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 …

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 …

EIGER. II. First Spectroscopic Characterization of the Young Stars and Ionized Gas Associated with Strong Hβ and [O iii] Line Emission in Galaxies at z= 5–7 with …

J Matthee, R Mackenzie, RA Simcoe… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present emission-line measurements and physical interpretations for a sample of 117 [O
iii] emitting galaxies at z= 5.33–6.93, using the first deep JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless …

Evidence from the h3 survey that the stellar halo is entirely comprised of substructure

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the ΛCDM paradigm, the Galactic stellar halo is predicted to harbor the accreted debris of
smaller systems. To identify these systems, the H3 Spectroscopic Survey, combined with …

Searching for extremely blue UV continuum slopes at z= 7–11 in JWST/NIRCam imaging: implications for stellar metallicity and ionizing photon escape in early …

MW Topping, DP Stark, R Endsley, A Plat… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ultraviolet (UV) continuum slope (β, where f λ∝ λ β) of galaxies is sensitive to a variety
of properties, from the metallicity and age of the stellar population to dust attenuation …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L Xiao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

LyC escape from sphinx galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

J Rosdahl, J Blaizot, H Katz, T Kimm… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We measure escape fractions, f esc, of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the sphinx suite of
cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization, resolving haloes with …

Rapid reionization by the oligarchs: the case for massive, UV-bright, star-forming galaxies with high escape fractions

RP Naidu, S Tacchella, CA Mason, S Bose… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The protagonists of the last great phase transition of the universe—cosmic reionization—
remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are found …

The synchrony of production and escape: half the bright Lyα emitters at z ≈ 2 have Lyman continuum escape fractions ≈50

RP Naidu, J Matthee, PA Oesch… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ionizing photon escape fraction [Lyman continuum (LyC) f esc] of star-forming galaxies
is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit …