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

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-Mass Galaxies at z=1-7 from Hα-to-UV Diagnostics

Marissa N. Perry, Anthony J. Taylor, Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz +15

We present an analysis of bursty star-formation histories (SFHs) of 346 star-forming galaxies at , selected from JWST/NIRSpec G395M and PRISM spectroscopy provided b…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Ly visibility from z = 4.5 to 11 in the UDS field: Evidence for a high neutral hydrogen fraction and small ionized bubbles at z 7

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, M. Dickinson +28

The resonant scattering nature of Ly photons interacting with neutral hydrogen makes Ly emitters (LAEs) robust tracers of the intergalactic neutral hydrogen fraction, and thu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Testing Photometric Techniques for Measuring the Rest-Frame UV Spectral Slope Against JWST PRISM Spectroscopy

Alexa M. Morales, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo Arrabal Haro +21

We present a sample of 53 galaxy spectra at z_spec ~ 5-12 from the JWST CEERS and RUBIES surveys, combining NIRSpec PRISM spectroscopy with NIRCam photometry. We aim to use these d…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Are All Bark and No Bite -- Plenty of Ionizing Photons, Low Escape Fractions

Casey Papovich, Justin W. Cole, Weida Hu +27

Early results from JWST suggest that epoch-of-reionization (EoR) galaxies produce copious ionizing photons, which, if they escape efficiently, could cause reionization to occur too…

astro-ph.GA2025

CAPERS Observations of Two UV-Bright Galaxies at z>10. More Evidence for Bursting Star Formation in the Early Universe

Vasily Kokorev, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Anthony J. Taylor +38

We present the first results from the CAPERS survey, utilizing PRISM observations with the JWST/NIRSpec MSA in the PRIMER-UDS field. With just 14 % of the total planned data volume…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

Evolution of the UV slope of galaxies at cosmic morning (z > 4): the properties of extremely blue galaxies

D. Dottorini, A. Calabrò, L. Pentericci +23

We present an analysis of the UV continuum slope, beta, using a sample of 733 galaxies selected from a mixture of JWST ERS/GTO/GO observational programs and with z > 4. We consider…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

The ionizing photon production efficiency of star-forming galaxies at

M. Llerena, L. Pentericci, L. Napolitano +27

Investigating the ionizing emission of star-forming galaxies is critical to understanding their contribution to reionization and their impact on the surrounding environment. The nu…

astro-ph.GA2024

Emission-Line Ratios and Ionization Conditions of CEERS Star-Forming Galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec

Ansh R. Gupta, Allison Kirkpatrick, Vital Fernandez +5

Galaxy emission-line fluxes can be analyzed to determine star formation rates (SFR) and ISM ionization. Here, we investigate rest-frame optical emission lines of 71 star-forming ga…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 28 cited

The Dual Nature of GHZ9: Coexisting Active Galactic Nuclei and Star Formation Activity in a Remote X-ray Source at z = 10.145

Lorenzo Napolitano, Marco Castellano, Laura Pentericci +33

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRSpec PRISM spectroscopic characterization of GHZ9 at z= 10.145 0.010, currently the most distant source detected by the Chandr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

The BoRG- Survey: Abundance and Mass-to-light Ratio of Luminous Galaxies from Independent Sight Lines with NIRSpec

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Micaela B. Bagley, Guido Roberts-Borsani +12

We present new results on the rest-frame UV luminosity function (UVLF) and stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratio of bright (M mag) spectroscopically-confirmed gal…

astro-ph.GA2024

CEERS Key Paper. IX. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in CEERS NIRCam Images Using Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks

Caitlin Rose, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Gregory F. Snyder +32

A crucial yet challenging task in galaxy evolution studies is the identification of distant merging galaxies, a task which suffers from a variety of issues ranging from telescope s…

astro-ph.GA2024

The BoRG-JWST Survey: Program Overview and First Confirmations of Luminous Reionization-Era Galaxies from Pure-Parallel Observations

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Micaela Bagley, Sofía Rojas-Ruiz +18

We present the BoRG-JWST survey, a combination of two JWST Cycle 1 programs aimed at obtaining NIRSpec spectroscopy of representative, UV-bright galaxy candidates across 2…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Evidence of extreme ionization conditions and low metallicity in GHZ2/GLASS-z12 from a combined analysis of NIRSpec and MIRI observations

Antonello Calabro, Marco Castellano, Jorge A. Zavala +19

GHZ2/GLASS-z12 has been recently observed by JWST with both NIRSpec and MIRI spectrographs, making it the most distant galaxy () with complete spectroscopic coverag…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 66 cited

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.GA2024★ 13 cited

JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy of the Remarkable Bright Galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 at Redshift 12.34

Marco Castellano, Lorenzo Napolitano, Adriano Fontana +28

We spectroscopically confirm the mag galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 to be at redshift . The source was selected via NIRCam photometry in GLASS-JWST ERS data, p…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Census from JWST of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies Spanning the Epoch of Reionization in CEERS

Kelcey Davis, Jonathan R. Trump, Raymond C. Simons +29

We present a sample of 1165 extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) at 4<z<9 selected using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam photometry in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2023

CEERS: 7.7 m PAH Star Formation Rate Calibration with JWST MIRI

Kaila Ronayne, Casey Papovich, Guang Yang +33

We test the relationship between UV-derived star formation rates (SFRs) and the 7.7 m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) luminosities from the integrated emission of galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 209 cited

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★ 34 cited

A strong He II 1640 emitter with extremely blue UV spectral slope at : presence of Pop III stars?

Xin Wang, Cheng Cheng, Junqiang Ge +12

Cosmic hydrogen reionization and cosmic production of first metals are major phase transitions of the universe occurring during the first billion years after the Big Bang, however…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 263 cited

CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results

Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anton M. Koekemoer +34

We present the data release and data reduction process for the Epoch 1 NIRCam observations for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). These data consist of NIRC…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 153 cited

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.GA2022★ 55 cited

CEERS Key Paper III: The Resolved Host Properties of AGN at 3 < z < 5 with JWST

Dale D. Kocevski, Guillermo Barro, Elizabeth J. McGrath +56

We report on the host properties of five X-ray luminous Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identified at in the first epoch of imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 350 cited

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★ 126 cited

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…