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astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

On the nature of disks at high redshift seen by JWST/CEERS with contrastive learning and cosmological simulations

J. Vega-Ferrero, M. Huertas-Company, L. Costantin +26

Visual inspections of the first optical rest-frame images from JWST have indicated a surprisingly high fraction of disk galaxies at high redshifts. Here, we alternatively apply sel…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 253 cited

Type Ia Supernova Distances at z > 1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate

Adam G. Riess, Steven A. Rodney, Daniel M. Scolnic +31

We present an analysis of 15 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at redshift z > 1 (9 at 1.5 < z < 2.3) recently discovered in the CANDELS and CLASH Multi-Cycle Treasury programs using WFC…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 186 cited

Type Ia Supernova Rate Measurements to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS : Searching for Prompt Explosions in the Early Universe

Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger +35

The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) was a multi-cycle treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that surveyed a total area of ~0…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 112 cited

A Comparison between Semi-Analytic Model Predictions for the CANDELS Survey

Yu Lu, Risa H. Wechsler, Rachel S. Somerville +13

We compare the predictions of three independently developed semi-analytic galaxy formation models that are being used to aid in the interpretation of results from the CANDELS surve…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 265 cited

A Rapidly Star-forming Galaxy 700 Million Years After the Big Bang at z=7.51

S. L. Finkelstein, C. Papovich, M. Dickinson +18

Out of several dozen z > 7 candidate galaxies observed spectroscopically, only five have been confirmed via Lyman-alpha emission, at z=7.008, 7.045, 7.109, 7.213 and 7.215. The sma…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 255 cited

A CANDELS - 3D-HST Synergy: Resolved Star Formation Patterns at 0.7 < z < 1.5

Stijn Wuyts, Natascha M. Forster Schreiber, Erica J. Nelson +20

We analyze the resolved stellar populations of 473 massive star-forming galaxies at 0.7 < z < 1.5, with multi-wavelength broad-band imaging from CANDELS and Halpha surface brightne…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 132 cited

The Progenitors of the Compact Early-Type Galaxies at High-Redshift

Christina C. Williams, Mauro Giavalisco, Paolo Cassata +19

We use GOODS and CANDELS images to identify progenitors of massive (log M > 10 Msun) compact "early-type" galaxies (ETGs) at z~1.6. Since merging and accretion increase the size of…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 4 cited

The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Thomas M. Brown, Jason Tumlinson, Marla Geha +11

We present early results from a Hubble Space Telescope survey of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. These Milky Way satellites were discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and app…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 39 cited

To Stack or Not to Stack: Spectral Energy Distribution Properties of Lya-Emitting Galaxies at z=2.1

Carlos J. Vargas, Hannah Bish, Viviana Acquaviva +13

We use the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) GOODS-S multi-wavelength catalog to identify counterparts for 20 Lya Emitting (LAE) galaxies at…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 34 cited

Discovery of a Quadruple Lens in CANDELS with a Record Lens Redshift z=1.53

A. van der Wel, G. van de Ven, M. Maseda +10

Using spectroscopy from the Large Binocular Telescope and imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope we discovered the first strong galaxy lens at z(lens)>1. The lens has a secure pho…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 362 cited

A Critical Assessment of Photometric Redshift Methods: A CANDELS Investigation

Tomas Dahlen, Bahram Mobasher, Sandra M. Faber +35

We present results from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) photometric redshift methods investigation. In this investigation, the results…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 531 cited

CANDELS Multi-wavelength Catalogs: Source Detection and Photometry in the GOODS-South Field

Yicheng Guo, Henry C. Ferguson, Mauro Giavalisco +33

We present a UV-to-mid infrared multi-wavelength catalog in the CANDELS/GOODS-S field, combining the newly obtained CANDELS HST/WFC3 F105W, F125W, and F160W data with existing publ…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 324 cited

CANDELS Multiwavelength catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Field

Audrey Galametz, Andrea Grazian, Adriano Fontana +42

We present the multiwavelength - ultraviolet to mid-infrared - catalog of the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) field observed as part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extrag…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 74 cited

CANDELS Observations of the Environmental Dependence of the Color-Mass-Morphology Relation at z = 1.6

Robert Bassett, Casey Papovich, Jennifer M. Lotz +16

We study the environmental dependence of color, stellar mass, and morphology by comparing galaxies in a forming cluster to those in the field at z = 1:6 with Hubble Space Telescope…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 94 cited

Structural Evolution of Early-type Galaxies to z=2.5 in CANDELS

Yu-Yen Chang, Arjen van der Wel, Hans-Walter Rix +18

Projected axis ratio measurements of 880 early-type galaxies at redshifts 1<z<2.5 selected from CANDELS are used to reconstruct and model their intrinsic shapes. The sample is sele…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 91 cited

UVUDF: Ultraviolet Imaging of the Hubble Ultradeep Field with Wide-field Camera 3

Harry I. Teplitz, Marc Rafelski, Peter Kurczynski +23

We present an overview of a 90-orbit Hubble Space Telescope treasury program to obtain near ultraviolet imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field using the Wide Field Camera 3 UVIS de…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 10 cited

Choirs, HI Galaxy Groups: Catalogue and Detection of Star-forming Dwarf Group Members

Sarah M. Sweet, Gerhardt Meurer, Michael J. Drinkwater +24

Hα observations centred on galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS, Barnes et al. 2001) typically show one and sometimes two star-forming galaxies within the ap…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 205 cited

The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies: Evidence for IMF Variations with Galactic Environment

M. Geha, T. M. Brown, J. Tumlinson +8

We present constraints on the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in two ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies, Hercules and Leo IV, based on deep HST/ACS imaging. The Hercules and Leo…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 47 cited

Discovery of Lyman Break Galaxies at z~7 from the ZFOURGE Survey

V. Tilvi, C. Papovich, K. -V. H. Tran +22

Star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>6 are likely responsible for the reionization of the universe, and it is important to study the nature of these galaxies. We present three cand…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 86 cited

The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914

David O. Jones, Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess +22

We present the discovery of a Type Ia supernova (SN) at redshift from the CANDELS multi-cycle treasury program on the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope (HST)}. This SN was…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 134 cited

Constraining The Assembly Of Normal And Compact Passively Evolving Galaxies From Redshift z=3 To The Present With CANDELS

P. Cassata, M. Giavalisco, C. C. Williams +16

We study the evolution of the number density, as a function of the size, of passive early-type galaxies with a wide range of stellar masses 10^10<M*/Msun<10^11.5) from z~3 to z~1,…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 78 cited

The Bivariate Size-luminosity Relations for Lyman Break Galaxies at z ~ 4 - 5

Kuang-Han Huang, Henry C. Ferguson, Swara Ravindranath +1

We study the bivariate size-luminosity distribution of Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) selected at redshifts around 4 and 5 in GOODS and the HUDF fields. We model the size-luminosity d…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 1 cited

Addressing Decadal Survey Science through Community Access to Highly Multiplexed Spectroscopy with BigBOSS on the KPNO Mayall Telescope

Caty Pilachowski, Carles Badenes, Stephen Bailey +87

This document summarizes the results of a community-based discussion of the potential science impact of the Mayall+BigBOSS highly multiplexed multi-object spectroscopic capability.…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 17 cited

Near-Infrared Survey of the GOODS-North Field: Search for Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z=>6.5

Nimish P. Hathi, Bahram Mobasher, Peter Capak +2

We present near-infrared (NIR; J & Ks) survey of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-N) field. The publicly available imaging data were obtained using the MOIR…