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most citedThe Sunburst Arc with JWST: I. Detection of Wolf-Rayet stars injecting nitrogen into a low-metallicity, proto-globular cluster leaking ionizing photons

38 citations · 88 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

LEGGOS I: The JWST LEGGOS Survey -- LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures -- Unpacks the Nature of Clumpy Star Formation and Quenching in Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies beyond Cosmic Noon

Gourav Khullar, Michael Florian, Matthew B. Bayliss +34

We present first results from the JWST LEGGOS Survey (LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures), aimed at studying the physics of clumpy star formation and quenching in e…

astro-ph.GA2025

Lyman Continuum escaping from in-situ formed stars in a tidal bridge at z = 3

T. E. Rivera-Thorsen, A. Le Reste, M. J. Hayes +11

We present an analysis of archival JWST NIRSpec IFS and HST imaging observations of the z = 3 Lyman-Continuum Emitter (LCE) candidate LACES104037. We show that a nearby galaxy, den…

astro-ph.CO2025

Tracing Structure: Shape and Centroid Deviations in 39 Strong Lensing Clusters as a Test of Cluster Formation Predictions

Raven Gassis, Matthew B. Bayliss, Keren Sharon +10

Strong lensing galaxy clusters provide a unique and powerful way to test simulation-derived structure predictions that follow from Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmology. Specific…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Chandra Strong Lens Sample: Measuring the Dynamical States and Relaxation Fraction of a Sample of 28 Strong Lensing Selected Galaxy Clusters

Raven Gassis, Matthew B. Bayliss, Michael McDonald +10

We present the results of our dynamical state proxy measurements performed on 28 strong lensing galaxy clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey (SGAS). Using Chandra ACIS-I/S X-ra…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Sunburst Arc with JWST. IV. The importance of interaction, turbulence, and feedback for Lyman-continuum escape

T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Brian Welch, Taylor Hutchison +13

At present, the best opportunity for detailed Lyman Continuum escape studies is in gravitationally lensed galaxies at z >~ 2. Only one such galaxy currently exists in the literatur…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cool dark gas in Cygnus X: The first large-scale mapping of low-frequency carbon recombination lines

Kimberly L. Emig, Pedro Salas, Loren D. Anderson +14

Understanding the transition from atomic gas to molecular gas is critical to explain the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. However, the gas phases involved, cold HI and…

astro-ph.GA2024

Connecting Lyman- and ionizing photon escape in the Sunburst Arc

M. Riley Owens, Keunho J. Kim, Matthew B. Bayliss +17

We investigate the Lyman- (Ly) and Lyman continuum (LyC) properties of the Sunburst Arc, a gravitationally lensed galaxy with a multiply-imaged, compact region leaki…

astro-ph.GA2024

COOL-LAMPS VIII: Known wide-separation lensed quasars and their host galaxies reveal a lack of evolution in since

Aidan P. Cloonan, Gourav Khullar, Kate A. Napier +36

Wide-separation lensed quasars (WSLQs) are a rare class of strongly lensed quasars, magnified by foreground massive galaxy clusters, with typically large magnifications of the mult…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The Sunburst Arc with JWST: II. Observations of an Eta Carinae Analog at

S. Choe, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, H. Dahle +11

"Godzilla" is a peculiar object within the gravitationally lensed Sunburst Arc at . Despite being very bright, it appears in only one of the twelve lensed images of the sou…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

The Sunburst Arc with JWST: III. An Abundance of Direct Chemical Abundances

Brian Welch, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Jane Rigby +11

We measure the gas-phase abundances of the elements He, N, O, Ne, S, Ar, and Fe in an individual H\textsc{ii} region known to be leaking Lyman-continuum photons in the Sunburst Arc…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 38 cited

The Sunburst Arc with JWST: I. Detection of Wolf-Rayet stars injecting nitrogen into a low-metallicity, proto-globular cluster leaking ionizing photons

T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, J. Chisholm, B. Welch +13

We report the detection of a population of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in the Sunburst Arc, a strongly gravitationally lensed galaxy at redshift . As the brightest known lensed g…

astro-ph.GA2024

COOL-LAMPS VI: Lens model and New Constraints on the Properties of COOL J1241+2219, a Bright z = 5 Lyman Break Galaxy and its z = 1 Cluster Lens

Maxwell Klein, Keren Sharon, Kate Napier +20

We present a strong lensing analysis of COOL J1241+2219, the brightest known gravitationally lensed galaxy at , based on new multi-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imagi…

astro-ph.CO2023

Understanding Shape and Centroid Deviations in 39 Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters in Various Dynamical States

Raven Gassis, Matthew B. Bayliss, Keren Sharon +8

Through observational tests of strong lensing galaxy clusters, we can test simulation derived structure predictions that follow from Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmology. The sh…

astro-ph.GA2023

Strongly lensed [O III] emitters at Cosmic Noon with Roman: Characterizing extreme emission line galaxies on star cluster complex scales (100 pc)

Keunho J. Kim, Matthew B. Bayliss, Håkon Dahle +5

Extreme emission line galaxies (EELGs) are considered the primary contributor to cosmic reionization and are valuable laboratories to study the astrophysics of massive stars. It is…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Small Region, Big Impact: Highly Anisotropic Lyman-continuum Escape from a Compact Starburst Region with Extreme Physical Properties

Keunho J. Kim, Matthew B. Bayliss, Jane R. Rigby +13

Extreme, young stellar populations are considered the primary contributor to cosmic re-ionization. How Lyman-continuum (LyC) escapes these galaxies remains highly elusive, and it i…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 37 cited

The connection between galactic outflows and the escape of ionizing photons

Ramesh Mainali, Jane R. Rigby, John Chisholm +13

We analyze spectra of a gravitationally lensed galaxy, known as the Sunburst Arc, that is leaking ionizing photons, also known as the Lyman continuum (LyC). Magnification from grav…