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TDCOSMO 2026: new insights on the Hubble tension from strong lensing time delays
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Michele Cappellari +26
We discuss the measurement of the Hubble constant () in flat cold dark matter cosmology based on the blind hierarchical analysis of 11 multiply-imaged quasars (hereafter t…
TDCOSMO 2026: A 3% measurement of the Hubble constant from strong lensing and stellar kinematics
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Michele Cappellari +26
We present cosmological constraints from 11 strongly lensed quasars with measured time delays (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2026 sample). In addition to expanding the sample, we improve…
The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)
Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127
The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…
TDCOSMO XXIX: JWST/NIRSpec IFU Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Three Time-delay Lenses
Shawn Knabel, Pritom Mozumdar, Anowar J. Shajib +8
Spatially resolved stellar kinematics are critical to the high precision achieved by cosmological probes utilizing time delays of strongly lensed quasars. Combined with high-resolu…
Diverse ionized gas conditions in a dynamically hot, interacting galaxy at revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU
Ryota Ikeda, Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli +1
We present a spatially and spectrally resolved study of an interacting galaxy, Gz9p3 at , using the James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec/G395H IFU observation with high-spect…
BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. II. Physical Properties of Galaxies
Yechi Zhang, Takahiro Morishita, Kimi C. Kreilgaard +23
We present photometric properties of 161 galaxy candidates at selected from the second data release (DR2) of BEACON, a JWST Cycle 2 pure-parallel NIRCam imaging program. C…
Possible evidence for a pair-instability supernova nature of ultra-early JWST sources
Andrea Ferrara, Stefano Carniani, Takahiro Morishita +1
Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of unexpectedly bright sources at ultra-high redshift (), challenging current models of early galaxy formation. One extr…
Parallel Application of Slitless Spectroscopy to Analyze Galaxy Evolution (PASSAGE): Survey Overview
Matthew A. Malkan, Vihang Mehta, Ayan Acharyya +49
During the second half of Cycle 1 of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we conducted the Parallel Application of Slitless Spectroscopy to Analyze Galaxy Evolution (PASSAGE) pro…
JWST Discovery of Strong Lensing from a Galaxy Cluster at Cosmic Noon: Giant Arcs and a Highly Concentrated Core of XLSSC 122
Kyle Finner, Sangjun Cha, Zachary P. Scofield +9
Our observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have made the remarkable discovery of strong gravitational lensing arcs from XLSSC 122 () - setting the record for the…
JWST Spectroscopic Insights Into the Diversity of Galaxies in the First 500 Myr: Short-Lived Snapshots Along a Common Evolutionary Pathway
Guido Roberts-Borsani, Pascal Oesch, Richard Ellis +21
We investigate the nature and spectroscopic diversity of early galaxies from a sample of 41 sources at z>10 with JWST/NIRSpec prism observations. We compare the properties of stron…
A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason +5
We report the detection of Ly in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad L…
Pristine Massive Star Formation Caught at the Break of Cosmic Dawn
Takahiro Morishita, Zhaoran Liu, Massimo Stiavelli +3
The existence of galaxies with no heavy elements is a key prediction of cosmological models. So far no "zero-metallicity", or Population~III, galaxies have been identified. Here, w…
The BoRG- Survey: Analogs at to the UV-luminous Galaxy Population at
Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Takahiro Morishita +7
The population of bright galaxies at discovered by JWST, including the so-called "blue monsters", has been difficult to reconcile with standard galaxy evolution models…
TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography
Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu +15
Spatially resolved stellar kinematics has become a key ingredient in time-delay cosmography to break the mass-sheet degeneracy in the mass profile and in turn provide a precise con…
TDCOSMO 2025: Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays
TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer +30
We present cosmological constraints from 8 strongly lensed quasars (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2025 sample). Building on previous work, our analysis incorporated new deflector stellar…
A recoiling supermassive black hole in a powerful quasar
Marco Chiaberge, Takahiro Morishita, Matteo Boschini +14
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are thought to grow through accretion of matter and mergers. Models of SMBH mergers have long suffered the final parsec problem, where SMBH binaries…
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXV. Electron Density in the Interstellar Medium at with NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy
Sijia Li, Xin Wang, Yuguang Chen +17
The electron density () of the interstellar medium (ISM) in star-forming galaxies is intimately linked to star formation and ionization condition. Using the high-resol…
What can we learn from the Nitrogen abundance of High-z galaxies?
Massimo Stiavelli, Takahiro Morishita, Marco Chiaberge +9
We present measurements of the gas-phase Oxygen and Nitrogen abundances obtained by applying the direct method to JWST NIRspec spectroscopy for 6 galaxies at redshift g…
MSA-3D: dissecting galaxies at z~1 with high spatial and spectral resolution
Ivana Barišić, Tucker Jones, Kris Mortensen +18
Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) is a powerful tool for understanding the formation of galaxies across cosmic history. We present the observing strategy and first results of MSA-3…
SuperBoRG: Search for The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies and Quasars in HST Parallel Imaging Data
T. Morishita
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been providing tremendous survey efficiency via its pure-parallel mode, by observing another field in parallel with the primary instrument in o…
SuperBoRG: Exploration of point sources at in HST parallel fields
T. Morishita, M. Stiavelli, M. Trenti +7
To extend the search for quasars in the epoch of reionization beyond the tip of the luminosity function, we explore point source candidates at redshift in SuperBoRG, a com…
Constraining Lyman-alpha spatial offsets at from VANDELS slit spectroscopy
A. Hoag, T. Treu, L. Pentericci +19
We constrain the distribution of spatially offset Lyman-alpha emission (Ly) relative to rest-frame ultraviolet emission in high redshift () Lyman-break galaxi…
Extreme magnification of a star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens
Patrick L. Kelly, Jose M. Diego, Steven Rodney +42
Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses can magnify background galaxies by a total factor of up to ~50. Here we report an image of an individual star at redshift z=1.49 (dubbed "MACS J…