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 onset of star formation 250 million years after the Big Bang

T Hashimoto, N Laporte, K Mawatari, RS Ellis… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
A fundamental quest of modern astronomy is to locate the earliest galaxies and study how
they influenced the intergalactic medium a few hundred million years after the Big Bang …

z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

UNCOVERing the extended strong lensing structures of Abell 2744 with the deepest JWST imaging

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, JR Weaver, H Atek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new parametric lens model for the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 based
on new ultra-deep JWST imaging taken in the framework of the UNCOVER program. These …

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 …

Dust in the reionization era: ALMA observations of az= 8.38 gravitationally lensed galaxy

N Laporte, RS Ellis, F Boone, FE Bauer… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the detailed analysis of a gravitationally lensed Y-band dropout, A2744_YD4,
selected from deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the Frontier Field cluster Abell …

Directly observing the galaxies likely responsible for reionization

RC Livermore, SL Finkelstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields clusters Abell 2744 and MACS 0416
using wavelet decomposition to remove the cluster light, enabling the detection of highly …

An excess of small-scale gravitational lenses observed in galaxy clusters

M Meneghetti, G Davoli, P Bergamini, P Rosati… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Cold dark matter (CDM) constitutes most of the matter in the Universe. The interplay
between dark and luminous matter in dense cosmic environments, such as galaxy clusters …

The extreme faint end of the UV luminosity function at z ∼ 6 through gravitational telescopes: a comprehensive assessment of strong lensing uncertainties

H Atek, J Richard, JP Kneib… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT With the Hubble Frontier Fields program, gravitational lensing has provided a
powerful way to extend the study of the ultraviolet luminosity function (LF) of galaxies at∼ 6 …

The z∼ 6 luminosity function fainter than− 15 mag from the Hubble Frontier Fields: the impact of magnification uncertainties

RJ Bouwens, PA Oesch, GD Illingworth… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the largest sample of z 6~ galaxies to date from the first four Hubble Frontier Fields
clusters to set constraints on the shape of the z 6~ luminosity functions (LFs) to fainter than M …