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most citedA Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging

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astro-ph.GA2026

The onset of stellar bars at Cosmic Noon. Bar-driven quenching and AGN co-evolution in a mature disc galaxy

Luca Costantin, Lorenzo Morelli, Cristina Cabello +15

Observations with the JWST revealed an unexpected abundance of barred galaxies at Cosmic Noon. However, the physical properties of these early bars are almost unconstrained, as it…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dissecting the Obscured Core of GN20: an Active Galactic Nucleus Outshone by Young Stars

M. Hamed, L. Colina, P. G. Pérez-González +17

We investigate the relative contributions of star formation and AGN activity to the total energy budget of GN20, one of the most luminous dusty star-forming galaxies known at …

astro-ph.GA2026

A stellar bar hidden in an extreme gas-rich disk galaxy at z=4.055

Leindert A. Boogaard, Luca Costantin, Thor Tepper-García +14

The classical picture for the formation of stellar bars -- key dynamical drivers of the evolution of galaxies -- is through secular evolution of instability in gas poor, stellar-do…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Discovery of a Barred-Spiral Galaxy at = 3.16 II. The Star Formation History

Yingjie Cheng, Mauro Giavalisco, Daniel Ivanov +6

We present a detailed analysis of a massive barred galaxy at using deep multi-band imaging from HST and JWST. For the first time, we resolve its morphology and st…

astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery of a Barred-Spiral Galaxy at = 3.16 I: Bar Identification and Properties

Daniel Ivanov, Mauro Giavalisco, Yingjie Cheng +6

The formation of stellar bars is an important milestone in the secular evolution of spiral galaxies, which typically indicates the presence of a massive rotationally supported disk…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIDIS: Strong H+[OIII] Line Emitters at

Thomas R. Greve, Steven Gillman, Pierluigi Rinaldi +24

We present a search for strong H+[O III] emitters at in the HUDF using ultra-deep JWST/MIRI F560W imaging from the MIDIS survey. Three galaxies are identified via p…

astro-ph.GA2026

Contrasting evolutionary pathways of fast- and slow-rotating galaxies in the green valley

Shuang Zhou, Angela Iovino, Marcella Longhetti +2

We investigate the evolutionary pathways of green valley (GV) galaxies drawn from the SDSS-IV/MaNGA survey. The GV sample is divided into fast- and slow-rotating galaxies based on…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST Reveals Two Overmassive Black Hole Candidates in Dwarf Galaxies at z 0.7: Pushing Black Hole Searches into the Dwarf-Galaxy Regime

E. Iani, P. Rinaldi, A. Torralba +35

We report the discovery and characterization of two compact galaxies, Pelias and Neleus, at z ~ 0.71 and z ~ 0.75, identified in MACS J0416.1-2403 and GOODS-North. Both exhibit unu…

astro-ph.GA2026

Accelerated size evolution in the FirstLight simulations from z=14 to z=5

Daniel Ceverino, Yurina Nakazato, Naoki Yoshida +3

Galaxies grow very rapidly during the first Gyr of the Universe, mostly driven by high galaxy efficiencies, particularly relevant at . This efficiency is related to high gas d…

astro-ph.GA2026

BLUEPRINT: Blue-dominant Lyman- emission as evidence of gas inflow in ultra-low-mass galaxies at z = 3

Tamal Mukherjee, Zhihui Li, Tayyaba Zafar +4

We report the detection of a clumpy, blue-dominated Ly emission at z = 3.066 located in the heart of a cosmic web filament in the MUSE eXtremely Deep Field (MXDF), spatially ass…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 4 cited

A Morphology Catalog of Galaxies in CEERS: Evolution in the Size and Color Gradients of Galaxies Since Cosmic Dawn

Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro +42

We present measurements of morphological parameters from fitting 53,885 galaxies detected to a magnitude limit of F356W in the CEERS NIRCam imaging with galfit in six broad…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIDIS: The identification of deep MIRI-red sources as candidates for extreme Balmer-break and line emitting galaxies at high-z

I. Jermann, G. Brammer, S. Gillman +27

We investigate the detection and nature of 5.6~μm MIRI-red sources in the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS), covering 2.4~arcmin in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. MIDIS is the dee…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani +61

We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3<z<9.3, forming a representative spectroscopic subset of NIRCam-selected LRDs. We derive a median s…

astro-ph.GA2025

GA-NIFS: the highest-redshift ring galaxy candidate from a head-on collision

Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, Luca Costantin +18

Collisional ring galaxies are a rare class of interacting systems, making up only ~0.01% of galaxies in the local Universe. Their formation is typically attributed to a head-on col…

astro-ph.GA2025

RIOJA. The dusty outflows and density-complex interstellar medium in the N-enhanced lensed galaxy RXCJ2248-ID at z=6.1

A. Crespo Gómez, Y. Tamura, L. Colina +19

We present an analysis on the kinematics and physical properties of the ionized gas in the lensed galaxy RXCJ2248-ID at z=6.1 based on high-resolution JWST NIRSpec/IFU data in comb…

astro-ph.GA2025

RIOJA. Young Starburst and Ionized Gas Outflows in a Galaxy Uncovered by JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec Observations

Yi W. Ren, Akio K. Inoue, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +21

We present analysis of JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec observations of the galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2 at , as part of the Reionization and the ISM/Stellar Origins with JWST and ALMA (…

astro-ph.GA2025

Early massive galaxy formation in the core of a galaxy protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang

Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Yurina Nakazato, Daniel Ceverino +24

Rest-frame optical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a population of massive galaxies, exceeding solar masses, present less than a bi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Extremely UV-bright starbursts at the end of cosmic reionization

R. Marques-Chaves, D. Schaerer, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky +22

We present a study of 27 very UV-bright (-22.0<MUV<-24.4) sources at z~6 identified in SHELLQs survey. Stacking their rest-frame UV spectra reveals a prominent NV1240A P-Cygni, con…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MIDIS: Unveiling the Star Formation History in massive galaxies at with spectro-photometric analysis

M. Annunziatella, P. G. Pérez-González, J. Álvarez-Márquez +23

We investigate the star formation histories (SFHs) of a sample of massive galaxies () in the redshift range . We analyze spectro-photo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Spatially resolved H emission in B14-65666: compact starbursts, ionizing efficiency and gas kinematics in an advanced merger at the Epoch of Reionization

C. Prieto-Jiménez, J. Álvarez-Márquez, L. Colina +28

We present MIRI/JWST medium resolution spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MIRIM) of B14-65666, a Lyman-break and interacting galaxy at redshift =7.15. We detect the H line emiss…

astro-ph.GA2025

RIOJA. JWST and ALMA unveil the inhomogeneous and complex ISM structure in a star-forming galaxy at

Mitsutaka Usui, Ken Mawatari, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +21

We report the discovery of a complex, density-stratified interstellar medium (ISM) in the star-forming galaxy COS-2987 at , revealed by the unprecedented synergy between…

astro-ph.GA2025

RIOJA. A Clumpy Galaxy Assembly at Redshift 6.81 Revealed by JWST

Ken Mawatari, Luca Costantin, Mitsutaka Usui +21

Spatially resolved multi-wavelength analysis is essential to study galaxy formation and evolution. A UV-bright galaxy COS-2987030247 at is one of the Rosetta Stones in t…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy Zoo CEERS: Bar fractions up to z~4.0

Tobias Géron, R. J. Smethurst, Hugh Dickinson +22

We study the evolution of the bar fraction in disc galaxies between using multi-band coloured images from JWST CEERS. These images were classified by citizen scient…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The rise of the galactic empire: luminosity functions at and estimated with the MIDISNGDEEP ultra-deep JWST/NIRCam dataset

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Göran Östlin, Luca Costantin +39

We present a sample of six F200W and three F277W dropout sources identified as galaxy candidates using the deepest JWST/NIRCam data to date (5 depths mag at…