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Clustering measurements of Gravitational Wave (GW) mergers in Luminosity Distance Space can be used in the future as a powerful tool for Cosmology. We consider tomographic measurements of the Angular Power Spectrum of mergers both in an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 S. Libanore , M. C. Artale , D. Karagiannis , M. Liguori , N. Bartolo , Y. Bouffanais , N. Giacobbo , M. Mapelli , S. Matarrese

In preparation for observations with the $\textit{James Webb Space Telescope}$ ($\textit{JWST}$), we have identified new members of the nearby, young M dwarf sample and compiled an up to date list of these stars. Here we summarize our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Joshua E. Schlieder , Charles A. Beichman , Michael R. Meyer , Thomas Greene

The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commissioning Period that extended from right after launch to early…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marcia J. Rieke , Douglas M. Kelly , Karl Misselt , John Stansberry , Martha Boyer , Thomas Beatty , Eiichi Egami , Michael Florian , Thomas P. Greene , Kevin Hainline

Local low metallicity galaxies with signatures of possible accretion activity are ideal laboratories in which to search for the lowest mass black holes and study their impact on the host galaxy. Here we present the first JWST NIRSpec IFS…

I present an overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), a joint program of the JWST/NIRCam and NIRSpec Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) teams involving 950 hours of observation. We will target two well-studied fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-03 Andrew J. Bunker

Deep VLT/MUSE optical integral field spectroscopy has recently revealed an abundant population of ultra-faint galaxies ($M_{UV} \approx -15$; 0.01 $L_{\star}$) at $z=$2.9$-$6.7 due to their strong Lyman-$\alpha$ emission with no detectable…

Numerous high-$z$ galaxies have recently been observed with JWST, providing new insights into early galaxy evolution. Their physical properties are typically derived through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, but the reliability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jiyoung Choe , Taysun Kimm , Harley Katz , Maxime Rey , Daniel Han , J. K. Jang , Joki Rosdahl

Context. Strong gravitational lenses provide a unique tool to probe cosmology and astrophysics at high redshift, offering constraints on the mass distribution of background source populations. Despite their scientific value, their rarity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Julia Dima , David O'Ryan , Sandor Kruk , Laslo E. Ruhberg , Pablo Gómez

Both observations and simulations have shown strong evidence for highly time-variable star formation in low-mass and/or high-redshift galaxies, which has important observational implications because high-redshift galaxy samples are rest-UV…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-19 Guochao Sun , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Christopher C. Hayward , Xuejian Shen

With the launch and application of next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes, astronomy has entered the era of big data, necessitating more efficient and robust data analysis methods. Most traditional parameter estimation methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Zihao Wang , Tao Wang , Ke Xu , Hanwen Sun , Ruining Tian , Qi Hao

Aerosols are capable of having a huge influence on reflected, emitted and transmitted planetary spectra. The Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) using the PRISM mode on board of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is providing valuable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 J. Roy-Perez , S. Pérez-Hoyos , N. Barrado-Izagirre , H. Chen-Chen

The upcoming $\textit{James Webb Space Telescope}$ ($\textit{JWST}$) will allow observations of high-redshift galaxies at fainter detection levels than ever before, and $\textit{JWST}$ surveys targeting gravitationally lensed fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-13 Anton Vikaeus , Erik Zackrisson , Christian Binggeli

We exploit the recent {\it James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) determination of galaxy UV luminosity functions over the redshift range $z=9-14.5$ to derive constraints on warm dark matter (WDM) models. The delayed structure formation in WDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Bin Liu , Huanyuan Shan , Jiajun Zhang

Current efforts in observational cosmology are focused on characterizing the mass-energy content of the Universe. We present results from a geometric test based on strong lensing in galaxy clusters. Based on Hubble Space Telescope images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Eric Jullo , Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib , Anson d'Aloisio , Marceau Limousin , Johan Richard , Carlo Schimd

The overabundance of the red and massive candidate galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) implies efficient structure formation or large star formation efficiency at high redshift $z\sim 10$. In the scenario of a low or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Jianqi Liu , Zhiqi Huang , Yan Su

The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be an incredibly powerful instrument for studying red supergiants (RSGs). The high luminosities and red peak wavelengths of these stars make them ideal targets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Emily M. Levesque

The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) is an overdensity of stars in the near-infrared, attributed to carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars, and recently used as a standard candle for measuring extragalactic distances and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Siyang Li , Adam G. Riess , Daniel Scolnic , Stefano Casertano , Gagandeep S. Anand

In anticipation of the upcoming deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we present high-redshift predictions by the well-established Santa Cruz semi-analytic model. We update the models by re-calibrating them after adopting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Y. Aaron Yung , Rachel S. Somerville , Steven L. Finkelstein , Gergö Popping , Romeel Davé

Data fusion is a computational process widely used in Earth observation to generate high-resolution hyperspectral data cubes with two spatial and one spectral dimensions. It merges data from instruments with complementary characteristics:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Landry Marquis , Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Nicolas Dobigeon , Olivier Berné

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is predicted to make great advances in the field of exoplanet atmospheres. Its 25 m2 mirror means that it can reach unprecedented levels of precision in observations of transit spectra, and can thus…

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