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Discovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies ($9
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العنوان:
Discovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies ($9
المؤلفون:
Adams, N. J., Conselice, C. J., Ferreira, L., Austin, D., Trussler, J., Juodžbalis, I., Wilkins, S. M., Caruana, J., Dayal, P., Verma, A., Vijayan, A. P.
سنة النشر:
2022
المجموعة:
Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية:
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف:
We present a reduction and analysis of the \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) SMACS~0723 field using new post-launch calibrations to conduct a search for ultra-high-redshift galaxies ($z > 9$) present within the Epoch of Reionisation. We conduct this search by modelling photometric redshifts in several ways for all sources and by applying conservative magnitude cuts ($m_{\rm F200W} < 28$) to identify strong Lyman breaks greater than 1 magnitude. We find four $z > 9$ candidate galaxies which have not previously been identified, with one object at $z = 11.5$, and another which is possibly a close pair of galaxies. We measure redshifts for candidate galaxies from other studies and find the recovery rate to be only 23 per cent, with many being assigned lower redshift, dusty solutions in our work. Most of our $z > 9$ sample show evidence for Balmer-breaks, or extreme emission lines from H$\beta$ and [OIII], demonstrating that the stellar populations could be advanced in age or very young depending on the cause of the F444W excess. We discuss the resolved structures of these early galaxies and find that the S\'{e}rsic indices reveal a mixture of light concentration levels, but that the sizes of all our systems are exceptionally small ($< 0.5$~kpc). These systems have stellar masses M$_{*} \sim 10^{9.0}$ M$_{\odot}$, with our $z \sim 11.5$ candidate a dwarf galaxy with a stellar mass M$_{*} \sim 10^{7.8}$ -- $10^{8.2}$ M$_{\odot}$. These candidate ultra high-redshift galaxies are excellent targets for future NIRSpec observations aimed to better understand their physical nature.
Comment: Updated to accepted mnras manuscript, 12 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, added section 3.3 and Table 5
نوع الوثيقة:
Working Paper
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stac3347
URL الوصول:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11217
رقم الانضمام:
edsarx.2207.11217
قاعدة البيانات:
arXiv
| العنوان: | Discovery and properties of ultra-high redshift galaxies ($9 |
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| المؤلفون: | Adams, N. J., Conselice, C. J., Ferreira, L., Austin, D., Trussler, J., Juodžbalis, I., Wilkins, S. M., Caruana, J., Dayal, P., Verma, A., Vijayan, A. P. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| الوصف: | We present a reduction and analysis of the \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) SMACS~0723 field using new post-launch calibrations to conduct a search for ultra-high-redshift galaxies ($z > 9$) present within the Epoch of Reionisation. We conduct this search by modelling photometric redshifts in several ways for all sources and by applying conservative magnitude cuts ($m_{\rm F200W} < 28$) to identify strong Lyman breaks greater than 1 magnitude. We find four $z > 9$ candidate galaxies which have not previously been identified, with one object at $z = 11.5$, and another which is possibly a close pair of galaxies. We measure redshifts for candidate galaxies from other studies and find the recovery rate to be only 23 per cent, with many being assigned lower redshift, dusty solutions in our work. Most of our $z > 9$ sample show evidence for Balmer-breaks, or extreme emission lines from H$\beta$ and [OIII], demonstrating that the stellar populations could be advanced in age or very young depending on the cause of the F444W excess. We discuss the resolved structures of these early galaxies and find that the S\'{e}rsic indices reveal a mixture of light concentration levels, but that the sizes of all our systems are exceptionally small ($< 0.5$~kpc). These systems have stellar masses M$_{*} \sim 10^{9.0}$ M$_{\odot}$, with our $z \sim 11.5$ candidate a dwarf galaxy with a stellar mass M$_{*} \sim 10^{7.8}$ -- $10^{8.2}$ M$_{\odot}$. These candidate ultra high-redshift galaxies are excellent targets for future NIRSpec observations aimed to better understand their physical nature. Comment: Updated to accepted mnras manuscript, 12 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, added section 3.3 and Table 5 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac3347 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11217 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2207.11217 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac3347 |
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