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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…
First look with JWST spectroscopy: Resemblance among z ∼ 8 galaxies and local analogs
Schaerer, D.; Marques-Chaves, R.; Brammer, G. +5 more
Deep images and near-IR spectra of galaxies in the field of the lensing cluster SMACS J0723.3−7327 were recently taken as part of the Early Release Observations (EROs) program of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Among these, two NIRSpec spectra of galaxies, at z = 7.7 and at z = 8.5, were obtained, revealing, for the first time, the rest-fra…
Panic! at the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at z > 3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field
Wilkins, Stephen M.; Broadhurst, Tom; Frye, Brenda L. +13 more
We present early results regarding the morphological and structural properties of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at z > 3 in the Early Release Observations toward the SMACS 0723 cluster field. Using JWST we investigate, for the first time, the optical morphologies of a significant number of z > 3 galaxies with accur…
A First Look at the Abundance Pattern-O/H, C/O, and Ne/O-in z > 7 Galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec
Finkelstein, Steven L.; Arrabal Haro, Pablo; Dickinson, Mark +9 more
We analyze the rest-frame near-UV and optical nebular spectra of three z > 7 galaxies from the Early Release Observations taken with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These three high-z galaxies show the detection of several strong emission nebular lines, including the temperature-sensitive [O II…
Searching for Extremely Blue UV Continuum Slopes at z = 7-11 in JWST/NIRCam Imaging: Implications for Stellar Metallicity and Ionizing Photon Escape in Early Galaxies
Charlot, Stéphane; Chen, Zuyi; Stark, Daniel P. +4 more
The ultraviolet (UV) continuum slope (β, where f λ ∝ λ β ) of galaxies is sensitive to a variety of properties, from the metallicity and age of the stellar population to dust attenuation throughout the galaxy. Considerable attention has focused on identifying reionization-era galaxies with very blue UV slopes (β < -3). …
Has JWST Already Falsified Dark-matter-driven Galaxy Formation?
Kroupa, Pavel; Haslbauer, Moritz; Haghi, Hosein +1 more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several luminous high-redshift galaxy candidates with stellar masses of M * ≳ 109 M ⊙ at photometric redshifts z phot ≳ 10, which allows to constrain galaxy and structure formation models. For example, Adams et al. identified the candidate ID 1514 with ${\…
CORINOS. I. JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy and Imaging of a Class 0 Protostar IRAS 15398–3359
Lee, Jeong-Eun; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Bergner, Jennifer B. +13 more
The origin of complex organic molecules (COMs) in young Class 0 protostars has been one of the major questions in astrochemistry and star formation. While COMs are thought to form on icy dust grains via gas-grain chemistry, observational constraints on their formation pathways have been limited to gas-phase detection. Sensitive mid-infrared spectr…