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Recent observations reveal a rapid dust build-up in high-redshift galaxies (z > 4), challenging current models of galaxy formation. While our understanding of dust production and destruction in the interstellar medium (ISM) is advancing,…

I update the SKA key science program (KSP) on first light and cosmic reionization. The KSP has two themes: (i) Using the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen as the most direct probe into the evolution of the neutral intergalactic medium during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-14 C. L. Carilli

We present the results of 0.6"-resolution observations of CO J=3-2 line emission in 10 massive star-forming galaxies at z=2.2-2.5 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We compare the spatial extent of molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Ken-ichi Tadaki , Tadayuki Kodama , Yusei Koyama , Tomoko L. Suzuki , Ikki Mitsuhashi , Ryota Ikeda

The intergalactic medium was reionized before redshift z~6, most likely by starlight which escaped from early galaxies. The very first stars formed when hydrogen molecules (H2) cooled gas inside the smallest galaxies, minihalos of mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyungjin Ahn , Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro , Garrelt Mellema , Jun Koda , Yi Mao

The first stars in the universe are thought to be massive, forming in dark matter halos with masses around 10^6 solar masses. Recent simulations suggest that these metal-free (Population III) stars may form in binary or multiple systems.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 John H. Wise

We study the luminosity functions of high-redshift galaxies in detailed hydrodynamic simulations of cosmic reionization, which are designed to reproduce the evolution of the Lyman-alpha forest between z=5 and z=6. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 A. Gayler Harford , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Quasars at the dawn of Cosmic Time ($z>6$) are fundamental probes to investigate the early co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxy. Nevertheless, their infrared spectral energy distribution remains at the present time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 M. Costa , R. Decarli , F. Pozzi , P. Cox , R. A. Meyer , A. Pensabene , B. P. Venemans , F. Walter , F. Xu

In recent years, observations with the JWST have started to map out the rapid metal enrichment of the early Universe, while (sub)millimeter observations have simultaneously begun to reveal the ubiquity of dust beyond $z\gtrsim6$. However,…

Over the past decades, rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) observations have provided large samples of UV luminous galaxies at redshift (z) greater than 6, during the so-called epoch of reionization. While a few of these UV identified galaxies…

We report on the detailed analysis of a gravitationally-lensed Y-band dropout, A2744_YD4, selected from deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the Frontier Field cluster Abell 2744. Band 7 observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter…

We perform simulations of the capabilities of the next generation Very Large Array in the context of imaging low order CO emission from typical high redshift star forming galaxies at ~ 1 kpc resolution. We adopt as a spatial and dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-12 C. L. Carilli , Y. Shao

We present multi-band observations of an extremely dusty star-forming lensed galaxy (HERS1) at $z=2.553$. High-resolution maps of \textit{HST}/WFC3, SMA, and ALMA show a partial Einstein-ring with a radius of $\sim$3$^{\prime\prime}$. The…

We report ALMA and ACA observations of atomic carbon ([\ion{C}{1}]$(1-0)$) and dust continuum in 10 Enormous Ly$\alpha$ Nebulae hosting ultra-luminous Type-I QSOs at $z=2.2-2.5$, as part of the SUrvey of Protocluster ELANe Revealing CO/CI…

We present the first observational infrared luminosity function (IRLF) measurement in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) based on a UV-selected galaxy sample with ALMA spectroscopic observations. Our analysis is based on the ALMA large program…

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of six radio-loud quasar host galaxies at $z=1.4-2.3$. We combine the kpc-scale resolution ALMA observations with high spatial-resolution adaptive optics integral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Andrey Vayner , Nadia Zakamska , Shelley A. Wright , Lee Armus , Norman Murray , Gregory Walth

High-redshift galaxies are expected to be more turbulent than local galaxies because of their smaller size and higher star formation and thus stronger feedback from star formation, frequent mergers events, and gravitational instabilities.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 E. Parlanti , S. Carniani , A. Pallottini , M. Cignoni , G. Cresci , M. Kohandel , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi

We present further analysis of the [CII] 158$\mu$m fine structure line and thermal dust continuum emission from the archetype extreme starburst/AGN group of galaxies in the early Universe, BRI 1202-0725 at $z=4.7$, using the Atacama Large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. L. Carilli , D. Riechers , F. Walter , R. Maiolino , J. Wagg , L. Lentati , R. McMahon , W. Wolfe

We explore molecular cloud properties and the physics of CO transition lines in z >~ 6 Lyman-break galaxies and predict their CO fluxes using an analytic formalism built from global models of star formation in high-redshift galaxies that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-09 Joseph A. Muñoz , Steven R. Furlanetto

[Abridged] Our view of dust in primordial galaxies is limited towards a few tens of z~7 galaxies, pre-selected from UV-optical observations, and are thus not necessarily representative of the bulk of the sources at these redshifts. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 L. Ciesla , S. Adscheid , B. Magnelli , M. Boquien , N. Laporte , M. Bethermin , C. Carvajal , E. Schinnerer , D. Liu