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Galaxy morphology from z ∼ 6 through the lens of JWST
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
JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detecting icy complex organic molecules and ions. I. CH4, SO2, HCOO−, OCN−, H2CO, HCOOH, CH3CH2OH, CH3CHO, CH3OCHO, and CH3COOH
Ray, T. P.; Chen, Y.; Henning, Th. +23 more
Context. Complex organic molecules (COMs) are ubiquitously detected in the gas phase and thought to be mostly formed on icy grains. Nevertheless, there have not been any unambiguous detections of COMs larger than CH3OH in ices reported thus far. Exploring this matter in greater detail has now become possible with the unprecedented possi…
Possible Hycean conditions in the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
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…
The more the merrier: SRG/eROSITA discovers two further galaxies showing X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions
Gromadzki, M.; Salvato, M.; Liu, Z. +20 more
X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel addition to the group of extragalactic transients. With only a select number of known sources, and many more models published trying to explain them, we are so far limited in our understanding by small number statistics. In this work, we report the discovery of two further galaxies showing QPEs, he…
PDRs4All: III. JWST's NIR spectroscopic view of the Orion Bar
Hartigan, Patrick; Zhang, Yong; Gordon, Karl D. +135 more
Context. JWST has taken the sharpest and most sensitive infrared (IR) spectral imaging observations ever of the Orion Bar photodis-sociation region (PDR), which is part of the nearest massive star-forming region the Orion Nebula, and often considered to be the 'prototypical' strongly illuminated PDR. Aims. We investigate the impact of radiative fe…
The Pristine survey: XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry
Fouesneau, Morgan; Sestito, Federico; McConnachie, Alan W. +38 more
We used the spectro-photometric information of ∼219 million stars from Gaia's Data Release 3 (DR3) to calculate synthetic, narrowband, metallicity-sensitive CaHK magnitudes that mimic the observations of the Pristine survey, a survey of photometric metallicities of Milky Way stars that has been mapping more than 6500 deg2 of the norther…
GN-z11: The environment of an active galactic nucleus at z = 10.603. New insights into the most distant Lyα detection
Charlot, Stéphane; Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah +23 more
Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have further refined the spectroscopic redshift of GN-z11, one of the most distant galaxies identified with the Hubble Space Telescope, at z = 10.603. The presence of extremely dense gas (> 1010 cm−3), the detection of high-ionisation lines and of CII*1335 emis…
GA-NIFS: The core of an extremely massive protocluster at the epoch of reionisation probed with JWST/NIRSpec
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…
Identification of a transition from stochastic to secular star formation around z = 9 with JWST
Magnelli, B.; Daddi, E.; Elbaz, D. +6 more
Star formation histories (SFHs) of early galaxies (6 < z < 12) have been found to be highly stochastic in both simulations and observations, while at z≲6 the presence of a main sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies implies secular processes at play. In this work we characterise the SFH variability of early galaxies as a function of their st…
New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey
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 …