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Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties
Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T.; Zucker, S. +453 more
Context. We present the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, Gaia DR3. This release includes a large variety of new data products, notably a much expanded radial velocity survey and a very extensive astrophysical characterisation of Gaia sources.
Aims: We outline the content and the properties of Gaia DR3, providing…
Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Wu, Kinwah; Haardt, Francesco; Ma, Chung-Pei +155 more
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many key astrophysical questions in a completely novel way. The synergy with ground-based and space-born instruments in the electromagnetic domain, by enabling multi-messeng…
A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z 9-16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre-reionization Epoch
Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Harikane, Yuichi +6 more
We conduct a comprehensive study on dropout galaxy candidates at z ~ 9-16 using the first 90 arcmin2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images taken by the early release observations (ERO) and early release science programs. With the JWST simulation images, we find that a number of foreground interlopers are selected…
CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST
Papovich, Casey; Yang, Guang; Finkelstein, Steven L. +64 more
We present an investigation into the first 500 Myr of galaxy evolution from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. CEERS, one of 13 JWST ERS programs, targets galaxy formation from z ~ 0.5 to >10 using several imaging and spectroscopic modes. We make use of the first epoch of CEERS NIRCam imaging, spanning 35.5 arcmin2<…
A population of red candidate massive galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang
Labbé, Ivo; van Dokkum, Pieter; Bezanson, Rachel +8 more
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified1-3 out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang. It has been difficult to find massive galaxies at even earlier times, as the Balmer break region, which is needed for accurate mass estimates, is redshifted to w…
The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 - 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging
Moneti, A.; Bowler, R. A. A.; Cullen, F. +11 more
We reduce and analyse the available JWST ERO and ERS NIRCam imaging (SMACS0723, GLASS, CEERS) in combination with the latest deep ground-based near-infrared imaging in the COSMOS field (provided by UltraVISTA DR5) to produce a new measurement of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) over the redshift range z = 8 - 15. This yields a new e…
A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z = 4-7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH 106-108 M ⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties
Ono, Yoshiaki; Ouchi, Masami; Harikane, Yuichi +6 more
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z > 4 identified by JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec = 3.8-8.9 confirmed with NIRSpec, our systematic search for broad-line emission reveals 10 type 1 AGNs at z = 4.015-6.936 whose broad component is only seen in the permitted Hα line and …
JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman-α emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in a z = 10.60 luminous galaxy
Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Parlanti, Eleonora +60 more
We present JADES JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of GN-z11, the most luminous candidate z > 10 Lyman break galaxy in the GOODS-North field with MUV = −21.5. We derive a redshift of z = 10.603 (lower than previous determinations) based on multiple emission lines in our low and medium resolution spectra over 0.7 − 5.3 µm. We significan…
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure
Smolec, R.; Dotter, Aaron; Ball, Warrick H. +19 more
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto_diff module implements automatic differentiation in MESA, an enabling capability that alleviates the need for hard-coded analytic expressions or finite-difference approximations. We significantly enhance the tre…
Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3-13.2
Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Carniani, Stefano +56 more
Finding and characterizing the first galaxies that illuminated the early universe at cosmic dawn is pivotal to understand the physical conditions and the processes that led to the formation of the first stars. In the first few months of operations, imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been used to identify tens of candidates of g…