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most citedJWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

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astro-ph.GA2026

SN Helios: A Multiply Imaged Type II Supernova Opening Time-Delay Cosmography beyond redshift of 3

Seiji Fujimoto, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +64

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of SN Helios, a strongly lensed, multiply imaged Type II supernova (SN) at behind the galaxy cluster RXC J0018.5+162…

astro-ph.GA2026

Other red dots: A possible GLIMPSE of normal AGB stars at Cosmic Noon through extreme lensing

Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Erik Zackrisson +18

We report the discovery of four extremely faint () red point sources in recent ultra-deep JWST/NIRCam images of the strong lensing galaxy cluster Abell…

astro-ph.GA2026

First Statistical Study of Over 100 Magnified Stellar Events at Redshift with JWST

J. M. Palencia, Fengwu Sun, J. M. Diego +25

Highly magnified stars at cosmological distances () become detectable thanks to microlensing by intracluster stars near the critical curves of galaxy clusters. Multi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Caught in Swallowtails: Discovery of Two Swallowtail Image Formations in MS 0451.6-0305

Ashish K. Meena, Wenlei Chen, Lukas J. Furtak +6

We report the discovery of two swallowtail image formations at and behind the galaxy cluster MS 0451.6-0305 in JWST-NIRCam imaging. We find that in both of the ab…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

VENUS: A Strongly Lensed Clumpy Galaxy at behind the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0257.1-2325

Minami Nakane, Vasily Kokorev, Seiji Fujimoto +75

We present the discovery of a strongly lensed galaxy at , dubbed the ``Misty Moons'', identified in the JWST Treasury Survey, Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored S…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST's PEARLS: A Candidate Massive Binary Star System in a Lensed Galaxy at Redshift 0.94

Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Emmanouil Zapartas +18

Massive stars at cosmological distances can be individually detected during transient microlensing events, when gravitational lensing magnifications may exceed ~1000. Nine such sou…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST's PEARLS: Temperatures of Nine Highly Magnified Stars in a Galaxy at Redshift 0.94 and Simulated Stellar Population Dependence on Stellar Metallicity and the Initial Mass Function

Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Rogier A. Windhorst +17

We present stellar atmosphere modeling of JWST NIRCam photometry of nine highly magnified individual stars in a single galaxy at redshift z=0.94 known as the Warhol arc, which is s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Flashlights: Prospects for constraining the Initial Mass Function around cosmic noon with caustic-crossing events

Ashish Kumar Meena, Sung Kei Li, Adi Zitrin +7

The Flashlights program with the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the six Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy clusters in two epochs and detected twenty transients. These are primarily expe…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Reverberation mapping of high-mass and high-redshift quasars using gravitational time delays

Miriam Golubchik, Charles L. Steinhardt, Adi Zitrin +4

Mass estimates of black holes (BHs) in the centers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) often rely on the radius-luminosity relation. However, this relation, usually probed by reverbera…

astro-ph.GA2024

Identification of 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift of 0.725

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Fengwu Sun, Jose M. Diego +44

Strong gravitational magnifications enable to detect faint background sources, resolve their internal structures, and even identify individual stars in distant galaxies. Highly mag…

astro-ph.GA2024

A complex node of the cosmic web associated with the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0600.1-2008

Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Johan P. Richard +18

MACS J0600.1-2008 (MACS0600) is an X-ray luminous, massive galaxy cluster at , studied previously by the REionization LensIng Cluster Survey (RELICS) and ALMA…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

JWST Spectroscopy of SN H0pe: Classification and Time Delays of a Triply-imaged Type Ia Supernova at z = 1.78

Wenlei Chen, Patrick L. Kelly, Brenda L. Frye +19

SN H0pe is a triply imaged supernova (SN) at redshift discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). In order to classify the SN spectroscopically and measure the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The detection and characterization of highly magnified stars with JWST: Prospects of finding Population III

Erik Zackrisson, Adam Hultquist, Aron Kordt +10

Gravitational lensing may render individual high-mass stars detectable out to cosmological distances, and several extremely magnified stars have in recent years been detected out t…

astro-ph.GA2023

Reaching for the stars -- JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of a lensed star candidate at

Lukas J. Furtak, Ashish K. Meena, Erik Zackrisson +31

We present JWST/NIRSpec observations of a highly magnified star candidate at a photometric redshift of , previously detected in JWST/NIRCam imaging of t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The JWST Discovery of the Triply-imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" and Observations of the Galaxy Cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0

Brenda L. Frye, Massimo Pascale, Justin Pierel +39

A Type Ia supernova (SN) at was discovered in James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera imaging of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 (G165; ). The SN is…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

Hidden giants in JWST's PEARLS: An ultra-massive z=4.26 sub-millimeter galaxy that is invisible to HST

Ian Smail, Ugne Dudzeviciute, Mark Gurwell +32

We present a multi-wavelength analysis using SMA, JCMT, NOEMA, JWST, HST, and SST of two dusty strongly star-forming galaxies, 850.1 and 850.2, seen through the massive cluster len…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

BUFFALO/Flashlights: Constraints on the abundance of lensed supergiant stars in the Spock galaxy at redshift 1

Jose M. Diego, Sung Kei Li, Ashish K. Meena +27

We present a constraint on the abundance of supergiant (SG) stars at redshift z approx. 1, based on recent observations of a strongly lensed arc at this redshift. First we derive a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 42 cited

Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies in WHL0137-08 and MACS0647+70 Clusters as Revealed by JWST: How do Galaxies Grow and Quench Over Cosmic Time?

Abdurro'uf, Dan Coe, Intae Jung +20

We study the spatially resolved stellar populations of 444 galaxies at in two clusters (WHL0137-08 and MACS0647+70) and a blank field, combining imaging data from HST a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

A search for transients in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS): Three new supernovae

Miriam Golubchik, Adi Zitrin, Justin Pierel +16

The Reionization Cluster Survey (RELICS) imaged 41 galaxy clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in order to detect lensed and high-redshift galaxies. Each cluster was ima…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 58 cited

Two lensed star candidates at behind the galaxy cluster MACS J0647.7+7015

Ashish Kumar Meena, Adi Zitrin, Yolanda Jiménez-Teja +24

We report the discovery of two extremely magnified lensed star candidates behind the galaxy cluster MACS J0647.7+7015, in recent multi-band James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 57 cited

JWST's PEARLS: a new lens model for ACT-CL J01024915, "EL Gordo'', and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST

Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena, Nathan J. Adams +27

The first JWST data on the massive colliding cluster El Gordo confirm 23 known families of multiply lensed images and identify 8 new members of these families. Based on these famil…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 54 cited

JWST reveals a possible galaxy merger in triply-lensed MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Dan Coe, Abdurro'uf +63

MACS0647JD is a triply-lensed galaxy originally discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report new JWST imaging, which clearly resolves MACS0647JD as ha…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

Early results from GLASS-JWST VIII: An Extremely Magnified Blue Supergiant Star at Redshift 2.65 in the Abell 2744 Cluster Field

Wenlei Chen, Patrick L. Kelly, Tommaso Treu +18

We report the discovery of an extremely magnified star at redshift in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS pre-imaging of the Abell 2744 galaxy-cluster field. The star…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 62 cited

Unscrambling the lensed galaxies in JWST images behind SMACS0723

Massimo Pascale, Brenda L. Frye, Jose Diego +16

The first deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the galaxy cluster SMACS~J0723.3-7327 reveal a wealth of new lensed images at uncharted infrared wavelengt…