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 …

Galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang

DP Stark - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In the past five years, deep imaging campaigns conducted with the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories have delivered large samples of galaxies …

A population of red candidate massive galaxies~ 600 Myr after the Big Bang

I Labbé, P van Dokkum, E Nelson, R Bezanson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified,–
out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang. It has been difficult to …

The GLASS-JWST early release science program. I. Survey design and release plans

T Treu, G Roberts-Borsani, M Bradac… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science (hereafter GLASS-JWST-ERS) Program
will obtain and make publicly available the deepest extragalactic data of the ERS campaign …

Revealing galaxy candidates out to z ∼ 16 with JWST observations of the lensing cluster SMACS0723

H Atek, M Shuntov, LJ Furtak, J Richard… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
One of the main goals of the JWST is to study the first galaxies in the Universe. We present a
systematic photometric analysis of very distant galaxies in the first JWST deep field towards …

The JWST FRESCO survey: legacy NIRCam/grism spectroscopy and imaging in the two GOODS fields

PA Oesch, G Brammer, RP Naidu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the JWST cycle 1 53.8 h medium program FRESCO, short for 'First Reionization
Epoch Spectroscopically Complete Observations'. FRESCO covers 62 arcmin2 in each of …

A JWST/NIRCam study of key contributors to reionization: the star-forming and ionizing properties of UV-faint z ∼ 7−8 galaxies

R Endsley, DP Stark, L Whitler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) imaging has revealed that the brightest
z∼ 7− 8 galaxies often exhibit young ages and strong nebular line emission, hinting at high …

Evolution of the UV LF from z ∼ 15 to z ∼ 8 using new JWST NIRCam medium-band observations over the HUDF/XDF

RJ Bouwens, M Stefanon, G Brammer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the first constraints on the prevalence of z> 10 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field (HUDF) leveraging new NIRCam observations from JEMS (JWST Extragalactic …

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 …

JADES initial data release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: revealing the faint infrared sky with deep JWST NIRCam imaging

MJ Rieke, B Robertson, S Tacchella… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
JWST has revolutionized the field of extragalactic astronomy with its sensitive and high-
resolution infrared view of the distant Universe. Adding to the new legacy of JWST …