Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space Telescope

BE Robertson - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in late 2021 marks a new start for
studies of galaxy formation at high redshift (z≳ 6) during the era of cosmic reionization …

JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman-α emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in az= 10.60 luminous galaxy

AJ Bunker, A Saxena, AJ Cameron, CJ Willott… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present JADES JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of GN-z11, the most luminous candidate
z> 10 Lyman break galaxy in the GOODS-North field with M UV=− 21.5. We derive a redshift …

A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z= 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH∼ 106–108 M⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties

Y Harikane, Y Zhang, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z> 4 identified by
JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec= 3.8–8.9 confirmed …

The GLASS-JWST early release science program. I. Survey design and release plans

T Treu, G Roberts-Borsani, M Bradac… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science (hereafter GLASS-JWST-ERS) Program
will obtain and make publicly available the deepest extragalactic data of the ERS campaign …

CEERS spectroscopic confirmation of NIRCam-selected z≳ 8 galaxy candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: initial characterization of their properties

S Fujimoto, PA Haro, M Dickinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy for 11 galaxy candidates with photometric
redshifts of z≃ 9− 13 and M UV∈[− 21,− 18] newly identified in NIRCam images in the …

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 …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …

A survey of high-z galaxies: serra simulations

A Pallottini, A Ferrara, S Gallerani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce serra, a suite of zoom-in high-resolution (, at z= 7.7) cosmological simulations
including non-equilibrium chemistry and on-the-fly radiative transfer. The outputs are post …

GOLDRUSH. IV. Luminosity Functions and Clustering Revealed with∼ 4,000,000 Galaxies at z∼ 2–7: Galaxy–AGN Transition, Star Formation Efficiency, and …

Y Harikane, Y Ono, M Ouchi, C Liu… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new measurements of rest-UV luminosity functions and angular correlation
functions from 4,100,221 galaxies at z∼ 2–7 identified in the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam …

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 …