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The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey: Discovery of an Extreme Galaxy Overdensity at z = 5.4 with JWST/NIRCam in GOODS-S
Maiolino, Roberto; Willott, Chris; Johnson, Benjamin D. +28 more
We report the discovery of an extreme galaxy overdensity at z = 5.4 in the GOODS-S field using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam imaging from JADES and JEMS alongside JWST/NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy from FRESCO. We identified potential members of the overdensity using Hubble Space Telescope+JWST photometry spanning λ = 0.4–5.0 …
The JWST Discovery of the Triply Imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" and Observations of the Galaxy Cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0
Grogin, Norman A.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Pirzkal, Nor +38 more
A Type Ia supernova (SN) at z = 1.78 was discovered in James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera imaging of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 (G165; z = 0.35). The SN is situated 1.5–2 kpc from the host-galaxy nucleus and appears in three different locations as a result of gravitational lensing by G165. These data can yield a value for Hub…
A shock flash breaking out of a dusty red supergiant
Wang, Lifan; Wang, Xiaofeng; Gao, Xing +41 more
Shock-breakout emission is light that arises when a shockwave, generated by the core-collapse explosion of a massive star, passes through its outer envelope. Hitherto, the earliest detection of such a signal was at several hours after the explosion1, although a few others had been reported2-7. The temporal evolution of early …
Undermassive Host Galaxies of Five z ∼ 6 Luminous Quasars Detected with JWST
Lyu, Jianwei; Rieke, George H.; Alberts, Stacey +2 more
We measure host galaxy stellar masses for a sample of five luminous quasars at z ∼ 5–7. Using JWST/NIRCam medium-band images of nearby point-spread function reference stars, we carefully subtract the contribution from the quasar light to place upper and lower limits on the flux of each host galaxy. We find that the members of our sample of quasar …
The Small Sizes and High Implied Densities of "Little Red Dots" with Balmer Breaks Could Explain Their Broad Emission Lines without an Active Galactic Nucleus
Maseda, Michael V.; Franx, Marijn; Labbé, Ivo +10 more
Early JWST studies found an apparent population of massive, compact galaxies at redshifts z ≳ 7. Recently three of these galaxies were shown to have prominent Balmer breaks, demonstrating that their light at λrest ∼ 3500 Å is dominated by a stellar population that is relatively old (∼200 Myr). All three also have broad Hβ emission with …
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…
Deciphering Lyman-α emission deep into the epoch of reionization
Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Santini, Paola; Grogin, Norman A. +18 more
During the epoch of reionization, the first galaxies were enshrouded in pristine neutral gas, with one of the brightest emission lines in star-forming galaxies, Lyman α (Lyα), expected to remain undetected until the Universe became ionized. Providing an explanation for the surprising detection of Lyα in these early galaxies is a major challenge fo…
X-ray eruptions every 22 days from the nucleus of a nearby galaxy
Gendreau, Keith; van Velzen, Sjoert; Gezari, Suvi +15 more
Galactic nuclei showing recurrent phases of activity and quiescence have recently been discovered. Some have recurrence times as short as a few hours to a day and are known as quasi-periodic X-ray eruption (QPE) sources. Others have recurrence times as long as hundreds to a thousand days and are called repeating nuclear transients. Here we present…
A More Precise Measurement of the Radius of PSR J0740+6620 Using Updated NICER Data
Bogdanov, Slavko; Wolff, Michael T.; Arzoumanian, Zaven +9 more
PSR J0740+6620 is the neutron star with the highest precisely determined mass, inferred from radio observations to be 2.08 ± 0.07 M ⊙. Measurements of its radius therefore hold promise to constrain the properties of the cold, catalyzed, high-density matter in neutron star cores. Previously, Miller et al. and Riley et al. reported measur…
Evolution of the Size–Mass Relation of Star-forming Galaxies Since z = 5.5 Revealed by CEERS
Papovich, Casey; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Arrabal Haro, Pablo +19 more
We combine deep imaging data from the CEERS early release JWST survey and Hubble Space Telescope imaging from CANDELS to examine the size–mass relation of star-forming galaxies and the morphology–quenching relation at stellar masses M ⋆ ≥ 109.5 M ⊙ over the redshift range 0.5 < z < 5.5. In this study with a s…