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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.GA2025

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog

Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley +35

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

CEERS: Forging the First Dust Grains in the Universe? A Population of Galaxies with spectroscopically-derived Extremely Low Dust Attenuation (GELDA) at 4.0<z<11.4

Denis Burgarella, Véronique Buat, Patrice Theulé +35

We investigate the coevolution of metals and dust in 173 galaxies at using NIRSpec spectroscopy. Focusing on galaxies with extremely low dust attenuation, we explore t…

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

CEERS: Forging the First Dust -- Transition from Stellar to ISM Grain Growth in the Early Universe

Denis Burgarella, Véronique Buat, Patrice Theulé +36

We investigate the coevolution of metals and dust for 173 galaxies at 4.0<z<11.4 observed with JWST/NIRSpec. We use the code CIGALE that integrates photometric and spectroscopic da…

astro-ph.GA2024

CEERS Key Paper. IX. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in CEERS NIRCam Images Using Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks

Caitlin Rose, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Gregory F. Snyder +32

A crucial yet challenging task in galaxy evolution studies is the identification of distant merging galaxies, a task which suffers from a variety of issues ranging from telescope s…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Census from JWST of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies Spanning the Epoch of Reionization in CEERS

Kelcey Davis, Jonathan R. Trump, Raymond C. Simons +29

We present a sample of 1165 extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) at 4<z<9 selected using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam photometry in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release…

astro-ph.GA2023

Galaxies Going Bananas: Inferring the 3D Geometry of High-Redshift Galaxies with JWST-CEERS

Viraj Pandya, Haowen Zhang, Marc Huertas-Company +53

The 3D geometry of high-redshift galaxies remains poorly understood. We build a differentiable Bayesian model and use Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to efficiently and robustly infer the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

CEERS Key Paper VIII: Emission Line Ratios from NIRSpec and NIRCam Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy at z>2

Bren E. Backhaus, Jonathan R. Trump, Nor Pirzkal +37

We use James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (NIRCam WFSS) and Near-Infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release…

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.GA2022★ 16 cited

Morphology & Environment's Role on the Star Formation Rate -- Stellar Mass Relation in COSMOS from 0 < z < 3.5

Kevin C. Cooke, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose +6

We investigate the relationship between environment, morphology, and the star formation rate -- stellar mass relation derived from a sample of star-forming galaxies (commonly refer…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Mock Galaxy Surveys for HST and JWST from the IllustrisTNG Simulations

Gregory F. Snyder, Theodore Pena, L. Y. Aaron Yung +3

We present and analyze a series of synthetic galaxy survey fields based on the IllustrisTNG Simulation suite. With the Illustris public data release and JupyterLab service, we gene…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

COSMOS-Web: An Overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

Caitlin M. Casey, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Nicole E. Drakos +82

We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hour treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of observations…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

ALMA FIR View of Ultra High-redshift Galaxy Candidates at 11-17: Blue Monsters or Low- Red Interlopers?

Seiji Fujimoto, Steven L. Finkelstein, Denis Burgarella +50

We present ALMA Band~7 observations of a remarkably bright galaxy candidate at = (=), S5-z17-1, identified in JWST Early Releas…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 153 cited

CEERS Key Paper III: The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z=3-9 with JWST

Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose, Brittany N. Vanderhoof +58

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z=3-9 using early JWST CEERS NIRCam observation…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 102 cited

First Look at z > 1 Bars in the Rest-Frame Near-Infrared with JWST Early CEERS Imaging

Yuchen Guo, Shardha Jogee, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

Stellar bars are key drivers of secular evolution in galaxies and can be effectively studied using rest-frame near-infrared (NIR) images, which trace the underlying stellar mass an…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

Identifying Galaxy Mergers in Simulated CEERS NIRCam Images using Random Forests

Caitlin Rose, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Gregory F. Snyder +23

Identifying merging galaxies is an important - but difficult - step in galaxy evolution studies. We present random forest classifications of galaxy mergers from simulated JWST imag…

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★ 4 cited

Probing the earliest phases in the formation of massive galaxies with simulated HST+JWST imaging data from Illustris

Ángela García-Argumánez, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Armando Gil de Paz +20

We use the Illustris-1 simulation to explore the capabilities of the and data to analyze the stellar populations in high-red…

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.GA2022★ 126 cited

The Physical Conditions of Emission-Line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations

Jonathan R. Trump, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Raymond C. Simons +61

We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five galaxies observed by the JWST Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the SMACS 0723 Early Release…