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A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s-1 Mpc-1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team
Casertano, Stefano; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Jones, David O. +15 more
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant (H 0). These include the complete sample of all suitable SNe Ia discovered in the last four decades at redshift z ≤ 0.01, collected and calibrated from ≥1000 HST o…
The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints
Filippenko, Alexei V.; Coulter, David A.; Foley, Ryan J. +45 more
We present constraints on cosmological parameters from the Pantheon+ analysis of 1701 light curves of 1550 distinct Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ranging in redshift from z = 0.001 to 2.26. This work features an increased sample size from the addition of multiple cross-calibrated photometric systems of SNe covering an increased redshift span, and im…
The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release
Filippenko, Alexei V.; Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Coulter, David A. +27 more
Here we present 1701 light curves of 1550 unique, spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that will be used to infer cosmological parameters as part of the Pantheon+ SN analysis and the Supernovae and H 0 for the Equation of State of dark energy distance-ladder analysis. This effort is one part of a series of works that …
Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10-12 Revealed by JWST
Strait, Victoria; van Dokkum, Pieter; Conroy, Charlie +22 more
The first few 100 Myr at z > 10 mark the last major uncharted epoch in the history of the universe, where only a single galaxy (GN-z11 at z ≈ 11) is currently spectroscopically confirmed. Here we present a search for luminous z > 10 galaxies with JWST/NIRCam photometry spanning ≈1-5 µm and covering 49 arcmin2 from the public…
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging
Papovich, Casey; Cole, Justin W.; Yang, Guang +119 more
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ~ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Following conservative selection criteria, we identify a source with a robust z phot = ${11.8}_{-0.2}^{+0.3}$ (1σ uncertainty) with m F200W = 27.3 an…
On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z = 9-11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times
Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Dickinson, Mark +18 more
We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright (H < 26.6) galaxies at z = 9-11 (three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical enrichment and growth of stellar mass of early galaxies. We use the flexible Bayesian spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code Prospector with a range of star formation histories (SF…
An Isolated Stellar-mass Black Hole Detected through Astrometric Microlensing
Ferguson, Henry C.; Brown, Thomas M.; Casertano, Stefano +91 more
We report the first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole (BH). We used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to carry out precise astrometry of the source star of the long-duration (t E ≃ 270 days), high-magnification microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-191/OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 (hereafter designated as …
Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 0.8
Barro, Guillermo; van Dokkum, Pieter; Conroy, Charlie +14 more
We investigate the stellar populations for a sample of 161 massive, mainly quiescent galaxies at <z obs> = 0.8 with deep Keck/DEIMOS rest-frame optical spectroscopy (HALO7D survey). With the fully Bayesian framework Prospector, we simultaneously fit the spectroscopic and photometric data with an advanced physical model (including …
The Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey. II. New Insights into LyC Diagnostics
Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Santini, Paola +43 more
The Lyman continuum (LyC) cannot be observed at the epoch of reionization (z ≳ 6) owing to intergalactic H I absorption. To identify LyC emitters (LCEs) and infer the fraction of escaping LyC, astronomers have developed various indirect diagnostics of LyC escape. Using measurements of the LyC from the Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey (LzLCS), w…
An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing
Lu, Jessica R.; Udalski, Andrzej; Mróz, Przemek +42 more
We present the analysis of five black hole candidates identified from gravitational microlensing surveys. Hubble Space Telescope astrometric data and densely sampled light curves from ground-based microlensing surveys are fit with a single-source, single-lens microlensing model in order to measure the mass and luminosity of each lens and determine…