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We investigate early galaxy evolution by modeling self-consistently their radially-resolved evolution of gas, stars, heavy elements, and dust content. Our model successfully reproduces various observed properties of JWST-identified galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Daisuke Toyouchi , Hidenobu Yajima , Andrea Ferrara , Kentaro Nagamine

JWST has transformed our understanding of early galaxy formation, providing an unprecedented view of the first billion years of cosmic history. In this work, we build upon our previously developed semi-analytical framework that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Anirban Chakraborty , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We determine the abundance of i'-band drop-outs in the recently-released HST/ACS Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). Since the majority of these sources are likely to be z~6 galaxies whose flux decrement between the F775W i'-band and F850LP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Bunker , E. R. Stanway , R. S. Ellis , R. G. McMahon

We determine the bright end of the rest-frame UV luminosity function (UVLF) at $z=8-10$ by selecting bright $z\gtrsim 8$ photometric candidates from the largest systematic compilation of HST (pure-)parallel observations to date, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Nicha Leethochawalit , Guido Roberts-Borsani , Takahiro Morishita , Michele Trenti , Tommaso Treu

The new Wide Field Camera 3/IR observations on the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field started investigating the properties of galaxies during the reionization epoch. To interpret these observations, we present a novel approach inspired by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , M. Stiavelli , R. J. Bouwens , P. Oesch , J. M. Shull , G. D. Illingworth , L. D. Bradley , C. M. Carollo

We present the rest-1500\AA\ UV luminosity functions (LF) for star-forming galaxies during the cosmic \textit{high noon} -- the peak of cosmic star formation rate at $1.5<z<3$. We use deep NUV imaging data obtained as part of the…

The observed rest-UV luminosity function at cosmic dawn ($z \sim 8-14$) measured by JWST revealed an excess of UV-luminous galaxies relative to many pre-launch theoretical predictions. A high star-formation efficiency (SFE) and a top-heavy…

We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) over the extreme redshift range $12.5<z<18.5$, based on a wide-area search of $>$0.6 deg$^2$ of JWST NIRCam imaging containing $>150$ independent sight-lines.…

[Abridged] We present a robust measurement of the rest-frame UV luminosity function (LF) and its evolution during the peak epoch of cosmic star formation at 1<z<3. We use our deep near ultraviolet imaging from WFC3/UVIS on the Hubble Space…

We exploit a sample of ultra-faint high-redshift galaxies (demagnified HST $H_{160}$ magnitude $>30$) in the Frontier Fields clusters A2744 and M0416 to constrain a theoretical model for the UV luminosity function (LF) in the presence of…

We present new measurements of the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass functions (GSMF) and UV luminosity functions (UV LF) for galaxies from $z=6-9$ within the Frontier Field cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403 and its parallel field. To obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Rachana Bhatawdekar , Christopher J. Conselice , Berta Margalef-Bentabol , Kenneth Duncan

When the first galaxies formed and starlight escaped into the intergalactic medium to reionize it, galaxy formation and reionization were both highly inhomogeneous in time and space, and fully-coupled by mutual feedback. To show how this…

We present a self-consistent, semi-analytical LCDM model of star formation and reionization. For the cosmological parameters favored by the WMAP data, our models consistently reproduce the optical depth to reionization, redshift of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Saumyadip Samui , Raghunathan Srianand , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Exploiting the power of gravitational lensing, the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program aims at observing six massive galaxy clusters to explore the distant Universe far beyond the depth limits of blank field surveys. Using the complete…

The elevated UV luminosity functions (UVLF) from recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have challenged the viability of existing theoretical models. To address this, we use a semi-analytical framework -- which couples a physically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ankita Bera , Sultan Hassan , Robert Feldmann , Romeel Davé , Kristian Finlator

Next generation observatories will enable us to study the first billion years of our Universe in unprecedented detail. Foremost among these are 21-cm interferometry with the HERA and the SKA, and high-$z$ galaxy observations with the James…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jaehong Park , Nicolas Gillet , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig

We explore the connection between the UV luminosity functions (LFs) of high-$z$ galaxies and the distribution of stellar masses and star-formation histories (SFHs) in their host dark matter halos. We provide a baseline for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Sandro Tacchella , Sownak Bose , Charlie Conroy , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Benjamin D. Johnson

In recent years, the rise in the number of Lyman Break Galaxies detected at high redshifts z >= 6 has opened up the possibility of understanding early galaxy formation physics in great detail. In particular, the faint-end slope (alpha) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Pratika Dayal

We establish a robust statistical description of the star-forming galaxy population at the end of cosmic HI reionization ($5.0\le{}z\le6.6$) from a large sample of 52 galaxies with spectroscopically confirmed redshifts from the VIMOS…