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Insight from JWST/Near Infrared Camera into galaxy overdensities around bright Lyman-alpha emitters during reionization: implications for ionized bubbles at z 9
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae516 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.529..855W

Charlot, Stéphane; Chen, Zuyi; Stark, Daniel P. +4 more

Several studies have detected Lyman-alpha (Ly Α) from bright ($M_{\small UV}\lesssim -21.5$) galaxies during the early stages of reionization despite the significantly neutral intergalactic medium. To explain these detections, it has been suggested that z > 7 Ly Α emitters (LAEs) inhabit physical Mpc (pMpc)-scale ionized regions powered by over…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Ionizing properties of galaxies in JADES for a stellar mass complete sample: resolving the cosmic ionizing photon budget crisis at the Epoch of Reionization
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2537 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.535.2998S

Maiolino, R.; Johnson, B. D.; Willott, C. +26 more

We use NIRCam imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) to study the ionizing properties of a sample of 14 652 galaxies at $3 \le z_{\rm {phot}} \le 9$, 90 per cent complete in stellar mass down to log(M

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 42
New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347884 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A...3M

Kartaltepe, J. S.; Dickinson, M.; Finkelstein, S. L. +30 more

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) began when galaxies grew in abundance and luminosity, so their escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation started ionizing the surrounding neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Despite significant recent progress, the nature and role of cosmic reionizers are still unclear: in order to define them, it would be necessary …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST JWST 42
A JWST investigation into the bar fraction at redshifts 1 ≤ z ≤ 3
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae921 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.530.1984L

Conselice, Christopher J.; Fragkoudi, Francesca; Ferreira, Leonardo +7 more

The presence of a stellar bar in a disc galaxy indicates that the galaxy hosts in its main part a dynamically settled disc and that bar-driven processes are taking place in shaping its evolution. Studying the cosmic evolution of the bar fraction in disc galaxies is therefore essential to understand galaxy evolution in general. Previous studies hav…

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 42
Bursty star formation and galaxy-galaxy interactions in low-mass galaxies 1 Gyr after the Big Bang
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3902 Bibcode: 2024MNRAS.52711372A

Willott, Chris J.; Harshan, Anishya; Bradač, Maruša +14 more

We use CANUCS JWST/NIRCam imaging of galaxies behind the gravitationally-lensing cluster MACS J0417.5-1154 to investigate star formation burstiness in low-mass (M ~ 108 M) galaxies at z ~ 4.7-6.5. Our sample of 123 galaxies is selected using the Lyman break selection and photometric emission-line excess methods. …

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST JWST 42
JADES + JEMS: A Detailed Look at the Buildup of Central Stellar Cores and Suppression of Star Formation in Galaxies at Redshifts 3 < z < 4.5
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6e7f Bibcode: 2024ApJ...974..135J

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Carniani, Stefano +30 more

We present a spatially resolved study of stellar populations in six galaxies with stellar masses M * ∼ 1010 M at z ∼ 3.7 using 14-filter James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam imaging from the JADES and JEMS surveys. The six galaxies are visually selected to have clumpy substructures with distinct colors over r…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
Gaia eHST JWST 42
White dwarfs as a probe of exceptionally light QCD axions
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.095032 Bibcode: 2024PhRvD.109i5032B

Balkin, Reuven; Serra, Javi; Springmann, Konstantin +2 more

We study the effects of exceptionally light QCD axions on the stellar configuration of white dwarfs. At finite baryon density, the nonderivative coupling of the axion to nucleons displaces the axion from its in-vacuum minimum, which implies a reduction of the nucleon mass. This dramatically alters the composition of stellar remnants. In particular…

2024 Physical Review D
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Size–Stellar Mass Relation and Morphology of Quiescent Galaxies at z ≥ 3 in Public JWST Fields
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2512 Bibcode: 2024ApJ...964..192I

Heintz, Kasper E.; Brammer, Gabriel; Ilbert, Olivier +19 more

We present the results of a systematic study of the rest-frame optical morphology of quiescent galaxies at z ≥ 3 using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Based on a sample selected by UVJ color or NUVUVJ color, we focus on 26 quiescent galaxies with $9.8\lt \mathrm{log}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })\lt 1…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST JWST 41
A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07514-w Bibcode: 2024Natur.630..836W

Fortney, Jonathan J.; McGill, Peter; Bell, Taylor J. +16 more

Interactions between exoplanetary atmospheres and internal properties have long been proposed to be drivers of the inflation mechanisms of gaseous planets and apparent atmospheric chemical disequilibrium conditions1. However, transmission spectra of exoplanets have been limited in their ability to observationally confirm these theories …

2024 Nature
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Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5e6a Bibcode: 2024ApJ...973...23F

Finkelstein, Steven L.; Bagley, Micaela B.; Casey, Caitlin M. +48 more

We report the identification of 15 galaxy candidates at z ≥ 9 using the initial COSMOS-Web JWST observations over 77 arcmin2 through four Near Infrared Camera filters (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W) with an overlap with the Mid-Infrared Imager (F770W) of 8.7 arcmin2. We fit the sample using several publicly available spectra…

2024 The Astrophysical Journal
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