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JWST observations have revealed an overabundance of bright galaxies at $z \geq 9$, creating apparent tensions with theoretical predictions within standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We address this challenge using a semi-empirical approach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Abhijnan Kar , Shadab Alam , Joseph Silk

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will devote significant observing time to the study of exoplanets. It will not be serviceable as was the Hubble Space Telescope, and therefore the spacecraft/instruments will have a relatively limited…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Charles D. Fortenbach , Courtney D. Dressing

Early photometric results from JWST have revealed a number of galaxy candidates above redshift 10. The initial estimates of inferred stellar masses and the associated cosmic star formation rates are above most theoretical model predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-04 Corey Brummel-Smith , Danielle Skinner , Snigdaa S. Sethuram , John H. Wise , Bin Xia , Khushi Taori

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a population of massive galaxy sources ($\mathrm{>10^{10}\ M_\odot}$) at $z>7-10$, formed less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. Such massive galaxies do not have enough…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-25 A. A. Coley

Early observations with JWST indicate an over-abundance of bright galaxies at redshifts $z \gtrsim 10$ relative to Hubble-calibrated model predictions. More puzzling still is the apparent lack of evolution in the abundance of such objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto

Cosmic variance from large-scale structure will be a major source of uncertainty for galaxy surveys at z > 6, but that same structure will also provide an opportunity to identify and study dense environments in the early Universe. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 A. C. Trapp , Steven R. Furlanetto , Jinghong Yang

We present the results of a systematic search for candidate quiescent galaxies in the distant Universe in eleven $JWST$ fields with publicly available observations collected during the first three months of operations and covering an…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to revolutionize our understanding of the high-redshift Universe, and may be able to test the prediction that the first, chemically pristine (population III) stars formed with very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Zackrisson , C. -E. Rydberg , D. Schaerer , G. Ostlin , M. Tuli

A major issue in contemporary cosmology is the persistent discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates from local measurements and those inferred from early-Universe observations under the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

Using a semi-analytic galaxy-formation model, we study analogues of 8 recently discovered JWST galaxies at $z>{\sim}12$. We select analogues from a cosmological simulation with a $(311{\rm cMpc})^3$ volume and an effective particle number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Yuxiang Qin , Sreedhar Balu , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Surveys with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have suggested these candidate galaxies may be more massive and abundant than previously thought.…

Early JWST observations have revealed a high-redshift universe more vibrant than predicted by canonical galaxy-formation models within $\Lambda$CDM, showing an excess of ultraviolet(UV)-bright, massive, and morphologically mature galaxies.…

A cosmological observable measured in a range of redshifts can be used as a probe of a set of cosmological parameters. Given the cosmological observable and the cosmological parameter, there is an optimum range of redshifts where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 L. Kazantzidis , L. Perivolaropoulos , F. Skara

The James Webb Space Telescope will provide observational capabilities that far exceed those of current ground- or space-based instrumentation. In particular, the NIRSpec instrument will take highly sensitive spectroscopic data for hundreds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Michael V. Maseda , Marijn Franx , Jacopo Chevallard , Emma Curtis-Lake

Using the spherical collapse approach, we investigate the impact of two alternative dark matter models, each characterized by distinct non-zero equations of state, one constant and the other time dependent on the nonlinear regime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Zahra Davari , Amjad Ashoorioon , Kazem Rezazadeh

Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the existence of a surprisingly abundant population of very massive galaxies at extremely high redshift, which are hard to accommodate within the standard $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Anjan A. Sen , Sunny Vagnozzi

An unprecedented array of new observational capabilities are starting to yield key constraints on models of the epoch of first light in the Universe. In this Letter we discuss the implications of the UV radiation background at cosmic dawn…

Observers have demonstrated that it is now feasible to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at high redshifts. We explore the possible constraints on cosmology which might ultimately be derived from such measurements.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John M. LoSecco , Grant J. Mathews , Yun Wang