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Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: First results from the GLASS-JWST program
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202345866 Bibcode: 2023A&A...672A.155M

Vulcani, B.; Bradač, M.; Brammer, G. +29 more

The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons (fesc) is a key parameter for determining the sources of cosmic reionization at z ≥ 6. At these redshifts, owing to the opacity of the intergalactic medium, the LyC emission cannot be measured directly. However, LyC leakers during the epoch of reionization could be identified using in…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 66
Primordial power spectrum in light of JWST observations of high redshift galaxies
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad107 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.526L..63P

Laha, Ranjan; Parashari, Priyank

Early data releases of JWST have revealed several high redshift massive galaxy candidates by photometry, and some of them have been confirmed spectroscopically. We study their implications on the primordial power spectrum. In the first part, we use the CEERS photometric survey data, along with respective spectroscopic updates, to compute the cumul…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JWST 65
JWST/NIRSpec Balmer-line Measurements of Star Formation and Dust Attenuation at z 3-6
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acea5a Bibcode: 2023ApJ...954..157S

Shapley, Alice E.; Reddy, Naveen A.; Sanders, Ryan L. +2 more

We present an analysis of the star formation rates (SFRs) and dust attenuation properties of star-forming galaxies at 2.7 ≤ z < 6.5 drawn from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Our analysis is based on JWST/NIRSpec Micro-Shutter Assembly R ~ 1000 spectroscopic observations covering approximately 1-5 µm. Our primary rest-f…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 65
CEERS Key Paper. V. Galaxies at 4 < z < 9 Are Bluer than They Appear–Characterizing Galaxy Stellar Populations from Rest-frame ∼1 µm Imaging
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acc948 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...949L..18P

Papovich, Casey; Cole, Justin W.; Yang, Guang +46 more

We present results from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey on the stellar population parameters for 28 galaxies with redshifts 4 < z < 9 using imaging data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) combined with data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The JWST/MIRI 5.6 and …

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 65
Morpheus Reveals Distant Disk Galaxy Morphologies with JWST: The First AI/ML Analysis of JWST Images
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca086 Bibcode: 2023ApJ...942L..42R

Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah; Bunker, Andrew J. +21 more

The dramatic first images with JWST demonstrated its power to provide unprecedented spatial detail for galaxies in the high-redshift universe. Here, we leverage the resolution and depth of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey data in the Extended Groth Strip to perform pixel-level morphological classifications of galaxies in JWST…

2023 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 64
Leveraging SN Ia spectroscopic similarity to improve the measurement of H 0
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/046 Bibcode: 2023JCAP...11..046M

Filippenko, Alexei V.; Jones, David O.; Riess, Adam G. +7 more

Recent studies suggest spectroscopic differences explain a fraction of the variation in Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) luminosities after light-curve/color standardization. In this work, (i) we empirically characterize the variations of standardized SN Ia luminosities, and (ii) we use a spectroscopically inferred parameter, SIP, to improve the precisio…

2023 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Gaia 64
Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3−203750. A likely repeating partial tidal disruption event
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244805 Bibcode: 2023A&A...669A..75L

Gromadzki, M.; Liu, Z.; Buchner, J. +17 more

Context. During its all-sky survey, the extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory has uncovered a growing number of X-ray transients associated with the nuclei of quiescent galaxies. Benefitting from its large field of view and excellent sensitivity, the eROSITA window…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton 64
Gaia DR3 view of dynamical substructure in the stellar halo near the Sun
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244546 Bibcode: 2023A&A...670L...2D

Ruiz-Lara, Tomás; Helmi, Amina; Matsuno, Tadafumi +4 more

Context. Debris from past merger events is expected and also known, to some extent, to populate the stellar halo near the Sun.
Aims: We aim to identify and characterise such merger debris using Gaia DR3 data supplemented with metallicity and chemical abundance data from LAMOST LRS and APOGEE for halo stars within 2.5 kpc from the Sun.
Me…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 63
An empirical model of the Gaia DR3 selection function
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244784 Bibcode: 2023A&A...669A..55C

Hogg, David W.; Casey, Andrew R.; Rix, Hans-Walter +12 more

Interpreting and modelling astronomical catalogues requires an understanding of the catalogues' completeness or selection function: what properties determine an object's probability of being including in the catalogue? Here we set out to empirically quantify the completeness of the overall catalogue of Gaia's third data release (DR3). This task is…

2023 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 63
TRINITY I: self-consistently modelling the dark matter halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole connection from z = 0-10
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2633 Bibcode: 2023MNRAS.518.2123Z

Fan, Xiaohui; Aird, James; Yang, Jinyi +5 more

We present TRINITY, a flexible empirical model that self-consistently infers the statistical connection between dark matter haloes, galaxies, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). TRINITY is constrained by galaxy observables from 0 < z < 10 [galaxies' stellar mass functions, specific and cosmic star formation rates (SFRs), quenched fractions…

2023 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 62