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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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77 papers

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

C3PO: A Lyα Emitting Galaxy at

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Taylor A. Hutchison +6

We present deep, hr, JWST NIRSpec G140M and G395M observations of a previously known galaxy C3PO-8447 at . Our new NIRSpec data from the Carbon-3 plus Oxygen (C3PO…

astro-ph.GA2026

Skyfire: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots and Broad-Line AGN in the CEERS Field

Dale D. Kocevski, Anthony J. Taylor, Masafusa Onoue +24

We present the Skyfire program, a 21-hour Cycle 3 JWST/NIRSpec survey with the G395M medium-resolution grating covering five pointings in the Extended Groth Strip. The survey is de…

astro-ph.GA2026

Implications of Broad [O III] 4364 and UV Line Emission in Two Little Red Dots at z ~ 7 - 8

Casey Papovich, Kaila Ronayne, Weida Hu +17

We present deep, NIRSpec G140M and G395M spectroscopy of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at z = 6.68 and z = 8.35. Both LRDs show broad Balmer and [O III] 4364 emission. The broad [O III…

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.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

Nikko J. Cleri, Grace M. Olivier, Bren E. Backhaus +24

High-redshift observations from JWST indicate that optical strong line ratios do not carry the same constraining power as they do at low redshifts. Critically, this prevents a sepa…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +96

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates e…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

NGDEEP: The Star Formation and Ionization Properties of Galaxies at

Lu Shen, Casey Papovich, Jasleen Matharu +23

We use JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy from the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey to investigate the physical condition of star-forming galaxi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

The case for super-Eddington accretion in JWST broad-line AGN during the first billion years

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Kristen Garofali +23

A multitude of JWST studies reveal a surprising over-abundance of over-massive accreting super-massive black holes (SMBHs) -- leading to a deepening tension between theory and obse…

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★ 7 cited

The First Billion Years, According to JWST

Angela Adamo, Hakim Atek, Micaela B. Bagley +46

With stunning clarity, JWST has revealed the Universe's first billion years. The scientific community is analyzing a wealth of JWST imaging and spectroscopic data from that era, an…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

JWST NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy of MACS0647-JD at z=10.167: Resolved [OII] Doublet and Electron Density in an Early Galaxy

Abdurro'uf, Rebecca L. Larson, Dan Coe +26

We present JWST/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy G395H/F290LP of MACS0647-JD, a gravitationally lensed galaxy merger at . The new spectroscopy, which is acquired for…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST MIRI detections of H and [O III] and direct metallicity measurement of the lensed galaxy MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Dan Coe +30

JWST spectroscopy has revolutionized our understanding of galaxies in the early universe. Covering wavelengths up to , NIRSpec can detect rest-frame optical emission…

astro-ph.GA2024

Characterizing the Average Interstellar Medium Conditions of Galaxies at 5.6-9 with UV and Optical Nebular Lines

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Mark Dickinson +30

Ultraviolet (UV; rest-frame A) spectra provide a wealth of diagnostics to characterize fundamental galaxy properties, such as their chemical enrichment, the nature…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

TEMPLATES: Direct Abundance Constraints for Two Lensed Lyman-Break Galaxies

Brian Welch, Grace M. Olivier, Taylor A. Hutchison +19

Using integrated spectra for two gravitationally lensed galaxies from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Science program, we analyze faint auroral lines, which provide direct measure…

astro-ph.IM2023

TEMPLATES: A Robust Outlier Rejection Method for JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy

Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian D. Welch, Jane R. Rigby +13

We describe a custom outlier rejection algorithm for JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy. This method uses a layered sigma clipping approach that adapts clipping thresholds ba…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

JWST Early Release Science Program TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and their Extended Star formation

Jane R. Rigby, Joaquin D. Vieira, Kedar A. Phadke +33

This paper gives an overview of TEMPLATES, a JWST Early Release Science program that targeted four extremely bright, gravitationally lensed galaxies: two extremely dusty, two with…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Near-Infrared Slitless Survey Epoch 1 (NGDEEP-NISS1): Extra-Galactic Star-formation and Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.5 < z < 3.6

Nor Pirzkal, Barry Rothberg, Casey Papovich +48

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey program was designed specifically to include Near Infrared Slitless Spectroscopic observations (NGDEEP-NIS…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at to from CEERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +36

We analyze the evolution of massive (log [] ) galaxies at 4--8 selected from the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. W…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The Web Epoch of Reionization Lyman- Survey (WERLS) I. MOSFIRE Spectroscopy of Lyman- Emitters

Olivia R. Cooper, Caitlin M. Casey, Hollis B. Akins +33

We present the first results from the Web Epoch of Reionization Lyman- Survey (WERLS), a spectroscopic survey of Lyman- emission using Keck I/MOSFIRE and LRIS. WERLS targets…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

JWST's TEMPLATES for Star Formation: The First Resolved Gas-Phase Metallicity Maps of Dust-Obscured Star-Forming Galaxies at 4

Jack E. Birkin, Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian Welch +23

We present the first spatially resolved maps of gas-phase metallicity for two dust-obscured star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at 4, from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Scienc…