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 …

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 …

The Frontier Fields: survey design and initial results

JM Lotz, A Koekemoer, D Coe, N Grogin… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
What are the faintest distant galaxies we can see with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
now, before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? This is the challenge taken …

Stellar population effects on the inferred photon density at reionization

ER Stanway, JJ Eldridge… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between stellar populations and the ionizing flux with which they irradiate
their surroundings has profound implications for the evolution of the intergalactic medium …

CLASSY III. The Properties of Starburst-driven Warm Ionized Outflows

X Xu, T Heckman, A Henry, DA Berg… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of analyses of galactic outflows in a sample of 45 low-redshift starburst
galaxies in the COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY (CLASSY), augmented by five …

The Effects of Stellar Population and Gas Covering Fraction on the Emergent Lyα Emission of High-redshift Galaxies

NA Reddy, MW Topping, AE Shapley… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform joint modeling of the composite rest-frame far-UV and optical spectra of redshift
1.85≤ z≤ 3.49 star-forming galaxies to deduce key properties of the massive stars, ionized …

An extreme blue nugget, UV-bright starburst at z = 3.613 with 90 per cent of Lyman continuum photon escape

R Marques-Chaves, D Schaerer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the discovery and analysis of J1316+ 2614 at z= 3.6130, a UV-bright star-
forming galaxy (M UV≃− 24.7) with large escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation …

Constraining the metallicities, ages, star formation histories, and ionizing continua of extragalactic massive star populations∗

J Chisholm, JR Rigby, M Bayliss, DA Berg… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We infer the properties of massive star populations using the far-ultraviolet stellar continua of
61 star-forming galaxies: 42 at low redshift observed with the Hubble Space Telescope and …

Optically thin spatially resolved Mg ii emission maps the escape of ionizing photons

J Chisholm, JX Prochaska, D Schaerer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Early star-forming galaxies produced copious ionizing photons. A fraction of these photons
escaped gas within galaxies to reionize the entire Universe. This escape fraction is crucial …

Lyα profile, dust, and prediction of Lyα escape fraction in green pea galaxies

H Yang, S Malhotra, M Gronke, JE Rhoads… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We studied Lyman-α (Lyα) escape in a statistical sample of 43 Green Peas with
HST/COS Lyα spectra. Green Peas are nearby star-forming galaxies with strong [O iii] λ5007 …