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most citedCosmic Variance and Its Effect on the Luminosity Function Determination in Deep High z Surveys

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astro-ph.CO2026

TDCOSMO XXIX: JWST/NIRSpec IFU Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Three Time-delay Lenses

Shawn Knabel, Pritom Mozumdar, Anowar J. Shajib +8

Spatially resolved stellar kinematics are critical to the high precision achieved by cosmological probes utilizing time delays of strongly lensed quasars. Combined with high-resolu…

astro-ph.CO2026

TDCOSMO. XXVII. JWST-based Lens Models and H Measurement of WFI2033, HE0435, and PG1115

D. M. Williams, T. Treu, D. P. Johnson +13

Time-delay cosmography offers a one-step, distance-ladder-independent route to the Hubble-Lemaitre constant, H_0. We present new cosmography-grade lens models of three quadruply im…

astro-ph.GA2026

Diverse ionized gas conditions in a dynamically hot, interacting galaxy at revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU

Ryota Ikeda, Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli +1

We present a spatially and spectrally resolved study of an interacting galaxy, Gz9p3 at , using the James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec/G395H IFU observation with high-spect…

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.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

The Incidence of Large Ionized Bubbles at Redshift 13

Peter Ziwei Hu, Massimo Stiavelli, Colin Norman

Ionized bubbles around the first galaxies link early galaxy growth, ionizing photon escape, intergalactic-medium topology, Lyα visibility, 21 cm structure, and the timing of reioni…

astro-ph.CO2026

The free-streaming length of dark matter from JWST observations of 28 strong gravitational lenses

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +24

The formation of gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter (DM), or \textit{halos}, is a generic prediction of theories with particle DM. We present a measurement of halo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Vision-Language Model Ensembles Achieve Human-Expert Accuracy for Galaxy Merger Classification

Marco Chiaberge, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Massimo Stiavelli +1

Models (VLMs) combined using a Bayesian statistical framework can classify galaxy merger morphologies with accuracy comparable to trained human experts. We deploy 15 VLM classifier…

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

How Bursty is Star Formation at z>5?

Massimo Stiavelli, Massimo Ricotti

Motivated by observational evidence from JWST and theoretical results from cosmological simulations, we use a simple parametric, phenomenological model to test to what extent burst…

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.GA2026

BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. II. Physical Properties of Galaxies

Yechi Zhang, Takahiro Morishita, Kimi C. Kreilgaard +23

We present photometric properties of 161 galaxy candidates at selected from the second data release (DR2) of BEACON, a JWST Cycle 2 pure-parallel NIRCam imaging program. C…

astro-ph.GA2026

Possible evidence for a pair-instability supernova nature of ultra-early JWST sources

Andrea Ferrara, Stefano Carniani, Takahiro Morishita +1

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of unexpectedly bright sources at ultra-high redshift (), challenging current models of early galaxy formation. One extr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A faint M Lyman-continuum leaker candidate in the epoch of reionization: Unprecedented Ly properties at z=5.725

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, T. Morishita +10

We report the unprecedented Ly properties of AMORE6, an extremely metal-poor (), low-mass (), and ultracompact (effec…

astro-ph.CO2025

JWST Lensed Quasar Dark Matter Survey III: Dark Matter Sensitive Flux Ratios and Warm Dark Matter Constraint from the Full Sample

R. E. Keeley, A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman +24

We present the full sample of measurements of the warm dust emission of 31 strongly-lensed, multiply imaged quasars, observed with JWST MIRI multiband imaging, which we use to cons…

astro-ph.CO2025

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey IV: Stringent warm dark matter constraints from the joint reconstruction of extended lensed arcs and quasar flux ratios

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +23

We present a measurement of the free-streaming length of dark matter (DM) and subhalo abundance around 28 quadruple image strong lenses using observations from JWST MIRI presented…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63

Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason +5

We report the detection of Ly in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad L…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Pristine Massive Star Formation Caught at the Break of Cosmic Dawn

Takahiro Morishita, Zhaoran Liu, Massimo Stiavelli +3

The existence of galaxies with no heavy elements is a key prediction of cosmological models. So far no "zero-metallicity", or Population~III, galaxies have been identified. Here, w…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The BoRG- Survey: Analogs at to the UV-luminous Galaxy Population at

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Takahiro Morishita +7

The population of bright galaxies at discovered by JWST, including the so-called "blue monsters", has been difficult to reconcile with standard galaxy evolution models…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography

Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu +15

Spatially resolved stellar kinematics has become a key ingredient in time-delay cosmography to break the mass-sheet degeneracy in the mass profile and in turn provide a precise con…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 38 cited

TDCOSMO 2025: Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays

TDCOSMO Collaboration, Simon Birrer, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer +30

We present cosmological constraints from 8 strongly lensed quasars (hereafter, the TDCOSMO-2025 sample). Building on previous work, our analysis incorporated new deflector stellar…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

TDCOSMO: XX. WFI2033--4723, the First Quadruply-Imaged Quasar Modeled with JWST Imaging

D. M. Williams, T. Treu, S. Birrer +5

Gravitational time delays offer unique, independent measurements of the Hubble constant, . Precise measurements of stand as one of the most pressing challenges in modern…

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…