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most citedBetween the Extremes: A JWST Spectroscopic Benchmark for High-redshift Galaxies Using ~500 Confirmed Sources at

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astro-ph.GA2026

RIOJA. Environmental Effects on Stellar Populations and Ionized Gas in a Protocluster at

Wataru Osone, Takuya Hashimoto, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +23

Protoclusters in the epoch of reionization provide key laboratories for investigating how environment shapes early galaxy formation and evolution, and may also have contributed to…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA observations of pre-JWST z ~ 10 galaxy candidates: A CO(J = 9-8) line from a ULIRG at z = 2.54 and revisit of the photometric redshifts with JWST photometry

Suzuka Arai, Yuma Sugahara, Akio K. Inoue +15

We present Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) observations targeting the [OIII]m line for six galaxy candidates selected with the Hubble Space Tel…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Type Ia Supernova Candidate at : A Transient Interloper in the Search for Galaxies

Seiji Toshikage, Takahiro Morishita, Masaomi Tanaka +9

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is opening a new window into the distant Universe by discovering galaxies and transients in the early Universe. We investigate a high-redshift…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Compact Proto-group at : A Massive Galaxy Caught in Formation

Ronaldo Laishram, Yusei Koyama, Fengwu Sun +11

We report the discovery of SCGG-z5, a compact galaxy proto-group at in the MACS0416 field, identified from the SAPPHIRES Early Data Release. Six members are spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Assessing Ultra-Cool Dwarf Contamination in Photometrically Selected High-Redshift Galaxy Samples

Onnalin Innala, Nicha Leethochawalit, Takahiro Morishita +1

Ultra-cool dwarf stars (UCDs) are a common source of contamination in high-redshift galaxy searches because both populations have red colors and these early-forming galaxies can ha…

astro-ph.GA2026

BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. III. Constraints on the UV LF and the Clustering of z~7-14 Galaxies

Kimi C. Kreilgaard, Charlotte A. Mason, Takahiro Morishita +21

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has extended the frontier of galaxy detection to redshifts z>11, finding a high abundance of UV-bright sources that challenge theoretical mode…

astro-ph.GA2026

GalSyn I: A Forward-Modeling Code for Synthetic Galaxy Observations from Hydrodynamical Simulations and First Data Release from IllustrisTNG

Abdurro'uf, Henry C. Ferguson, Samir Salim +9

We present GalSyn (Galaxy Synthesizer), a modular and flexible Python package for generating synthetic observations from hydrodynamical galaxy simulations. GalSyn generates synthet…

astro-ph.GA2026

BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. IV. A Systematic Search for Galaxy Overdensities and Evidence for Gas Accretion Mode Transition

Ryo Albert Sutanto, Takahiro Morishita, Tadayuki Kodama +20

We systematically search for galaxy overdensities using 20 independent fields with a minimum of six filters (F090W, F115W, F150W, F277W, F356W, and F444W) from BEACON, the JWST Cyc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Nature of High Equivalent Width Emitters in the Epoch of Reionization Revealed by JWST Medium-band Imaging

Kazuki Daikuhara, Takahiro Morishita, Tadayuki Kodama +3

Extreme emission line galaxies (EELGs) at high redshifts are considered key contributors to cosmic reionization at due to their higher ionization efficiencies. We have identi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Green Flash: Residual Emissions Enshrouded in Low-mass Balmer-break Galaxies at

Kosuke Takahashi, Takahiro Morishita, Tadayuki Kodama +3

Recent James-Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have discovered galaxies that are already passively evolving at , \,Gyr after the Big Bang. Remarkably, some of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Programme: The NIRISS Spectroscopic Catalogue

Peter J. Watson, Benedetta Vulcani, Tommaso Treu +18

We present a spectroscopic redshift catalogue of sources in the Abell 2744 cluster field, derived from JWST/NIRISS observations taken as part of the GLASS-JWST Early Release Scienc…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2

Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu, Sirio Belli +34

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies grow together over time, producing correlations between the black hole mass and various galaxy properties. Determining the evolutio…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Potential Nitrogen Enrichment via Direct-Collapse Wolf-Rayet Stars in a Star-Forming Galaxy

Yechi Zhang, Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli

We present analyses of a nitrogen-enriched star-forming galaxy, ID60001, at based on JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy and NIRCam photometry. From rest-frame optical emissio…

astro-ph.GA2025

Metallicity Scatter Originating from Sub-kiloparsec Starbursting Clumps in the Core of a Protocluster at z=7.88

Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Eros Vanzella +9

We present new JWST NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) G395H/F290LP observations of a merging galaxy system at , part of A2744-z7p9, the most distant protocluster to date. T…

astro-ph.GA2024

BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. I. Survey Design and Initial Results

Takahiro Morishita, Charlotte A. Mason, Kimi C. Kreilgaard +32

We introduce the Bias-free Extragalactic Analysis for Cosmic Origins with NIRCam (BEACON) survey, a JWST Cycle2 program allocated up to 600 pure-parallel hours of observations. BEA…

astro-ph.GA2024

Deciphering Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in a z=1.1 Main Sequence Spiral Galaxy with ALMA and JWST

Zhaoran Liu, Tadayuki Kodama, Takahiro Morishita +6

We present a joint analysis of high-resolution CO(2-1) and Paschen- emission lines to trace gas dynamics and spatially resolved star formation in ASPECS-LP.3mm.06, a mai…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Accelerated Emergence of Evolved Galaxies in Early Overdensities at

Takahiro Morishita, Zhaoran Liu, Massimo Stiavelli +8

We report the identification of two galaxy overdensities at in the sightline of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744. These overdensities consist of 25 and 17 member galaxies,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Characterizing Dust Extinction and Spatially Resolved Paschen- Emission within 97 Galaxies at with JWST NIRCam Slitless Spectroscopy

Zhaoran Liu, Takahiro Morishita, Tadayuki Kodama

We present results on the Paschen- (Pa) emitting galaxies observed as part of the JWST FRESCO survey in the GOODS-North and GOODS-South fields. Utilizing the JWST NIRCam wide…

astro-ph.GA2024

Insights into Galaxy Morphology and Star Formation: Unveiling Filamentary Structures around an Extreme Overdensity at Traced by [OII] Emitters

Ronaldo Laishram, Tadayuki Kodama, Takahiro Morishita +3

We explore the morphological features and star formation activities of [OII] emitters in the COSMOS UltraDeep field at using JWST NIRCam data from the COSMOS-Web surve…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Between the Extremes: A JWST Spectroscopic Benchmark for High-redshift Galaxies Using ~500 Confirmed Sources at

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu, Alice Shapley +6

The exceptional spectra of the most luminous sources observed so far have challenged our understanding of early galaxy evolution, requiring a new observational benchmark for…