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astro-ph.GA2025

CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release 1: Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters

Ghassan T. E. Sarrouh, Yoshihisa Asada, Nicholas S. Martis +44

We present the first data release of the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS), a JWST Cycle 1 GTO program targeting 5 lensing clusters and flanking fields in parallel (…

astro-ph.GA2024

Detailed Study of Stars and Gas in a z = 8.3 Massive Merger with Extreme Dust Conditions

Anishya Harshan, Roberta Tripodi, Nicholas S. Martis +15

We present galaxy MACS0416-Y1 at z as observed by the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS). MACS0416-Y1 has been shown to have extreme dust proper…

astro-ph.GA2023

A First Look at Spatially Resolved Balmer Decrements at from JWST NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy

Jasleen Matharu, Adam Muzzin, Ghassan Sarrouh +14

We present the first results on the spatial distribution of dust attenuation at traced by the Balmer Decrement, H/H, in emission-line galaxies using deep JWST N…

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.GA2024

The Firefly Sparkle: The Earliest Stages of the Assembly of A Milky Way-type Galaxy in a 600 Myr Old Universe

Lamiya Mowla, Kartheik Iyer, Yoshihisa Asada +19

The most distant galaxies detected by JWST are assembling in a Universe that is less than 5\% of its present age. At these times, the progenitors of galaxies like the Milky Way are…

astro-ph.GA2023

The first large catalogue of spectroscopic redshifts in Webb's First Deep Field, SMACS J0723.37327

Gaël Noirot, Guillaume Desprez, Yoshihisa Asada +20

We present a spectroscopic redshift catalogue of the SMACS J0723.37327 field ("Webb's First Deep Field") obtained from JWST/NIRISS grism spectroscopy and supplemented with JWST/…

astro-ph.GA2023

The production of ionizing photons in UV-faint z~3-7 galaxies

Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon, Victoria Strait, Charlotte A. Mason +20

The demographics of the production and escape of ionizing photons from UV-faint early galaxies is a key unknown in discovering the primary drivers of reionization. With the advent…

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-ph.GA2022

The archival discovery of a strong Lyman- and [CII] emitter at z = 7.677

Francesco Valentino, Gabriel Brammer, Seiji Fujimoto +8

We report the archival discovery of Lyman- emission from the bright ultraviolet galaxy Y002 at , spectroscopically confirmed by its ionized carbon [CII] 158m emiss…

astro-ph.GA2022

Exploring Gravitationally-Lensed X-ray AGN Behind the RELICS clusters

Akos Bogdan, Orsolya E. Kovacs, Christine Jones +5

Although observations of high-redshift quasars demonstrate that many supermassive black holes (BHs) reached large masses within one billion years after the Big Bang, the origin of…

astro-ph.GA2018

Mass and Light of Abell 370: A Strong and Weak Lensing Analysis

Victoria Strait, Marusa Bradac, Austin Hoag +13

We present a new gravitational lens model of the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster Abell 370 () using imaging and spectroscopy from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based…

astro-ph.GA2024

Studying [CII] Emission in Low-mass Galaxies at z ~ 7

Kelsey Glazer, Marusa Bradac, Ryan L. Sanders +8

We report on a search using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on three lensed, confirmed {\lya} emitting galaxies at . Ou…

astro-ph.CO2020

Spectroscopically Confirmed Lyman-Alpha Emitters from Redshift 5 to 7 Behind Ten Galaxy Cluster Lenses

Spencer Fuller, Brian Lemaux, Maruša Bradač +10

We present 36 spectroscopically confirmed intrinsically UV-faint Ly emitting galaxies from follow-up observations with Keck/DEIMOS of gravitationally lensed high-redshift candi…

astro-ph.GA2023

Early results from GLASS-JWST. XXVII. The mass-metallicity relation in lensed field galaxies at cosmic noon with NIRISS

Xianlong He, Xin Wang, Tucker Jones +20

We present a measurement of the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at cosmic noon, using the JWST near-infrared wide-field slitless spectroscopy obtained by the GLASS-JWST Early Relea…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early results from GLASS-JWST. IV: Spatially resolved metallicity in a low-mass galaxy with NIRISS

Xin Wang, Tucker Jones, Benedetta Vulcani +19

We report the first gas-phase metallicity map of a distant galaxy measured with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We use the NIRISS slitless spectroscopy acquired by the GLASS…

astro-ph.GA2024

Exposing Line Emission: A First Look At The Systematic Differences of Measuring Stellar Masses With JWST NIRCam Medium Versus Wide Band Photometry

Ghassan T. Sarrouh, Adam Muzzin, Kartheik G. Iyer +13

Photometrically derived stellar masses are known to suffer from systematic uncertainties, particularly due to nebular emission contributions to the spectral energy distribution. Us…

astro-ph.GA2025

CANUCS/Technicolor: JWST Medium Band Photometry Finds Half of the Star Formation at is Obscured

Nicholas Martis, Sunna Withers, Giordano Felicioni +19

We present a sample of 146 high-redshift () galaxies from the CANUCS/Technicolor surveys, showcasing photometry in every wide- and medium-band NIRCam filter in addition to a…

astro-ph.GA2021

RELICS: Properties of z>5.5 Galaxies Inferred from Spitzer and Hubble Imaging Including A Candidate z~6.8 Strong [OIII] Emitter

Victoria Strait, Marusa Bradac, Dan Coe +26

We present constraints on the physical properties (including stellar mass, age, and star formation rate) of 207 galaxy candidates from the Reionization Lens…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early results from GLASS-JWST. V: the first rest-frame optical size-luminosity relation of galaxies at

Lilan Yang, T. Morishita, N. Leethochawalit +23

We present the first rest-frame optical size-luminosity relation of galaxies at , using the NIRCam imaging data obtained by the GLASS James Webb Space Telescope Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2023

Early results from GLASS-JWST. XIV: A spectroscopically confirmed protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang

Takahiro Morishita, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu +39

We present the spectroscopic confirmation of a protocluster at behind the galaxy cluster Abell2744 (hereafter A2744-z7p9OD). Using JWST NIRSpec, we find seven galaxies wit…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early results from GLASS-JWST. IX: First spectroscopic confirmation of low-mass quiescent galaxies at with NIRISS

Danilo Marchesini, Gabriel Brammer, Takahiro Morishita +20

How passive galaxies form, and the physical mechanisms which prevent star formation over long timescales, are some of the most outstanding questions in understanding galaxy evoluti…

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-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.GA2022

Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at Revealed by JWST

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Pieter van Dokkum +22

The first few hundred Myrs at mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the Universe, where only a single galaxy (GNz11 at ) is currently spectroscop…

astro-ph.GA2024

Bursty star formation and galaxy-galaxy interactions in low-mass galaxies 1 Gyr after the Big Bang

Yoshihisa Asada, Marcin Sawicki, Roberto Abraham +14

We use CANUCS JWST/NIRCam imaging of galaxies behind the gravitationally-lensing cluster MACS J0417.5-1154 to investigate star formation burstiness in low-mass ($M_\star\sim10^8\ M…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Steep Decline in the Galaxy Space Density Beyond Redshift 9 in the CANUCS UV Luminosity Function

Chris J. Willott, Guillaume Desprez, Yoshihisa Asada +15

We present a new sample of 158 galaxies at redshift selected from deep \jwst\ NIRCam imaging of five widely-separated sightlines in the CANUCS survey. Two-thirds of the poi…

astro-ph.GA2019

Stellar Properties of z ~ 8 Galaxies in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Victoria Strait, Marusa Bradac, Dan Coe +18

Measurements of stellar properties of galaxies when the universe was less than one billion years old yield some of the only observational constraints of the onset of star formation…

astro-ph.GA2023

COSMOS2020: Exploring the dawn of quenching for massive galaxies at 3 < z < 5 with a new colour selection method

Katriona M. L. Gould, Gabriel Brammer, Francesco Valentino +15

We select and characterise a sample of massive (log(MM) quiescent galaxies (QGs) at in the latest COSMOS2020 catalogue. QGs are selected using a new…

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.GA2024

Ly Emission Strength and Stellar Properties of Faint Galaxies from

Patricia Bolan, Marusa Bradac, Brian C. Lemaux +6

We present a study on stellar properties of Lyman-alpha (Ly) emitters at 5 8.2. We use 247 photometrically-selected, lensed, high-redshift, low luminosity galaxy candid…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spectroscopy from Photometry: A Population of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies at Selected with JWST Medium Band Filters

Sunna Withers, Adam Muzzin, Swara Ravindranath +13

We use JWST/NIRCam medium band photometry in a single pointing of the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) to identify 118 Extreme Emission Line Galaxies (EELGs) over $…

astro-ph.GA2024

CANUCS: UV and Ionising Properties of Dwarf Star Forming Galaxies at z = 5 to 7

Anishya Harshan, Maruša Bradač, Roberto Abraham +14

The epoch of reionisation progressed through the emission of ionising photons from galaxies to their local intergalactic medium. In this work, we characterise the dwarf star-formin…

astro-ph.GA2019

RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Dan Coe, Brett Salmon, Marusa Bradac +54

Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, including CLASH and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing…

astro-ph.CO2025

CANUCS: Constraining the MACS J0416.1-2403 Strong Lensing Model with JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec and NIRCam

Gregor Rihtaršič, Maruša Bradač, Guillaume Desprez +18

(Abridged) The strong lensing models of galaxy clusters rely on the number and quality of multiple images with spectroscopic redshifts. We present an updated strong lensing model o…

astro-ph.GA2024

When, Where, and How Star Formation Happens in a Galaxy Pair at Cosmic Noon Using CANUCS JWST/NIRISS Grism Spectroscopy

Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Marcin Sawicki, Gabe Brammer +13

Spatially resolved studies are key to understanding when, where, and how stars form within galaxies. Using slitless grism spectra and broadband imaging from the CAnadian NIRISS Unb…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early results from GLASS-JWST. II: NIRCam extra-galactic imaging and photometric catalog

Emiliano Merlin, Andrea Bonchi, Diego Paris +26

We present the reduced images and multi-wavelength catalog of the first JWST NIRCam extra-galactic observations from the GLASS Early Release Science Program, obtained as coordinate…

astro-ph.GA2019

Constraining the neutral fraction of hydrogen in the IGM at redshift 7.5

Austin Hoag, Maruša Bradač, Kuang-Han Huang +8

We present a large spectroscopic campaign with Keck/MOSFIRE targeting Lyman-alpha emission (Ly) from intrinsically faint Lyman-break Galaxies (LBGs) behind 12 efficient galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2023

The nature of an ultra-faint galaxy in the cosmic Dark Ages seen with JWST

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu, Wenlei Chen +44

In the first billion years after the Big Bang, sources of ultraviolet (UV) photons are believed to have ionized intergalactic hydrogen, rendering the Universe transparent to UV rad…

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.GA2022

RELICS: Small Lensed Galaxies Selected as Potential Lyman Continuum Leakers

Chloe Neufeld, Victoria Strait, Maruša Bradač +8

We present size measurements of 78 high-redshift () galaxy candidates from the Reionisation Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS). These distant galaxies are well-resolved due…

astro-ph.GA2024

CDM not dead yet: massive high-z Balmer break galaxies are less common than previously reported

Guillaume Desprez, Nicholas S. Martis, Yoshihisa Asada +15

Early JWST observations that targeted so-called double-break sources (attributed to Lyman and Balmer breaks at ), reported a previously unknown population of very massive, evo…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early results from GLASS-JWST VIII: An Extremely Magnified Blue Supergiant Star at Redshift 2.65 in the Abell 2744 Cluster Field

Wenlei Chen, Patrick L. Kelly, Tommaso Treu +18

We report the discovery of an extremely magnified star at redshift in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS pre-imaging of the Abell 2744 galaxy-cluster field. The star…

astro-ph.GA2025

Lyman-alpha emission at the end of reionization: line strengths and profiles from MMT and JWST observations at z~5-6

Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon, Charlotte A. Mason, Victoria Strait +8

With JWST, it is now possible to use Lyman-Alpha (Ly) emission from galaxies beyond z>8 to trace neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) as the Universe became reion…

astro-ph.GA2023

Star Formation at the Epoch of Reionization with CANUCS: The ages of stellar populations in MACS1149-JD1

Maruša Bradač, Victoria Strait, Lamiya Mowla +15

We present measurements of stellar populations properties of a z = 9.1 gravitationally lensed galaxy MACS1149-JD1 using deep JWST NIRISS slitless spectroscopy as well as NIRISS and…

astro-ph.GA2019

RELICS: Strong Lensing Analysis of MACS J0417.5-1154 and Predictions for Observing the Magnified High-Redshift Universe with JWST

Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon, Carter Fox +37

Strong gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies probes the mass distribution at the core of each cluster and magnifies the universe behind it. MACS J0417.5-1154 at z=0.443 is…

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.GA2023

An extremely compact, low-mass post-starburst galaxy at

Victoria Strait, Gabriel Brammer, Adam Muzzin +15

We report the discovery of a low-mass galaxy that is in the process of ceasing its star formation. The galaxy, MACS0417-z5PSB, is multiply imaged with magnificat…

astro-ph.GA2022

A double-peaked Lyman- emitter with a strong blue peak multiply imaged by the galaxy cluster RXC J0018.5+1626

Lukas J. Furtak, Adèle Plat, Adi Zitrin +10

We report the discovery of a double-peaked Lyman- (Ly) emitter (LAE) at in VLT/MUSE data. The galaxy is strongly lensed by the galaxy cluster RXC~J0018.…

astro-ph.GA2019

Hubble Frontier Field Photometric Catalogues of Abell 370 and RXC J2248.7-4431: Multiwavelength photometry, photometric redshifts, and stellar properties

Marusa Bradac, Kuang-Han Huang, Marco Castellano +15

This paper presents multiwavelength photometric catalogues of the last two Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF), the massive galaxy clusters Abell 370 and RXC J2248.7-4431. The photometry…

astro-ph.GA2024

RUBIES: JWST/NIRSpec resolves evolutionary phases of dusty star-forming galaxies at

Olivia R. Cooper, Gabriel Brammer, Kasper E. Heintz +24

The dearth of high quality spectroscopy of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) -- the main drivers of the assembly of dust and stellar mass at the peak of activity in the Universe…

astro-ph.GA2024

CANUCS: An Updated Mass and Magnification Model of Abell 370 with JWST

Rachel Gledhill, Victoria Strait, Guillaume Desprez +9

We report an updated mass and magnification model of galaxy cluster Abell 370 using new NIRCam and NIRISS data from the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS). Using Lens…

astro-ph.GA2018

A Candidate Galaxy Strongly Lensed into a Spatially Resolved Arc

Brett Salmon, Dan Coe, Larry Bradley +27

The most distant galaxies known are at z~10-11, observed 400-500 Myr after the Big Bang. The few z~10-11 candidates discovered to date have been exceptionally small- barely resolve…

astro-ph.GA2022

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. I: Confirmation of Lensed Lyman-Break Galaxies Behind the Abell 2744 Cluster With NIRISS

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Takahiro Morishita, Tommaso Treu +29

We present the first search for , continuum-confirmed sources with NIRISS/WFS spectroscopy over the Abell 2744 Frontier Fields cluster, as part of the GLASS-JWST ERS s…

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.GA2022

The Sparkler: Evolved High-Redshift Globular Clusters Captured by JWST

Lamiya A. Mowla, Kartheik G. Iyer, Guillaume Desprez +17

Using data from JWST, we analyze the compact sources ("sparkles") located around a remarkable galaxy (the "Sparkler") that is strongly gravitationally lensed b…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST catches the assembly of a ultra-low-mass galaxy

Yoshihisa Asada, Marcin Sawicki, Guillaume Desprez +14

Using CANUCS imaging we found an apparent major merger of two ultra-low-mass galaxies ( each) that are doubly imaged and magnified 12-15$\t…

astro-ph.GA2021

Inferring the IGM Neutral Fraction at z ~ 6-8 with Low-Luminosity Lyman Break Galaxies

Patricia Bolan, Brian C. Lemaux, Charlotte Mason +6

We present a Bayesian inference on the neutral hydrogen fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM), , at 6-8 using the properties of Lyman break galaxies…

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

Early results from GLASS-JWST XVI: Discovering a bluer z~4-7 Universe through UV slopes

Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Colin Jacobs +20

We use the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science NIRCam parallel observations to provide a first view of the UV continuum properties of NIRCam/F444W selected galaxies at 4<z<7. By combi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXVI. Spatially Resolved Star Formation and Balmer Decrements at from NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy

Pengfei Ren, Xin Wang, Yuxuan Pang +10

Using JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy, we present spatially resolved Balmer decrement measurements for 79 galaxies at , which are gravitationally lensed by the for…

astro-ph.GA2024

Red, hot, and very metal poor: extreme properties of a massive accreting black hole in the first 500 Myr

Roberta Tripodi, Nicholas Martis, Vladan Markov +29

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a new population of objects at high redshift referred to as `Little Red Dots' (LRDs). Their nature currently remains e…

astro-ph.GA2023

An Atlas of Color-selected Quiescent Galaxies at in Public Fields

Francesco Valentino, Gabriel Brammer, Katriona M. L. Gould +24

We present the results of a systematic search for candidate quiescent galaxies in the distant Universe in eleven fields with publicly available observations collected during…