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20202026
most citedObservations of edge-on protoplanetary disks with ALMA I. Results from continuum data

187 citations · 452 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the Light Curves of Magnified Stellar Events at z ~ 0.725

Carter Meyerhoff, Hayley Williams, Rafael Ortiz +5

Extreme magnification by lensing galaxy clusters allows the detection of high-luminosity stars during cluster caustic transient events at cosmological distances. The Dragon Arc at…

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

VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We present the first characterization of the host galaxy of a recently discovered type IIP SN at (SN Eos). SN Eos and its host galaxy are gravitationally lensed and multip…

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.CO2026

SN 2022riv in RX J2129: Discovery, Spectroscopic Classification, and Microlensing of a Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernova from JWST and HST Observations

Birendra Dhanasingham, Patrick L. Kelly, Wenlei Chen +27

The multiply imaged SN 2022riv was discovered through a search of galaxy cluster fields as part of a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) SNAP program to find highly magnified stars. The s…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail +22

Ring galaxies are an uncommon class of galaxies whose morphology is closely related to dynamical processes that govern galaxy evolution. Some ring galaxies, known as "collisional r…

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.CO2025★ 1 cited

Transient star B/R ratio and star formation in lensed galaxies

Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Palencia, Jose M. Diego +8

The extreme magnification from galaxy clusters and microlenses therein allows the detection of individual, luminous stars in lensed galaxies as transient events, and hence provides…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Microlensing at Cosmological Distances: Event Rate Predictions in the Warhol Arc of MACS 0416

J. M. Palencia, J. M. Diego, L. Dai +13

Highly magnified stars ( 100) are now outinely identified as transient events at cosmological distances thanks to microlensing by intra-cluster stars near the critical curve…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining the z 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403

Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena +19

Our understanding of galaxy properties and evolution is contingent on knowing the initial mass function (IMF), and yet to date, the IMF is constrained only to local galaxies. Indiv…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Dark Matter distinguished by skewed microlensing in the "Dragon Arc"

Tom Broadhurst, Sung Kei Li, Amruth Alfred +18

Microlensed stars recently discovered by JWST & HST follow closely the winding critical curve of A370 along all sections of the ``Dragon Arc" traversed by the critical curve. These…

astro-ph.GA2023

Sp1149 II: Spectroscopy of HII Regions Near the Critical Curve of MACS J1149 and Cluster Lens Models

Hayley Williams, Patrick Kelly, Wenlei Chen +3

Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses enable the study of faint galaxies even at large lookback times, and, recently, time-delay constraints on the Hubble constant. There have been f…

astro-ph.GA2023

Sp1149 I: Constraints on the Balmer L-sigma Relation for HII Regions in a Spiral Galaxy at Redshift z=1.49 Strongly Lensed by the MACS J1149 Cluster

Hayley Williams, Patrick Kelly, Wenlei Chen +3

The luminosities and velocity dispersions of the extinction-corrected Balmer emission lines of giant HII regions in nearby galaxies exhibit a tight correlation (~0.35 dex scatter).…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

An Empirical reionization history model inferred from the low-redshift Lyman continuum survey and the star-forming galaxies at

Yu-Heng Lin, Claudia Scarlata, Hayley Williams +8

We present a new analysis of the rest-frame UV and optical spectra of a sample of three galaxies discovered behind the gravitational lensing cluster RX\,J2129.4+0009. We comb…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 85 cited

Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: first results from the GLASS-JWST program

S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, A. Calabro' +29

The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons () is a key parameter for determining the sources of cosmic reionization at . At these redshifts, owing to th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 61 cited

Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation from Redshift to the Local Universe

Danial Langeroodi, Jens Hjorth, Wenlei Chen +17

A tight positive correlation between the stellar mass and the gas-phase metallicity of galaxies has been observed at low redshifts. The redshift evolution of this correlation can s…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

Flashlights: More than A Dozen High-Significance Microlensing Events of Extremely Magnified Stars in Galaxies at Redshifts z=0.7-1.5

Patrick L. Kelly, Wenlei Chen, Amruth Alfred +23

Once only accessible in nearby galaxies, we can now study individual stars across much of the observable universe aided by galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses. When a star, compact…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 98 cited

A Magnified Compact Galaxy at Redshift 9.51 with Strong Nebular Emission Lines

Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Wenlei Chen +21

Ultraviolet light from early galaxies is thought to have ionized gas in the intergalactic medium. However, there are few observational constraints on this epoch because of the fain…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 187 cited

Observations of edge-on protoplanetary disks with ALMA I. Results from continuum data

M. Villenave, F. Menard, W. R. F. Dent +15

We analyze a sample of 12 HST-selected edge-on protoplanetary disks for which the vertical extent of the emission layers can be constrained directly. We present ALMA high angular r…