Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Pure Spectroscopic Constraints on UV Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History from 25 Galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20 Confirmed with JWST …

Y Harikane, K Nakajima, M Ouchi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present pure spectroscopic constraints on the UV luminosity functions and cosmic star
formation rate (SFR) densities from 25 galaxies at z spec= 8.61–13.20. By reducing the …

The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9

X Shen, M Vogelsberger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations have revealed a population of galaxies bright enough that
potentially challenge standard galaxy formation models in the Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) …

Bursty star formation naturally explains the abundance of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left
(z\gtrsim 10\right) $ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In …

Are the ultra-high-redshift galaxies at z > 10 surprising in the context of standard galaxy formation models?

LYA Yung, RS Somerville, SL Finkelstein… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A substantial number of ultra-high redshift (8≲ z≲ 17) galaxy candidates have
been detected with JWST, posing the question: Are these observational results surprising in …

JWST PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 9 – 15

CT Donnan, RJ McLure, JS Dunlop… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function
(LF) over the redshift range using a combination of several major Cycle-1 JWST imaging …

Primordial power spectrum in light of JWST observations of high redshift galaxies

P Parashari, R Laha - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Early data releases of JWST have revealed several high redshift massive galaxy candidates
by photometry, and some of them have been confirmed spectroscopically. We study their …

FOREVER22: the first bright galaxies with Population III stars at redshifts z ≃ 10–20 and comparisons with JWST data

H Yajima, M Abe, H Fukushima, Y Ono… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the formation of the first galaxies in overdense regions modelled by the
FORmation and EVolution of galaxies in Extremely overdense Regions motivated by SSA22 …

The galaxy UV luminosity function at z ≃ 11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs

DJ McLeod, CT Donnan, RJ McLure… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function
(LF) over the redshift range 9.5< z< 12.5 based on a wide-area (> 250 arcmin2) data set of …

Alleviating the need for exponential evolution of JWST galaxies in 1010 M⊙ haloes at z> 10 by a modified ΛCDM power spectrum

H Padmanabhan, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We infer the evolution of the UV luminosities of galaxies in haloes of masses 10 10–10 11
M⊙ in the redshift range of z∼ 9–16 from the recent JWST data. Within the standard ΛCDM …