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most citedReionization after JWST: a photon budget crisis?

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26 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulations of Dust Content and Attenuation in Galaxies

Dhruv T. Zimmerman, Jed McKinney, Desika Narayanan +10

Correctly modeling the dust attenuation law in galaxies is essential to properly inferring their growth and physical properties. With the rapid discovery of galaxies by JWST…

astro-ph.GA2026

Population III Host Candidates at : Strong He II and Absent UV Metal Lines in HETDEX Ly Emitters

Mahan Mirza Khanlari, Dustin Davis, Karl Gebhardt +15

Population III (Pop III) stars are expected to produce extremely hard ionizing spectra, yet direct evidence for their signature--strong narrow He II emission with wea…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST Reveals a Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binary at z=4.3 in the Brightest Sub-millimeter Galaxy in COSMOS-Web

Jed McKinney, Ansh Gupta, Julian B. Munoz +13

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM and G395M grating spectroscopy for AzTEC-1, a massive sub-mm bright galaxy at in the COSMOS extragalactic field. The PRISM spectrum reveals s…

astro-ph.GA2026

How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars

Alessandra Venditti, Daniel Schaerer, Erik Zackrisson +26

Finding the first (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the fundamental quests of astronomy, aiming to deliver the missing link in how stars form at early cosmic times. Yet t…

astro-ph.GA2026

When galaxies burst: enhanced shot-noise for line-intensity mapping in the JWST era

Ely D. Kovetz, Hovav Lazare, Sarah Libanore +2

Recent JWST observations indicate that star formation at is more stochastic than previously assumed, with rms log-SFR scatter dex at $M_h\!\sim\!10^{11}M…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Glimpse of the Low-Mass End of the Direct Mass-Metallicity Relation at

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg +22

The competition between metal synthesis and feedback from massive stars establishes the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) at low-redshifts. Examining this relation at higher redshift…

astro-ph.GA2026

A GLIMPSE of the 99%: a census of the faintest galaxies during the epoch of reionization and its implications for galaxy formation models

Hakim Atek, Iryna Chemerynska, Lukas J. Furtak +19

We present a comprehensive study of the galaxy UV luminosity function (UVLF) at leveraging deep JWST observations from the GLIMPSE survey. Thanks to gravitational lensing,…

astro-ph.GA2026

Catching the Nebular Needle in a Polluted Haystack: Line-emission Signatures from Population III-forming Pockets around Massive Galaxies at the End of Reionization

Alessandra Venditti, Luca Graziani, Raffaella Schneider +10

Finding the first generation of (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the most ambitious and exciting challenges of astrophysics. JWST opened concrete prospects for their det…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation

John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7

Little Red Dots (LRDs), among the most enigmatic high-redshift discoveries by JWST, are commonly believed to be powered by accreting supermassive black holes. Here, we explore the…

astro-ph.GA2026

A GLIMPSE into the UV Continuum Slopes of the Faintest Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Michelle C. Jecmen, John Chisholm, Hakim Atek +23

As observations have yet to constrain the ionizing properties of the faintest (M > -16) galaxies, their contribution to cosmic reionization remains unclear. The rest-fra…

astro-ph.CO2026

Semi-analytical approach to Ly multiple-scattering in 21-cm signal simulations

Jordan Flitter, Julian B. Muñoz, Andrei Mesinger

A crucial physical quantity in determining the 21-cm signal during cosmic dawn is the inhomogeneous background of Ly photons originating from the first galaxies. As these photon…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

Relatively Fast and Reasonably Furious: Evidence for Increased Burstiness in Smaller Halos at Cosmic Dawn

Julian B. Muñoz, John Chisholm, Guochao Sun +7

We introduce an effective framework to model star-formation burstiness and use it to jointly fit galaxy UV luminosity functions (UVLFs), clustering, and H/UV ratios, providing t…

astro-ph.GA2025

GLIMPSE-D: An Exotic Balmer-Jump Object at z=6.20? Revisiting Photometric Selection and the Cosmic Abundance of Pop III Galaxies

Seiji Fujimoto, Yoshihisa Asada, Rohan P. Naidu +19

We present deep JWST/NIRSpec G395M spectroscopy of GLIMPSE-16043, a promising Pop III candidate originally identified through NIRCam photometry as having weak [OIII]$λ\lam…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Deepest GLIMPSE of a Dense Gas Cocoon Enshrouding a Little Red Dot

Vasily Kokorev, John Chisholm, Rohan P. Naidu +19

The detection of strong Balmer breaks and absorption features in Little Red Dots (LRDs) suggests they host AGN embedded within dense gas envelopes, potentially powered by super-Edd…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

JWST's GLIMPSE: an overview of the deepest probe of early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization

Hakim Atek, John Chisholm, Vasily Kokorev +44

We present an overview of the JWST GLIMPSE program, highlighting its survey design, primary science goals, gravitational lensing models, and first results. GLIMPSE provides ultra-d…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A Fleeting GLIMPSE of N/O Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Evidence for Wolf Rayet N Stars in a z = 6.1 Galaxy

Danielle A. Berg, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm +18

We present the discovery of extreme nitrogen enrichment by Wolf Rayet nitrogen stars (WN) in the metal-poor (~10% Z_odot), lensed, compact (R_eff ~ 20 pc) galaxy RXCJ2248 at z=6.1,…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Lyα Intensity Mapping in HETDEX: Galaxy-Lyα Intensity Cross-Power Spectrum

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, José Luis Bernal +18

We present a measurement of the Lyman- (Ly) intensity mapping power spectrum from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). We measure the cross-power spect…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

A GLIMPSE into the very faint-end of the H+[OIII]4960,5008 luminosity function at z=7-9 behind Abell S1063

Damien Korber, Iryna Chemerynska, Lukas J. Furtak +12

We use the ultra-deep GLIMPSE JWST/NIRCam survey to constrain the faint-end of the H+[OIII]4960,5008 luminosity function (LF) down to erg/s at z=7-9 behind the len…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

The first GLIMPSE of the faint galaxy population at Cosmic Dawn with JWST: The evolution of the ultraviolet luminosity function across z~9-15

Iryna Chemerynska, Hakim Atek, Lukas J. Furtak +27

Using ultra-deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GLIMPSE Survey, enhanced by gravitational lensing of the AbellS1063 cluster, we investigate the faintest galaxies ever observed in the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Bursty or heavy? The surprise of bright Population III systems in the Reionization era

Alessandra Venditti, Julian B. Munoz, Volker Bromm +3

The nature of the first, so-called Population III (Pop III) stars has for long remained largely unconstrained. However, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally opened new con…

astro-ph.GA2025

New constraints on the galactic ionizing efficiency and escape fraction at 2.5 < z < 6 based on quasar absorption spectra

Christopher Cain, Anson D'Aloisio, Julian B. Munoz

Measurements of the ionisation state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can probe the sources of the extragalactic ionising background. We provide new measurements of the ionising e…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Modeling Galaxies in the Early Universe with Supernova Dust Attenuation

Jed McKinney, Olivia Cooper, Caitlin M. Casey +4

Supernova may be the dominant channel by which dust grains accumulate in galaxies during the first Gyr of cosmic time as formation channels important for lower redshift galaxies, e…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

GLIMPSE: An ultra-faint 10 Pop III Galaxy Candidate and First Constraints on the Pop III UV Luminosity Function at

Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm +32

Detecting the first generation of stars, Population III (PopIII), has been a long-standing goal in astrophysics, yet they remain elusive even in the JWST era. Here we present a nov…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A Glimpse of the New Redshift Frontier Through Abell S1063

Vasily Kokorev, Hakim Atek, John Chisholm +31

We report the discovery of two galaxy candidates at redshifts between in JWST observations from the GLIMPSE survey. These robust sources were identified using a combi…