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JADES NIRSpec initial data release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Redshifts and line fluxes of distant galaxies from the deepest JWST Cycle 1 NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347094 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.288B

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Parlanti, Eleonora +63 more

We describe the NIRSpec component of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), and provide deep spectroscopy of 253 sources targeted with the NIRSpec micro-shutter assembly in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and surrounding GOODS-South. The multi-object spectra presented here are the deepest so far obtained with JWST, amounting to up to 28 hours in …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST JWST 187
Galaxy morphology from z ∼ 6 through the lens of JWST
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346800 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..48H

Wuyts, S.; Elbaz, D.; Dickinson, M. +27 more

Context. The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST's) unprecedented combination of sensitivity, spatial resolution, and infrared coverage has enabled a new era of galaxy morphology exploration across most of cosmic history.
Aims: We analyze the near-infrared (NIR ∼ 0.8 − 1 µm) rest-frame morphologies of galaxies with log M*/M

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 54
Possible Hycean conditions in the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348238 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683L...2H

Madhusudhan, Nikku; Holmberg, Måns

The JWST has ushered in a new era in atmospheric characterisations of temperate low-mass exoplanets with recent detections of carbon-bearing molecules in the candidate Hycean world K2-18 b. We investigated JWST observations of the TOI-270 system, with two sub-Neptunes simultaneously transiting the nearby M dwarf during the visit. We report our atm…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 49
GA-NIFS: The core of an extremely massive protocluster at the epoch of reionisation probed with JWST/NIRSpec
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348824 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.146A

Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Charlot, Stéphane; Chevallard, Jacopo +24 more

Context. The SPT0311-58 system resides in a massive dark-matter halo at z ∼ 6.9. It hosts two dusty galaxies (E and W) with a combined star formation rate (SFR) of ∼3500 M yr−1, mostly obscured and identified by the rest-frame IR emission. The surrounding field exhibits an overdensity of submillimetre sources, making it a ca…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST JWST 44
New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347884 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A...3M

Kartaltepe, J. S.; Dickinson, M.; Finkelstein, S. L. +30 more

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) began when galaxies grew in abundance and luminosity, so their escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation started ionizing the surrounding neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Despite significant recent progress, the nature and role of cosmic reionizers are still unclear: in order to define them, it would be necessary …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 42
Peering into cosmic reionization: Lyα visibility evolution from galaxies at z = 4.5-8.5 with JWST
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449644 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.106N

Hu, W.; Kartaltepe, J. S.; Dickinson, M. +30 more

The resonant scattering interaction between Lyα photons and neutral hydrogen implies that a partially neutral intergalactic medium has the ability to significantly impact the detectability of Lyα emission in galaxies. Thus, the redshift evolution of the Lyα equivalent width distribution of galaxies offers a key observational probe of the degree of…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 40
1100 days in the life of the supernova 2018ibb. The best pair-instability supernova candidate, to date
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346855 Bibcode: 2024A&A...683A.223S

Filippenko, Alexei V.; Fransson, Claes; Gromadzki, Mariusz +63 more

Stars with zero-age main sequence masses between 140 and 260 M are thought to explode as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). During their thermonuclear runaway, PISNe can produce up to several tens of solar masses of radioactive nickel, resulting in luminous transients similar to some superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). Yet, no unambigu…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton eHST 36
X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. III. Terminal wind speeds of ULLYSES massive stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245588 Bibcode: 2024A&A...688A.105H

Crowther, P. A.; Herrero, A.; Hamann, W. -R. +26 more

Context. The winds of massive stars have a significant impact on stellar evolution and on the surrounding medium. The maximum speed reached by these outflows, the terminal wind speed v, is a global wind parameter and an essential input for models of stellar atmospheres and feedback. With the arrival of the ULLYSES programme, a legacy U…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 34
Cosmography with supernova Refsdal through time-delay cluster lensing: Independent measurements of the Hubble constant and geometry of the Universe
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449278 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684L..23G

Pagano, L.; Grillo, C.; Rosati, P. +1 more

We present new measurements of the values of the Hubble constant, matter density, dark energy density, and dark energy density equation-of-state (EoS) parameters. These results have been obtained from a full strong-lensing analysis of the observed positions of 89 multiple images and 4 measured time delays of the supernova (SN) Refsdal in the Hubbl…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 32
PDRs4All. II. JWST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..73H

Hartigan, Patrick; Zhang, Yong; Gordon, Karl D. +139 more

Context. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the most detailed and sharpest infrared (IR) images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula, the nearest massive star formation region, and a prototypical highly irradiated dense photo-dissociation region (PDR).
Aims: We investigate the fundamental interaction of far-ultra…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 29