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astro-ph.GA2022

The Physical Conditions of Emission-Line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations

Jonathan R. Trump, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Raymond C. Simons +61

We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five galaxies observed by the JWST Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the SMACS 0723 Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2023

Searching for Islands of Reionization: A Potential Ionized Bubble Powered by a Spectroscopic Overdensity at z = 8.7

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Taylor A. Hutchison +10

We present the results from a spectroscopic survey using the MOSFIRE near-infrared spectrograph on the 10m Keck telescope to search for Ly emission from candidate galaxies at z…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies in WHL0137-08 and MACS0647+70 Clusters as Revealed by JWST: How do Galaxies Grow and Quench Over Cosmic Time?

Abdurro'uf, Dan Coe, Intae Jung +20

We study the spatially resolved stellar populations of 444 galaxies at in two clusters (WHL0137-08 and MACS0647+70) and a blank field, combining imaging data from HST a…

astro-ph.CO2018

Statistics of Two-point Correlation and Network Topology for Lyman Alpha Emitters at

Sungryong Hong, Arjun Dey, Kyung-Soo Lee +9

We investigate the spatial distribution of Lyman alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at , selected from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), using two-point statisti…

astro-ph.GA2023

CEERS Key Paper III: The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z=3-9 with JWST

Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose, Brittany N. Vanderhoof +58

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z=3-9 using early JWST CEERS NIRCam observation…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST MIRI detections of H and [O III] and direct metallicity measurement of the lensed galaxy MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Dan Coe +30

JWST spectroscopy has revolutionized our understanding of galaxies in the early universe. Covering wavelengths up to , NIRSpec can detect rest-frame optical emissio…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey

Micaela B. Bagley, Nor Pirzkal, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain f…

astro-ph.GA2022

CLEAR: The Evolution of Spatially Resolved Star Formation in Galaxies between using H Emission Line Maps

Jasleen Matharu, Casey Papovich, Raymond C. Simons +14

Using spatially resolved H-alpha emission line maps of star-forming galaxies, we study the evolution of gradients in galaxy assembly over a wide range in redshift (). Ou…

astro-ph.GA2025

NGDEEP: The Star Formation and Ionization Properties of Galaxies at

Lu Shen, Casey Papovich, Jasleen Matharu +23

We use JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy from the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey to investigate the physical condition of star-forming galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2019

Star Formation Stochasticity Measured from the Distribution of Burst Indicators

Adam Broussard, Eric Gawiser, Kartheik Iyer +6

One of the key questions in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies is how starbursts affect the assembly of stellar populations in galaxies over time. We define a bu…

astro-ph.GA2025

Very bright, very blue, and very red: JWST CAPERS analysis of highly luminous galaxies with extreme UV slopes at

Callum T. Donnan, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor +37

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of three luminous () galaxies at observed with the CAPERS Cycle 3 program. These galaxies exhibit extreme UV sl…

astro-ph.GA2022

On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z=9-11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times

Sandro Tacchella, Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela Bagley +18

We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright () galaxies at (three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical enrichment and growth o…

astro-ph.GA2019

Texas Spectroscopic Search for Ly Emission at the End of Reionization II. The Deepest Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Observation at

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Mark Dickinson +12

Realizing the utility of Ly emission to trace the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the epoch of reionization requires deep spectroscopy across the boundary of…

astro-ph.CO2013

Merger relics of cluster galaxies

Sukyoung K. Yi, Jaehyun Lee, Intae Jung +2

Context. Sheen and collaborators recently found that a surprisingly large portion (38%) of massive early-type galaxies in heavy clusters show strong merger-related disturbed featur…

astro-ph.GA2022

New Lyman-alpha Emitters in EGS: Evidence of an Extended Ionized Structure at

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Rebecca L. Larson +21

We perform a ground-based near-infrared spectroscopic survey using the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph to target Ly emission at from 61 galaxies to trace the ionization s…

astro-ph.GA2023

A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z=8.679, in CEERS_1019, a galaxy previously discovered via a Ly-break by Hubble and with a Ly redshift fr…

astro-ph.GA2023

Extreme damped Lyman- absorption in young star-forming galaxies at

Kasper E. Heintz, Darach Watson, Gabriel Brammer +18

The onset of galaxy formation is thought to be initiated by the infall of neutral, pristine gas onto the first protogalactic halos. However, direct constraints on the abundance of…

astro-ph.GA2017

Discovery of a z = 7.452 High Equivalent Width Lyman-α Emitter from the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Infrared Grism Survey

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Norbert Pirzkal +18

We present the results of an unbiased search for Lyα emission from continuum-selected 6 < z < 8 galaxies. Our dataset consists of 160 orbits of G102 slitless grism spectroscopy ob…

astro-ph.GA2020

JWST/MIRI Simulated Imaging: Insights into Obscured Star-Formation and AGN for Distant Galaxies in Deep Surveys

Guang Yang, Casey Papovich, Micaela B. Bagley +13

The JWST MIRI instrument will revolutionize extragalactic astronomy with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution in mid-IR. Here, we assess the potential of MIRI photometr…

astro-ph.GA2019

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Galaxies During Reionization: Measuring CIII] in a Galaxy at

Taylor A. Hutchison, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein +9

We present Keck/MOSFIRE -band spectroscopy targeting CIII] 1907,1909 in a galaxy previously identified via Ly emission. We detect strong line emission at…

astro-ph.GA2020

Texas Spectroscopic Search for Ly Emission at the End of Reionization III. the Ly Equivalent-width Distribution and Ionized Structures at

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Mark Dickinson +11

Ly emission from galaxies can be utilized to characterize the ionization state in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We report our search for Ly emission at using a comp…

astro-ph.GA2024

NGDEEP Epoch 1: Spatially Resolved H Observations of Disk and Bulge Growth in Star-Forming Galaxies at 0.6-2.2 from JWST NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy

Lu Shen, Casey Papovich, Jasleen Matharu +21

We study the H equivalent width, EW(H), maps of 19 galaxies at in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) derived from NIRISS slitless spectroscopy as part of th…

astro-ph.GA2023

CEERS: Diversity of Lyman-Alpha Emitters during the Epoch of Reionization

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo Arrabal Haro +29

We analyze rest-frame ultraviolet to optical spectra of three - galaxies whose Ly-emission lines were previously detected with Keck/MOSFIRE observations, u…

astro-ph.GA2014

Effects of large-scale environment on the assembly history of central galaxies

Intae Jung, Jaehyun Lee, Sukyoung K. Yi

We examine whether large-scale environment affects the mass assembly history of their central galaxies. To facilitate this, we constructed dark matter halo merger trees from a cosm…

astro-ph.GA2021

A Census of the Bright z=8.5-11 Universe with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes in the CANDELS Fields

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela Bagley, Mimi Song +21

We present the results from a new search for candidate galaxies at z ~ 8.5-11 discovered over the 850 arcmin^2 area probed by the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic L…

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.CO2013

Sussing Merger Trees: The Merger Trees Comparison Project

Chaichalit Srisawat, Alexander Knebe, Frazer R. Pearce +15

Merger trees follow the growth and merger of dark-matter haloes over cosmic history. As well as giving important insights into the growth of cosmic structure in their own right, th…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy of MACS0647-JD at z=10.167: Resolved [OII] Doublet and Electron Density in an Early Galaxy

Abdurro'uf, Rebecca L. Larson, Dan Coe +26

We present JWST/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy G395H/F290LP of MACS0647-JD, a gravitationally lensed galaxy merger at . The new spectroscopy, which is acquired for…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

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.GA2023

ALMA Observation of a Galaxy Candidate Discovered with JWST

Ilsang Yoon, Christopher L. Carilli, Seiji Fujimoto +12

We report the ALMA observation of a galaxy candidate (GHZ1) discovered from the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. Our ALMA program aims to detect the [OIII] em…

astro-ph.GA2016

Evidence for Reduced Specific Star Formation Rates in the Centers of Massive Galaxies at z = 4

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Mimi Song +11

We perform the first spatially-resolved stellar population study of galaxies in the early universe (z = 3.5 - 6.5), utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Assembly Near-infrar…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey. I. Survey description and Ly imaging

Alexandra Le Reste, Claudia Scarlata, Matthew Hayes +25

Understanding the mechanisms driving the escape of ionizing or Lyman continuum (LyC) emission from the interstellar medium of galaxies is necessary to constrain the evolution of re…

astro-ph.GA2023

Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations

Jorge A. Zavala, Veronique Buat, Caitlin M. Casey +121

Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates at z>10 are rapidly being identified in JWST/NIRCam observations. Due to the (redshifted) break produced by neutral hydrogen absorption of rest-…

astro-ph.GA2025

Little impact of mergers and galaxy morphology on the production and escape of ionizing photons in the early Universe

S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, M. Llerena +28

Compact, star-forming galaxies with high star formation rate surface densities () are often efficient Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters at , likely as inte…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining Reionization with Lyα Damping-Wing Absorption in Galaxy Spectra: A Machine Learning Model Based on Reionization Simulations

Hyunbae Park, Intae Jung, Hidenobu Yajima +8

Recently, NIRSpec PRISM/CLEAR observations by JWST have begun providing rest-frame UV continuum measurements of galaxies at , revealing signatures of Ly damping-wing…

astro-ph.GA2024

Local Analogs of Potential Ionizers of the Intergalactic Medium: Compact Star-Forming Galaxies with Intense CIV 1550 Emission

Intae Jung, Swara Ravindranath, Anne E. Jaskot +2

We performed spectroscopic analyses of five local compact star-forming galaxies (CSFGs) with extremely high [OIII]/[OII] (O) ratios (). These targets remarkably share s…

astro-ph.GA2024

A luminous and young galaxy at z=12.33 revealed by a JWST/MIRI detection of Hα and [OIII]

Jorge A. Zavala, Marco Castellano, Hollis B. Akins +37

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a surprising population of bright galaxies in the very early universe (<500 Myrs after the Big Bang) that is hard to explain wi…

astro-ph.GA2019

UV Diagnostics of Galaxies from the Peak of Star-Formation to the Epoch of Reionization

Casey Papovich, Dan Stark, Steve Finkelstein +19

The rest-frame UV emission from massive stars contains a wealth of information about the physical nature and conditions of star formation in galaxies. Using studies of the rest-fra…

astro-ph.GA2026

GalSyn I: A Forward-Modeling Framework for Synthetic Galaxy Observations from Hydrodynamical Simulations and First Data Release from IllustrisTNG

Abdurro'uf, Henry C. Ferguson, Samir Salim +9

We present GalSyn (Galaxy Synthesizer), a modular and flexible Python package for generating synthetic spectrophotometric observations from hydrodynamical galaxy simulations. GalSy…

astro-ph.CO2019

Unveiling the Phase Transition of the Universe During the Reionization Epoch with Lyman-alpha

Steven L. Finkelstein, Marusa Bradac, Caitlin Casey +15

The epoch of reionization (6 < z < 10) marks the period in our universe when the first large galaxies grew to fruition, and began to affect the universe around them. Massive stars,…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ~ 8.5-14.5

Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley +52

We present a sample of 88 candidate z~8.5-14.5 galaxies selected from the completed NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. These data cover…

astro-ph.GA2022

Stellar Populations of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies in the HETDEX Survey I: An Analysis of LAEs in the GOODS-N Field

Adam P. McCarron, Steven L. Finkelstein, Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz +17

We present the results of a stellar-population analysis of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAES) in GOODS-N at 1.9 < z < 3.5 spectroscopically identified by the Hobby-Eberly Telesco…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Near-Infrared Slitless Survey Epoch 1 (NGDEEP-NISS1): Extra-Galactic Star-formation and Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.5 < z < 3.6

Nor Pirzkal, Barry Rothberg, Casey Papovich +48

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey program was designed specifically to include Near Infrared Slitless Spectroscopic observations (NGDEEP-NIS…

astro-ph.CO2016

Sussing Merger Trees: Stability and Convergence

Yang Wang, Frazer R. Pearce, Alexander Knebe +15

Merger trees are routinely used to follow the growth and merging history of dark matter haloes and subhaloes in simulations of cosmic structure formation. Srisawat et al. (2013) co…

astro-ph.CO2012

Evolution of the baryon fraction in the Local Group: accretion versus feedback at low and high z

Sébastien Peirani, Intae Jung, Joe Silk +1

Using hydrodynamical zoom simulations in the standard LCDM cosmology, we investigate the evolution of the distribution of baryons (gas and stars) in a local group-type universe. Fi…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spectroscopic Confirmation of CEERS NIRCam-selected Galaxies at

Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of seven galaxies selected from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) NIRCam imaging with photometric redshifts z_pho…

astro-ph.CO2022

Scattering of Lyα Photons through the Reionizing Intergalactic Medium: I. Spectral Energy Distribution

Hyunbae Park, Hyo Jeong Kim, Kyungjin Ahn +7

During reionization, a fraction of galactic Ly emission is scattered in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and appears as a diffuse light extending megaparsecs from the source. We…

astro-ph.GA2023

Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early universe

Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein +34

During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed, seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic medi…

astro-ph.GA2022

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +117

We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z~12 in the first epoch of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. Following conservative se…

astro-ph.GA2022

CLEAR: The Ionization and Chemical-Enrichment Properties of Galaxies at 1.1 < z < 2.3

Casey Papovich, Raymond C. Simons, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter +15

We use deep spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide-Field-Camera 3 (WFC3) IR grisms combined with broad-band photometry to study the stellar populations, gas ioniza…

astro-ph.GA2021

CLEAR: Emission Line Ratios at Cosmic High Noon

Bren E. Backhaus, Jonathan R. Trump, Nikko J. Cleri +10

We use Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G102 and G141 grism spectroscopy to measure rest-optical emission-line ratios of 533 galaxies at in the CANDELS Ly Emission at Rei…

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.GA2023

NGDEEP Epoch 1: The Faint-End of the Luminosity Function at 9-12 from Ultra-Deep JWST Imaging

Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

We present a robust sample of very high-redshift galaxy candidates from the first epoch of {\it JWST}/NIRCam imaging from the Next Generation Extragalactic Exploratory Deep (NGDEEP…

astro-ph.GA2026

Prospects for Observing Galaxy Spectral Energy Distribution from the Radio to the far-Infrared in the Era of Next-Generation Radio Telescopes

Ilsang Yoon, Jonathan Letai, Hansung B. Gim +5

The superb sensitivity and angular resolution of the next-generation radio telescopes with combined frequency coverage of approximately over three orders of magnitude (100 MHz--100…

astro-ph.GA2024

Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape from Low-mass Lensed Galaxies at 1.3 z 3.0

Intae Jung, Henry C. Ferguson, Matthew J. Hayes +17

Low-mass galaxies can significantly contribute to reionization due to their potentially high Lyman continuum (LyC) escape fraction and relatively high space density. We present a c…

astro-ph.GA2022

CLEAR: Paschen- Star Formation Rates and Dust Attenuation of Low Redshift Galaxies

Nikko J. Cleri, Jonathan R. Trump, Bren E. Backhaus +12

We use \Pab\ (1282~nm) observations from the Hubble Space Telescope ($\HST$) G141 grism to study the star-formation and dust attenuation properties of a sample of 29 low-redshift (…

astro-ph.GA2021

CLEAR: Boosted Ly Transmission of the Intergalactic Medium in UV bright Galaxies

Intae Jung, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein +11

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$Î…

astro-ph.GA2021

Crucial Factors for Lyα Transmission in the Reionizing Intergalactic Medium: Infall Motion, HII Bubble Size, and Self-shielded Systems

Hyunbae Park, Intae Jung, Hyunmi Song +7

Using the CoDa II simulation, we study the Ly transmissivity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during reionization. At , a typical galaxy without an active galactic nucleu…

astro-ph.GA2023

CLEAR: Survey Overview, Data Analysis and Products

Raymond C. Simons, Casey Papovich, Ivelina G. Momcheva +19

We present an overview of the CANDELS Lyman-a Emission At Reionization (CLEAR) survey. CLEAR is a 130 orbit program of the Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC…

astro-ph.GA2024

Characterizing the Average Interstellar Medium Conditions of Galaxies at 5.6-9 with UV and Optical Nebular Lines

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Mark Dickinson +30

Ultraviolet (UV; rest-frame A) spectra provide a wealth of diagnostics to characterize fundamental galaxy properties, such as their chemical enrichment, the nature…

astro-ph.GA2023

CEERS Spectroscopic Confirmation of NIRCam-Selected z > 8 Galaxy Candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: Initial Characterization of their Properties

Seiji Fujimoto, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson +38

We present JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy for 11 galaxy candidates with photometric redshifts of and newly identified in NIRCam images in the Co…

astro-ph.GA2022

CLEAR: Spatially Resolved Emission Lines and Active Galactic Nuclei at

Bren E. Backhaus, Joanna S. Bridge, Jonathan R. Trump +8

We investigate spatially-resolved emission-line ratios in a sample of 219 galaxies () detected using the G102 grism on the \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} Wide Field Camer…

astro-ph.GA2020

CLEAR II: Evidence for Early Formation of the Most Compact Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshift

Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Casey Papovich, Ivelina Momcheva +11

The origin of the correlations between mass, morphology, quenched fraction, and formation history in galaxies is difficult to define, primarily due to the uncertainties in galaxy s…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +96

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates e…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Web Epoch of Reionization Lyman- Survey (WERLS) I. MOSFIRE Spectroscopy of Lyman- Emitters

Olivia R. Cooper, Caitlin M. Casey, Hollis B. Akins +33

We present the first results from the Web Epoch of Reionization Lyman- Survey (WERLS), a spectroscopic survey of Lyman- emission using Keck I/MOSFIRE and LRIS. WERLS target…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.CO2026

Double-Peaked Ly Emission during Reionization Requires Nearby Voids and a Favorable Local Ionizing Background

Hyunbae Park, Aaron Smith, Intae Jung +11

Several Lyman-alpha (Ly) emitters deep into the reionization era exhibit double-peaked Ly emission profiles, raising the question of how the intergalactic medium can transm…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy of the triply-lensed galaxy MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Abdurro'uf, Dan Coe +38

We present JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of MACS0647-JD, the triply-lensed candidate discovered in HST imaging and spatially resolved by JWST imaging into two compone…

astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing the AGN-Merger Connection: insights from cosmological simulations and JWST mock observations

Hannah Jhee, Ena Choi, Rachel S. Somerville +6

Galaxy mergers have long been proposed as a mechanism for funneling gas toward galactic centres, potentially triggering accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and igniting…

astro-ph.GA2023

CEERS Key Paper VIII: Emission Line Ratios from NIRSpec and NIRCam Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy at z>2

Bren E. Backhaus, Jonathan R. Trump, Nor Pirzkal +37

We use James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (NIRCam WFSS) and Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2023

CLEAR: High-Ionization [Ne V] 3426 Emission-line Galaxies at

Nikko J. Cleri, Guang Yang, Casey Papovich +13

We analyze a sample of 25 [Ne V] 3426 emission-line galaxies at using Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 G102 and G141 grism observations from the CANDELS L…

astro-ph.GA2025

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas Enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line AGN at z=9.288

Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We present CAPERS-LRD-z9, a little red dot (LRD) which we confirm to be a broad-line AGN (BLAGN). First identified as a high-redshift LRD candidate from PRIMER NIRCam pho…

astro-ph.GA2024

Deeper than DEEP: A Spectroscopic Survey of Lyman- Emitters in the Extended Groth Strip

Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, M. C. Cooper, Steven L. Finkelstein +11

We present a spectroscopic survey of Ly emitters in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field, targeting the regime near the Epoch of Reionization. Using Keck/DEIMOS, we observed 94…

astro-ph.GA2020

CLEAR: The Gas-Phase Metallicity Gradients of Star-Forming Galaxies at 0.6 < z < 2.6

Raymond C. Simons, Casey Papovich, Ivelina Momcheva +11

We report on the gas-phase metallicity gradients of a sample of 264 star-forming galaxies at 0.6 < z < 2.6, measured through deep near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope slitless spec…

astro-ph.GA2014

Sussing Merger Trees : The Impact of Halo Merger Trees on Galaxy Properties in a Semi-Analytic Model

Jaehyun Lee, Sukyoung K. Yi, Pascal J. Elahi +13

A halo merger tree forms the essential backbone of a semi-analytic model for galaxy formation and evolution. Recent studies have pointed out that extracting merger trees from numer…

astro-ph.GA2018

Texas Spectroscopic Search for Ly Emission at the End of Reionization I. Constraining the Ly Equivalent Width Distribution at 6.0 < < 7.0

Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Rachael C. Livermore +6

The distribution of Ly emission is an presently accessible method for studying the state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) into the reionization era. We carried out deep spectr…