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The THESAN-ZOOM project: the delayed rise of Lyman continuum escape fractions in bursty high-redshift galaxies
Parth Mehrotra, Aaron Smith, Yuan Bian +13
The ionizing radiation that galaxies release into their surroundings depends on whether efficient Lyman continuum (LyC) escape coincides with strong photon production. Stellar feed…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: clumpiness of high-redshift galaxies and its connection to bursty star formation
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan +12
Recent JWST observations have revealed diverse high-redshift galaxy morphologies, including a population with irregular and clumpy structures. The physical origin of these structur…
Predicting ionised gas emission in 3D with SKIRT. I. Framework and validation
Anand Utsav Kapoor, Maarten Baes, Aaron Smith +7
Emission lines from ionised gas are key diagnostics of star formation, metallicity, and ionisation conditions in galaxies. Interpreting spatially resolved observations from integra…
The Thesan-Zoom project: bursty star formation is incompatible with prolonged dust survival
Enrico Garaldi, Filip Popovic, Rahul Kannan +11
Cosmic dust is a key regulator of galaxy evolution, but its build-up and survival in the first billion years remain poorly constrained. We present a systematic analysis of dust in…
Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds
William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella +16
Globular clusters exhibit large star-to-star variations and anticorrelations in their light element abundances that are commonly interpreted in terms of in-cluster self-enrichment,…
From THESAN-ZOOM to JWST: Predicting ionizing photon escape and the rise of UV-bright reionization sources
Zebedee Summerfield, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella +14
Understanding the sources and evolution of cosmic reionization remains a central challenge in astrophysics, with the escape of ionizing Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons from early gal…
JADES: the mass-metallicity relation at . New calibrations, extremely metal-poor galaxies, and chemical diversity
Yuki Isobe, Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino +28
We present gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies at -10 with deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the JADES full data release, Dark Horse, and OASIS programmes. We stack…
Too many protoclusters? Reconciling the overabundance of cluster progenitors within the first billion years of the Universe
Callum Witten, Jake S. Bennett, Pascal A. Oesch +8
JWST has revealed an overabundance of apparent (`Coma'-like) cluster progenitors at that is two (300) times in excess of, and in () tension with, the number…
Metal Mayhem at z~7-10: Diversity and Evolution of Gas-Phase Metallicity Gradients
Maria Koller, Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Übler +16
We present a JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Unit (IFU) study of metallicity gradients in seven low-metallicity systems at . The main sample spans stellar masses of $\rm \lo…
The dark side of early galaxies: uncovers dark-matter fractions at
A. Lola Danhaive, Sandro Tacchella, Andrew J. Bunker +15
JWST/NIRCam slitless spectroscopy enables dynamical mass measurements for typical star-forming galaxies only a billion years after the Big Bang. We model the H morpho-kinematics…
Modelling the nebular emission of galaxies across cosmic time with COLT
William McClymont, Aaron Smith, Sandro Tacchella
Extragalactic nebular emission has long been a workhorse probe of the processes driving galaxy evolution, but the richness of JWST spectroscopy has shifted the bottleneck from data…
Beyond the stars: Linking H sizes, kinematics, and star formation in galaxies at with JWST grism surveys and
A. Lola Danhaive, Sandro Tacchella, William McClymont +15
Understanding how galaxies assemble their mass during the first billion years of cosmic time is a central goal of extragalactic astrophysics, yet joint constraints on their sizes a…
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations II: The Role of Bursty Versus Smooth Feedback at High-Redshift
Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat +22
The distribution of gas-phase metals within galaxies encodes the impact of stellar feedback on galactic evolution. At high-redshift, when galaxies are rapidly assembling, feedback-…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: The Hidden Neighbours of OI Absorbers during Reionization
Giulia Pruto, Laura Keating, Rahul Kannan +9
Metal absorbers represent a powerful probe of galaxy feedback and reionization, as highlighted by both observational and theoretical results showing an increased abundance of low-i…
JADES: the chemical enrichment pattern of distant galaxies -- enhancement, silicon depletion, and iron enhancement
Yuki Isobe, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +26
We present gas-phase abundances of carbon (C), -elements (O, Ne, Si, and Ar) and iron (Fe) obtained from stacked spectra of high- star-forming galaxies with the deep Near Inf…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Mystery N/O more -- uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith +15
We present an analysis of metallicities and chemical abundances at in the THESAN-ZOOM simulations. We find that smoothly curved gas-phase and stellar mass-metallicity rela…
Before its time: a remarkably evolved protocluster core at z=7.88
Callum Witten, Pascal A. Oesch, William McClymont +11
Protoclusters represent the most extreme environments in the very early Universe. They form from large-scale dark matter overdensities, harbouring an overabundance of galaxies fed…
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Xihan Ji +12
JWST has revealed the apparent evolution of the black hole (BH)-stellar mass (-$M_\rm{\ast}$) relation in the early Universe, while remaining consistent with the BH-…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star formation efficiency from giant molecular clouds to galactic scale in high-redshift starbursts
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger +12
Star formation in galaxies is inherently complex, involving the interplay of physical processes over a hierarchy of spatial scales. In this work, we investigate the connection betw…
Connecting JWST discovered N/O-enhanced galaxies to globular clusters: Evidence from chemical imprints
Xihan Ji, Vasily Belokurov, Roberto Maiolino +5
Recent JWST observations have revealed a growing population of galaxies at with elevated nitrogen-to-oxygen ratios. These "N/O-enhanced" galaxies (NOEGs) exhibit near- to sup…
When relics were made: vigorous stellar rotation and low dark matter content in the massive ultra-compact galaxy GS-9209 at z=4.66
Robert G. Pascalau, Francesco D'Eugenio, Sandro Tacchella +24
JWST uncovered a large number of massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) at , which theoretical models struggle to reproduce. Explaining the number density of such objects requires…
The dawn of disks: unveiling the turbulent ionised gas kinematics of the galaxy population at with JWST/NIRCam grism spectroscopy
A. Lola Danhaive, Sandro Tacchella, Hannah Übler +27
Recent studies of gas kinematics at high redshift have reported disky systems which appear to challenge models of galaxy formation, but it is unclear whether they are representativ…
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star-formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein +10
Recent JWST observations hint at unexpectedly intense cosmic star-formation in the early Universe, often attributed to enhanced star-formation efficiencies (SFEs). Here, we analyze…
BlackTHUNDER strikes twice: rest-frame Balmer-line absorption and high Eddington accretion rate in a Little Red Dot at
Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino, Michele Perna +29
JWST has revealed a population of 'Little Red Dots' (LRDs): compact, red objects at redshifts z=2-9 with 'v'-shaped spectral energy distributions, broad permitted lines, and, often…