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most citedNew Determinations of the UV Luminosity Functions from z~9 to z~2 show a remarkable consistency with halo growth and a constant star formation efficiency

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201 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Are High-EW LAEs good analogs for the earliest galaxies? A study on the ionizing conditions and gas properties of LAEs at $2\lesssim z\lesssim7

Lena Pless, Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook +3

Lyman- emitters (LAEs) are frequently proposed as analogs of the low-mass, metal-poor galaxies thought to dominate cosmic reionization. In particular, galaxies with large Ly…

astro-ph.GA2026

Calcium Triplet Absorption is Common around Little Red Dots

Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu, Raphael E. Hviding +29

We present new evidence for an optically thick atmosphere surrounding Little Red Dots (LRDs) in the form of Ca absorption at rest-frame 8500A, the calcium triplet (CaT). Building o…

astro-ph.GA2026

Caught Napping by JWST UNCOVER+MegaScience: Constraining bursty star formation histories and number densities of mini-quenched galaxies at redshifts 4-7

Gourav Khullar, Rachel Bezanson, Katherine A. Suess +27

We explore the prevalence of mini-quenched or ``napping'' galaxies selected from spectroscopic and photometric samples in the UNCOVER/MegaScience survey. These galaxies are empiric…

astro-ph.GA2026

OutThere Survey: Addressing and with a population of average galaxies at z2

Ravi Jaiswar, Anshu Gupta, Elisabete da Cunha +24

Constraining the major contributors to the ionisation of the early universe is an ongoing endeavour of high-redshift galaxy research. We measure the ionising photon production effi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Mysterious Case of Iron in XMPs: Anomalous High log(Fe/O) Observed in Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies HSCJ1631+4426 and SDSSJ0811+4730

Aaron Myszka, Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook +8

We present integral field spectroscopic observations of two local extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPs), HSCJ1631+4426 and SDSSJ0811+4730, obtained with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (…

astro-ph.GA2026

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXVI. Spatially Resolved Star Formation and Balmer Decrements at from NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy

Pengfei Ren, Xin Wang, Yuxuan Pang +10

Using JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy, we present spatially resolved Balmer decrement measurements for 79 galaxies at , which are gravitationally lensed by the for…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Everything Every Band All at Once II: The Relationship Between Optical Size and Stellar Mass Over Eight Billion Years of Cosmic History

Tim B. Miller, Yunchong Zhang, Sedona H. Price +24

While the size-mass relation provides insight into the structural evolution of galaxies, the data available and methods employed have hindered our ability to study a detailed and c…

astro-ph.GA2026

Everything Every Band All at Once I: A Global Morphology Catalog in Abell 2744 based on UNCOVER/MegaScience

Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price +31

We present spectrally-resolved structural parameter measurements of 28,274 sources from the legacy lensing field of Abell 2744, quantifying global structures from observed $0.7 μm…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry

Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek +25

We constrain the nebular attenuation curve and investigate dust geometry in star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon using photometric medium-band emission line measurements. We measur…

astro-ph.GA2026

It's More Complicated Than You Think: A Forward Model to Infer the Recent Star Formation History, Bursty or Not, of Galaxy Populations

Emilie Burnham, Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja +14

Observations of the early Universe (z > 4) with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal galaxy populations with a wide range of intrinsic luminosities and colors. Bursty star formati…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the population of massive quenched galaxies at in the COLIBRE simulations - I. Galaxy demographics

Ángel Chandro-Gómez, Claudia del P. Lagos, Chris Power +14

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a substantial population of Massive (), Quenched Galaxies (MQGs) in the early Universe ($z \ge…

astro-ph.GA2025

CLASSY XIII. Cutting through the Clouds - Comparing Indirect Tracers of Ionizing Photon Escape

Kaelee S. Parker, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm +25

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) provides critical insights into the role of early galaxies in shaping the ionization state of the universe. However, because of the opacity of the i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Anna de Graaff, Raphael E. Hviding, Rohan P. Naidu +34

We use the DAWN JWST Archive to construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0<z<9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from NIR…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

REBELS-IFU: Spatially Resolved Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies of 12 Bright Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Lena Komarova, Mauro Stefanon, Andres Laza-Ramos +15

Measuring the ionizing photon production efficiency -- the ratio of ionizing photon output rate to UV continuum luminosity -- in gal…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quantifying Spectroscopic Flux Variations Between JWST NIRISS and NIRSpec: Slit Losses in Emission Line Measurements of z1-3 Galaxies

Nicolò Dalmasso, Peter J. Watson, Tommaso Treu +9

We analyze JWST NIRISS and NIRSpec spectroscopic observations in the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster field. From approximately 120 candidates, we identify 12 objects with at least a prom…

astro-ph.GA2025

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda +25

At low redshift, massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) are most frequently found in massive, rich galaxy clusters, but at high redshift the trend is less clear. Here, we present spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of red galaxy candidates at z ~ 12: Early dust growth or significant nebular emission with high-temperature stars?

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja +18

We report the discovery of two z ~ 12 galaxy candidates with unusually red UV slopes (betaUV ~> -1.5), and probe the origin of such colors at cosmic dawn. From Prospector fits to t…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Census of Double-Peaked Lyman-alpha Emitters in MAGPI: Classification, Global Characteristics, and Spatially Resolved Properties

Tamal Mukherjee, Tayyaba Zafar, Themiya Nanayakkara +17

Double-peaked Ly profiles provide critical insights into gas kinematics and the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) from the interstellar to the intergalactic medium (ISM to I…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

REBELS-IFU: on the origin of the elevated [OIII]/[CII] ratios in the early Universe

Hiddo Algera, Lucie Rowland, Renske Smit +26

We present new ALMA [OIII] observations of eight previously [CII]-detected galaxies at . Six of our targets -- the primary sample -- are…

astro-ph.GA2025

Formation of Cosmic Noon Protogalaxies via Quasar-Induced Fragmentation of a Cosmic Filament

Marko Mićić, Themiya Nanayakkara, Xinyu Dai +2

When black hole jets encounter ambient medium, they can compress the gas, trigger star formation, and create stellar clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. Here, we report…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

What you see is what you get: empirically measured bolometric luminosities of Little Red Dots

Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton, Lukas J. Furtak +27

New populations of red active galactic nuclei (known as ``Little Red Dots'') discovered by JWST exhibit remarkable spectral energy distributions. Leveraging X-ray through far-infra…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function

Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Marta Volonteri +14

One of the most surprising results of early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations is the discovery of an abundance of red, compact, broad-line objects dubbed "little red d…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A fast radio burst from the first 3 billion years of the Universe

Manisha Caleb, Themiya Nanayakkara, Benjamin Stappers +25

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration signals which encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights i…