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most citedDiscovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies () in the JWST ERO SMACS 0723 Field

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astro-ph.GA2026

A Decade-Long Increasing Mid-Infrared Luminosity in Galaxy NGC6447: a Turning-On Candidate of Active Galactic Nucleus

Xinyu Dai, Nate Adams, Natalie Kovacevic +6

It is widely expected that the obscured accretion stage can be the initial turning-on stage of active galactic nuclei from quiescent galaxies. We present mid-infrared light curves…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies

I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, Eric J. Murphy +13

Radio continuum emission provides a unique opportunity to study star-formation unbiased by dust obscuration. However, if radio observations are to be used to accurately trace star-…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MIGHTEE: A first look at MIGHTEE quasars

Sarah V. White, Ivan Delvecchio, Nathan Adams +6

In this work we study a robust, -band complete, spectroscopically-confirmed sample of 104 unobscured (Type-1) quasars within the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields of the MeerKAT Inter…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

JWST PRIMER: A lack of outshining in four normal z =4-6 galaxies from the ALMA-CRISTAL Survey

N. E. P. Lines, R. A. A. Bowler, N. J. Adams +28

We present a spatially resolved analysis of four star-forming galaxies at using data from the JWST PRIMER and ALMA-CRISTAL surveys to probe the stellar and inter-st…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST view of four infant galaxies at z=8.31-8.49 in the MACS0416 field and implications for reionization

Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun, Cheng Cheng +34

New JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy provides redshifts for four z>8 galaxies located behind the lensing cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. Two of them, "Y1" and "JD", have pre…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at with JWST PRIMER

R. G. Varadaraj, R. A. A. Bowler, M. J. Jarvis +8

We use data from the JWST Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research (PRIMER) survey to measure the size scaling relations of 1668 rest-frame UV-bright Lyman-break galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Galaxy quenching at the high redshift frontier: A fundamental test of cosmological models in the early universe with JWST-CEERS

Asa F. L. Bluck, Christopher J. Conselice, Katherine Ormerod +10

We present an analysis of the quenching of star formation in massive galaxies () within the first 0.5 - 3 Gyr of the Universe's history utilizing JWST-CEERS…

astro-ph.GA2023

MIGHTEE: multi-wavelength counterparts in the COSMOS field

I. H. Whittam, M. Prescott, C. L. Hale +26

In this paper we combine the Early Science radio continuum data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey, with optical and near-infrared…

astro-ph.GA2023

PEARLS: JWST counterparts of micro-Jy radio sources in the Time Domain Field

S. P. Willner, H. B. Gim, M. del Carmen Polletta +38

The Time Domain Field (TDF) near the North Ecliptic Pole in JWST's continuous-viewing zone will become a premier "blank field" for extragalactic science. JWST/NIRCam data in a 16 a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Adding Value to JWST Spectra and Photometry: Stellar Population and Star Formation Properties of Spectroscopically Confirmed JADES and CEERS Galaxies at

Qiao Duan, Christopher J. Conselice, Qiong Li +5

In this paper, we discuss measurements of the stellar population and star forming properties for 43 spectroscopically confirmed publicly available high-redshift JWST galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

EPOCHS VIII. An Insight into MIRI-selected Galaxies in SMACS-0723 and the Benefits of Deep MIRI Photometry in Revealing AGN and the Dusty Universe

Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +7

We present the analysis of the stellar population and star formation history of 181 MIRI selected galaxies at redshift 0-3.5 in the massive galaxy cluster field SMACS J0723.3-7327,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 70 cited

A JWST investigation into the bar fraction at redshifts 1 < z < 3

Zoe A. Le Conte, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Leonardo Ferreira +7

The presence of a stellar bar in a disc galaxy indicates that the galaxy hosts in its main part a dynamically settled disc and that bar-driven processes are taking place in shaping…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 103 cited

EPOCHS VI: The Size and Shape Evolution of Galaxies since z ~ 8 with JWST Observations

K. Ormerod, C. J. Conselice, N. J. Adams +8

We present the results of a size and structural analysis of 1395 galaxies at with stellar masses 9.5 within the JWST…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Probing magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium using polarization data from MIGHTEE

K. Böckmann, M. Brüggen, V. Heesen +10

The detection and study of magnetic fields surrounding galaxies is important to understand galaxy evolution since magnetic fields are tracers for dynamical processes in the circumg…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 54 cited

EPOCHS VII: Discovery of high redshift () AGN candidates in JWST ERO and PEARLS data

Ignas Juodžbalis, Christopher J. Conselice, Maitrayee Singh +24

We present an analysis of a sample of robust high redshift galaxies selected photometrically from the `blank' fields of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization Science (PEAR…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

EPOCHS IX. When cosmic dawn breaks: Evidence for evolved stellar populations in galaxies from PEARLS GTO and public NIRCam imaging

James A. A. Trussler, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +28

The presence of evolved stars in high-redshift galaxies can place valuable indirect constraints on the onset of star formation in the Universe. Thus we use PEARLS GTO and public NI…

astro-ph.GA2023

A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field

Armin Nabizadeh, Erik Zackrisson, Fabio Pacucci +31

Direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) of mass - that form in HI-cooling halos in the early Universe are promising progenitors of the $\gtrsim 10^9 {M}_\odo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

A Robust Study of High-Redshift Galaxies: Unsupervised Machine Learning for Characterising morphology with JWST up to z ~ 8

Clár-Bríd Tohill, Steven Bamford, Christopher Conselice +4

Galaxy morphologies provide valuable insights into their formation processes, tracing the spatial distribution of ongoing star formation and encoding signatures of dynamical intera…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Magellanic System Stars Identified in SMACS J0723.3-7327 James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Observations Images

Jake Summers, Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen +23

We identify 71 distant stars in JWST/NIRCam ERO images of the field of galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327 (SMACS 0723). Given the relatively small () angular separ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

EPOCHS Paper II: The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function from using 180 square arcminutes of deep, blank-fields from the PEARLS Survey and Public JWST data

Nathan J. Adams, Christopher J. Conselice, Duncan Austin +34

We present an analysis of the ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) and star formation rate density of distant galaxies () in the `blank' fields of the Prime Extr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

The bright end of the galaxy luminosity function at from the VISTA VIDEO survey

R. G. Varadaraj, R. A. A. Bowler, M. J. Jarvis +2

We have conducted a search for Lyman break galaxies over 8.2 square degrees of near-infrared imaging from the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey in the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 64 cited

A Large Population of Faint 8<z<16 Galaxies Found in the First JWST NIRCam Observations of the NGDEEP Survey

D. Austin, N. J. Adams, C. J. Conselice +6

We present an early analysis on the search for high redshift galaxies using the deepest public JWST imaging to date, the NGDEEP field. This data consists of 6-band NIRCam imaging o…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XI: [OIII] emitting galaxies at

Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan +10

JWST has now made it possible to probe the rest-frame optical line emission of high-redshift galaxies extending to z~9, and potentially beyond. To aid in the interpretation of thes…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

JWST's PEARLS: TN J1338-1942 -- I. Extreme jet triggered star-formation in a luminous radio galaxy

Kenneth J. Duncan, Rogier A. Windhorst, Anton M. Koekemoer +25

We present the first JWST observations of the luminous radio galaxy TN J1338-1942, obtained as part of the ``Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science…