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most citedThe first GLIMPSE of the faint galaxy population at Cosmic Dawn with JWST: The evolution of the ultraviolet luminosity function across z~9-15

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Ashes of Supermassive Stars: Globular Cluster-like Aluminum Enhancement in Little Red Dots

V. Kokorev, J. Chisholm, R. P. Naidu +16

The relative abundances of elements in galaxies serve as fossil records of the physical conditions and processes by which they were forged. While the Big Bang produced only the lig…

astro-ph.GA2026

An Optical Illusion: High Electron Densities Create Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxy Impostors

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Danielle A. Berg, Steven L. Finkelstein +8

JWST has enabled the discovery of dozens of extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) with metallicities below , representing a significant leap toward detecting the fi…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Glimpse of the Low-Mass End of the Direct Mass-Metallicity Relation at

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg +22

The competition between metal synthesis and feedback from massive stars establishes the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at low-redshifts. Examining this relation at higher redshift…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions

Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39

The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Prevalence of Turbulence-Regulated Multiphase Galactic Winds in Star-Forming Galaxies

Zhihui Li, Timothy Heckman, Max Gronke +8

We build upon our previously developed multi-ion radiative transfer (RT) framework, PEACOCK, to investigate the kinematic and energetic structure of cool-to-warm galactic winds in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Kinematically Coherent Multiphase Galactic Winds in Star-Forming Galaxies Revealed by Unified Radiative Transfer Modeling of UV Emission and Absorption Lines

Zhihui Li, Timothy Heckman, Max Gronke +8

We present PEACOCK, a three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer (RT) framework designed to self-consistently model rest-frame ultraviolet emission and absorption lines arisi…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation

John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7

Little Red Dots (LRDs), among the most enigmatic high-redshift discoveries by JWST, are commonly believed to be powered by accreting supermassive black holes. Here, we explore the…

astro-ph.GA2026

A GLIMPSE into the UV Continuum Slopes of the Faintest Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Michelle C. Jecmen, John Chisholm, Hakim Atek +23

As observations have yet to constrain the ionizing properties of the faintest (M > -16) galaxies, their contribution to cosmic reionization remains unclear. The rest-fra…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XIV: The Nitrogen Exception -- Multi-Phase Enrichment and Feedback in High- Analogs

Bethan L. James, Valentina Abril-Melgarejo, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova +13

We present a first-of-its-kind analysis of the metal content across two interstellar medium (ISM) phases in a sample of 31 local star-forming galaxies from the COS Legacy Archive S…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Deepest GLIMPSE of a Dense Gas Cocoon Enshrouding a Little Red Dot

Vasily Kokorev, John Chisholm, Rohan P. Naidu +19

The detection of strong Balmer breaks and absorption features in Little Red Dots (LRDs) suggests they host AGN embedded within dense gas envelopes, potentially powered by super-Edd…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

JWST's GLIMPSE: an overview of the deepest probe of early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization

Hakim Atek, John Chisholm, Vasily Kokorev +44

We present an overview of the JWST GLIMPSE program, highlighting its survey design, primary science goals, gravitational lensing models, and first results. GLIMPSE provides ultra-d…

astro-ph.GA2025

Declining metallicity and extended HeII in the outflow of an epoch of reionization analogue galaxy

M. J. Hamel-Bravo, D. B. Fisher, D. A. Berg +5

We present VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of the extremely metal-poor starburst galaxy SBS 0335-052E, a nearby (D 54 Mpc) analog of high-redshift systems, probing its outflow up…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

The first GLIMPSE of the faint galaxy population at Cosmic Dawn with JWST: The evolution of the ultraviolet luminosity function across z~9-15

Iryna Chemerynska, Hakim Atek, Lukas J. Furtak +27

Using ultra-deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GLIMPSE Survey, enhanced by gravitational lensing of the AbellS1063 cluster, we investigate the faintest galaxies ever observed in the…

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

Electron temperature relations in low metallicity, diffuse, and extraplanar gas of starburst galaxies

Magdalena J. Hamel-Bravo, Deanne B. Fisher, Danielle A. Berg +6

In this work, we test the validity of - relations in resolved (10-200~pc) measurements of four nearby, low-metallicity (7.25 12+log(O/H) 8.33), low-mass (…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Leonessa: An Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Undergoing Secular Chemical Evolution

Joseph A. Breneman, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alexander Menchaca +5

Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are systems with gas-phase oxygen abundances below 5% Solar metallicity (12+log(O/H)7.35). These galaxies populate the metal-poor end…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Emission Line Diagnostics for IMBHs in Dwarf Galaxies: Accounting for BH Seeding and ULX Excitation

Chris T. Richardson, Jordan Wels, Kristen Garofali +13

Dwarf AGN serve as the ideal systems for identifying intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) down to the most elusive regimes (). However, the ubiquitousl…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Spectroscopic Survey of Metal-Poor OB Stars in Local Dwarf Galaxy NGC 3109

Abby Mintz, O. Grace Telford, Evan N. Kirby +3

As JWST uncovers increasingly strong evidence that metal-poor, massive stars in early galaxies dominated reionization, observational constraints on the properties of such stars are…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Tentative detection of neutral gas in a Little Red Dot at

Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey, John Chisholm +7

JWST has revealed a population of broad-line active galactic nuclei at with remarkably red colors, so-called "Little Red Dots." Ubiquitous Balmer breaks suggest that they har…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

GLIMPSE: An ultra-faint 10 Pop III Galaxy Candidate and First Constraints on the Pop III UV Luminosity Function at

Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm +32

Detecting the first generation of stars, Population III (PopIII), has been a long-standing goal in astrophysics, yet they remain elusive even in the JWST era. Here we present a nov…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A Glimpse of the New Redshift Frontier Through Abell S1063

Vasily Kokorev, Hakim Atek, John Chisholm +31

We report the discovery of two galaxy candidates at redshifts between in JWST observations from the GLIMPSE survey. These robust sources were identified using a combi…

astro-ph.GA2024

Comparing the VANDELS sample to a zoom-in Radiative Hydrodynamical Simulation: using the Si II and C II line spectra as tracers of galaxy evolution and Lyman Continuum leakage

Simon Gazagnes, Fergus Cullen, Valentin Mauerhofer +8

We compare mock ultraviolet C II and Si II absorption and emission line features generated using a ~10 virtual galaxy with observations of 131 galaxies from the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

JWST Observations of Starbursts: Cold Clouds and Plumes Launching in the M82 Outflow

Deanne B. Fisher, Alberto D. Bolatto, John Chisholm +28

In this paper we study the filamentary substructure of 3.3 m PAH emission from JWST/NIRCam observations in the base of the M82 star-burst driven wind. We identify plume-like sub…

astro-ph.GA2024

DUVET: Resolved direct metallicity measurements in the outflow of starburst galaxy NGC 1569

Magdalena J. Hamel-Bravo, Deanne B. Fisher, Danielle Berg +15

We present the results of direct-method metallicity measurements in the disk and outflow of the low-metallicity starburst galaxy NGC 1569. We use Keck Cosmic Web Imager observation…