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most citedCOSMOS2020: A panchromatic view of the Universe to from two complementary catalogs

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35 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Black Hole Stars Across the Universe: Identifying Central Engine Dominated Little Red Dots at

Andrea Weibel, Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch +16

Photometric selections of Little Red Dots (LRDs) largely rely on identifying their ``V-shaped'' spectral energy distribution (SED). Recent work suggests this V-shape stems from a c…

astro-ph.GA2026

DeepDive: Simultaneous Formation of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in High-Redshift Galaxy Overdensities

Takumi Kakimoto, Masayuki Tanaka, Kei Ito +20

We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of overdense regions of massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) in the early Universe with JWST/NIRSpec. Based on data from the DeepDive NIRSpe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Winding Back the Clock: Recent Star Formation Histories of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Are Consistent With Their Rapid Number Density Evolution Since

Yunchong Zhang, Zhiyuan Ji, Rachel Bezanson +17

Massive quiescent galaxies have been identified out to in early JWST data in a substantial excess ( at ) of number densities from most theoretical…

astro-ph.GA2026

PANORAMIC: The Dawn of Massive Quiescent Galaxies I. Number Density and Cosmic Variance from 1000 arcmin NIRCam Imaging

Zhiyuan Ji, Christina C. Williams, Peter Behroozi +13

We measure the number density and field-to-field variance of massive quiescent galaxies at - 8 using the JWST/NIRCam pure-parallel imaging survey PANORAMIC together with a…

astro-ph.GA2026

A PANORAMIC of UV-optical morphologies of "Little Red Dots": Two groups of LRDs distinguished by UV half-light radius

Aidan P. Cloonan, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sinclaire M. Manning +13

Among the most remarkable results from JWST is the discovery of abundant, compact, and very red sources in the early Universe known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs). The relative degree…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer break, photospheric continuum, and broad absorption by thick winds in a Little Red Dot at z=1.7

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Andrea Weibel +12

Recent studies at high redshift have revealed an enigmatic class of Little Red Dots (LRDs) with extreme Balmer breaks, stronger than in any stellar atmosphere. However, it is uncle…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ionised interstellar medium of DSFGs revealed by JWST/NIRSpec and ALMA: Super-solar metallicity, low ionisation parameters and, typical electron densities

Steven Gillman, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino +25

We present a detailed study of near-infrared (2-4m) JWST/NIRSpec spectra of 48 high-redshift () galaxies detected with ALMA at . From a multi-wa…

astro-ph.GA2026

DeepDive: Tracing the early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at from their star-formation histories and chemical abundances

Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Katherine E. Whitaker, Francesco Valentino +21

We investigate the chemical abundances and star-formation histories (SFH) of ten massive () quiescent galaxies at usi…

astro-ph.GA2026

There and back again? Neutral outflows in z~3.5 quiescent galaxies

Pengpei Zhu, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino +16

Neutral gas outflows play a crucial role in the baryon cycle of galaxies, their properties provide key insights into the transition from star formation to quiescence. In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2025

Exploring Cosmic Dawn with PANORAMIC II: Cosmic Variance and Galaxy Clustering at

Andrea Weibel, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Pascal A. Oesch +10

Observational campaigns with JWST have revealed a higher-than-expected abundance of UV-bright galaxies at , with various proposed theoretical explanations. A powerful c…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Explaining ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at in the context of their environments

Christian K. Jespersen, Adam C. Carnall, Christopher C. Lovell

The swift assembly of the earliest galaxies poses a significant challenge to our understanding of galaxy formation. Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at intermediate redshifts ($3 <…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Exploring Cosmic Dawn with PANORAMIC I: The Bright End of the UVLF at

Andrea Weibel, Pascal A. Oesch, Christina C. Williams +14

In its first two years of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope has enabled the discovery of a surprising number of UV-bright galaxies at . Their number density is…

cs.LG2025

CosmoBench: A Multiscale, Multiview, Multitask Cosmology Benchmark for Geometric Deep Learning

Ningyuan Huang, Richard Stiskalek, Jun-Young Lee +6

Cosmological simulations provide a wealth of data in the form of point clouds and directed trees. A crucial goal is to extract insights from this data that shed light on the nature…

astro-ph.GA2025

DeepDive: A deep dive into the physics of the first massive quiescent galaxies in the Universe

K. Ito, F. Valentino, G. Brammer +26

We present the DeepDive program, in which we obtained deep JWST/NIRSpec G235M/F170LP spectra for ten primary massive () quiescent galaxies at $z\…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 22 cited

Exploring over 700 massive quiescent galaxies at z = 2-7: Demographics and stellar mass functions

William M. Baker, Francesco Valentino, Claudia del P. Lagos +6

High-redshift () massive quiescent galaxies are crucial tests of early galaxy formation and evolutionary mechanisms through their cosmic number densities and stellar mass func…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Euclid preparation: TBD. Cosmic Dawn Survey: evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function across 0.2<z<6.5 measured over 10 square degrees

Euclid Collaboration, L. Zalesky, J. R. Weaver +304

The Cosmic Dawn Survey Pre-launch (PL) catalogues cover an effective 10.13 deg area with uniform deep Spitzer/IRAC data ( mag, 5), the largest area covered to the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

A merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at in the Cosmic Vine

K. Ito, F. Valentino, M. Farcy +26

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at . Using JWST observations, we confirm that the two galaxies lie at a projected s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 28 cited

Gas outflows in two recently quenched galaxies at z = 4 and 7

F. Valentino, K. E. Heintz, G. Brammer +33

Outflows are a key element in the baryon cycle of galaxies, and their properties provide a fundamental test for our models of how star formation quenches in galaxies. Here we repor…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

Tracing the galaxy-halo connection with galaxy clustering in COSMOS-Web from z = 0.1 to z ~ 12

Louise Paquereau, Clotilde Laigle, Henry Joy McCracken +31

We explore the evolving relationship between galaxies and their dark matter halos from to using mass-limited angular clustering measurements in the 0.54 de…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 61 cited

COSMOS-Web: stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across of cosmic history

M. Shuntov, O. Ilbert, S. Toft +43

We study the stellar mass function (SMF) and the co-evolution with dark matter halos via abundance matching in the largest redshift range to date in $0.53 \, {\rm deg}^2…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

On the Significance of Rare Objects at High Redshift: The Impact of Cosmic Variance

Christian Kragh Jespersen, Charles L. Steinhardt, Rachel S. Somerville +1

The discovery of extremely luminous galaxies at ultra-high redshifts () has challenged galaxy formation models. Most analyses of this tension have not accounted for the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

How the Galaxy-Halo Connection Depends on Large-Scale Environment

John F. Wu, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Risa H. Wechsler

We investigate the connection between galaxies, dark matter halos, and their large-scale environments at with Illustris TNG300 hydrodynamic simulation data. We predict stella…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Leaving No Branches Behind: Predicting Baryonic Properties of Galaxies from Merger Trees

Chen-Yu Chuang, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Yen-Ting Lin +2

Galaxies play a key role in our endeavor to understand how structure formation proceeds in the Universe. For any precision study of cosmology or galaxy formation, there is a strong…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Efficient survey design for finding high-redshift galaxies with JWST

Luka Vujeva, Charles L. Steinhardt, Christian Kragh Jespersen +9

Several large JWST blank field observing programs have not yet discovered the first galaxies expected to form at . This has motivated the search for more effecti…