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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…
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy Candidates at z 9-15
Santini, Paola; Calabrò, Antonello; Castellano, Marco +27 more
We present the results of a first search for galaxy candidates at z ~ 9-15 on deep seven-band NIRCam imaging acquired as part of the GLASS-James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Science Program on a flanking field of the Frontier Fields cluster A2744. Candidates are selected via two different renditions of the Lyman-break technique, isola…
The JWST Early Release Observations
Koekemoer, Anton M.; Ravindranath, Swara; Henry, Alaina +34 more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations (EROs) is a set of public outreach products created to mark the end of commissioning and the beginning of science operations for JWST. Colloquially known as the "Webb First Images and Spectra," these products were intended to demonstrate to the worldwide public that JWST is ready for…
A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on the Fundamental Properties of Solar-type Exoplanet Host Stars
van Saders, Jennifer; Huber, Daniel; Claytor, Zachary R. +1 more
Our understanding of the properties and demographics of exoplanets critically relies on our ability to determine the fundamental properties of their host stars. The advent of Gaia and large spectroscopic surveys has now made it possible, in principle, to infer the properties of individual stars, including most exoplanet hosts, to very high precisi…
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 …