The First Billion Years, According to JWST
Abstract
With stunning clarity, JWST has revealed the Universe's first billion years. The scientific community is analyzing a wealth of JWST imaging and spectroscopic data from that era, and is in the process of rewriting the astronomy textbooks. Here, 1.5 years into the JWST science mission, we provide a snapshot of the great progress made towards understanding the initial chapters of our cosmic history. We highlight discoveries and breakthroughs, topics and issues that are not yet understood, and questions that will be addressed in the coming years, as JWST continues its revolutionary observations of the Early Universe. While this compendium is written by a small number of authors, invited to ISSI Bern in March 2024 as part of the 2024 ISSI Breakthrough Workshop, we acknowledge the work of a large community that is advancing our collective understanding of the evolution of the Early Universe.
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@article{arxiv.2405.21054,
title = {The First Billion Years, According to JWST},
author = {Angela Adamo and Hakim Atek and Micaela B. Bagley and Eduardo Bañados and Kirk S. S. Barrow and Danielle A. Berg and Rachel Bezanson and Maruša Bradač and Gabriel Brammer and Adam C. Carnall and John Chisholm and Dan Coe and Pratika Dayal and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Jan J. Eldridge and Andrea Ferrara and Seiji Fujimoto and Anna de Graaff and Melanie Habouzit and Taylor A. Hutchison and Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe and Susan A. Kassin and Mariska Kriek and Ivo Labbé and Roberto Maiolino and Rui Marques-Chaves and Michael V. Maseda and Charlotte Mason and Jorryt Matthee and Kristen B. W. McQuinn and Georges Meynet and Rohan P. Naidu and Pascal A. Oesch and Laura Pentericci and Pablo G. Pérez-González and Jane R. Rigby and Guido Roberts-Borsani and Daniel Schaerer and Alice E. Shapley and Daniel P. Stark and Massimo Stiavelli and Allison L. Strom and Eros Vanzella and Feige Wang and Stephen M. Wilkins and Christina C. Williams and Chris J. Willott and Dominika Wylezalek and Antonella Nota},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.21054},
year = {2024}
}
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review article written by the attendees of the 2024 ISSI breakthrough workshop "The first billion year of the Universe", submitted. Comments welcome