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most citedPaving the way for the JWST: witnessing globular cluster formation at z>3

187 citations · 1.4k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Resolving the Assembly of Disk Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionisation to Cosmic Noon

Melanie Kaasinen, Mahsa Kohandel, Francesca Rizzo +45

Most of the mass and angular momentum of today's disk galaxies assembled at . Yet, it remains unclear how these galaxies acquired their gas, how their baryons and dark matter…

astro-ph.GA2026

How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars

Alessandra Venditti, Daniel Schaerer, Erik Zackrisson +26

Finding the first (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the fundamental quests of astronomy, aiming to deliver the missing link in how stars form at early cosmic times. Yet t…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Molecular Gas Properties of Line-Emitting Galaxies from a Blind Survey

Kanako Narita, Bunyo Hatsukade, Seiji Fujimoto +16

We present results of a blind search for line-emitting galaxies using ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey data. We detected seven line emitters, one of which is [C\,{\sc ii}] at $z = 6.071…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Unraveling the Lyman Continuum Emission of Ion3: Insights from HST multi-band imaging and X-Shooter spectroscopy

U. Meštrić, E. Vanzella, A. Beckett +15

We provide a comprehensive analysis of Ion3, the most distant LyC leaker at , using multi-band HST photometry and X-Shooter spectroscopy. Deep HST F390W imaging probe unco…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The Extended Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (Ex-MORA) Survey: 5 Source Catalog and Redshift Distribution

Arianna S. Long, Caitlin M. Casey, Jed McKinney +41

One of the greatest challenges in galaxy evolution over the last decade has been constraining the prevalence of heavily dust-obscured galaxies in the early Universe. At , thes…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Physical characterization of near-infrared-dark intrinsically faint ALMA sources at z=2-4

Akiyoshi Tsujita, Kotaro Kohno, Shuo Huang +33

We present results from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) spectral line-scan observations at 3-mm and 2-mm bands of three near-infrared-dark (NIR-dark) galaxies b…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 66 cited

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: and Photometry of 33 Lensed Fields Built with CHArGE

Vasily Kokorev, Gabriel Brammer, Seiji Fujimoto +30

We present a set of multi-wavelength mosaics and photometric catalogs in the ALMA lensing cluster survey (ALCS) fields. The catalogs were built by reprocessing of archival data fro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

Faint LAEs near z>4.7 CIV absorbers revealed by MUSE

C. Gonzalo Diaz, Emma Ryan-Weber, Wouter Karman +5

We present the results from the search for Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) in the proximity of 11 CIV absorption systems at in the spectrum of the QSO J1030+0524, using data…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

Kinematics of the SN Refsdal host revealed by MUSE: a regularly rotating spiral galaxy at z~1.5

E. M. Di Teodoro, C. Grillo, F. Fraternali +11

We use Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 to explore the kinematics of the grand-design spiral galaxy Sp1149 hosting the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 185 cited

Direct Lyman continuum and Lyman-alpha escape observed at redshift 4

E. Vanzella, M. Nonino, G. Cupani +16

We report on the serendipitous discovery of a z=4.0, M1500=-22.20 star-forming galaxy (Ion3) showing copious Lyman continuum (LyC) leakage (~60% escaping), a remarkable multiple pe…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 79 cited

Mass distribution in the core of MACS J1206: robust modeling from an exceptionally large sample of central multiple images

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +24

We present a new strong lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (MACS 1206), at z=0.44, using deep spectroscopy from CLASH-VLT and VLT/MUSE archival data in combin…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

Optical Line Emission from z6.8 Sources with Deep Constraints on Ly Visibility

M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, A. Fontana +15

We analyze a sample of -dropout galaxies in the CANDELS GOODS South and UDS fields that have been targeted by a dedicated spectroscopic campaign aimed at detecting their Ly l…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 91 cited

Magnifying the early episodes of star formation: super star clusters at cosmological distances

E. Vanzella, M. Castellano, M. Meneghetti +27

We study the spectrophotometric properties of a highly magnified (μ~40-70) pair of stellar systems identified at z=3.2222 behind the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACS~J0416…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 187 cited

Paving the way for the JWST: witnessing globular cluster formation at z>3

E. Vanzella, F. Calura, M. Meneghetti +17

We report on five compact, extremely young (<10Myr) and blue (β_UV<-2.5, F_λ=λ^β) objects observed with VLT/MUSE at redshift 3.1169, 3.235, in addition to three objects at z=6.145.…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Illuminating gas in-/outflows in the MUSE deepest fields: discovery of Ly-alpha nebulae around forming galaxies at z~3.3

E. Vanzella, I. Balestra, M. Gronke +11

We report on the discovery of extended Ly-alpha nebulae at z~3.3 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF, ~ 40 kpc X 80 kpc) and behind the Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACSJ…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 129 cited

A refined mass distribution of the cluster MACS J0416.12403 from a new large set of spectroscopic multiply lensed sources

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +11

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of 22 new multiply lensed sources behind the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) galaxy cluster MACS~J0416.12403 (MACS 0416), using archival dat…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 38 cited

MUSE integral-field spectroscopy towards the Frontier Fields cluster Abell S1063: II. Properties of low luminosity Lyman alpha emitters at z>3

W. Karman, K. I. Caputi, G. B. Caminha +11

In spite of their conjectured importance for the Epoch of Reionization, the properties of low-mass galaxies are currently still under large debate. In this article, we study the st…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 43 cited

Discovery of a faint, star-forming, multiply lensed, Lyman-alpha blob

G. B. Caminha, W. Karman, P. Rosati +7

We report the discovery of a multiply lensed Lyman- blob (LAB) behind the galaxy cluster AS1063 using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (V…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 117 cited

The story of supernova 'Refsdal' told by MUSE

C. Grillo, W. Karman, S. H. Suyu +10

We present MUSE observations in the core of the HFF galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, where the first magnified and spatially-resolved multiple images of SN 'Refsdal' at redshift 1…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 25 cited

A highly-ionized region surrounding SN Refsdal revealed by MUSE

W. Karman, C. Grillo, I. Balestra +9

Supernova (SN) Refsdal is the first multiply-imaged, highly-magnified, and spatially-resolved SN ever observed. The SN exploded in a highly-magnified spiral galaxy at z=1.49 behind…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 85 cited

MUSE integral-field spectroscopy towards the Frontier Fields Cluster Abell S1063: I. Data products and redshift identifications

W. Karman, K. I. Caputi, C. Grillo +11

We present the first observations of the Frontier Fields Cluster Abell S1063 taken with the newly commissioned Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integral field spectrograph.…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 96 cited

Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography from Background Galaxies: The First Megaparsec-Resolution Large-Scale Structure Map at z>2

Khee-Gan Lee, Joseph F. Hennawi, Casey Stark +21

We present the first observations of foreground Lyman- forest absorption from high-redshift galaxies, targeting 24 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with within a $5'…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 10 cited

Active Galactic Nuclei and their Role in Galaxy Evolution: The Infrared Perspective

K. I. Caputi

The remarkable progress made in infrared (IR) astronomical instruments over the last 10-15 years has radically changed our vision of the extragalactic IR sky, and overall understan…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited

PdBI Cold Dust Imaging of Two Extremely Red H-[4.5]>4 Galaxies Discovered with SEDS and CANDELS

Karina I. Caputi, Michal J. Michalowski, Melanie Krips +11

We report Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) 1.1 mm continuum imaging towards two extremely red H-[4.5]>4 (AB) galaxies at z>3, which we have previously discovered making use of…