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most citedReionization after Planck: The Derived Growth of the Cosmic Ionizing Emissivity now matches the Growth of the Galaxy UV Luminosity Density

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

EPOCHS VIII. An Insight into MIRI-selected Galaxies in SMACS-0723 and the Benefits of Deep MIRI Photometry in Revealing AGN and the Dusty Universe

Qiong Li, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams +7

We present the analysis of the stellar population and star formation history of 181 MIRI selected galaxies at redshift 0-3.5 in the massive galaxy cluster field SMACS J0723.3-7327,…

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★ 1 cited

The interplay between accretion, galaxy downsizing and the formation of box/peanut bulges in TNG50

Stuart Robert Anderson, Steven Gough-Kelly, Victor P. Debattista +6

From the TNG50 cosmological simulation we build a sample of 191 well-resolved barred galaxies with a stellar mass at . We search for box/peanut bulges (BPs…

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.GA2022★ 6 cited

The JWST Hubble Sequence: The Rest-Frame Optical Evolution of Galaxy Structure at

Leonardo Ferreira, Christopher J. Conselice, Elizaveta Sazonova +13

We present results on the morphological and structural evolution of a total of 4265 galaxies observed with JWST at in the JWST CEERS observations that overlap with th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 147 cited

Panic! At the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field

Leonardo Ferreira, Nathan Adams, Christopher J. Conselice +13

We present early results regarding the morphological and structural properties of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space Telescope at in the Early Release Observations of…

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★ 33 cited

Seeing sharper and deeper: JWST's first glimpse of the photometric and spectroscopic properties of galaxies in the epoch of reionisation

James A. A. Trussler, Nathan J. Adams, Christopher J. Conselice +12

We analyse the photometric and spectroscopic properties of four galaxies in the epoch of reionisation (EoR) within the SMACS 0723 JWST Early Release Observations field. Given the k…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 274 cited

Discovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies () in the JWST ERO SMACS 0723 Field

N. J. Adams, C. J. Conselice, L. Ferreira +8

We present a reduction and analysis of the \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) SMACS~0723 field using new post-launch calibrations to conduct a search for ultra-high-redshif…

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…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 12 cited

Reconstruction of the collapse of the 'Azure Window' natural arch via photogrammetry

Joseph Caruana, John Wood, Erica Nocerino +3

The Azure Window was a natural arch situated in the west coast of Gozo (Maltese Archipelago) that collapsed in March 2017. We employ a Diver Propulsion Vehicle-mounted camera syste…

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities

P. Rosati, S. Basa, A. W. Blain +37

The proposed THESEUS mission will vastly expand the capabilities to monitor the high-energy sky, and will exploit large samples of gamma-ray bursts to probe the early Universe back…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Exploration of the high-redshift universe enabled by THESEUS

N. R. Tanvir, E. Le Floc'h, L. Christensen +36

At peak, long-duration gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation known. Since their progenitors are massive stars, they provide a tracer of star f…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The relative efficiencies of bars and clumps in driving disc stars to retrograde motion

Karl Fiteni, Joseph Caruana, João A. S. Amarante +2

The presence of stars on retrograde orbits in disc galaxies is usually attributed to accretion events, both via direct accretion, as well as through the heating of the disc stars.…

astro-ph.IM2020

A photometric mapping of the night sky brightness of the Maltese islands

Joseph Caruana, Ryan Vella, Daniel Spiteri +3

Over the years, the Maltese Islands have seen a marked rise in the prevalence of artificial lighting at night. The most evident type of light pollution arising from this evolution…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited

The Formation of Compact Elliptical Galaxies in The Vicinity of A Massive Galaxy: The Role of Ram-pressure Confinement

Min Du, Victor P. Debattista, Luis C. Ho +9

Compact ellipticals (cEs) are outliers from the scaling relations of early-type galaxies, particularly the mass-metallicity relation which is an important outcome of feedback. The…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 124 cited

The MUSE-Wide Survey: Survey Description and First Data Release

T. Urrutia, L. Wisotzki, J. Kerutt +17

We present the MUSE-Wide survey, a blind, 3D spectroscopic survey in the CANDELS/GOODS-S and CANDELS/COSMOS regions. Each MUSE-Wide pointing has a depth of 1 hour and hence targets…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 124 cited

Recovering the systemic redshift of galaxies from their Lyman-alpha line profile

A. Verhamme, T. Garel, E. Ventou +23

The Lyman alpha (lya) line of Hydrogen is a prominent feature in the spectra of star-forming galaxies, usually redshifted by a few hundreds of km/s compared to the systemic redshif…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 54 cited

Kinematics, Turbulence and Star Formation of z ~1 Strongly Lensed Galaxies seen with MUSE

V. Patricio, J. Richard, D. Carton +18

We analyse a sample of 8 highly magnified galaxies at redshift 0.6<z<1.5 observed with MUSE, exploring the resolved properties of these galaxies at sub-kiloparsec scales. Combining…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 80 cited

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey X. Ly Equivalent Widths at

Takuya Hashimoto, Thibault Garel, Bruno Guiderdoni +17

We present rest-frame Ly equivalent widths (EW) of 417 Ly emitters (LAEs) detected with Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at $2.9 < z…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 45 cited

The MUSE-Wide survey: A measurement of the Ly emitting fraction among galaxies

Joseph Caruana, Lutz Wisotzki, Edmund Christian Herenz +15

We present a measurement of the fraction of Lyman (Ly) emitters () amongst HST continuum-selected galaxies at with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explor…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 207 cited

The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances

L. Amati, P. O'Brien, D. Goetz +208

THESEUS is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 42 cited

Dark Galaxy Candidates at Redshift ~3.5 Detected with MUSE

Raffaella Anna Marino, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Simon J. Lilly +18

Recent theoretical models suggest that the early phase of galaxy formation could involve an epoch when galaxies are gas-rich but inefficient at forming stars: a "dark galaxy" phase…