Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

Scientific discovery with the James Webb space telescope

J Kalirai - Contemporary Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
For the past 400 years, astronomers have sought to observe and interpret the Universe by
building more powerful telescopes. These incredible instruments extend the capabilities of …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

The X–shooter/ALMA Sample of Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization. II. Black Hole Masses, Eddington Ratios, and the Formation of the First Quasars

EP Farina, JT Schindler, F Walter… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of black hole masses and Eddington ratios (λ Edd) for a sample
of 38 bright (M 1450<− 24.4 mag) quasars at 5.8≲ z≲ 7.5, derived from Very Large …

Implications for the supermassive black hole binaries from the NANOGrav 15-year data set

YC Bi, YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
Several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and
CPTA, have announced the evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a stochastic …

A dominant population of optically invisible massive galaxies in the early Universe

T Wang, C Schreiber, D Elbaz, Y Yoshimura, K Kohno… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Our current knowledge of cosmic star-formation history during the first two billion years
(corresponding to redshift z> 3) is mainly based on galaxies identified in rest-frame …

Observational constraints on the merger history of galaxies since z≈ 6: probabilistic galaxy pair counts in the CANDELS fields

K Duncan, CJ Conselice, C Mundy, E Bell… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy mergers are expected to have a significant role in the mass assembly of galaxies in
the early universe, but there are very few observational constraints on the merger history of …

Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST – VI. Simulated light-cones and galaxy clustering predictions

LYA Yung, RS Somerville, HC Ferguson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In anticipation of the new era of high-redshift exploration marked by the commissioning of
the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we present two sets of galaxy catalogues that …

The diversity and variability of star formation histories in models of galaxy evolution

KG Iyer, S Tacchella, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the variability of galaxy star formation histories (SFHs) across a range of time-
scales provides insight into the underlying physical processes that regulate star formation …

Black hole mergers from dwarf to massive galaxies with the NewHorizon and Horizon-AGN simulations

M Volonteri, H Pfister, RS Beckmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Massive black hole (MBH) coalescences are powerful sources of low-frequency gravitational
waves. To study these events in the cosmological context, we need to trace the large-scale …