Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates

M Boylan-Kolchin - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a bevy of high-
redshift galaxy candidates with unexpectedly high stellar masses. An immediate concern is …

Reionisation and High-Redshift Galaxies: The View from Quasar Absorption Lines

GD Becker, JS Bolton, A Lidz - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Determining when and how the first galaxies reionised the intergalactic medium promises to
shed light on both the nature of the first objects and the cosmic history of baryons. Towards …

The brightest galaxies at cosmic dawn

CA Mason, M Trenti, T Treu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent JWST observations suggest an excess of z≳ 10 galaxy candidates above most
theoretical models. Here, we explore how the interplay between halo formation time-scales …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9

X Shen, M Vogelsberger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations have revealed a population of galaxies bright enough that
potentially challenge standard galaxy formation models in the Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) …

Bursty star formation naturally explains the abundance of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left
(z\gtrsim 10\right) $ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In …

JWST PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 9 – 15

CT Donnan, RJ McLure, JS Dunlop… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function
(LF) over the redshift range using a combination of several major Cycle-1 JWST imaging …

COLOSSUS: A python toolkit for cosmology, large-scale structure, and dark matter halos

B Diemer - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper introduces C olossus, a public, open-source python package for calculations
related to cosmology, the large-scale structure (LSS) of matter in the universe, and the …

The dearth of z∼ 10 galaxies in all HST legacy fields—the rapid evolution of the galaxy population in the first 500 Myr

PA Oesch, RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of all prime HST legacy fields spanning> 800 arcmin 2 in the search
for z∼ 10 galaxy candidates and the study of their UV luminosity function (LF). In particular …

Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions from z∼ 10 to z∼ 6 using the Deepest Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera Data: No Significant Evolution in the Stellar-to-halo Mass Ratio of …

M Stefanon, RJ Bouwens, I Labbé… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new stellar mass functions at z∼ 6, z∼ 7, z∼ 8, z∼ 9 and, for the first time, z∼
10, constructed from∼ 800 Lyman-break galaxies previously identified over the eXtreme …