The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

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 …

Reionization era bright emission line survey: selection and characterization of luminous interstellar medium reservoirs in the z> 6.5 Universe

RJ Bouwens, R Smit, S Schouws… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey (REBELS) is a cycle-7 ALMA
Large Program (LP) that is identifying and performing a first characterization of many of the …

Observations of the Lyman-α Universe

M Ouchi, Y Ono, T Shibuya - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen Lyman-α (Lyα) emission has been one of the major observational probes for the
high-redshift Universe since the first discoveries of high-z Lyα-emitting galaxies in the late …

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 …

Diagnostics for PopIII galaxies and direct collapse black holes in the early universe

K Nakajima, R Maiolino - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Forthcoming observational facilities will make the exploration of the early universe routine,
likely probing large populations of galaxies at very low metallicities. It will therefore be …

Lyα and C iii] emission in z = 7–9 Galaxies: accelerated reionization around luminous star-forming systems?

DP Stark, RS Ellis, S Charlot… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We discuss new Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopic observations of four luminous galaxies at z≃
7–9 selected to have intense optical line emission by Roberts-Borsani et al. Previous follow …

Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes

M Mezcua - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017 - World Scientific
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range 1 0 0–1 0 6 M⊙, are the
link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the …

Big Three Dragons: A z = 7.15 Lyman-break galaxy detected in [O iii] 88 μm, [C ii] 158 μm, and dust continuum with ALMA

T Hashimoto, AK Inoue, K Mawatari… - Publications of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present new ALMA observations and physical properties of a Lyman break galaxy at z=
7.15. Our target, B14-65666, has a bright ultra-violet (UV) absolute magnitude, M UV≈ …