Modeling cosmic reionization

NY Gnedin, P Madau - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2022 - Springer
The transformation of cold neutral intergalactic hydrogen into a highly ionized warm plasma
marks the end of the cosmic dark ages and the beginning of the age of galaxies. The details …

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 …

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 …

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: A candidate z∼ 12 galaxy in early JWST CEERS imaging

SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, PA Haro… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z∼ 12 in the first epoch of
the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science …

Discovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies (9 < z < 12) in the JWST ERO SMACS 0723 Field

NJ Adams, CJ Conselice, L Ferreira… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a reduction and analysis of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) SMACS
0723 field using new post-launch calibrations to conduct a search for ultra-high-redshift …

Extreme value statistics of the halo and stellar mass distributions at high redshift: are JWST results in tension with ΛCDM?

CC Lovell, I Harrison, Y Harikane… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of dark matter halo masses can be accurately predicted in the lambda cold
dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. The presence of a single massive halo or galaxy at a …

An atlas of color-selected quiescent galaxies at z> 3 in public JWST fields

F Valentino, G Brammer, KML Gould… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a systematic search for candidate quiescent galaxies in the distant
universe in 11 JWST fields with publicly available observations collected during the first 3 …

On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z= 9–11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times

S Tacchella, SL Finkelstein, M Bagley… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright (H< 26.6) galaxies at z= 9–11
(three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical enrichment and growth of …

Life beyond 30: Probing the− 20< M UV<− 17 Luminosity Function at 8< z< 13 with the NIRCam Parallel Field of the MIRI Deep Survey

PG Pérez-González, L Costantin… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the ultraviolet luminosity function and an estimate of the cosmic star formation
rate density at 8< z< 13 derived from deep NIRCam observations taken in parallel with the …

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 …