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20222026
most citedAn extremely metal poor star complex in the reionization era: Approaching Population III stars with JWST

74 citations · 231 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

ALMA2040: Understanding the Early Assembly of Galaxies - The Formation of Star-Forming Clumps and their Role in Shaping Galaxy Evolution

Anita Zanella, Andreas L. Faisst, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus +25

Astrophysics seeks to explain how galaxies form and evolve through the interplay of stars, gas, and dust. Giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main reservoirs and sites of star forma…

astro-ph.GA2026

GA-NIFS view of LAP1: Assembly of Pop~III stellar clusters during EoR

J. Scholtz, R. Maiolino, S. Carniani +28

Lensed and Pristine 1 (LAP1) is one of the most promising candidates for the detection of so-called Pop~III stars at . In this work, we present new high-spectral-resoluti…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at

A. Bolamperti, M. Messa, A. Zanella +21

The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0416, showing extreme physical properties at . We combine JWST/NIRCam with deep VL…

astro-ph.GA2026

Resolved Maps of Gas and Dust in a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=2 from INQUEST-JWST: Evidence of Accretion and Rejuvenation

Sai Gangula, Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu +10

Quiescent galaxies in the distant universe exhibit a range of gas content that may indicate a variety of quenching processes are at play. Mapping the distribution and kinematics of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A faint M Lyman-continuum leaker candidate in the epoch of reionization: Unprecedented Ly properties at z=5.725

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, T. Morishita +10

We report the unprecedented Ly properties of AMORE6, an extremely metal-poor (), low-mass (), and ultracompact (effec…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Gas excitation of post-starburst galaxies at 0.6 < z < 1.3

A. Zanella, S. Belli, F. M. Valentino +1

Molecular gas traces the fuel for star formation and the processes that regulate it. Observing its physical state (e.g. excitation) reveals when and why galaxies quench. We observe…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Parametric strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster Abell 2390 from Euclid and MUSE observations

D. Abriola, M. Lombardi, C. Grillo +14

We present a new high precision parametric strong lensing total mass reconstruction of the Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) galaxy cluster Abell 2390, at redshift z = 0.231.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

A Pristine Star-Forming Complex at z=4.19

E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Zanella +14

We report the discovery of a faint (M_1700 ~ -12.2), oxygen-deficient strongly-lensed ionizing source -- dubbed LAP2 (Lensed And Pristine 2) -- at a spectroscopic redshift of z=4.1…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

The z = 9.625 Cosmic Gems Galaxy was a "Compact Blue Monster" Propelled by Massive Star Clusters

E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Adamo +36

The recent discovery of five massive stellar clusters at z=9.625 in the Cosmic Gems has raised the question about the formation mechanism of star clusters in the first half Gyr aft…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining the geometry of the gas surrounding a typical galaxy at with Ly polarization

A. Bolamperti, S. -J. Chang, J. Vernet +6

Ly emission is the strongest tracer of recombining ionized hydrogen in young, star-forming galaxies, but its origin is still debated. Ly arises when emitted photons scatter i…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Cosmography from accurate mass modeling of the lens group SDSS J0100+1818: five sources at three different redshifts

A. Bolamperti, C. Grillo, G. B. Caminha +6

Systems where multiple sources at different redshifts are strongly lensed by the same deflector allow one to directly investigate the evolution of the angular diameter distances wi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The next step in galaxy cluster strong lensing: modeling the surface brightness of multiply-imaged sources

Ana Acebron, Claudio Grillo, Sherry H. Suyu +12

Overcoming both modeling and computational challenges, we present, for the first time, the extended surface-brightness distribution model of a strongly-lensed source in a complex g…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

Extreme Ionizing Properties of Metal-Poor, Muv ~ -12 Star Complex in the first Gyr

E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono, M. Messa +38

We report the serendipitous discovery of a faint (M_UV > -12.2), low-metallicity (Z ~ 0.02 Zsun), ionizing source (dubbed T2c) with a spectroscopic redshift of z=6.146. T2c is part…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 27 cited

Anatomy of a z=6 Lyman-α emitter down to parsec scales: extreme UV slopes, metal-poor regions and possibly leaking star clusters

Matteo Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +31

We present a detailed JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam analysis of a gravitationally-lensed galaxy () at redshift 6.14 magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MAC…

astro-ph.GA2024

Unveiling [CII] clumps in a lensed star-forming galaxy at z ~ 3.4

A. Zanella, E. Iani, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky +15

Observations at UV and optical wavelengths have revealed that galaxies at z~1-4 host star-forming regions, dubbed "clumps", which are believed to form due to the fragmentation of g…

astro-ph.GA2023

UV-continuum slopes of individual clumps and their evolution

A. Bolamperti, A. Zanella, U. Meštrić +11

We study the ultraviolet (UV) continuum slope of a sample of 166 clumps, individual star-forming regions observed in high redshift galaxies. They are hosted by 67 galaxies with…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

The large molecular gas fraction of post-starburst galaxies at z > 1

A. Zanella, F. Valentino, A. Gallazzi +3

Post-starburst galaxies are sources that had the last major episode of star formation about 1 Gyr before the epoch of the observations and are on their way to quiescence. It is imp…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 74 cited

An extremely metal poor star complex in the reionization era: Approaching Population III stars with JWST

E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono, P. Bergamini +31

We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of a lensed Population III candidate stellar complex (dubbed Lensed And Pristine 1, LAP1), with a lensing-corrected stella…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

Clues on the presence and segregation of very massive stars in the Sunburst Lyman-continuum cluster at z=2.37

U. Mestric, E. Vanzella, A. Upadhyaya +15

We report the identification of very massive stars (VMS; mass \,\msun) that may be segregated in the center of the young massive star cluster at =2.37 hosted in the lense…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

Reconstructing the extended structure of multiple sources strongly lensed by the ultra-massive elliptical galaxy SDSS J0100+1818

A. Bolamperti, C. Grillo, R. Cañameras +2

We study the total and baryonic mass distributions of the deflector SDSS J0100+1818 through a full strong lensing analysis. The system is composed by an ultra-massive early-type ga…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Scrutiny of a very young, metal-poor star-forming Lyα-emitter at z ~ 3.7

E. Iani, A. Zanella, J. Vernet +9

The origin of the Lyman- (Ly) emission in galaxies is a long-standing issue: despite several processes known to originate this line (e.g. AGN, star formation, cold accretion,…