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most citedCEERS Key Paper I: An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST

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astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

astro-ph.GA2026

Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at from CAPERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anthony J. Taylor +27

The stellar mass assembly of massive galaxies in the first few billion years of cosmic history remains a central challenge in galaxy formation. Galaxies with $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{1…

astro-ph.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Very bright, very blue, and very red: JWST CAPERS analysis of highly luminous galaxies with extreme UV slopes at

Callum T. Donnan, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor +37

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of three luminous () galaxies at observed with the CAPERS Cycle 3 program. These galaxies exhibit extreme UV sl…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Testing Photometric Techniques for Measuring the Rest-Frame UV Spectral Slope Against JWST PRISM Spectroscopy

Alexa M. Morales, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo Arrabal Haro +21

We present a sample of 53 galaxy spectra at z_spec ~ 5-12 from the JWST CEERS and RUBIES surveys, combining NIRSpec PRISM spectroscopy with NIRCam photometry. We aim to use these d…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +96

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates e…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Exploring the Nature of Little Red Dots: Constraints on AGN and Stellar Contributions from PRIMER MIRI Imaging

Gene C. K. Leung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo G. Pérez-González +20

JWST has revealed a large population of compact, red galaxies at known as Little Red Dots (LRDs). We analyze the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 95 LRDs from the JWST…

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★ 4 cited

Galaxy Rest-Frame UV Colors at z ~ 2-4 with HST UVCANDELS

Alexa Morales, Steven Finkelstein, Micaela Bagley +13

We present an analysis of rest-frame UV colors of 17,243 galaxies at in the HST UVCANDELS fields: GOODS-N, GOODS-S, COSMOS, and EGS. Here, we study the rest-frame UV spe…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Rest-Frame UV Colors for Faint Galaxies at with the \textit{JWST} NGDEEP Survey

Alexa M. Morales, Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung +14

We present measurements of the rest-frame UV spectral slope, , for a sample of 36 faint star-forming galaxies at z ~ 9-16 discovered in one of the deepest JWST NIRCam surveys to…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ~ 8.5-14.5

Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley +52

We present a sample of 88 candidate z~8.5-14.5 galaxies selected from the completed NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. These data cover…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

NGDEEP Epoch 1: The Faint-End of the Luminosity Function at 9-12 from Ultra-Deep JWST Imaging

Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

We present a robust sample of very high-redshift galaxy candidates from the first epoch of {\it JWST}/NIRCam imaging from the Next Generation Extragalactic Exploratory Deep (NGDEEP…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

The Impact of Cosmic Variance on Inferences of Global Neutral Fraction Derived from Ly Luminosity Functions During Reionization

Sean Bruton, Claudia Scarlata, Francesco Haardt +4

We investigate the impact of field-to-field variation, deriving from cosmic variance, in measured Lyman- emitter (LAE) luminosity functions (LFs) and this variation's impact on…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 191 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of CEERS NIRCam-selected Galaxies at

Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of seven galaxies selected from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) NIRCam imaging with photometric redshifts z_pho…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 365 cited

A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z=8.679, in CEERS_1019, a galaxy previously discovered via a Ly-break by Hubble and with a Ly redshift from…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 88 cited

Spectral Templates Optimal for Selecting Galaxies at z > 8 with JWST

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Micaela Bagley +9

The selection of high-redshift galaxies often involves spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to photometric data, an expectation for contamination levels, and measurement of s…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 263 cited

CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results

Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anton M. Koekemoer +34

We present the data release and data reduction process for the Epoch 1 NIRCam observations for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). These data consist of NIRC…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 524 cited

CEERS Key Paper I: An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Henry C. Ferguson +64

We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS programs, targets g…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 139 cited

Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations

Jorge A. Zavala, Veronique Buat, Caitlin M. Casey +121

Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates at z>10 are rapidly being identified in JWST/NIRCam observations. Due to the (redshifted) break produced by neutral hydrogen absorption of rest-…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 350 cited

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

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +117

We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z~12 in the first epoch of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. Following conservative se…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 80 cited

The Evolution of the Lyman-Alpha Luminosity Function During Reionization

Alexa Morales, Charlotte Mason, Sean Bruton +3

The time frame in which hydrogen reionization occurred is highly uncertain, but can be constrained by observations of Lyman-alpha (Ly) emission from distant sources. Neutral hyd…