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most citedFirst Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) V: The redshift frontier

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astro-ph.GA2025

Resolving the ionizing photon budget crisis with JWST/NIRCam HII clumping constraints at z=6

Duncan Austin, Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice +18

We present a comprehensive study of the ionizing properties of 1721 galaxies at using deep JWST/NIRCam photometric imaging from the NEP, JADES, and PRIMER surveys spann…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XX: Comparing semi-analytic models at high-redshift

Louise T. C. Seeyave, Carlton M. Baugh, Angel Chandro-Gomez +13

We explore how the choice of galaxy formation model affects the predicted properties of high-redshift galaxies. Using the FLARES zoom resimulation strategy, we compare the EAGLE hy…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Nature of High-Redshift Massive Quiescent Galaxies -- Searching for RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 in FLARES

Jack C. Turner, Will J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +5

RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 (RQG) is the earliest massive quiescent galaxy identified to date, inferred to have formed its abundant stellar mass in a single burst that ceases rapidly before $…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 9 cited

Synthesizer: a Software Package for Synthetic Astronomical Observables

Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +3

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, b…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe

Aswin P. Vijayan, Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Lovell +7

One of the most remarkable outcomes from \textit{JWST} has been the exquisite UV-optical spectroscopic data for galaxies in the high-redshift Universe (), enabling the us…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables For Modern Astronomy

Will J. Roper, Christopher Lovell, Aswin Vijayan +12

Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - includin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XIX: Supermassive black hole mergers in the early Universe and their environmental dependence

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Maxwell G. A. Maltz +10

The upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory, LISA, is expected to detect GW signals from supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers occurring at high redshifts. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVII: Learning the galaxy-halo connection at high redshifts

Maxwell G. A. Maltz, Peter A. Thomas, Christoper C. Lovell +6

Understanding the galaxy-halo relationship is not only key for elucidating the interplay between baryonic and dark matter, it is essential for creating large mock galaxy catalogues…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR

Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, Thomas R. Greve +9

We use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) to study the evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) sizes for a statistical sample o…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

EPOCHS I. The Discovery and Star Forming Properties of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization at with PEARLS and Public JWST data

Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey +32

We present in this paper the discovery, properties, and a catalog of 1165 high redshift galaxies found in deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GTO PEARLS survey combine…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Like a candle in the wind: The embers of once aflame, now smouldering galaxies at

James Trussler, Christopher Conselice, Nathan Adams +8

We develop a photometric search method for identifying smouldering galaxies at , which are defined to have weak emission lines and thus generally have low specific star f…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XV: The physical properties of super-massive black holes and their impact on galaxies in the early universe

Stephen M. Wilkins, Jussi K. Kuusisto, Dimitrios Irodotou +9

Understanding the co-evolution of super-massive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains a key challenge of extragalactic astrophysics, particularly the earliest stages…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey: The colour evolution of galaxies in the distant Universe

Stephen M. Wilkins, Jack C. Turner, Micaela B. Bagley +20

The wavelength-coverage and sensitivity of JWST now enables us to probe the rest-frame UV - optical spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies at high-redshift (). From…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XIV: The Balmer/4000~Å Breaks of Distant Galaxies

Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Dimitrios Irodotou +10

With the successful launch and commissioning of JWST we are now able to routinely spectroscopically probe the rest-frame optical emission of galaxies at for the first time. A…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XIII: The Lyman-continuum emission of high-redshift galaxies

Louise T. C. Seeyave, Stephen M. Wilkins, Jussi K. Kuusisto +10

The history of reionisation is highly dependent on the ionising properties of high-redshift galaxies. It is therefore important to have a solid understanding of how the ionising pr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XII: The consequences of star-dust geometry on galaxies in the EoR

Aswin P. Vijayan, Peter A. Thomas, Christopher C. Lovell +5

Using the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (), a suite of hydrodynamical simulations we explore the consequences of a realistic model for star-…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

FLARES IX: The Physical Mechanisms Driving Compact Galaxy Formation and Evolution

William J. Roper, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan +6

In the FLARES (First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations) suite of hydrodynamical simulations, we find the high redshift () intrinsic size-luminosity relation is, surpris…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XI: [OIII] emitting galaxies at

Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan +10

JWST has now made it possible to probe the rest-frame optical line emission of high-redshift galaxies extending to z~9, and potentially beyond. To aid in the interpretation of thes…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) X: Environmental Galaxy Bias and Survey Variance at High Redshift

Peter A. Thomas, Christopher C. Lovell, Maxwell G. A. Maltz +5

Upcoming deep galaxy surveys with JWST will probe galaxy evolution during the epoch of reionisation (EoR, ) over relatively compact areas (e.g. 300\,arcmin$^2…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) VIII. The Emergence of Passive Galaxies at

Christopher C. Lovell, Will Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +9

Passive galaxies are ubiquitous in the local universe, and various physical channels have been proposed that lead to this passivity. To date, robust passive galaxy candidates have…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) VII: The Star Formation and Metal Enrichment Histories of Galaxies in the early Universe

Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell +8

The star formation and metal enrichment histories of galaxies - at any epoch - constitute one of the key properties of galaxies, and their measurement is a core aim of observationa…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) VI: The colour evolution of galaxies

Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell +6

With its exquisite sensitivity, wavelength coverage, and spatial and spectral resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope is poised to revolutionise our view of the distant, high-re…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

Non-linearities in the Lyman- forest and in its cross-correlation with dark matter halos

Jahmour J. Givans, Andreu Font-Ribera, Anže Slosar +6

Three-dimensional correlations of the Lyman- (Ly) forest and cross correlations between the Ly forest and quasars have been measured on large scales, allowing a precise me…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 72 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) V: The redshift frontier

Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell +7

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to transform many areas of astronomy, one of the most exciting is the expansion of the redshift frontier to . In its first year a…