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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

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

Deep space observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structure and masses of very early Universe galaxies at high redshifts (z~15), existing at ~0.3 Gyr after the BigBang, maybe as evolved as the galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Rajendra Gupta

The James Webb Space Telescop (JWST) promises to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, and contrasting its upcoming observations with predictions of the $\Lambda$CDM model requires detailed theoretical forecasts. Here, we…

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled several galaxies with stellar masses $M_*\gtrsim10^{10} M_\odot$ at redshifts $7.4\lesssim z\lesssim 9.1$. These remarkable findings indicate an unexpectedly high stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Pei Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made startling discoveries regarding the early universe. It has revealed galaxies as soon as 300 million years after the Big Bang, challenging current galaxy formation models. Additionally, it has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Félix Llorente de Andrés

The recent $\sim 4 \, \sigma$ Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, tension is observed between the value of $H_{0}$ from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). It is a decade since this tension is excruciating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 G. Bargiacchi , M. G. Dainotti , S. Nagataki , S. Capozziello

Several bright and massive galaxy candidates at high redshifts have been recently observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Such early massive galaxies seem difficult to reconcile with standard $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 M. Biagetti , G. Franciolini , A. Riotto

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

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

Early data from JWST have revealed a bevy of high-redshift galaxy candidates with unexpectedly high stellar masses. An immediate concern is the consistency of these candidates with galaxy formation in the standard cosmological model. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We present a new prospective analysis of deep multi-band imaging with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). In this work, we investigate the recovery of high-redshift $5<z<12$ galaxies through extensive image simulations of accepted JWST…

Cosmological models and their parameters are widely debated, especially about whether the current discrepancy between the values of the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, obtained by type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), and the Planck data from the Cosmic…

The very first light captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed a population of galaxies at very high redshifts more massive than expected in the canonical $\Lambda$CDM model of structure formation. Barring, among others, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Matteo Forconi , William Giarè , Olga Mena , Ruchika , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Rafael C. Nunes

The recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a larger number of bright galaxies at $z\gtrsim10$ than was expected. The origin of this excess is still under debate, although several possibilities have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Tatsuya Matsumoto , Yuichi Harikane , Keiichi Maeda , Kunihito Ioka

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) rate is essential for revealing the connection between GRBs, supernovae and stellar evolution. Additionally, the GRB rate at high redshift provides a strong probe of star formation history in the early universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-25 Amy Lien , Takanori Sakamoto , Neil Gehrels , David M. Palmer , Scott D. Barthelmy , Carlo Graziani , John K. Cannizzo

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is challenging our understanding of the nature of the very first galaxies in the Universe, having discovered a surprising abundance of very massive galaxies in early cosmic epochs. By applying a model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Maria Emilia De Rossi , Volker Bromm

Cosmological models that include suppression of the power spectrum of density fluctuations on small scales exhibit an exponential reduction of high-redshift, non-linear structures, including a reduction in the rate of gamma ray bursts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrei Mesinger , Rosalba Perna , Zoltan Haiman

We propose to use high-redshift long $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) as cosmological tools to constrain the amount of primordial non-Gaussianity in the density field. By using numerical, N-body, hydrodynamic, chemistry simulations of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Umberto Maio , Ruben Salvaterra , Lauro Moscardini , Benedetta Ciardi