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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.GA2025

A recoiling supermassive black hole in a powerful quasar

Marco Chiaberge, Takahiro Morishita, Matteo Boschini +14

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are thought to grow through accretion of matter and mergers. Models of SMBH mergers have long suffered the final parsec problem, where SMBH binaries…

astro-ph.GA2024

What can we learn from the Nitrogen abundance of High-z galaxies?

Massimo Stiavelli, Takahiro Morishita, Marco Chiaberge +9

We present measurements of the gas-phase Oxygen and Nitrogen abundances obtained by applying the direct method to JWST NIRspec spectroscopy for 6 galaxies at redshift g…

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★ 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★ 9 cited

The BoRG- Survey: Abundance and Mass-to-light Ratio of Luminous Galaxies from Independent Sight Lines with NIRSpec

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Micaela B. Bagley, Guido Roberts-Borsani +12

We present new results on the rest-frame UV luminosity function (UVLF) and stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratio of bright (M mag) spectroscopically-confirmed gal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

The First Billion Years, According to JWST

Angela Adamo, Hakim Atek, Micaela B. Bagley +46

With stunning clarity, JWST has revealed the Universe's first billion years. The scientific community is analyzing a wealth of JWST imaging and spectroscopic data from that era, an…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 66 cited

Bright galaxies at Hubble's redshift detection frontier: Preliminary results and design from the redshift z~9-10 BoRG pure-parallel HST survey

V. Calvi, M. Trenti, M. Stiavelli +14

We present the first results and design from the redshift z~9-10 Brightest of the Reionizing Galaxies {\it Hubble Space Telescope} survey BoRG[z9-10], aimed at searching for intrin…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 225 cited

The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I. Survey overview and first data release

T. Treu, K. B. Schmidt, G. B. Brammer +19

We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of ten massive…