Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space Telescope

BE Robertson - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in late 2021 marks a new start for
studies of galaxy formation at high redshift (z≳ 6) during the era of cosmic reionization …

New Determinations of the UV Luminosity Functions from z∼ 9 to 2 Show a Remarkable Consistency with Halo Growth and a Constant Star Formation Efficiency

RJ Bouwens, PA Oesch, M Stefanon… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we provide the most comprehensive determinations of the rest-frame UV luminosity
function (LF) available to date with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at z∼ 2–9 …

Reionization era bright emission line survey: selection and characterization of luminous interstellar medium reservoirs in the z> 6.5 Universe

RJ Bouwens, R Smit, S Schouws… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) is a cycle-7 ALMA
Large Program (LP) that is identifying and performing a first characterization of many of the …

The ALMA REBELS Survey: cosmic dust temperature evolution out to z ∼ 7

L Sommovigo, A Ferrara, A Pallottini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT ALMA observations have revealed the presence of dust in the first generations
of galaxies in the Universe. However, the dust temperature T d remains mostly …

The Frontier Fields: survey design and initial results

JM Lotz, A Koekemoer, D Coe, N Grogin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
What are the faintest distant galaxies we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
now, before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? This is the challenge taken …

The ALMA REBELS Survey: specific star formation rates in the reionization era

MW Topping, DP Stark, R Endsley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present specific star formation rates (sSFRs) for 40 ultraviolet (UV)-bright galaxies at z∼
7–8 observed as part of the Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) …

The universe is reionizing at z∼ 7: bayesian inference of the IGM neutral fraction using Lyα emission from galaxies

CA Mason, T Treu, M Dijkstra, A Mesinger… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new flexible Bayesian framework for directly inferring the fraction of neutral
hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, z∼ 6 …

UV luminosity functions at redshifts z∼ 4 to z∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields

RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth, PA Oesch… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The remarkable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data sets from the CANDELS,
HUDF09, HUDF12, ERS, and BoRG/HIPPIES programs have allowed us to map the …

The COSMOS2015 galaxy stellar mass function-Thirteen billion years of stellar mass assembly in ten snapshots

I Davidzon, O Ilbert, C Laigle, J Coupon… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We measure the stellar mass function (SMF) and stellar mass density of galaxies in the
COSMOS field up to z~ 6. We select them in the near-IR bands of the COSMOS2015 …