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most citedCEERS Key Paper I: An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST

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astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling the correlation between the UV 2175 Å dust attenuation bump, PAH emission, and gas-phase metallicity at cosmic noon

L. Arriscado, I. Shivaei, L. A. Boogaard +17

The UV 2175 Å attenuation bump is one of the most prominent yet poorly understood features of galaxy attenuation curves. Its main candidate carrier is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarb…

astro-ph.GA2026

How bright can a galaxy be? Extreme value predictions for high-redshift survey observables

Christopher C. Lovell, Theodore Martin, Sandro Tacchella +2

Assessing the significance of extreme galaxy candidates has typically relied on redshifts and stellar / halo masses inferred through inverse modelling, which carries substantial sy…

astro-ph.IM2026

Probing cold gas and dust in quiescent galaxies across cosmic time

Anita Zanella, Sirio Belli, Belen Alcalde Pampliega +35

The discovery of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift by JWST has revealed that star formation can cease rapidly in the early Universe, yet the physical mechanisms responsib…

astro-ph.IM2026

The dawn of the first galaxies

Livia Vallini, Tanio Diaz Santos, Belen Alcalde Pampliega +56

Understanding how the first galaxies assembled their stellar mass at cosmic dawn is a central frontier of modern astrophysics. JWST has now revealed an unexpected population of ult…

astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery of the Lyman- Forest in a Star-Forming Galaxy at : Implications for the Timing and Topology of Cosmic Reionization

Jakob M. Helton, Joris Witstok, Marta Laska +15

The escape of ionizing photons from galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization is often inferred indirectly because the intervening neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM…

astro-ph.IM2026

Source--Line Associations in JWST/NIRSpec Dense-Shutter Spectroscopy

Zihao Wu, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Francesco D'Eugenio +9

We demonstrate the feasibility of source--line association in JWST/NIRSpec dense-shutter spectroscopy, with 2000 sources observed simultaneously per pointing regardless of sp…

astro-ph.SR2026

Disc-mediated angular momentum transport resolves the mass-gain problem in rotating binaries

Sebastian Ljung, Avishai Gilkis, Sandro Tacchella

A large fraction of stars interact with a close companion during their lifetime, in which the transfer of mass and angular momentum shapes their evolution and final fate. Standard…

astro-ph.GA2026

CERIDWEN: Fast and Flexible GPU-Accelerated Stellar Population Inference

Amanda Stoffers, Sandro Tacchella, Benjamin D. Johnson

JWST has increased both the number of high-redshift galaxies with high-quality spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and their information content. In parallel, wide-area surveys fr…

astro-ph.GA2026

LATED: JWST integral field spectroscopy of a galaxy caught in chemical infancy at behind Abell 2744

Mingyu Li, Roberto Maiolino, Zheng Cai +26

When Population III (Pop III) star formation ended remains an open question. LATED-1 is an intrinsically faint () Ly emitter at revealed by VLT/MU…

astro-ph.GA2026

LATED: Ly-anchored photometric selection of candidate metal-free and extremely metal-poor star formation from the end of reionisation to cosmic noon

Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai, Roberto Maiolino +24

Cosmological simulations allow a low-level tail of Population III (Pop III) star formation to persist to . Spectroscopic confirmation is expensive, so an efficient photometr…

astro-ph.GA2026

JADES: Dynamical Measurements of Dark Matter Halo Masses at Using Galaxy Pairs

Zihao Wu, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Benjamin D. Johnson +13

We present dynamical measurements of dark matter halo masses at using galaxy pairs. Galaxy pairs in the early Universe are usually in their first infall, before substan…

astro-ph.GA2026

Clustering-based halo mass assignment for high-redshift galaxies: method, validation, and application to JWST

Seunghwan Lim, Sandro Tacchella, Sara Saleh +7

We present a clustering-based method for inferring halo masses of high-redshift galaxies, validated using the COLIBRE simulations combined with the HOMA empirical model, which assu…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Dusty Quenching-candidate AGN host at z=5.7: massive quiescent galaxies may quench already during the dust-obscured phase

Francesco D'Eugenio, Matilde Brazzini, Roberto Maiolino +12

We present a spectro-photometric analysis of RUBIES-EGS-9809, a broad-line AGN host at z=5.7 with a Balmer break and a dominant point source. The source is dust reddened (3 m…

astro-ph.GA2026

Rubin J122659.4+090236: An Extremely Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Candidate Discovered in the Rubin LSST Early Data Preview 2

Dipanjan Mitra, Kanak Saha, Sugata Kaviraj +28

We report the serendipitous discovery of an exceptionally low surface brightness galaxy (LSBG) candidate, Rubin J122659.4+090236, in Rubin Observatory imaging of the interacting NG…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Circumgalactic medium depletion drives satellite quenching in IllustrisTNG

Natan de Isídio, Paola Popesso, Sandro Tacchella +5

Satellite galaxies dominate the quenched population at low stellar masses (), yet identifying which processes shut down their star formation,…

astro-ph.GA2026

Misaligned or chaotic? A strong break of axial symmetry in the local LRD J1025 revealed with VLT/FORS2 spectropolarimetry

Francesco D'Eugenio, Gabriele Pezzulli, Roberto Maiolino +18

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) with unusual spectral energy distributions and broad Balmer emission, candidate signposts of rapid black-hole growth…

astro-ph.GA2026

PhotoIFU: NIRCam as a Photometric Integral Field Unit for Mapping Feedback in Galaxies

Yongda Zhu, Marcia J. Rieke, Courtney Carreira +25

We present PhotoIFU, a workflow that uses deep multi-band imaging as a low-resolution photometric integral field unit. Applied to PSF-matched JWST/NIRCam imaging, PhotoIFU treats e…

astro-ph.GA2026

Outflows in the Early Universe: Neutral gas Absorption in Galaxies at z > 3 from low-resolution JWST Spectroscopy

Matteo Sapori, Sirio Belli, Letizia Bugiani +14

Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have shown that Na I D absorption tracing neutral gas outflows is widespread in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon (-), but their prevalenc…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JADES Transient Survey III: Linking Core-Collapse Supernova Rates to Cosmic Star Formation

Christian Vassallo, Seppo Mattila, Christa DeCoursey +24

We investigate how core-collapse supernova (CCSN) rates trace the star-formation rate densities (SFRDs) over the redshift range . For this we use new high-redshift r…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JADES Transient Survey II: Volumetric Supernova Rates out to z~5

Christa DeCoursey, Christian Vassallo, Louis-Gregory Strolger +27

The JADES Transient Survey (JTS) identified 83 supernova (SN) candidates in the JADES Deep Field, a 25 arcmin region with deep (30 mag) multi-band, multi-epoch JWST…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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,…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST spectroscopy of galaxies at : Damped Ly absorbers reveal efficient star formation and hidden redshift biases

Kasper E. Heintz, Clara L. Pollock, Joris Witstok +23

Recent observations with JWST have revealed a remarkable population of surprisingly luminous galaxies at redshifts . Their abundance exceed predictions from simulations and e…