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most citedJWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

171 citations · 645 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A massive barred spiral galaxy at z = 5.102 discovered by JWST

Xiaohan Wang, Fengwu Sun, Yoshihisa Asada +21

We report M1149-BSG-z5, a barred spiral galaxy at , identified in the parallel field of MACS J1149+2223 with JWST and HST. M1149-BSG-z5 is the highest redshift barred ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEARLS: Two Distinct Populations of AGN Hosts Moving Between Star Formation and Quiescence

Gibson B. Bowling, Rafael Ortiz, S. P. Willner +29

We present the results of AGN--host-galaxy decomposition using JWST/NIRCam, HST/ACS, and HST/WFC3 imaging of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP-TDF). The light-profiles…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail +22

Ring galaxies are an uncommon class of galaxies whose morphology is closely related to dynamical processes that govern galaxy evolution. Some ring galaxies, known as "collisional r…

astro-ph.GA2025

An H Cloud in the HI Tail: Recent Star Formation in the Outskirts of NGC 4258 Revealed by Nanshan 1-m Telescope

Cheng Cheng, Jia-Sheng Huang, Peng Wei +12

We present first-light deep H imaging taken with the Nanshan 1-meter wide-field telescope on the local galaxy NGC 4258, alongside archival data from Hubble Space telescope (HST)…

astro-ph.GA2025

PEARLS: 21 Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope

Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +39

We present 21 transients from our three-epoch, four-band NIRCam observations covering 14.16 arcmin^2 in the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field (IDF), taken by the JWST Prime Extragalactic Are…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions

María Carranza-Escudero, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +31

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a previously unseen population of compact red objects, known as ``little red dots`` (LRDs). We study a new photometri…

astro-ph.GA2025

Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields (MAGNIF): Spectroscopic Census of H Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation at and 6.3

Shuqi Fu, Fengwu Sun, Linhua Jiang +35

We measure H luminosity functions (LFs) at redshifts and 6.3 using the JWST MAGNIF (Medium-band Astrophysics with the Grism of NIRCam In Frontier fields) survey. MA…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

JWST's PEARLS: A z=6 quasar in a train-wreck galaxy merger system

Madeline A. Marshall, Rogier A. Windhorst, Giovanni Ferrami +35

We present JWST NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy observations of the z=5.89 quasar NDWFS J1425+3254 from 0.6-5.3 microns, covering the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical at a sp…

astro-ph.GA2024

Merging Signatures in an Offset Lyman Continuum Emitter at Redshift 3.8

Fang-Ting Yuan, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +3

Lyman continuum (LyC) emitters at provide critical samples for studying the contribution of galaxies to the ionizing background in the Epoch of Reionization. We collect a sam…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Velocity-Resolved Ionization Mapping of Broad Line Region. I. Insights into Diverse Geometry and Kinematics

Sha-Sha Li, Hai-Cheng Feng, H. T. Liu +6

Broad emission lines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) originate from the broad-line region (BLR), consisting of dense gas clouds in orbit around an accreting supermassive black hol…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

EPOCHS I. The Discovery and Star Forming Properties of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization at with PEARLS and Public JWST data

Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey +32

We present in this paper the discovery, properties, and a catalog of 1165 high redshift galaxies found in deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GTO PEARLS survey combine…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST view of four infant galaxies at z=8.31-8.49 in the MACS0416 field and implications for reionization

Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun, Cheng Cheng +34

New JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy provides redshifts for four z>8 galaxies located behind the lensing cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. Two of them, "Y1" and "JD", have pre…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

PEARLS: Discovery of Point-Source Features Within Galaxies in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field

Rafael Ortiz, Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen +36

The first public 0.9-4.4μm NIRCam images of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time Domain Field (TDF) uncovered galaxies displaying point-source features in their cores as seen in the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 60 cited

EPOCHS IV: SED Modelling Assumptions and their impact on the Stellar Mass Function at 6.5 < z < 13.5 using PEARLS and public JWST observations

Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan J. Adams +31

We utilize deep JWST NIRCam observations for the first direct constraints on the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) at . Our EPOCHS v1 sample includes 1120 galaxy candidates…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Strongly Lensed Dusty Starburst of an Intrinsic Disk Morphology at Photometric Redshift of

Chenxiaoji Ling, Bangzheng Sun, Cheng Cheng +3

We present COSBO-7, a strong millimeter (mm) source known for more than sixteen years but was just revealed its near-to-mid-IR counterpart by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).…

astro-ph.GA2023

Criss Cross Nebula: Case study of shock regions with resolved microstructures at scales of 1000 AU

Tao Jing, Cheng Li, Renbin Yan +7

Using integral field spectroscopy from MaNGA, we study the resolved microstructures in a shocked region in Criss Cross Nebula (CCN), with an unprecedentedly high resolution of $\le…

astro-ph.GA2023

Star-forming Main Sequence of Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Wei Du, Cheng Cheng, Pengliang Du +2

Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (GLSBGs) are fundamentally distinct from normal galaxies (LSBGs) in star formation and evolution. In this work, we collected 27 local GLSBGs.…

astro-ph.IM2023

JWST's PEARLS: Improved Flux Calibration for NIRCam

Zhiyuan Ma, Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun +23

The Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS), a JWST GTO program, obtained a set of unique NIRCam observations that have enabled us to significantly…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

MAGNIF: A Tentative Lensed Rotating Disk at detected by JWST NIRCam WFSS with Dynamical Forward Modeling

Zihao Li, Zheng Cai, Fengwu Sun +39

We report galaxy MACS0416-Y3 behind the lensing cluster MACSJ0416.1--2403 as a tentative rotating disk at detected through its [OIII] emission in JWST NIRCam…

astro-ph.GA2023

PEARLS: Near Infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field

Christopher N. A. Willmer, Chun Ly, Satoshi Kikuta +23

We present Near-Infrared (NIR) ground-based Y, J, H, and K imaging obtained in the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (TDF) using the MMT-Magellan Inf…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

EPOCHS IX. When cosmic dawn breaks: Evidence for evolved stellar populations in galaxies from PEARLS GTO and public NIRCam imaging

James A. A. Trussler, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +28

The presence of evolved stars in high-redshift galaxies can place valuable indirect constraints on the onset of star formation in the Universe. Thus we use PEARLS GTO and public NI…

astro-ph.GA2023

A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field

Armin Nabizadeh, Erik Zackrisson, Fabio Pacucci +31

Direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) of mass - that form in HI-cooling halos in the early Universe are promising progenitors of the $\gtrsim 10^9 {M}_\odo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

JWST's PEARLS: Transients in the MACS J0416.1-2403 Field

Haojing Yan, Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun +27

With its unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window for time-domain discoveries in the infrared. Here we report…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

Hidden giants in JWST's PEARLS: An ultra-massive z=4.26 sub-millimeter galaxy that is invisible to HST

Ian Smail, Ugne Dudzeviciute, Mark Gurwell +32

We present a multi-wavelength analysis using SMA, JCMT, NOEMA, JWST, HST, and SST of two dusty strongly star-forming galaxies, 850.1 and 850.2, seen through the massive cluster len…