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239 citations · 845 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Single Line-Emitter Identified in an Unbiased Search with JWST/NIRSpec: Multi-Object Coronagraphy for Slitless Spectroscopy

Mason S. Huberty, Claudia Scarlata, Matthew J. Hayes +13

We report the detection of a previously unknown object with a single emission line within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, using a new JWST NIRSpec technique called Multi-Object Corona…

astro-ph.GA2026

MEGATRON: The Physical Origins of Steep UV Slopes at High Redshift

Harley Katz, Nicholas Choustikov, Aayush Saxena +7

The ultraviolet (UV) spectral slope, , serves as a fundamental probe of stellar population properties and interstellar medium conditions in galaxies. At high redshift, a small s…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

JADES: Evolution of nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies from z ~ 1.5-7

Alex J. Cameron, Courtney Carreira, Charlotte Simmonds +22

We present nitrogen abundance measurements based on the low-ionisation [NII]6583 emission line for 588 galaxies between 1.5<z<7.0 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (…

astro-ph.GA2025

Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies and Chemical Abundances at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by Ultra-Deep Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy of JADES-GS-z14-0

Jakob M. Helton, Jane E. Morrison, Kevin N. Hainline +40

JWST has discovered an early period of galaxy formation that was more vigorous than expected, which has challenged our understanding of the early Universe. In this work, we present…

astro-ph.IM2025

Unsupervised Discovery of High-Redshift Galaxy Populations with Variational Autoencoders

Aayush Saxena

We apply variational autoencoders to automatically discover galaxy populations using publicly available high-redshift \textit{JWST} spectra without prior classification knowledge.…

astro-ph.GA2025

MEGATRON: the impact of non-equilibrium effects and local radiation fields on the circumgalactic medium at cosmic noon

Corentin Cadiou, Harley Katz, Martin P. Rey +22

We present three cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic zoom simulations of the progenitor of a Milky Way-mass galaxy from the MEGATRON suite. The simulations combine on-the-fly radia…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MEGATRON: Reproducing the Diversity of High-Redshift Galaxy Spectra with Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations

Harley Katz, Martin P. Rey, Corentin Cadiou +21

We present the MEGATRON suite of cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations following the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies from the earliest cosmic epochs when Population…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

MEGATRON: The environments of Population III stars at Cosmic Dawn and their connection to present day galaxies

Anatole Storck, Harley Katz, Julien Devriendt +7

We present results of Pop. III formation in the MEGATRON suite of simulations, which self-consistently follows radiation and non-equilibrium chemistry, and resolves gas at near-pc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

MEGATRON: Disentangling Physical Processes and Observational Bias in the Multi-Phase ISM of High-Redshift Galaxies

Nicholas Choustikov, Harley Katz, Alex J. Cameron +10

Now detected out to redshifts of , the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical spectra of galaxies encode numerous physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). Accu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MEGATRON: how the first stars can create an iron metallicity plateau in the smallest dwarf galaxies

Martin P. Rey, Harley Katz, Corentin Cadiou +23

We study the stellar mass-iron metallicity relation of dwarf galaxies in the new high-resolution MEGATRON cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations model…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

JADES Data Release 4 -- Paper II: Data reduction, analysis and emission-line fluxes of the complete spectroscopic sample

J. Scholtz, S. Carniani, E. Parlanti +38

We present the fourth data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing deep spectroscopic observations in the two GOODS fields. A companion paper prese…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

JADES Data Release 4 Paper I: Sample Selection, Observing Strategy and Redshifts of the complete spectroscopic sample

Emma Curtis-Lake, Alex J. Cameron, Andrew J. Bunker +34

This paper accompanies Data Release 4 of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which presents the full NIRSpec spectroscopy of the survey. We provide spectra of 5190 targets…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JADES: The Star Formation and Dust Attenuation Properties of Galaxies at 3<z<7

Charity Woodrum, Irene Shivaei, Joris Witstok +23

We present the star formation and dust attenuation properties for a sample of 602 galaxies at redshifts , as part of the JADES survey. Our analysis is based on measurem…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

JADES: the chemical enrichment pattern of distant galaxies -- enhancement, silicon depletion, and iron enhancement

Yuki Isobe, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +26

We present gas-phase abundances of carbon (C), -elements (O, Ne, Si, and Ar) and iron (Fe) obtained from stacked spectra of high- star-forming galaxies with the deep Near Inf…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

On the origins of oxygen: ALMA and JWST characterise the multi-phase, metal-enriched, star-bursting medium within a 'normal' galaxy

Joris Witstok, Renske Smit, William M. Baker +29

The unexpectedly high abundance of galaxies at revealed by JWST has sparked a debate on the nature of early galaxies and the physical mechanisms regulating their formation…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dissecting the massive pristine, neutral gas reservoir of a remarkably bright galaxy at z = 14.179

Kasper E. Heintz, Clara Pollock, Joris Witstok +6

At cosmic dawn, the first stars and galaxies are believed to form from and be deeply embedded in clouds of dense, pristine gas. Here we present a study of the JWST/NIRSpec data of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn. II. A variability census of supermassive black holes across the Universe

Vieri Cammelli, Jonathan C. Tan, Alice R. Young +7

Understanding the origin and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBH) stands as one of the most important challenges in astrophysics and cosmology, with little current theoreti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Cloudy-Maraston: Integrating nebular continuum and line emission with the Maraston stellar population synthesis models

Sophie L. Newman, Christopher C. Lovell, Claudia Maraston +5

The James Webb Space Telescope has ushered in an era of abundant high-redshift observations of young stellar populations characterized by strong emission lines, motivating us to in…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 17 cited

Hitting the slopes: A spectroscopic view of UV continuum slopes of galaxies reveals a reddening at z > 9.5

Aayush Saxena, Alex J. Cameron, Harley Katz +26

The UV continuum slope of galaxies, , is a powerful diagnostic. Understanding the redshift evolution of and its dependence on key galaxy properties can shed light on the evo…

astro-ph.GA2024

Efficient Ionizers with Low H+[OIII] Equivalent Widths: JADES Spectroscopy of a Peculiar High-z Population

Isaac H. Laseter, Michael V. Maseda, Charlotte Simmonds +15

Early JWST photometric studies discovered a population of UV faint () Lyman break galaxies with spectral energy distributions implying young ages ($…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 55 cited

The eventful life of a luminous galaxy at z = 14: metal enrichment, feedback, and low gas fraction?

Stefano Carniani, Francesco D'Eugenio, Xihan Ji +25

JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, at . With a UV magnitude of -20.81, it is one of the most luminous galaxies at cosmic dawn and its…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

JADES: Measuring reionization properties using Lyman-alpha emission

Gareth C. Jones, Andrew J. Bunker, Aayush Saxena +19

Ly is the transition to the ground state from the first excited state of hydrogen (the most common element). Resonant scattering of this line by neutral hydrogen greatly impedes…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 62 cited

Witnessing the onset of reionisation via Lyman- emission at redshift 13

Joris Witstok, Peter Jakobsen, Roberto Maiolino +34

$\require{mediawiki-texvc}$Cosmic Reionisation commenced when ultraviolet (UV) radiation produced in the first galaxies began illuminating the cold, neutral gas that filled the pri…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

21 Balmer Jump Street: The Nebular Continuum at High Redshift and Implications for the Bright Galaxy Problem, UV Continuum Slopes, and Early Stellar Populations

Harley Katz, Alex J. Cameron, Aayush Saxena +11

We study the physical origin and spectroscopic impact of extreme nebular emission in high-redshift galaxies. The nebular continuum, which can appear during an extreme starburst, is…