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Publications (7)

astro-ph.GA2026

Pre-Virialized Assembly at Cosmic Dawn: The Dynamics and Extreme Ionization of Compact Group CGG-z7 at

Xiaoyang Wei, Zheng Cai, Fujiang Yu +2

We report the discovery of CGG-z7, the most compact galaxy group at identified to the north of the GOODS-North field, observed by the JWST POPPIES program. The system c…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at

Mingyu Li, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Zheng Cai +12

Galaxy mergers play a critical role in driving galaxy evolution, especially by transforming galaxy morphology, redistributing gas around galaxies, triggering active galactic nuclei…

astro-ph.IM2026

Deeper detection limits in astronomical imaging using self-supervised spatiotemporal denoising

Yuduo Guo, Hao Zhang, Mingyu Li +10

The detection limit of astronomical imaging observations is limited by several noise sources. Some of that noise is correlated between neighbouring image pixels and exposures, so i…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Strongly Lensed Ultra-faint Arc at with an F200W excess in Abell S1063

Fujiang Yu, Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai +4

Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful route to probing intrinsically faint galaxies during the first few hundred million years of cosmic history. In this Letter, we repo…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Post-starburst Galaxy Undergoing Ram-pressure Stripping at Redshift 3.06

Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai, Bjorn H. C. Emonts +16

Understanding how galaxies ignite and extinguish their star formation remains a cornerstone question in modern astrophysics. Recent JWST surveys have revealed an overabundance of m…

astro-ph.GA2026

Early Emergence of Environmental Effects: Accelerated Galaxy Assembly in a z=2.96 Protocluster in the COSMOS Field

Shuaiyi Li, Zheng Cai, Yunjing Wu +4

The redshift range z=2-4 marks a critical transition in large scale structure formation, where the dynamically unrelaxed progenitors of local massive clusters undergo rapid stellar…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Metal-Free Galaxy at ? Evidence of Late Population III Star Formation at Cosmic Noon

Sijia Cai, Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai +10

Star formation from metal-free gas, the hallmark of the first generation of Population III stars, was long assumed to occur only in the very early Universe. We report the discovery…