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

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43 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions

María Carranza-Escudero, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +31

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a previously unseen population of compact red objects, known as ``little red dots`` (LRDs). We study a new photometri…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

The impact of medium-width bands on the selection, and subsequent luminosity function measurements, of high-z galaxies

N. J. Adams, D. Austin, T. Harvey +7

New, ultra-deep medium-width photometric coverage with JWST's NIRCam instrument provides the potential for much improved photo-z reliability at high redshifts. In this study, we co…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Cosmic Stillness: High Quiescent Galaxy Fractions Across Upper Mass Scales in the Early Universe to z = 7 with JWST

Tobias A. Russell, Neva Dobric, Nathan J. Adams +25

We present a detailed investigation into the abundance and morphology of high redshift quenched galaxies at using James Webb Space Telescope data in the NEP, CEERS and…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

EPOCHS XI: The Structure and Morphology of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization to z ~ 12.5

Lewi Westcott, Christopher J. Conselice, Thomas Harvey +29

We present a structural analysis of 521 galaxy candidates at 6.5 < z < 12.5, with in the F444W filter, taken from the EPOCHS v1 sample, consisting of uniformly reduced…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Galaxy Mergers in the Epoch of Reionization II: Major Merger-Triggered Star Formation and AGN Activities at 4.5-8.5

Qiao Duan, Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice +29

Galaxy mergers are a key driver of galaxy formation and evolution, including the triggering of AGN and star formation to a still unknown degree. We thus investigate the impact of g…

astro-ph.GA2024

UVCANDELS: Catalogs of photometric redshifts and galaxy physical properties

Vihang Mehta, Marc Rafelski, Ben Sunnquist +76

The UltraViolet imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) program provides deep HST F275W and F435W imaging over four CANDELS…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

EPOCHS I. The Discovery and Star Forming Properties of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization at with PEARLS and Public JWST data

Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey +32

We present in this paper the discovery, properties, and a catalog of 1165 high redshift galaxies found in deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GTO PEARLS survey combine…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 48 cited

Galaxy Mergers in the Epoch of Reionization I: A JWST Study of Pair Fractions, Merger Rates, and Stellar Mass Accretion Rates at

Qiao Duan, Christopher J. Conselice, Qiong Li +30

We present a full analysis of galaxy major merger pair fractions, merger rates, and mass accretion rates, thus uncovering the role of mergers in galaxy formation at the earliest pr…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS Paper X: Environmental effects on Galaxy Formation and Protocluster Galaxy candidates at from JWST observations

Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice, Florian Sarron +16

In this paper we describe our search for galaxy protocluster candidates at and explore the environmental and physical properties of their member galaxies identified t…

astro-ph.GA2024

EPOCHS Paper V. The dependence of galaxy formation on galaxy structure at z < 7 from JWST observations

Christopher J. Conselice, Justin T. F. Basham, Daniel O. Bettaney +11

We measure the broad impact of galaxy structure on galaxy formation by examining the ongoing star formation and integrated star formation history as revealed through the stellar ma…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

EPOCHS III: Unbiased UV continuum slopes at 6.5<z<13 from combined PEARLS GTO and public JWST NIRCam imaging

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

We present an analysis of rest-frame UV continuum slopes, , using a sample of 1011 galaxies at from the EPOCHS photometric sample collated from the GTO PEARLS and pub…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Dust Extinction Measures for Galaxies using Machine Learning on JWST Imaging

Kwan Lin Kristy Fu, Christopher J. Conselice, Leonardo Ferreira +4

We present the results of a machine learning study to measure the dust content of galaxies observed with JWST at z > 6 through the use of trained neural networks based on high-reso…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 60 cited

EPOCHS IV: SED Modelling Assumptions and their impact on the Stellar Mass Function at 6.5 < z < 13.5 using PEARLS and public JWST observations

Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan J. Adams +31

We utilize deep JWST NIRCam observations for the first direct constraints on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) at . Our EPOCHS v1 sample includes 1120 galaxy candidates…

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★ 15 cited

The UV luminosity function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS

Lei Sun, Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz +75

UVCANDELS is a HST Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields: GOO…

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★ 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★ 17 cited

The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at from UVCANDELS

Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz, Brent M. Smith +74

The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program,…

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★ 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★ 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.GA2022★ 4 cited

Emission Line Galaxies in the SHARDS Hubble Frontier Fields II: Limits on Lyman-Continuum Escape Fractions of Lensed Emission Line Galaxies at Redshifts 2 < z < 3.5

Alex Griffiths, Christopher J. Conselice, Leonardo Ferreira +10

We present an investigation on escape fractions of UV photons from a unique sample of lensed low-mass emission line selected galaxies at z < 3.5 found in the SHARDS Hubble Frontier…