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 …

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 …

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 …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): time-dependent convection, energy conservation, automatic differentiation, and infrastructure

AS Jermyn, EB Bauer, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto _ diff module implements …

A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, JM Diego, A Zitrin, E Zackrisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical
magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or …

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): pulsating variable stars, rotation, convective boundaries, and energy conservation

B Paxton, R Smolec, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). RSP is a new functionality in MESAstar that …

Unscrambling the lensed galaxies in JWST images behind SMACS 0723

M Pascale, BL Frye, J Diego, LJ Furtak… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The first deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the galaxy
cluster SMACS J0723. 3-7327 reveal a wealth of new lensed images at uncharted infrared …

Photometry and astrometry with JWST – I. NIRCam point spread functions and the first JWST colour–magnitude diagrams of a globular cluster

D Nardiello, LR Bedin, A Burgasser… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has become fully operational,
early release data are now available to begin building the tools and calibrations for …

JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift z= 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, E Zackrisson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The gravitationally lensed star WHL 0137–LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a
photometric redshift z phot= 6.2±0.1 based on images taken with the Hubble Space …

JWST's PEARLS: Mothra, a new kaiju star at z= 2.091 extremely magnified by MACS0416, and implications for dark matter models

JM Diego, B Sun, H Yan, LJ Furtak… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the discovery of Mothra, an extremely magnified monster star, likely a binary
system of two supergiant stars, in one of the strongly lensed galaxies behind the galaxy …