Spectroscopic confirmation of two luminous galaxies at a redshift of 14

S Carniani, K Hainline, F D'Eugenio, DJ Eisenstein… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The first observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revolutionized our
understanding of the Universe by identifying galaxies at redshift z≈ 13 (refs.,–). In addition …

The star-forming and ionizing properties of dwarf z ~ 6–9 galaxies in JADES: insights on bursty star formation and ionized bubble growth

R Endsley, DP Stark, L Whitler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Reionization is thought to be driven by faint star-forming galaxies, but characterizing this
population has long remained very challenging. Here, we utilize deep nine-band JADES …

JADES: Carbon enrichment 350 Myr after the Big Bang

F d'Eugenio, R Maiolino, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Finding the emergence of the first metals in the early Universe and identifying their origin are
some of the most important goals of modern astrophysics. We present deep JWST/NIRSpec …

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Lyman α Emission in Star-forming Galaxies at 6.5≲ z≲ 13

M Tang, DP Stark, MW Topping, C Mason… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of JWST Lyα spectroscopy of z≳ 6.5 galaxies, using observations in
the public archive covering galaxies in four independent fields: Great Observatories Origins …

Multivariate Predictors of Lyman Continuum Escape. II. Predicting Lyman Continuum Escape Fractions for High-redshift Galaxies

AE Jaskot, AC Silveyra, A Plantinga… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
JWST is uncovering the properties of ever-increasing numbers of galaxies at z> 6, during the
epoch of reionization. Connecting these observed populations to the process of reionization …

JWST spectroscopy of z ∼ 5–8 UV-selected galaxies: new constraints on the evolution of the Ly α escape fraction in the reionization era

Z Chen, DP Stark, C Mason, MW Topping… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We describe JWST/NIRSpec prism measurements of Ly α emission in z≳ 5 galaxies. We
identify Ly α detections in 10 out of 69 galaxies with robust rest-optical emission-line redshift …

Late-end reionization with aton-he: towards constraints from Ly α emitters observed with JWST

S Asthana, MG Haehnelt, G Kulkarni… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new suite of late-end reionization simulations performed with aton-he, a
revised version of the GPU-based radiative transfer code aton that includes helium. The …

Extreme emission line galaxies detected in JADES JWST/NIRSpec – I. Inferred galaxy properties

K Boyett, AJ Bunker, E Curtis-Lake… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Extreme emission line galaxies (EELGs) exhibit large equivalent widths (EW) in their rest-
optical emission lines ([O iii] or H rest-frame EW Å) which can be tied to a recent upturn in …

The JWST-PRIMAL archival survey-A JWST/NIRSpec reference sample for the physical properties and Lyman-α absorption and emission of∼ 600 galaxies at z= 5.0 …

KE Heintz, GB Brammer, D Watson, PA Oesch… - Astronomy & …, 2025 - aanda.org
Context. One of the surprising early findings with JWST has been the discovery of a strong
“roll-over” or a softening of the absorption edge of Lyα in a large number of galaxies at z≳ 6 …

IGM damping wing constraints on the tail end of reionization from the enlarged XQR-30 sample

B Greig, A Mesinger, E Bañados… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The attenuation of Lyα photons by neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z≳
5 continues to be a powerful probe for studying the epoch of reionization. Given a framework …