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most citedThe evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ~ 8-15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

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astro-ph.GA2026

The AURORA Survey: Determining the Production Mechanism for OI Emission in Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon

Leonardo Clarke, Alice E. Shapley, Zhiwei Shao +11

We analyze deep JWST/NIRSpec observations of 58 star-forming galaxies at in the AURORA survey to investigate the origin of the permitted OI emission feature.…

astro-ph.GA2026

The gradual decline of Ly visibility in the CANDELS fields: evidence for the combined effects of galaxy evolution and reionization

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, A. Ferrara +35

We investigate the evolution of Ly visibility and the physical properties of Ly emitters (LAEs) across the five CANDELS fields using publicly available JWST/NIRSpec PRISM spe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Beyond orientation: Evidence for distinct physical regimes among Little Red Dots and Little Blue Dots

L. Barrufet, J. S. Dunlop, M. L. Hamadouche +6

Little Red Dots (LRDs) and Little Blue Dots (LBDs) may represent the same population of compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed along different lines of sight. We test this s…

astro-ph.GA2026

A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed galaxy candidate, "Capotauro'', is a Y-type brown dwarf

F. -Y. F. Liu, D. J. McLeod, B. J. Sutlieff +13

The compact red source ``Capotauro'', discovered in deep JWST imaging in 2025, has been suggested as a possible galaxy candidate at redshift on account of its extreme N…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxy clusters in the VIDEO fields: detection and characterisation in the context of MOONRISE

Pierre Galois, Christophe Benoist, Gianluca Castignani +21

We analyse the cluster content of the XMM-LSS and CDFS VIDEO fields which are expected to be partially covered by the upcoming MOONRISE survey. Using AMI…

astro-ph.GA2026

Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at from CAPERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anthony J. Taylor +27

The stellar mass assembly of massive galaxies in the first few billion years of cosmic history remains a central challenge in galaxy formation. Galaxies with $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{1…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani +61

We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3<z<9.3, forming a representative spectroscopic subset of NIRCam-selected LRDs. We derive a median s…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The JWST EXCELS survey: The ages and abundances of massive quiescent galaxies show that downsizing was already in place by

Ho-Hin Leung, Adam C. Carnall, Elizabeth Taylor +21

We present deep, medium-resolution m JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy for 14 quiescent galaxies at with , obtained as part of t…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of a large and luminous galaxy with weak emission lines at

Callum T. Donnan, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure +15

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of a robust galaxy candidate at , selected from pure-parallel NIRCam imaging; PAN-z14-1. The NIRSpec spectrum allows confirmat…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JWST EXCELS survey: Outflows in 1.5 < z < 5 quiescent and recently quenched galaxies are likely relics from episodic AGN activity

Elizabeth Taylor, Adam C. Carnall, David Maltby +24

We investigate the presence and origin of neutral gas outflows and inflows in 13 post-starburst (PSB) and quiescent galaxies at redshifts 1.8 z 4.6, using JWST NIRSpe…

astro-ph.GA2026

From "The Cliff" to "Virgil": Mapping the Spectral Diversity of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec

Guillermo Barro, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Dale Kocevski +26

One of JWST's most unexpected discoveries is the emergence of "Little Red Dots'' (LRDs): compact sources at with blue rest-frame UV continua, red optical slopes, and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

VENUS: A Strongly Lensed Clumpy Galaxy at behind the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0257.1-2325

Minami Nakane, Vasily Kokorev, Seiji Fujimoto +75

We present the discovery of a strongly lensed galaxy at , dubbed the ``Misty Moons'', identified in the JWST Treasury Survey, Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored S…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

The JWST EXCELS Survey: gas-phase metallicity evolution at 2 < z < 8

T. M. Stanton, F. Cullen, A. C. Carnall +15

We present an analysis of the gas-phase mass-metallicity relationship (MZR) and fundamental metallicity relationship (FMR) for star-forming galaxies at from the JW…

astro-ph.GA2025

The AURORA Survey: Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency with Minimal Nebular Dust Attenuation Systematics

Anthony J. Pahl, Alice Shapley, Naveen A. Reddy +11

We present ionizing photon production efficiencies () for 63 z=1.5-6.9 star-forming galaxies using precise nebular dust attenuation corrections from the JWST/AURORA su…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The JWST EXCELS Survey: A spectroscopic investigation of the ionizing properties of star-forming galaxies at 1<z<8

R. Begley, R. J. McLure, F. Cullen +11

Charting the Epoch of Reionization demands robust assessments of what drives the production of ionizing photons in high-redshift star-forming galaxies (SFGs), and requires better p…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

PRIMER & JADES reveal an abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 2 < z < 5

Struan D. Stevenson, Adam C. Carnall, Ho-Hin Leung +22

We select a mass-complete sample of 225 quiescent galaxies at with from PRIMER and JADES photometry spanning a total area of sq.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Ly visibility from z = 4.5 to 11 in the UDS field: Evidence for a high neutral hydrogen fraction and small ionized bubbles at z 7

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, M. Dickinson +28

The resonant scattering nature of Ly photons interacting with neutral hydrogen makes Ly emitters (LAEs) robust tracers of the intergalactic neutral hydrogen fraction, and thu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The AURORA Survey: High-Redshift Empirical Metallicity Calibrations from Electron Temperature Measurements at z=2-10

Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping +29

We present detections of auroral emission lines of [OIII], [OII], [SIII], and [SII] in deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy for 41 star-forming galaxies at from the AURORA su…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The AURORA Survey: Robust Helium Abundances at High Redshift Reveal A Subpopulation of Helium-Enhanced Galaxies in the Early Universe

Danielle A. Berg, Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley +16

We present the first robust helium (He) abundance measurements in star-forming galaxies at redshifts using deep, moderate-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Very bright, very blue, and very red: JWST CAPERS analysis of highly luminous galaxies with extreme UV slopes at

Callum T. Donnan, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor +37

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of three luminous () galaxies at observed with the CAPERS Cycle 3 program. These galaxies exhibit extreme UV sl…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas Enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line AGN at z=9.288

Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We present CAPERS-LRD-z9, a little red dot (LRD) which we confirm to be a broad-line AGN (BLAGN). First identified as a high-redshift LRD candidate from PRIMER NIRCam pho…

astro-ph.GA2025

CAPERS Observations of Two UV-Bright Galaxies at z>10. More Evidence for Bursting Star Formation in the Early Universe

Vasily Kokorev, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Anthony J. Taylor +38

We present the first results from the CAPERS survey, utilizing PRISM observations with the JWST/NIRSpec MSA in the PRIMER-UDS field. With just 14 % of the total planned data volume…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

JWST PRIMER: A deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS -- dust-obscured star-formation history back to z 7

Feng-Yuan Liu, James S. Dunlop, Ross J. McLure +15

We use the deep NIRCam and MIRI imaging from the JWST PRIMER survey to study the properties of (sub)mm sources detected by ALMA in the centre of the COSMOS field, with the aim of b…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The JWST EXCELS survey: Probing strong-line diagnostics and the chemical evolution of galaxies over cosmic time using Te-metallicities

D. Scholte, F. Cullen, A. C. Carnall +13

We present an analysis of the rest-frame optical spectra of 22 [OIII]4363 detected galaxies in the redshift range (with = 4.05) from JWST/N…