field and implications for reionization

Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun, Cheng Cheng +34

New JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy provides redshifts for four z>8 galaxies located behind the lensing cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. Two of them, "Y1" and "JD", have pre…

astro-ph.GA2024

PEARLS: A Potentially Isolated Quiescent Dwarf Galaxy with a TRGB Distance of 30 Mpc

Timothy Carleton, Timothy Ellsworth-Bowers, Rogier A. Windhorst +25

A wealth of observations have long suggested that the vast majority of isolated classical dwarf galaxies (- M) are currently star-forming. However, recent o…

astro-ph.GA2020

Asymmetric Surface Brightness Structure of Caustic Crossing Arc in SDSS J1226+2152: A Case for Dark Matter Substructure

Liang Dai, Alexander A. Kaurov, Keren Sharon +6

We study the highly magnified arc SGAS J122651.3+215220 caused by a star-forming galaxy at crossing the lensing caustic cast by the galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152 ($z_l=…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS III: Unbiased UV continuum slopes at 6.5<z<13 from combined PEARLS GTO and public JWST NIRCam imaging

Duncan Austin, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan J. Adams +34

We present an analysis of rest-frame UV continuum slopes, , using a sample of 1011 galaxies at from the EPOCHS photometric sample collated from the GTO PEARLS and pu…