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

171 citations · 178 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Generating the wide sequence of Diffuse Galaxies with de Broglie waves of Dark Matter

Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Alvaro Pozo +9

Extensive Euclid satellite imaging at low surface brightness has revealed that most nearby galaxies are diffuse-looking spheroids, where the stellar radius increases for over three…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-rays breaking out of pre-explosion ejecta mark a supernova's first light

Weimin Yuan, Qiu-Ju Huang, Jin-Ping Zhu +130

Massive stars die as core-collapse supernovae, whose optical light emerges days after the implosion. Theory predicts that the initial collapse-driven shock, upon breaking through t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Radio Emission from Fast Blue Optical Transients Powered by Trans-relativistic Shocks in Confined Circumstellar Material

Liang-Duan Liu, Jia-Sen Zhang, Zhao-Sheng Zhang +1

Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are luminous, rapidly evolving explosions whose radio emission provides a sensitive probe of shock interaction and the circumstellar material (…

astro-ph.CO2026

Reliable Tests of Faint-end UV Luminosity Functions in Strong Lensing Fields

Jiashuo Zhang

Dark matter comprises ~85% of the entire mass of the Universe, but the fundamental nature of its constituent particles remains elusive. In this thesis, I test for two competitive d…

astro-ph.CO2025

Lensed stars in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing -- a JWST prediction for the Cosmic Horseshoe

Sung Kei Li, Luke Weisenbach, Thomas E. Collett +10

We explore for the first time the possibility of detecting lensed star transients in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems upon repeated, deep imaging using the {\it James-Webb Spac…

astro-ph.CO2025

Magnification bias reveals severe contamination in Hubble Frontier Field photo-z catalogs

Jiashuo Zhang, Jeremy Lim, Tom Broadhurst +4

Gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters enables faint distant galaxies to be more abundantly detected than in blank fields, thereby allowing one to construct galaxy lumino…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining the z 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403

Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena +19

Our understanding of galaxy properties and evolution is contingent on knowing the initial mass function (IMF), and yet to date, the IMF is constrained only to local galaxies. Indiv…

astro-ph.CO2025

Multi-copy Axion Transfer Function and Observational Implications of Effective de Broglie Scales

Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +2

Ultra-light axions are viable fuzzy/wave-like dark matter (DM) candidates generically predicted by the String Axiverse paradigm with multiple particle copies, whereas most of th…

astro-ph.GA2025

Explaining JWST counts with galaxy formation models

Giorgio Manzoni, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +18

A distinct power-law break is apparent m_AB approximately 21 in the deep Near-Infrared PEARLS-JWST galaxy counts. The break becomes more pronounced at longer wavelengths, with the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

PEARLS: Low Stellar Density Galaxies in the El Gordo Cluster Observed with JWST

Timothy Carleton, Seth H. Cohen, Brenda Frye +23

A full understanding of how unusually large "Ultra Diffuse Galaxies" (UDGs) fit into our conventional understanding of dwarf galaxies remains elusive, despite the large number of o…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 171 cited

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

Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen +82

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS"…