Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

New insights into the evolution of massive stars and their effects on our understanding of early galaxies

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The observable characteristics and subsequent evolution of young stellar populations is
dominated by their massive stars. As our understanding of those massive stars and the …

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 …

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 …

The chemical enrichment in the early Universe as probed by JWST via direct metallicity measurements at z ∼ 8

M Curti, F d'Eugenio, S Carniani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the chemical properties of three z∼ 8 galaxies behind the galaxy cluster
SMACS J0723. 3-7327, observed as part of the Early Release Observations programme of …

JADES imaging of GN-z11: revealing the morphology and environment of a luminous galaxy 430 Myr after the Big Bang

S Tacchella, DJ Eisenstein, K Hainline… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRCam nine-band near-infrared imaging of the luminous z= 10.6 galaxy
GN-z11 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey of the GOODS-N field. We find …

A time-resolved picture of our Milky Way's early formation history

M Xiang, HW Rix - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The formation of our Milky Way can be split up qualitatively into different phases that resulted
in its structurally different stellar populations: the halo and the disk components,–. Revealing …

Pure Spectroscopic Constraints on UV Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History from 25 Galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20 Confirmed with JWST …

Y Harikane, K Nakajima, M Ouchi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present pure spectroscopic constraints on the UV luminosity functions and cosmic star
formation rate (SFR) densities from 25 galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20. By reducing the …

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 …

A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …