Galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang

DP Stark - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In the past five years, deep imaging campaigns conducted with the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories have delivered large samples of galaxies …

Revealing galaxy candidates out to z ∼ 16 with JWST observations of the lensing cluster SMACS0723

H Atek, M Shuntov, LJ Furtak, J Richard… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
One of the main goals of the JWST is to study the first galaxies in the Universe. We present a
systematic photometric analysis of very distant galaxies in the first JWST deep field towards …

A JWST/NIRCam study of key contributors to reionization: the star-forming and ionizing properties of UV-faint z ∼ 7−8 galaxies

R Endsley, DP Stark, L Whitler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) imaging has revealed that the brightest
z∼ 7− 8 galaxies often exhibit young ages and strong nebular line emission, hinting at high …

JWST UNCOVER: extremely Red and Compact Object at z phot≃ 7.6 triply imaged by A2744

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, A Plat, S Fujimoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent JWST/NIRCam imaging taken for the ultra-deep UNCOVER program reveals a very
red dropout object at z phot≃ 7.6, triply imaged by the galaxy cluster A2744 (zd= 0.308). All …

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XIV. A spectroscopically confirmed protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang

T Morishita, G Roberts-Borsani, T Treu… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the spectroscopic confirmation of a protocluster at z= 7.88 behind the galaxy
cluster Abell 2744 (hereafter A2744-z7p9OD). Using JWST NIRSpec, we find seven …

A short introduction to reionization physics

TR Choudhury - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2022 - Springer
The epoch of reionization probes the state of our universe when the very first stars formed
and ionized the hydrogen atoms in the surrounding medium. Since the epoch has not yet …

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 …

Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: First results from the GLASS-JWST program

S Mascia, L Pentericci, A Calabrò, T Treu… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons (f esc) is a key parameter for
determining the sources of cosmic reionization at z≥ 6. At these redshifts, owing to the …

z∼ 2–9 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field clusters. II. Luminosity functions and constraints on a faint-end turnover

RJ Bouwens, G Illingworth, RS Ellis… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new determinations of the rest-UV luminosity functions (LFs) at z= 2–9 to
extremely low luminosities (>− 14 mag) from a sample of> 2500 lensed galaxies found …

UNCOVERing the extended strong lensing structures of Abell 2744 with the deepest JWST imaging

LJ Furtak, A Zitrin, JR Weaver, H Atek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new parametric lens model for the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 based
on new ultra-deep JWST imaging taken in the framework of the UNCOVER program. These …