The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

CEERS key paper. I. An early look into the first 500 Myr of galaxy formation with JWST

SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic
Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS programs …

Two remarkably luminous galaxy candidates at z≈ 10–12 revealed by JWST

RP Naidu, PA Oesch, P van Dokkum… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The first few 100 Myr at z> 10 mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the
universe, where only a single galaxy (GN-z11 at z≈ 11) is currently spectroscopically …

A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre …

Y Harikane, M Ouchi, M Oguri, Y Ono… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a comprehensive study on dropout galaxy candidates at z∼ 9–16 using the first
90 arcmin 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images taken by …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

LV Sales, A Wetzel, A Fattahi - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy
plus cold dark matter (Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between …

CEERS spectroscopic confirmation of NIRCam-selected z≳ 8 galaxy candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: initial characterization of their properties

S Fujimoto, PA Haro, M Dickinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy for 11 galaxy candidates with photometric
redshifts of z≃ 9− 13 and M UV∈[− 21,− 18] newly identified in NIRCam images in the …

The main sequence of star-forming galaxies across cosmic times

P Popesso, A Concas, G Cresci, S Belli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
By compiling a comprehensive census of literature studies, we investigate the evolution of
the main sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) in the widest range of redshift (0< …

Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …