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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable observations of galaxies at redshifts z > 10 and hence allow to test our current understanding of structure formation at very early times. Previous work has shown that the very first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Andreas H. Pawlik , Milos Milosavljevic , Volker Bromm

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 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

The upcoming $\textit{James Webb Space Telescope}$ ($\textit{JWST}$) will allow observations of high-redshift galaxies at fainter detection levels than ever before, and $\textit{JWST}$ surveys targeting gravitationally lensed fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-13 Anton Vikaeus , Erik Zackrisson , Christian Binggeli

The Initial Mass Function (IMF) for massive galaxies can be constrained by combining stellar dynamics with strong gravitational lensing. However, this method is limited by degeneracies between the density profile of dark matter and the…

Research on the high-mass end of the initial mass function (IMF) has been limited due to a scarcity of samples. Recently, Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), as the most efficient spectroscopic telescope, has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Qida Li , Jianping Xiong , Zhenwei Li , Dan Qiu , Chao Liu , Zhanwen Han , Xuefei Chen

The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function is especially useful to test the current model of galaxy formation. Observational data have revealed a few inconsistencies with predictions from the $\Lambda {\rm CDM}$ model. For example,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xi Kang , WeiPeng Lin , Ramin A. Skibba , Dongni Chen

We present the results on the stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) normalisation of 68 massive ($M_\ast=10^{11}-10^{12}$$M_\odot$) Early-Type Galaxies (ETGs) at redshift of $\sim$1. This was achieved by deriving the stellar Mass-to-Light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Shravan Shetty , Michele Cappellari

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) describes the distribution in stellar masses produced from a burst of star formation. For more than fifty years, the implicit assumption underpinning most areas of research involving the IMF has been…

Some ultra-compact dwarf galaxies have large dynamical mass to light (M/L) ratios and also appear to contain an overabundance of LMXB sources, and some Milky Way globular clusters have a low concentration and appear to have a deficit of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Pavel Kroupa

The JWST early release data show unexpected high stellar mass densities of massive galaxies at $7<z<11$, a high star formation efficiency is probably needed to explain this. However, such a high star formation efficiency would greatly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yan Gong , Bin Yue , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed extremely distant galaxies at unprecedentedly early cosmic epochs from its deep imaging using the technique of photometric redshift estimation, with its subsequent spectroscopy confirming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Stephen Serjeant , Tom J. L. C. Bakx

JWST has identified some of the Universe's earliest galaxies, repeatedly pushing the frontier to ever higher redshifts and stellar masses. The presence of such extreme galaxies at such early times, with large stellar populations and high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-24 Joe McCaffrey , Samantha Hardin , John H. Wise , John A. Regan

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found evidence for an invariant relation between stellar mass, metallicity, and star formation rate up to $z\sim 8$ and its breakdown at higher redshifts. Understanding the…

Observations have not yielded convincing results concerning the form of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) or its variations in space and time, so it is proposed that theoretical models may provide useful guidance. Several classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 John Scalo

We investigate how star-forming galaxies typically assemble their masses at high redshift. Using the deep multi-wavelength coverage of the GOODS dataset, we measure stellar mass of a large sample of star-forming galaxies at z~4 and 5, and…

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has recently detected massive, fully formed, galaxies at redshifts corresponding to few hundred million years after the Big-Bang. However, our current cosmological model cannot produce such massive systems so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Christos G. Tsagas

JWST has made several surprising discoveries, underscored by the `too early' appearance of well-formed galaxies and supermassive black holes. It recently also uncovered a compact galaxy (JWST-ER1g) associated with a complete Einstein ring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Fulvio Melia