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most citedA luminous and young galaxy at z=12.33 revealed by a JWST/MIRI detection of Hα and [OIII]

66 citations · 133 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Quiescent Galaxies at from CAPERS spectroscopy and their Number densities

Lu Shen, Weida Hu, Casey Papovich +28

Recent JWST observations have revealed an overabundance of quiescent galaxies at high redshift. Photometric methods, such as photometry-derived sSFRs, colors, and synthetic $…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unified modelling of broad and narrow optical-UV emission lines from massive black holes: interpreting high-redshift JWST observations

Adele Plat, Michaela Hirschmann, Emma Curtis-Lake +10

JWST is uncovering a large population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshift, motivating the extension of models calibrated on local sources to a broader range of physica…

astro-ph.GA2026

The THRILS Factor: Investigating the properties of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 3<z<6 with JWST/NIRSpec

Ananya Ganapathy, Rebecca L. Larson, Erini Lambrides +20

JWST has uncovered a class of objects called LRDs, whose nature is still widely debated. In this work, we present a comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of nine LRDs in the Extende…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)

Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

astro-ph.GA2026

Investigating the star formation histories of galaxies from Cosmic Dawn to the Epoch of Reionization with the Santa Cruz SAM

L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville, Steven L. Finkelstein +1

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window onto galaxy evolution in the very early Universe. In this work, we leverage halo merger trees extracted from the GUREF…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the Relationship Between Bars, Star Formation Activity, and Host Galaxy Properties from to

Eden Wise, Shardha Jogee, Yuchen Guo +20

We present the most comprehensive study to date of the relationship between bars, star formation, and galaxy properties from 0 to 2. We use a mass-complete sample…

astro-ph.GA2026

The quasi-star model for Little Red Dots: potential and challenges

Fabrizio Gentile, Mauro Giavalisco, Emanuele Daddi +25

(Abridged) Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a class of sources discovered by JWST observationally defined by a "V-shaped" rest-frame UV-Optical SED, a compact or unresolved morphology, a…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Rapid Evolution in the Observed Mbh/M* Relation at z > 3 Revealed via Spectro-photometric SED-Modeling

Ansh R. Gupta, Anthony Taylor, Emma Curtis-Lake +33

Spectroscopic observations from JWST have uncovered a plethora of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z > 4 with black hole (BH) mass (Mbh) to stellar mass (M*) ratios significantly ab…

astro-ph.GA2026

Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at from CAPERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anthony J. Taylor +27

The stellar mass assembly of massive galaxies in the first few billion years of cosmic history remains a central challenge in galaxy formation. Galaxies with $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{1…

astro-ph.GA2026

Empirical estimates of how massive galaxies can be in ΛCDM

Miguel Enríquez-Vargas, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, Aditya Manuwal +3

Using Extreme Value Statistics applied to the observed galaxy stellar mass and the UV luminosity functions, we empirically estimate masses and luminosities of the most extreme gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

Prevailing thermally-pulsing-asymptotic-giant branch stars in the near-infrared rest-frame spectra of distant quiescent galaxies: towards robust galaxy ages and masses

Shiying Lu, Emanuele Daddi, Claudia Maraston +12

We recently reported the discovery of prominent features from the thermally pulsing asymptotic-giant-branch (TP-AGB) phase in the rest-frame near-infrared of a massive quiescent ga…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Non-parametric Method for the Inference of Halo Occupation Distributions

Jacob Kennedy, Eric Gawiser, Kartheik G. Iyer +1

The galaxy-halo connection traces processes by which galaxies form and evolve. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relationship between galaxies and their host dar…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani +61

We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3<z<9.3, forming a representative spectroscopic subset of NIRCam-selected LRDs. We derive a median s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization: I. Bubble Overlap at Redshift z ~ 7 in LAGER-z7OD1

Crystal L. Martin, Weida Hu, Isak G. B. Wold +17

Since the launch of JWST, the sample size of reionization-era Lyman-alpha-emitters (LAEs) has been steadily growing; yet inferences about the neutral hydrogen fraction in the inter…

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

CEERS Key Paper. IX. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in CEERS NIRCam Images Using Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks

Caitlin Rose, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Gregory F. Snyder +32

A crucial yet challenging task in galaxy evolution studies is the identification of distant merging galaxies, a task which suffers from a variety of issues ranging from telescope s…

astro-ph.GA2024

The BoRG-JWST Survey: Program Overview and First Confirmations of Luminous Reionization-Era Galaxies from Pure-Parallel Observations

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Micaela Bagley, Sofía Rojas-Ruiz +18

We present the BoRG-JWST survey, a combination of two JWST Cycle 1 programs aimed at obtaining NIRSpec spectroscopy of representative, UV-bright galaxy candidates across 2…

astro-ph.GA2024

Preliminary Evidence for Lensing-Induced Alignments of High-Redshift Galaxies in JWST-CEERS

Viraj Pandya, Abraham Loeb, Elizabeth J. McGrath +9

The majority of low-mass () galaxies at high redshift () appear elongated in projection. We use JWST-CEERS observations to explore the role of gr…

astro-ph.GA2024

UVCANDELS: The role of dust on the stellar mass-size relation of disk galaxies at 0.5 3.0

Kalina V. Nedkova, Marc Rafelski, Harry I. Teplitz +30

We use the Ultraviolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey fields (UVCANDELS) to measure half-light radii in the rest-frame far-UV for $\s…

astro-ph.GA2024

Chandra detects low-luminosity AGN with in nearby (), dwarf and star-forming galaxies

Mainak Singha, Julissa Sarmiento, Sangeeta Malhotra +8

We searched the Chandra and XMM archives for observations of 900 green pea galaxies to find AGN signatures. Green peas are low-mass galaxies with prominent emission lines, similar…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Galaxy Rest-Frame UV Colors at z ~ 2-4 with HST UVCANDELS

Alexa Morales, Steven Finkelstein, Micaela Bagley +13

We present an analysis of rest-frame UV colors of 17,243 galaxies at in the HST UVCANDELS fields: GOODS-N, GOODS-S, COSMOS, and EGS. Here, we study the rest-frame UV spe…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 23 cited

The Rise of Faint, Red AGN at : A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields

Dale D. Kocevski, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro +54

We present a sample of 341 "little red dots" (LRDs) spanning the redshift range using data from the CEERS, PRIMER, JADES, UNCOVER and NGDEEP surveys. Unlike past use of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 66 cited

A luminous and young galaxy at z=12.33 revealed by a JWST/MIRI detection of Hα and [OIII]

Jorge A. Zavala, Marco Castellano, Hollis B. Akins +37

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a surprising population of bright galaxies in the very early universe (<500 Myrs after the Big Bang) that is hard to explain wi…