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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 results from the JWST observations have reported a surprisingly high number of UV-bright galaxies at $z \geq 10$, which appears to challenge the theoretical predictions from standard galaxy formation models in the $\Lambda$CDM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Anirban Chakraborty , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We have performed a large cosmological hydrodynamics simulation tailored to the deep survey with the Hubble Space Telescope made in 2012, the so-called UDF12 campaign. After making a light-cone output, we have applied the same color…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ikkoh Shimizu , Akio K. Inoue , Takashi Okamoto , Naoki Yoshida

We exploit the recent determination of cosmic star formation rate (SFR) density at redshifts $z\gtrsim 4$ to derive astroparticle constraints on three common dark matter scenarios alternative to standard cold dark matter (CDM): warm dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Giovanni Gandolfi , Andrea Lapi , Tommaso Ronconi , Luigi Danese

In its first two years of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope has enabled the discovery of a surprising number of UV-bright galaxies at $z\sim10-14$. Their number density is still relatively uncertain, due to cosmic variance effects,…

We reduce and analyse the available James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ERO and ERS NIRCam imaging (SMACS0723, GLASS, CEERS) in combination with the latest deep ground-based near-infrared imaging in the COSMOS field (provided by UltraVISTA…

The number density of UV luminous galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope at ultra high redshift ($z \gtrsim 10$) is higher, and declines much more slowly with increasing redshift, than expected from extrapolations of lower…

We present a robust measurement and analysis of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function at z=4-8. We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging over the CANDELS/GOODS fields, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and the Year 1 Hubble…

Early results of JWST observations have delivered bright $z\gtrsim 10$ galaxy candidates in greater numbers than expected, enabling construction of the rest-frame UV luminosity functions (LFs). The LFs contain key information on the galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Kohei Inayoshi , Yuichi Harikane , Akio K. Inoue , Wenxiu Li , Luis C. Ho

We introduce an effective framework to model star-formation burstiness and use it to jointly fit galaxy UV luminosity functions (UVLFs), clustering, and H$\alpha$/UV ratios, providing the first robust empirical evidence that early galaxies…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is unveiling astounding results about the first few hundred million years of life of the Universe, delivering images of galaxies at very high redshifts. Here, we develop a UV luminosity function model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Fabio Iocco , Luca Visinelli

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

We present a simple formalism to interpret two galaxy statistics, the UV luminosity function and two-point correlation functions for star-forming galaxies at z~4, 5, 6 in the context of LCDM cosmology. Both statistics are the result of how…

Recent findings from photometric and spectroscopic JWST surveys have identified examples of high-redshift galaxies at $z \gtrsim 10$. These high-$z$ galaxies appear to form much earlier and exhibit greater UV luminosity than predicted by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Tae Bong Jeong , Myoungwon Jeon , Hyunmi Song , Volker Bromm

Early results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have hinted at two traces beyond the standard cosmological framework. One is the extraordinarily high stellar masses and their density at $z=7.5\sim9.1$, another is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Yi-Ying Wang , Lei Lei , Guan-Wen Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The first few cycles of JWST have identified an overabundance of UV-bright galaxies and a general excess of UV luminosity density at $z\gtrsim10$ compared to expectations from most (pre-JWST) theoretical models. Moreover, some of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-03 Harley Katz , Alexander P. Ji , O. Grace Telford , Peter Senchyna

Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left(z \gtrsim 10\right)$ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In particular, the bright end of the galaxy UV luminosity…

With JWST, new opportunities to study the evolution of galaxies in the early Universe are emerging. Spitzer constraints on rest-optical properties of $z\gtrsim7$ galaxies demonstrated the power of using galaxy stellar masses and star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Lily Whitler , Ryan Endsley , Daniel P. Stark , Michael Topping , Zuyi Chen , Stéphane Charlot

We present pure spectroscopic constraints on the UV luminosity functions and cosmic star formation rate (SFR) densities from 25 galaxies at $z_\mathrm{spec}=8.61-13.20$. By reducing the JWST/NIRSpec spectra taken in multiple programs of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-12 Yuichi Harikane , Kimihiko Nakajima , Masami Ouchi , Hiroya Umeda , Yuki Isobe , Yoshiaki Ono , Yi Xu , Yechi Zhang