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As the time-domain survey telescope of the highest survey power in the northern hemisphere currently, Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is scheduled to hourly/daily/semi-weekly scan northern sky up to ~23 mag in four optical (ugri) bands.…

High-redshift galaxies exhibit compact regions of intense star formation, known as ``clumps,'' which are conspicuous in the rest-frame ultraviolet. Studying them can shed light on how they form and evolve and inform theoretical models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Alexander de la Vega , Bahram Mobasher , Zahra Sattari , Nima Chartab , Faezeh Manesh , Niloofar Sharei

The star formation rate (SFR) in high redshift galaxies is expected to be time-variable due to competing physical processes. Such stochastic variability might boost the luminosity of galaxies, possibly explaining the over-abundance seen at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 A. Pallottini , A. Ferrara

The evolution of galaxy sizes in different wavelengths provides unique insights on galaxy build-up across cosmic epochs. Such measurements can now finally be done at $z>3$ thanks to the exquisite spatial resolution and multi-wavelength…

The quest to discover the most distant galaxies has developed rapidly in the last decade. We are now exploring redshifts of 6 and beyond, when the Universe was less than a billion years old, an epoch when the previously-neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-10 Andrew Bunker , Elizabeth Stanway , Richard Ellis , Mark Lacy , Richard McMahon , Laurence Eyles , Daniel Stark , Kuenley Chiu

The forthcoming Wide Area Vista Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) on the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) has a key science goal of probing the halo mass function to lower limits than possible with previous surveys. For that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Gursharanjit Kaur , Maciej Bilicki , Wojciech Hellwing , the WAVES team

In their recent study, Labb\'e et al. used multi-band infrared images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover a population of red massive galaxies that formed approximately 600 million years after the Big Bang. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-25 Francisco Prada , Peter Behroozi , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin , Enrique Pérez

Recent observations by JWST have uncovered galaxies in the very early universe via the JADES and CEERS surveys. These galaxies have been measured to have very high stellar masses with substantial star formation rates. There are concerns…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Joe McCaffrey , Samantha Hardin , John Wise , John Regan

Observations of the high-$z$ Universe from JWST have revealed a new population of bright, early galaxies. A robust statistical interpretation of this data requires fast forward models that account for uncertainties in galaxy evolution and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 Trey Driskell , Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

Through a combination of deep wide-field imaging and multi-object spectroscopy, the Next Generation Space Telescope will be able to chart with unprecedented accuracy the evolution of cosmic structures after the `dark ages' (z<5), when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Madau

We explore for the first time the possibility of detecting lensed star transients in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems upon repeated, deep imaging using the {\it James-Webb Space Telescope} ({\it JWST}). Our calculation predicts that the…

(Abridged) We analyse Hubble Space Telescope images of a complete sample of 341 galaxies drawn from both the Canada France and Autofib/Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph ground-based redshift surveys. We discuss morphological…

A major scientific goal of JWST is to probe the epoch of re-ionization of the Universe at z above 6, and up to 20 and beyond. At these redshifts, galaxies are just beginning to form and the observable objects are early black holes,…

JWST was conceived and built to answer one of the most fundamental questions that humans can address empirically: "How did the Universe make its first stars?". Our First Lights At REionization (FLARE) project transforms the quest for the…

The theory of General Relativity predicts that, since massive bodies curve spacetime, light from a distant source would be deflected by a foreground massive object -- a phenomenon known as \emph{Gravitational Lensing}. Historically, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Adi Zitrin

We present the first high redshift (0.3 < z < 1.1) galaxy clusters found by systematically identifying optical low surface brightness fluctuations in the background sky. Using spectra obtained with the Keck telescope and I-band images from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dennis Zaritsky , Amy E. Nelson , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Anthony H. Gonzalez

Due to the finite amount of observational data, the best-fit parameters corresponding to the reconstructed cluster mass have uncertainties. In turn, these uncertainties affect the inferences made from these mass models. Following our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-25 Ashish Kumar Meena , Agniva Ghosh , J. S. Bagla , L. L. R. Williams

Recent observations with the IRAM instruments have allowed to explore the star formation efficiency in galaxies as a function of redshift, in detecting and mapping their molecular gas. Some galaxies stand on what is called the "main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-05 Francoise Combes

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to push back the redshift frontier to ever earlier cosmic epochs, with recent announcements of galaxy candidates at redshifts of $15 \lesssim z \lesssim 30$. We leverage the recent GUREFT suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 L. Y. Aaron Yung , Rachel S. Somerville , Kartheik G. Iyer

Early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an overabundance of massive high-redshift galaxies, raising the question of whether this points to new physics beyond $\Lambda$CDM, or an enhanced formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Comini , Sunny Vagnozzi , Abraham Loeb