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1. The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

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Finkelstein, Steven L., Bagley, Micaela B., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lotz, Jennifer M., Papovich, Casey, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Somerville, Rachel S., Trump, Jonathan R., Yang, Guang, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Fontana, Adriano, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Larson, Rebecca L., Pentericci, Laura, Ravindranath, Swara, Wilkins, Stephen M., Almaini, Omar, Amorin, Ricardo O., Barro, Guillermo, Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bisigello, Laura, Brooks, Madisyn, Buitrago, Fernando, Calabro, Antonello, Castellano, Marco, Cheng, Yingjie, Cleri, Nikko J., Cole, Justin W., Cooper, M. C., Cooper, Olivia R., Costantin, Luca, Cox, Isa G., Croton, Darren, Daddi, Emanuele, Davis, Kelcey, Dekel, Avishai, Elbaz, David, Fernandez, Vital, Fujimoto, Seiji, Gandolfi, Giovanni, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Giavalisco, Mauro, Gomez-Guijarro, Carlos, Guo, Yuchen, Gupta, Ansh R., Hathi, Nimish P., Harish, Santosh, Henry, Aurelien, Hirschmann, Michaela, Hu, Weida, Hutchison, Taylor A., Iyer, Kartheik G., Jaskot, Anne E., Jha, Saurabh W., Jung, Intae, Kokorev, Vasily, Kurczynski, Peter, Leung, Gene C. K., Llerena, Mario, Long, Arianna S., Lucas, Ray A., Lu, Shiying, McGrath, Elizabeth J., McIntosh, Daniel H., Merlin, Emiliano, Morales, Alexa M., Napolitano, Lorenzo, Pacucci, Fabio, Pandya, Viraj, Rafelski, Marc, Rodighiero, Giulia, Rose, Caitlin, Santini, Paola, Seille, Lise-Marie, Simons, Raymond C., Shen, Lu, Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Vega-Ferrero, Jesus, Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Zhu, Peixin, Bell, Eric F., Wuyts, Stijn, Holwerda, Benne W., Wang, Xin, Wang, Weichen, and Zavala, Jorge A.

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates efficient extragalactic surveys using coordinated, overlapping parallel observations with the JWST instrument suite, including NIRCam and MIRI imaging, NIRSpec low (R~100) and medium (R~1000) resolution spectroscopy, and NIRCam slitless grism (R~1500) spectroscopy. CEERS targets the Hubble Space Telescope-observed region of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field, supported by a rich set of multiwavelength data. CEERS facilitated immediate community science in both of the extragalactic core JWST science drivers ``First Light" and ``Galaxy Assembly," including: 1) The discovery and characterization of large samples of galaxies at z >~ 10 from ~90 arcmin^2 of NIRCam imaging, constraining their abundance and physical nature; 2) Deep spectra of >1000 galaxies, including dozens of galaxies at 63; and 4) Characterizing galaxy mid-IR emission with MIRI to study dust-obscured star-formation and supermassive black hole growth at z~1-3. As a legacy product for the community, the CEERS team has provided several data releases, accompanied by detailed notes on the data reduction procedures and notebooks to aid in reproducibility. In addition to an overview of the survey and quality of the data, we provide science highlights from the first two years with CEERS data., Comment: 38 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables

Published
2025

2. CEERS Key Paper. IX. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in CEERS NIRCam Images Using Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks

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Rose, Caitlin, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Snyder, Gregory F., Huertas-Company, Marc, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Bagley, Micaela B., Bisigello, Laura, Calabrò, Antonello, Cleri, Nikko J., Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Finkelstein, Steven L., Fontana, Adriano, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Holwerda, Benne W., Iyer, Kartheik G., Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lotz, Jennifer M., Lucas, Ray A., Napolitan, Lorenzo, Papovich, Casey, Pentericci, Laura, Pérez-González, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Ravindranath, Swara, Somerville, Rachel S., Straughn, Amber N., Trump, Jonathan R., Wilkins, Stephen M., and Yang, Guang

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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A crucial yet challenging task in galaxy evolution studies is the identification of distant merging galaxies, a task which suffers from a variety of issues ranging from telescope sensitivities and limitations to the inherently chaotic morphologies of young galaxies. In this paper, we use random forests and convolutional neural networks to identify high-redshift JWST CEERS galaxy mergers. We train these algorithms on simulated $3

Published
2024

4. Galaxies Going Bananas: Inferring the 3D Geometry of High-Redshift Galaxies with JWST-CEERS

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Pandya, Viraj, Zhang, Haowen, Huertas-Company, Marc, Iyer, Kartheik G., McGrath, Elizabeth, Barro, Guillermo, Finkelstein, Steven L., Kuemmel, Martin, Hartley, William G., Ferguson, Henry C., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Primack, Joel, Dekel, Avishai, Faber, Sandra M., Koo, David C., Bryan, Greg L., Somerville, Rachel S., Amorin, Ricardo O., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Bagley, Micaela B., Bell, Eric F., Bertin, Emmanuel, Costantin, Luca, Dave, Romeel, Dickinson, Mark, Feldmann, Robert, Fontana, Adriano, Gavazzi, Raphael, Giavalisco, Mauro, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Guo, Yuchen, Hahn, ChangHoon, Holwerda, Benne W., Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Koekemoer, Anton M., Lotz, Jennifer M., Lucas, Ray A., Pentericci, Laura, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Kocevski, Dale D., Papovich, Casey, Ravindranath, Swara, Rose, Caitlin, Schefer, Marc, Simons, Raymond C., Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Trump, Jonathan R., de la Vega, Alexander, Wilkins, Stephen M., Wuyts, Stijn, Yang, Guang, and Yung, L. Y. Aaron

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

The 3D geometry of high-redshift galaxies remains poorly understood. We build a differentiable Bayesian model and use Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to efficiently and robustly infer the 3D shapes of star-forming galaxies in JWST-CEERS observations with $\log M_*/M_{\odot}=9.0-10.5$ at $z=0.5-8.0$. We reproduce previous results from HST-CANDELS in a fraction of the computing time and constrain the mean ellipticity, triaxiality, size and covariances with samples as small as $\sim50$ galaxies. We find high 3D ellipticities for all mass-redshift bins suggesting oblate (disky) or prolate (elongated) geometries. We break that degeneracy by constraining the mean triaxiality to be $\sim1$ for $\log M_*/M_{\odot}=9.0-9.5$ dwarfs at $z>1$ (favoring the prolate scenario), with significantly lower triaxialities for higher masses and lower redshifts indicating the emergence of disks. The prolate population traces out a ``banana'' in the projected $b/a-\log a$ diagram with an excess of low $b/a$, large $\log a$ galaxies. The dwarf prolate fraction rises from $\sim25\%$ at $z=0.5-1.0$ to $\sim50-80\%$ at $z=3-8$. If these are disks, they cannot be axisymmetric but instead must be unusually oval (triaxial) unlike local circular disks. We simultaneously constrain the 3D size-mass relation and its dependence on 3D geometry. High-probability prolate and oblate candidates show remarkably similar S\'ersic indices ($n\sim1$), non-parametric morphological properties and specific star formation rates. Both tend to be visually classified as disks or irregular but edge-on oblate candidates show more dust attenuation. We discuss selection effects, follow-up prospects and theoretical implications., Comment: Accepted version to appear in ApJ, main body is 36 pages of which ~half are full-page figures

Published
2023

5. CEERS: Diversity of Lyman-Alpha Emitters during the Epoch of Reionization

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Jung, Intae, Finkelstein, Steven L., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Hutchison, Taylor A., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Larson, Rebecca L., Simons, Raymond C., Papovich, Casey, Park, Hyunbae, Pentericci, Laura, Trump, Jonathan R., Amorin, Ricardo O., Backhaus, Bren E., Casey, Caitlin M., Cheng, Yingjie, Cleri, Nikko J., Cooper, M. C., Cooper, Olivia R., Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Grazian, Andrea, Hathi, Nimish P., Hirschmann, Michaela, Koekemoer, Anton M., Lucas, Ray A., Mobasher, Bahram, Ravindranath, Swara, Straughn, Amber N., Yung, L. Y. Aaron, and de la Vega, Alexander

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We analyze rest-frame ultraviolet to optical spectra of three $z\simeq7.47$ - $7.75$ galaxies whose Ly$\alpha$-emission lines were previously detected with Keck/MOSFIRE observations, using the JWST/NIRSpec observations from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. From NIRSpec data, we confirm the systemic redshifts of these Ly$\alpha$ emitters, and emission-line ratio diagnostics indicate these galaxies were highly ionized and metal poor. We investigate Ly$\alpha$ line properties, including the line flux, velocity offset, and spatial extension. For the one galaxy where we have both NIRSpec and MOSFIRE measurements, we find a significant offset in their flux measurements ($\sim5\times$ greater in MOSFIRE) and a marginal difference in the velocity shifts. The simplest interpretation is that the Ly$\alpha$ emission is extended and not entirely encompassed by the NIRSpec slit. The cross-dispersion profiles in NIRSpec reveal that Ly$\alpha$ in one galaxy is significantly more extended than the non-resonant emission lines. We also compute the expected sizes of ionized bubbles that can be generated by the Ly$\alpha$ sources, discussing viable scenarios for the creation of sizable ionized bubbles ($>$1 physical Mpc). The source with the highest-ionization condition is possibly capable of ionizing its own bubble, while the other two do not appear to be capable of ionizing such a large region, requiring additional sources of ionizing photons. Therefore, the fact that we detect Ly$\alpha$ from these galaxies suggests diverse scenarios on escape of Ly$\alpha$ during the epoch of reionization. High spectral resolution spectra with JWST/NIRSpec will be extremely useful for constraining the physics of patchy reionization., Comment: Submitted to ApJ (18 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables)

Published
2023

6. The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

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Gardner, Jonathan P., Mather, John C., Abbott, Randy, Abell, James S., Abernathy, Mark, Abney, Faith E., Abraham, John G., Abraham, Roberto, Abul-Huda, Yasin M., Acton, Scott, Adams, Cynthia K., Adams, Evan, Adler, David S., Adriaensen, Maarten, Aguilar, Jonathan Albert, Ahmed, Mansoor, Ahmed, Nasif S., Ahmed, Tanjira, Albat, Rüdeger, Albert, Loïc, Alberts, Stacey, Aldridge, David, Allen, Mary Marsha, Allen, Shaune S., Altenburg, Martin, Altunc, Serhat, Alvarez, Jose Lorenzo, Álvarez-Márquez, Javier, de Oliveira, Catarina Alves, Ambrose, Leslie L., Anandakrishnan, Satya M., Andersen, Gregory C., Anderson, Harry James, Anderson, Jay, Anderson, Kristen, Anderson, Sara M., Aprea, Julio, Archer, Benita J., Arenberg, Jonathan W., Argyriou, Ioannis, Arribas, Santiago, Artigau, Étienne, Arvai, Amanda Rose, Atcheson, Paul, Atkinson, Charles B., Averbukh, Jesse, Aymergen, Cagatay, Bacinski, John J., Baggett, Wayne E., Bagnasco, Giorgio, Baker, Lynn L., Balzano, Vicki Ann, Banks, Kimberly A., Baran, David A., Barker, Elizabeth A., Barrett, Larry K., Barringer, Bruce O., Barto, Allison, Bast, William, Baudoz, Pierre, Baum, Stefi, Beatty, Thomas G., Beaulieu, Mathilde, Bechtold, Kathryn, Beck, Tracy, Beddard, Megan M., Beichman, Charles, Bellagama, Larry, Bely, Pierre, Berger, Timothy W., Bergeron, Louis E., Darveau-Bernier, Antoine, Bertch, Maria D., Beskow, Charlotte, Betz, Laura E., Biagetti, Carl P., Birkmann, Stephan, Bjorklund, Kurt F., Blackwood, James D., Blazek, Ronald Paul, Blossfeld, Stephen, Bluth, Marcel, Boccaletti, Anthony, Boegner Jr., Martin E., Bohlin, Ralph C., Boia, John Joseph, Böker, Torsten, Bonaventura, N., Bond, Nicholas A., Bosley, Kari Ann, Boucarut, Rene A., Bouchet, Patrice, Bouwman, Jeroen, Bower, Gary, Bowers, Ariel S., Bowers, Charles W., Boyce, Leslye A., Boyer, Christine T., Boyer, Martha L., Boyer, Michael, Boyer, Robert, Bradley, Larry D., Brady, Gregory R., Brandl, Bernhard R., Brannen, Judith L., Breda, David, Bremmer, Harold G., Brennan, David, Bresnahan, Pamela A., Bright, Stacey N., Broiles, Brian J., Bromenschenkel, Asa, Brooks, Brian H., Brooks, Keira J., Brown, Bob, Brown, Bruce, Brown, Thomas M., Bruce, Barry W., Bryson, Jonathan G., Bujanda, Edwin D., Bullock, Blake M., Bunker, A. J., Bureo, Rafael, Burt, Irving J., Bush, James Aaron, Bushouse, Howard A., Bussman, Marie C., Cabaud, Olivier, Cale, Steven, Calhoon, Charles D., Calvani, Humberto, Canipe, Alicia M., Caputo, Francis M., Cara, Mihai, Carey, Larkin, Case, Michael Eli, Cesari, Thaddeus, Cetorelli, Lee D., Chance, Don R., Chandler, Lynn, Chaney, Dave, Chapman, George N., Charlot, S., Chayer, Pierre, Cheezum, Jeffrey I., Chen, Bin, Chen, Christine H., Cherinka, Brian, Chichester, Sarah C., Chilton, Zachary S., Chittiraibalan, Dharini, Clampin, Mark, Clark, Charles R., Clark, Kerry W., Clark, Stephanie M., Claybrooks, Edward E., Cleveland, Keith A., Cohen, Andrew L., Cohen, Lester M., Colón, Knicole D., Coleman, Benee L., Colina, Luis, Comber, Brian J., Comeau, Thomas M., Comer, Thomas, Reis, Alain Conde, Connolly, Dennis C., Conroy, Kyle E., Contos, Adam R., Contreras, James, Cook, Neil J., Cooper, James L., Cooper, Rachel Aviva, Correia, Michael F., Correnti, Matteo, Cossou, Christophe, Costanza, Brian F., Coulais, Alain, Cox, Colin R., Coyle, Ray T., Cracraft, Misty M., Noriega-Crespo, Alberto, Crew, Keith A., Curtis, Gary J., Cusveller, Bianca, Maciel, Cleyciane Da Costa, Dailey, Christopher T., Daugeron, Frédéric, Davidson, Greg S., Davies, James E., Davis, Katherine Anne, Davis, Michael S., Day, Ratna, de Chambure, Daniel, de Jong, Pauline, De Marchi, Guido, Dean, Bruce H., Decker, John E., Delisa, Amy S., Dell, Lawrence C., Dellagatta, Gail, Dembinska, Franciszka, Demosthenes, Sandor, Dencheva, Nadezhda M., Deneu, Philippe, DePriest, William W., Deschenes, Jeremy, Dethienne, Nathalie, Detre, Örs Hunor, Diaz, Rosa Izela, Dicken, Daniel, DiFelice, Audrey S., Dillman, Matthew, Disharoon, Maureen O., van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Dixon, William V., Doggett, Jesse B., Dominguez, Keisha L., Donaldson, Thomas S., Doria-Warner, Cristina M., Santos, Tony Dos, Doty, Heather, Douglas Jr., Robert E., Doyon, René, Dressler, Alan, Driggers, Jennifer, Driggers, Phillip A., Dunn, Jamie L., DuPrie, Kimberly C., Dupuis, Jean, Durning, John, Dutta, Sanghamitra B., Earl, Nicholas M., Eccleston, Paul, Ecobichon, Pascal, Egami, Eiichi, Ehrenwinkler, Ralf, Eisenhamer, Jonathan D., Eisenhower, Michael, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hamel, Zaky El, Elie, Michelle L., Elliott, James, Elliott, Kyle Wesley, Engesser, Michael, Espinoza, Néstor, Etienne, Odessa, Etxaluze, Mireya, Evans, Leah, Fabreguettes, Luce, Falcolini, Massimo, Falini, Patrick R., Fatig, Curtis, Feeney, Matthew, Feinberg, Lee D., Fels, Raymond, Ferdous, Nazma, Ferguson, Henry C., Ferrarese, Laura, Ferreira, Marie-Héléne, Ferruit, Pierre, Ferry, Malcolm, Filippazzo, Joseph Charles, Firre, Daniel, Fix, Mees, Flagey, Nicolas, Flanagan, Kathryn A., Fleming, Scott W., Florian, Michael, Flynn, James R., Foiadelli, Luca, Fontaine, Mark R., Fontanella, Erin Marie, Forshay, Peter Randolph, Fortner, Elizabeth A., Fox, Ori D., Framarini, Alexandro P., Francisco, John I., Franck, Randy, Franx, Marijn, Franz, David E., Friedman, Scott D., Friend, Katheryn E., Frost, James R., Fu, Henry, Fullerton, Alexander W., Gaillard, Lionel, Galkin, Sergey, Gallagher, Ben, Galyer, Anthony D., Marín, Macarena García, Gardner, Lisa E., Garland, Dennis, Garrett, Bruce Albert, Gasman, Danny, Gáspár, András, Gastaud, René, Gaudreau, Daniel, Gauthier, Peter Timothy, Geers, Vincent, Geithner, Paul H., Gennaro, Mario, Gerber, John, Gereau, John C., Giampaoli, Robert, Giardino, Giovanna, Gibbons, Paul C., Gilbert, Karolina, Gilman, Larry, Girard, Julien H., Giuliano, Mark E., Gkountis, Konstantinos, Glasse, Alistair, Glassmire, Kirk Zachary, Glauser, Adrian Michael, Glazer, Stuart D., Goldberg, Joshua, Golimowski, David A., Gonzaga, Shireen P., Gordon, Karl D., Gordon, Shawn J., Goudfrooij, Paul, Gough, Michael J., Graham, Adrian J., Grau, Christopher M., Green, Joel David, Greene, Gretchen R., Greene, Thomas P., Greenfield, Perry E., Greenhouse, Matthew A., Greve, Thomas R., Greville, Edgar M., Grimaldi, Stefano, Groe, Frank E., Groebner, Andrew, Grumm, David M., Grundy, Timothy, Güdel, Manuel, Guillard, Pierre, Guldalian, John, Gunn, Christopher A., Gurule, Anthony, Gutman, Irvin Meyer, Guy, Paul D., Guyot, Benjamin, Hack, Warren J., Haderlein, Peter, Hagan, James B., Hagedorn, Andria, Hainline, Kevin, Haley, Craig, Hami, Maryam, Hamilton, Forrest Clifford, Hammann, Jeffrey, Hammel, Heidi B., Hanley, Christopher J., Hansen, Carl August, Hardy, Bruce, Harnisch, Bernd, Harr, Michael Hunter, Harris, Pamela, Hart, Jessica Ann, Hartig, George F., Hasan, Hashima, Hashim, Kathleen Marie, Hashimoto, Ryan, Haskins, Sujee J., Hawkins, Robert Edward, Hayden, Brian, Hayden, William L., Healy, Mike, Hecht, Karen, Heeg, Vince J., Hejal, Reem, Helm, Kristopher A., Hengemihle, Nicholas J., Henning, Thomas, Henry, Alaina, Henry, Ronald L., Henshaw, Katherine, Hernandez, Scarlin, Herrington, Donald C., Heske, Astrid, Hesman, Brigette Emily, Hickey, David L., Hilbert, Bryan N., Hines, Dean C., Hinz, Michael R., Hirsch, Michael, Hitcho, Robert S., Hodapp, Klaus, Hodge, Philip E., Hoffman, Melissa, Holfeltz, Sherie T., Holler, Bryan Jason, Hoppa, Jennifer Rose, Horner, Scott, Howard, Joseph M., Howard, Richard J., Huber, Jean M., Hunkeler, Joseph S., Hunter, Alexander, Hunter, David Gavin, Hurd, Spencer W., Hurst, Brendan J., Hutchings, John B., Hylan, Jason E., Ignat, Luminita Ilinca, Illingworth, Garth, Irish, Sandra M., Isaacs III, John C., Jackson Jr., Wallace C., Jaffe, Daniel T., Jahic, Jasmin, Jahromi, Amir, Jakobsen, Peter, James, Bryan, James, John C., James, LeAndrea Rae, Jamieson, William Brian, Jandra, Raymond D., Jayawardhana, Ray, Jedrzejewski, Robert, Jeffers, Basil S., Jensen, Peter, Joanne, Egges, Johns, Alan T., Johnson, Carl A., Johnson, Eric L., Johnson, Patricia, Johnson, Phillip Stephen, Johnson, Thomas K., Johnson, Timothy W., Johnstone, Doug, Jollet, Delphine, Jones, Danny P., Jones, Gregory S., Jones, Olivia C., Jones, Ronald A., Jones, Vicki, Jordan, Ian J., Jordan, Margaret E., Jue, Reginald, Jurkowski, Mark H., Justis, Grant, Justtanont, Kay, Kaleida, Catherine C., Kalirai, Jason S., Kalmanson, Phillip Cabrales, Kaltenegger, Lisa, Kammerer, Jens, Kan, Samuel K., Kanarek, Graham Childs, Kao, Shaw-Hong, Karakla, Diane M., Karl, Hermann, Kassin, Susan A., Kauffman, David D., Kavanagh, Patrick, Kelley, Leigh L., Kelly, Douglas M., Kendrew, Sarah, Kennedy, Herbert V., Kenny, Deborah A., Keski-Kuha, Ritva A., Keyes, Charles D., Khan, Ali, Kidwell, Richard C., Kimble, Randy A., King, James S., King, Richard C., Kinzel, Wayne M., Kirk, Jeffrey R., Kirkpatrick, Marc E., Klaassen, Pamela, Klingemann, Lana, Klintworth, Paul U., Knapp, Bryan Adam, Knight, Scott, Knollenberg, Perry J., Knutsen, Daniel Mark, Koehler, Robert, Koekemoer, Anton M., Kofler, Earl T., Kontson, Vicki L., Kovacs, Aiden Rose, Kozhurina-Platais, Vera, Krause, Oliver, Kriss, Gerard A., Krist, John, Kristoffersen, Monica R., Krogel, Claudia, Krueger, Anthony P., Kulp, Bernard A., Kumari, Nimisha, Kwan, Sandy W., Kyprianou, Mark, Labador, Aurora Gadiano, Labiano, Álvaro, Lafrenière, David, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Laidler, Victoria G., Laine, Benoit, Laird, Simon, Lajoie, Charles-Philippe, Lallo, Matthew D., Lam, May Yen, LaMassa, Stephanie Marie, Lambros, Scott D., Lampenfield, Richard Joseph, Lander, Matthew Ed, Langston, James Hutton, Larson, Kirsten, Larson, Melora, LaVerghetta, Robert Joseph, Law, David R., Lawrence, Jon F., Lee, David W., Lee, Janice, Lee, Yat-Ning Paul, Leisenring, Jarron, Leveille, Michael Dunlap, Levenson, Nancy A., Levi, Joshua S., Levine, Marie B., Lewis, Dan, Lewis, Jake, Lewis, Nikole, Libralato, Mattia, Lidon, Norbert, Liebrecht, Paula Louisa, Lightsey, Paul, Lilly, Simon, Lim, Frederick C., Lim, Pey Lian, Ling, Sai-Kwong, Link, Lisa J., Link, Miranda Nicole, Lipinski, Jamie L., Liu, XiaoLi, Lo, Amy S., Lobmeyer, Lynette, Logue, Ryan M., Long, Chris A., Long, Douglas R., Long, Ilana D., Long, Knox S., López-Caniego, Marcos, Lotz, Jennifer M., Love-Pruitt, Jennifer M., Lubskiy, Michael, Luers, Edward B., Luetgens, Robert A., Luevano, Annetta J., Lui, Sarah Marie G. Flores, Lund III, James M., Lundquist, Ray A., Lunine, Jonathan, Lützgendorf, Nora, Lynch, Richard J., MacDonald, Alex J., MacDonald, Kenneth, Macias, Matthew J., Macklis, Keith I., Maghami, Peiman, Maharaja, Rishabh Y., Maiolino, Roberto, Makrygiannis, Konstantinos G., Malla, Sunita Giri, Malumuth, Eliot M., Manjavacas, Elena, Marini, Andrea, Marrione, Amanda, Marston, Anthony, Martel, André R, Martin, Didier, Martin, Peter G., Martinez, Kristin L., Maschmann, Marc, Masci, Gregory L., Masetti, Margaret E., Maszkiewicz, Michael, Matthews, Gary, Matuskey, Jacob E., McBrayer, Glen A., McCarthy, Donald W., McCaughrean, Mark J., McClare, Leslie A., McClare, Michael D., McCloskey, John C., McClurg, Taylore D., McCoy, Martin, McElwain, Michael W., McGregor, Roy D., McGuffey, Douglas B., McKay, Andrew G., McKenzie, William K., McLean, Brian, McMaster, Matthew, McNeil, Warren, De Meester, Wim, Mehalick, Kimberly L., Meixner, Margaret, Meléndez, Marcio, Menzel, Michael P., Menzel, Michael T., Merz, Matthew, Mesterharm, David D., Meyer, Michael R., Meyett, Michele L., Meza, Luis E., Midwinter, Calvin, Milam, Stefanie N., Miller, Jay Todd, Miller, William C., Miskey, Cherie L., Misselt, Karl, Mitchell, Eileen P., Mohan, Martin, Montoya, Emily E., Moran, Michael J., Morishita, Takahiro, Moro-Martín, Amaya, Morrison, Debra L., Morrison, Jane, Morse, Ernie C., Moschos, Michael, Moseley, S. H., Mosier, Gary E., Mosner, Peter, Mountain, Matt, Muckenthaler, Jason S., Mueller, Donald G., Mueller, Migo, Muhiem, Daniella, Mühlmann, Prisca, Mullally, Susan Elizabeth, Mullen, Stephanie M., Munger, Alan J, Murphy, Jess, Murray, Katherine T., Muzerolle, James C., Mycroft, Matthew, Myers, Andrew, Myers, Carey R., Myers, Fred Richard R., Myers, Richard, Myrick, Kaila, Nagle IV, Adrian F., Nayak, Omnarayani, Naylor, Bret, Neff, Susan G., Nelan, Edmund P., Nella, John, Nguyen, Duy Tuong, Nguyen, Michael N., Nickson, Bryony, Nidhiry, John Joseph, Niedner, Malcolm B., Nieto-Santisteban, Maria, Nikolov, Nikolay K., Nishisaka, Mary Ann, Nota, Antonella, O'Mara, Robyn C., Oboryshko, Michael, O'Brien, Marcus B., Ochs, William R., Offenberg, Joel D., Ogle, Patrick Michael, Ohl, Raymond G., Olmsted, Joseph Hamden, Osborne, Shannon Barbara, O'Shaughnessy, Brian Patrick, Östlin, Göran, O'Sullivan, Brian, Otor, O. Justin, Ottens, Richard, Ouellette, Nathalie N. -Q., Outlaw, Daria J., Owens, Beverly A., Pacifici, Camilla, Page, James Christophe, Paranilam, James G., Park, Sang, Parrish, Keith A., Paschal, Laura, Patapis, Polychronis, Patel, Jignasha, Patrick, Keith, Pattishall Jr., Robert A., Paul, Douglas William, Paul, Shirley J., Pauly, Tyler Andrew, Pavlovsky, Cheryl M., Peña-Guerrero, Maria, Pedder, Andrew H., Peek, Matthew Weldon, Pelham, Patricia A., Penanen, Konstantin, Perriello, Beth A., Perrin, Marshall D., Perrine, Richard F., Perrygo, Chuck, Peslier, Muriel, Petach, Michael, Peterson, Karla A., Pfarr, Tom, Pierson, James M., Pietraszkiewicz, Martin, Pilchen, Guy, Pipher, Judy L., Pirzkal, Norbert, Pitman, Joseph T., Player, Danielle M., Plesha, Rachel, Plitzke, Anja, Pohner, John A., Poletis, Karyn Konstantin, Pollizzi, Joseph A., Polster, Ethan, Pontius, James T., Pontoppidan, Klaus, Porges, Susana C., Potter, Gregg D., Prescott, Stephen, Proffitt, Charles R., Pueyo, Laurent, Neira, Irma Aracely Quispe, Radich, Armando, Rager, Reiko T., Rameau, Julien, Ramey, Deborah D., Alarcon, Rafael Ramos, Rampini, Riccardo, Rapp, Robert, Rashford, Robert A., Rauscher, Bernard J., Ravindranath, Swara, Rawle, Timothy, Rawlings, Tynika N., Ray, Tom, Regan, Michael W., Rehm, Brian, Rehm, Kenneth D., Reid, Neill, Reis, Carl A., Renk, Florian, Reoch, Tom B., Ressler, Michael, Rest, Armin W., Reynolds, Paul J., Richon, Joel G., Richon, Karen V., Ridgaway, Michael, Riedel, Adric Richard, Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia, Rifelli, Richard E., Rigby, Jane R., Riggs, Catherine S., Ringel, Nancy J., Ritchie, Christine E., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robberto, Massimo, Robinson, Michael S., Robinson, Orion, Rock, Frank W., Rodriguez, David R., del Pino, Bruno Rodríguez, Roellig, Thomas, Rohrbach, Scott O., Roman, Anthony J., Romelfanger, Frederick J., Romo Jr., Felipe P., Rosales, Jose J., Rose, Perry, Roteliuk, Anthony F., Roth, Marc N., Rothwell, Braden Quinn, Rouzaud, Sylvain, Rowe, Jason, Rowlands, Neil, Roy, Arpita, Royer, Pierre, Rui, Chunlei, Rumler, Peter, Rumpl, William, Russ, Melissa L., Ryan, Michael B., Ryan, Richard M., Saad, Karl, Sabata, Modhumita, Sabatino, Rick, Sabbi, Elena, Sabelhaus, Phillip A., Sabia, Stephen, Sahu, Kailash C., Saif, Babak N., Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Samara-Ratna, Piyal, Samuelson, Bridget S., Sanders, Felicia A., Sappington, Bradley, Sargent, B. A., Sauer, Arne, Savadkin, Bruce J., Sawicki, Marcin, Schappell, Tina M., Scheffer, Caroline, Scheithauer, Silvia, Scherer, Ron, Schiff, Conrad, Schlawin, Everett, Schmeitzky, Olivier, Schmitz, Tyler S., Schmude, Donald J., Schneider, Analyn, Schreiber, Jürgen, Schroeven-Deceuninck, Hilde, Schultz, John J., Schwab, Ryan, Schwartz, Curtis H., Scoccimarro, Dario, Scott, John F., Scott, Michelle B., Seaton, Bonita L., Seely, Bruce S., Seery, Bernard, Seidleck, Mark, Sembach, Kenneth, Shanahan, Clare Elizabeth, Shaughnessy, Bryan, Shaw, Richard A., Shay, Christopher Michael, Sheehan, Even, Sheth, Kartik, Shih, Hsin-Yi, Shivaei, Irene, Siegel, Noah, Sienkiewicz, Matthew G., Simmons, Debra D., Simon, Bernard P., Sirianni, Marco, Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Slade, Jeffrey E., Sloan, G. C., Slocum, Christine E., Slowinski, Steven E., Smith, Corbett T., Smith, Eric P., Smith, Erin C., Smith, Koby, Smith, Robert, Smith, Stephanie J., Smolik, John L., Soderblom, David R., Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Sokol, Jeff, Sonneborn, George, Sontag, Christopher D., Sooy, Peter R., Soummer, Remi, Southwood, Dana M., Spain, Kay, Sparmo, Joseph, Speer, David T., Spencer, Richard, Sprofera, Joseph D., Stallcup, Scott S., Stanley, Marcia K., Stansberry, John A., Stark, Christopher C., Starr, Carl W., Stassi, Diane Y., Steck, Jane A., Steeley, Christine D., Stephens, Matthew A., Stephenson, Ralph J., Stewart, Alphonso C., Stiavelli, Massimo, Stockman Jr., Hervey, Strada, Paolo, Straughn, Amber N., Streetman, Scott, Strickland, David Kendal, Strobele, Jingping F., Stuhlinger, Martin, Stys, Jeffrey Edward, Such, Miguel, Sukhatme, Kalyani, Sullivan, Joseph F., Sullivan, Pamela C., Sumner, Sandra M., Sun, Fengwu, Sunnquist, Benjamin Dale, Swade, Daryl Allen, Swam, Michael S., Swenton, Diane F., Swoish, Robby A., Litten, Oi In Tam, Tamas, Laszlo, Tao, Andrew, Taylor, David K., Taylor, Joanna M., Plate, Maurice te, Van Tea, Mason, Teague, Kelly K., Telfer, Randal C., Temim, Tea, Texter, Scott C., Thatte, Deepashri G., Thompson, Christopher Lee, Thompson, Linda M., Thomson, Shaun R., Thronson, Harley, Tierney, C. M., Tikkanen, Tuomo, Tinnin, Lee, Tippet, William Thomas, Todd, Connor William, Tran, Hien D., Trauger, John, Trejo, Edwin Gregorio, Truong, Justin Hoang Vinh, Tsukamoto, Christine L., Tufail, Yasir, Tumlinson, Jason, Tustain, Samuel, Tyra, Harrison, Ubeda, Leonardo, Underwood, Kelli, Uzzo, Michael A., Vaclavik, Steven, Valenduc, Frida, Valenti, Jeff A., Van Campen, Julie, van de Wetering, Inge, Van Der Marel, Roeland P., van Haarlem, Remy, Vandenbussche, Bart, Vanterpool, Dona D., Vernoy, Michael R., Costas, Maria Begoña Vila, Volk, Kevin, Voorzaat, Piet, Voyton, Mark F., Vydra, Ekaterina, Waddy, Darryl J., Waelkens, Christoffel, Wahlgren, Glenn Michael, Walker Jr., Frederick E., Wander, Michel, Warfield, Christine K., Warner, Gerald, Wasiak, Francis C., Wasiak, Matthew F., Wehner, James, Weiler, Kevin R., Weilert, Mark, Weiss, Stanley B., Wells, Martyn, Welty, Alan D., Wheate, Lauren, Wheeler, Thomas P., White, Christy L., Whitehouse, Paul, Whiteleather, Jennifer Margaret, Whitman, William Russell, Williams, Christina C., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Willott, Chris J., Willoughby, Scott P., Wilson, Andrew, Wilson, Debra, Wilson, Donna V., Windhorst, Rogier, Wislowski, Emily Christine, Wolfe, David J., Wolfe, Michael A., Wolff, Schuyler, Wondel, Amancio, Woo, Cindy, Woods, Robert T., Worden, Elaine, Workman, William, Wright, Gillian S., Wu, Carl, Wu, Chi-Rai, Wun, Dakin D., Wymer, Kristen B., Yadetie, Thomas, Yan, Isabelle C., Yang, Keith C., Yates, Kayla L., Yeager, Christopher R., Yerger, Ethan John, Young, Erick T., Young, Gary, Yu, Gene, Yu, Susan, Zak, Dean S., Zeidler, Peter, Zepp, Robert, Zhou, Julia, Zincke, Christian A., Zonak, Stephanie, and Zondag, Elisabeth

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit., Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figures

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2023
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7. Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for postoperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with gynecologic malignancies: A quality mini-review

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Peter W. Ketch, Sean C. Dowdy, Robert D. McBane, II, J. Michael Straughn, Jr, and Teresa K.L. Boitano

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Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis, Postoperative care, Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in gynecologic oncology patients with an increased risk in the postoperative period. Historically, international guidelines have recommended 28 days of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) or unfractionated heparin (UFH) for extended VTE prophylaxis after major abdominal and pelvic surgery for gynecologic malignancies. Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to injectable anticoagulants. This quality mini-review evaluated the literature around the use of DOACs for postoperative VTE prophylaxis after surgery for gynecologic cancer. Overall, the reviewed literature supports the use of DOACs in select patients within this population which may lead to an improved patient experience, higher rates of treatment compliance, and increased cost savings.

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2024
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9. New $z > 7$ Lyman-alpha Emitters in EGS: Evidence of an Extended Ionized Structure at $z \sim 7.7$

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Jung, Intae, Finkelstein, Steven L., Larson, Rebecca L., Hutchison, Taylor A., Straughn, Amber N., Bagley, Micaela B., Castellano, Marco, Cleri, Nikko J., Cooper, M. C., Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Holwerda, Benne W., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Kim, Seonwoo, Koekemoer, Anton M., Papovich, Casey, Park, Hyunbae, Pentericci, Laura, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Song, Mimi, Tacchella, Sandro, Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., and Zavala, Jorge A.

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We perform a ground-based near-infrared spectroscopic survey using the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph to target Ly$\alpha$ emission at $7.0$4$\sigma$ level in eight $z>7$ galaxies, which include additional members of the known $z\sim7.7$ Ly$\alpha$-emitter (LAE) cluster (Tilvi et al. 2020). With the addition of these newly-discovered $z\sim7.7$ LAEs, this is currently the largest measured LAE cluster at $z>7$. The unusually-high Ly$\alpha$ detection rate at $z\sim7.7$ in this field suggests significantly stronger Ly$\alpha$ emission from the clustered LAEs than from the rest of our targets. We estimate the ionized bubble sizes around these LAEs and conclude that the LAEs are clustered within an extended ionized structure created by overlapping ionized bubbles which allow the easier escape of Ly$\alpha$ from galaxies. It is remarkable that the brightest object in the cluster has the lowest measured redshift of the Ly$\alpha$ line, being placed in front of the other LAEs in the line-of-sight direction. This suggests that we are witnessing the enhanced IGM transmission of Ly$\alpha$ from galaxies on the rear side of an ionized area. This could be a consequence of Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer: Ly$\alpha$ close to the central velocity is substantially scattered by the IGM while Ly$\alpha$ from the rear-side galaxies is significantly redshifted to where it has a clear path., Comment: Submitted to ApJ (17 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables)

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2022

10. CEERS Key Paper III: The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z=3-9 with JWST

Author

Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Rose, Caitlin, Vanderhoof, Brittany N., McGrath, Elizabeth J., Costantin, Luca, Cox, Isabella G., Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Kocevski, Dale D., Wuyts, Stijn, Andrews, Henry C. Ferguson Brett H., Bagley, Micaela B., Finkelstein, Steven L., Amorin, Ricardo O., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Backhaus, Bren E., Behroozi, Peter, Bisigello, Laura, Calabro, Antonello, Casey, Caitlin M., Coogan, Rosemary T., Croton, Darren, de la Vega, Alexander, Dickinson, Mark, Cooper, M. C., Fontana, Adriano, Franco, Maximilien, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Hathi, Nimish P., Holwerda, Benne W., Huertas-Company, Marc, Iyer, Kartheik G., Jogee, Shardha, Jung, Intae, Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Koekemoer, Anton M., Liu, James, Lotz, Jennifer M., Lucas, Ray A., Newman, Jeffrey A., Pacifici, Camilla, Pandya, Viraj, Papovich, Casey, Pentericci, Laura, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Petersen, Jayse, Pirzkal, Nor, Rafelski, Marc, Ravindranath, Swara, Simons, Raymond C., Snyder, Gregory F., Somerville, Rachel S., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Trump, Jonathan R., Vega-Ferrero, Jesus, Wilkins, Stephen M., Yang, Guang, and Zavala, Jorge A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z=3-9 using early JWST CEERS NIRCam observations. Our sample consists of 850 galaxies at z>3 detected in both CANDELS HST imaging and JWST CEERS NIRCam images to enable a comparison of HST and JWST morphologies. Our team conducted a set of visual classifications, with each galaxy in the sample classified by three different individuals. We also measure quantitative morphologies using the publicly available codes across all seven NIRCam filters. Using these measurements, we present the fraction of galaxies of each morphological type as a function of redshift. Overall, we find that galaxies at z>3 have a wide diversity of morphologies. Galaxies with disks make up a total of 60\% of galaxies at z=3 and this fraction drops to ~30% at z=6-9, while galaxies with spheroids make up ~30-40% across the whole redshift range and pure spheroids with no evidence for disks or irregular features make up ~20%. The fraction of galaxies with irregular features is roughly constant at all redshifts (~40-50%), while those that are purely irregular increases from ~12% to ~20% at z>4.5. We note that these are apparent fractions as many selection effects impact the visibility of morphological features at high redshift. The distributions of S\'ersic index, size, and axis ratios show significant differences between the morphological groups. Spheroid Only galaxies have a higher S\'ersic index, smaller size, and higher axis ratio than Disk/Irregular galaxies. Across all redshifts, smaller spheroid and disk galaxies tend to be rounder. Overall, these trends suggest that galaxies with established disks and spheroids exist across the full redshift range of this study and further work with large samples at higher redshift is needed to quantify when these features first formed., Comment: Accepted for publication to ApJL, 24 pages, 14 figures

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2022
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11. JWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

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Windhorst, Rogier A., Cohen, Seth H., Jansen, Rolf A., Summers, Jake, Tompkins, Scott, Conselice, Christopher J., Driver, Simon P., Yan, Haojing, Coe, Dan, Frye, Brenda, Grogin, Norman, Koekemoer, Anton, Marshall, Madeline A., O'Brien, Rosalia, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Jr., Russell E., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Carleton, Timothy, Diego, Jose M., Keel, William C., Porto, Paolo, Redshaw, Caleb, Scheller, Sydney, Wilkins, Stephen M., Willner, S. P., Zitrin, Adi, Adams, Nathan J., Austin, Duncan, Arendt, Richard G., Beacom, John F., Bhatawdekar, Rachana A., Bradley, Larry D., Broadhurst, Thomas J., Cheng, Cheng, Civano, Francesca, Dai, Liang, Dole, Herve, D'Silva, Jordan C. J., Duncan, Kenneth J., Fazio, Giovanni G., Ferrami, Giovanni, Ferreira, Leonardo, Finkelstein, Steven L., Furtak, Lukas J., Gim, Hansung B., Griffiths, Alex, Hammel, Heidi B., Harrington, Kevin C., Hathi, Nimish P., Holwerda, Benne W., Honor, Rachel, Huang, Jia-Sheng, Hyun, Minhee, Im, Myungshin, Joshi, Bhavin A., Kamieneski, Patrick S., Kelly, Patrick, Larson, Rebecca L., Li, Juno, Lim, Jeremy, Ma, Zhiyuan, Maksym, Peter, Manzoni, Giorgio, Meena, Ashish Kumar, Milam, Stefanie N., Nonino, Mario, Pascale, Massimo, Pierel, Justin D. R., Petric, Andreea, Polletta, Maria del Carmen, Rottgering, Huub J. A., Rutkowski, Michael J., Smail, Ian, Straughn, Amber N., Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Swirbul, Andi, Trussler, James A. A., Wang, Lifan, Welch, Brian, Wyithe, J. Stuart B., Yun, Min, Zackrisson, Erik, Zhang, Jiashuo, and Zhao, Xiurui

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS") project. PEARLS uses up to eight NIRCam filters to survey several prime extragalactic survey areas: two fields at the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP); seven gravitationally lensing clusters; two high redshift proto-clusters; and the iconic backlit VV 191 galaxy system to map its dust attenuation. PEARLS also includes NIRISS spectra for one of the NEP fields and NIRSpec spectra of two high-redshift quasars. The main goal of PEARLS is to study the epoch of galaxy assembly, AGN growth, and First Light. Five fields, the JWST NEP Time-Domain Field (TDF), IRAC Dark Field (IDF), and three lensing clusters, will be observed in up to four epochs over a year. The cadence and sensitivity of the imaging data are ideally suited to find faint variable objects such as weak AGN, high-redshift supernovae, and cluster caustic transits. Both NEP fields have sightlines through our Galaxy, providing significant numbers of very faint brown dwarfs whose proper motions can be studied. Observations from the first spoke in the NEP TDF are public. This paper presents our first PEARLS observations, their NIRCam data reduction and analysis, our first object catalogs, the 0.9-4.5 $\mu$m galaxy counts and Integrated Galaxy Light. We assess the JWST sky brightness in 13 NIRCam filters, yielding our first constraints to diffuse light at 0.9-4.5 {\mu}m. PEARLS is designed to be of lasting benefit to the community., Comment: Accepted to AJ, comments welcome. We ask anyone who uses our public PEARLS (NEP TDF) data to refer to this overview paper

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2022
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12. CEERS Key Paper III: The Resolved Host Properties of AGN at 3 < z < 5 with JWST

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Kocevski, Dale D., Barro, Guillermo, McGrath, Elizabeth J., Finkelstein, Steven L., Bagley, Micaela B., Ferguson, Henry C., Jogee, Shardha, Yang, Guang, Dickinson, Mark, Hathi, Nimish P., Backhaus, Bren E., Bell, Eric F., Bisigello, Laura, Buat, Véronique, Burgarella, Denis, Casey, Caitlin M., Cleri, Nikko J., Cooper, M. C., Costantin, Luca, Croton, Darren, Daddi, Emanuele, Fontana, Adriano, Fujimoto, Seiji, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Giavalisco, Mauro, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Guo, Yuchen, Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Hirschmann, Michaela, Holwerda, Benne W., Huertas-Company, Marc, Hutchison, Taylor A., Iyer, Kartheik G., Jones, Brenda, Juneau, Stéphanie, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Kewley, Lisa J., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Koekemoer, Anton M., Kurczynski, Peter, Bail, Aurélien Le, Long, Arianna S., Lotz, Jennifer M., Lucas, Ray A., Papovich, Casey, Pentericci, Laura, Pérez-González, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Rafelski, Marc, Ravindranath, Swara, Somerville, Rachel S., Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Wilkins, Stephen M., Wuyts, Stijn, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, and Zavala, Jorge A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We report on the host properties of five X-ray luminous Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identified at $3 < z < 5$ in the first epoch of imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS). Each galaxy has been imaged with the \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (\jwst) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which provides spatially resolved, rest-frame optical morphologies at these redshifts. We also derive stellar masses and star formation rates for each host galaxy by fitting its spectral energy distribution using a combination of galaxy and AGN templates. The AGN hosts have an average stellar mass of ${\rm log}(M_{*}/{\rm M_{\odot}} )= 11.0$, making them among the most massive galaxies detected at this redshift range in the current CEERS pointings, even after accounting for nuclear light from the AGN. We find that three of the AGN hosts have spheroidal morphologies, one is a bulge-dominated disk and one host is dominated by point-like emission. None are found to show strong morphological disturbances that might indicate a recent interaction or merger event. Notably, all four of the resolved hosts have rest-frame optical colors consistent with a quenched or post-starburst stellar population. The presence of AGN in passively evolving galaxies at $z>3$ is significant because a rapid feedback mechanism is required in most semi-analytic models and cosmological simulations to explain the growing population of massive quiescent galaxies observed at these redshifts. Our findings are in general agreement with this picture and show that AGN can continue to inject energy into these systems after their star formation is curtailed, possibly helping to maintain their quiescent state., Comment: Submitted to ApJ; 12 Pages, 6 Figures

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2022
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13. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in Simulated CEERS NIRCam Images using Random Forests

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Rose, Caitlin, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Snyder, Gregory F., Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Bagley, Micaela B., Calabrò, Antonello, Cleri, Nikko J., Cooper, M. C., Costantin, Luca, Croton, Darren, Dickinson, Mark, Finkelstein, Steven L., Häußler, Boris, Holwerda, Benne W., Koekemoer, Anton M., Kurczynski, Peter, Lucas, Ray A., Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, Papovich, Casey, Pérez-González, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Somerville, Rachel S., Straughn, Amber N., and Tacchella, Sandro

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Identifying merging galaxies is an important - but difficult - step in galaxy evolution studies. We present random forest classifications of galaxy mergers from simulated JWST images based on various standard morphological parameters. We describe (a) constructing the simulated images from IllustrisTNG and the Santa Cruz SAM, and modifying them to mimic future CEERS observations as well as nearly noiseless observations, (b) measuring morphological parameters from these images, and (c) constructing and training the random forests using the merger history information for the simulated galaxies available from IllustrisTNG. The random forests correctly classify $\sim60\%$ of non-merging and merging galaxies across $0.5 < z < 4.0$. Rest-frame asymmetry parameters appear more important for lower redshift merger classifications, while rest-frame bulge and clump parameters appear more important for higher redshift classifications. Adjusting the classification probability threshold does not improve the performance of the forests. Finally, the shape and slope of the resulting merger fraction and merger rate derived from the random forest classifications match with theoretical Illustris predictions, but are underestimated by a factor of $\sim 0.5$., Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ

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2022
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14. Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations

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Zavala, Jorge A., Buat, Veronique, Casey, Caitlin M., Burgarella, Denis, Finkelstein, Steven L., Bagley, Micaela B., Ciesla, Laure, Daddi, Emanuele, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Franco, Maximilien, Jim'enez-Andrade, E. F., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Koekemoer, Anton M., Bail, Aurélien Le, Murphy, E. J., Papovich, Casey, Tacchella, Sandro, Wilkins, Stephen M., Aretxaga, Itziar, Behroozi, Peter, Champagne, Jaclyn B., Fontana, Adriano, Giavalisco, Mauro, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Kewley, Lisa J., Kocevski, Dale D., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Lotz, Jennifer M., Pentericci, Laura, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Ravindranath, Swara, Somerville, Rachel S., Trump, Jonathan R., Yang, Guang, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Almaini, Omar, Amorin, Ricardo O., Annunziatella, Marianna, Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Backhaus, Bren E., Barro, Guillermo, Bell, Eric F., Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bisigello, Laura, Buitrago, Fernando, Calabro, Antonello, Castellano, Marco, Ortiz, Oscar A. Chavez, Chworowsky, Katherine, Cleri, Nikko J., Cohen, Seth H., Cole, Justin W., Cooke, Kevin C., Cooper, M. C., Cooray, Asantha R., Costantin, Luca, Cox, Isabella G., Croton, Darren, Dave, Romeel, de la Vega, Alexander, Dekel, Avishai, Elbaz, David, Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente, Fernández, Vital, Finkelstein, Keely D., Freundlich, Jonathan, Fujimoto, Seiji, García-Argumánez, Ángela, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Gómez-Guijarro, Carlos, Guo, Yuchen, Hamilton, Timothy S., Hathi, Nimish P., Holwerda, Benne W., Hirschmann, Michaela, Huertas-Company, Marc, Hutchison, Taylor A., Iyer, Kartheik G., Jaskot, Anne E., Jha, Saurabh W., Jogee, Shardha, Juneau, Stéphanie, Jung, Intae, Kassin, Susan A., Kurczynski, Peter, Larson, Rebecca L., Leung, Gene C. K., Long, Arianna, Lucas, Ray A., Magnelli, Benjamin, Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, Matharu, Jasleen, McGrath, Elizabeth J., McIntosh, Daniel H., Medrano, Aubrey, Merlin, Emiliano, Mobasher, Bahram, Morales, Alexa M., Newman, Jeffrey A., Nicholls, David C., Pandya, Viraj, Rafelski, Marc, Ronayne, Kaila, Rose, Caitlin, Ryan Jr., Russell E., Santini, Paola, Seillé, Lise-Marie, Shah, Ekta A., Shen, Lu, Simons, Raymond C., Snyder, Gregory F., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Straughn, Amber N., Teplitz, Harry I., Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Vega-Ferrero, Jesús, Wang, Weichen, Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., and Wuyts, Stijn

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates at z>10 are rapidly being identified in JWST/NIRCam observations. Due to the (redshifted) break produced by neutral hydrogen absorption of rest-frame UV photons, these sources are expected to drop out in the bluer filters while being well detected in redder filters. However, here we show that dust-enshrouded star-forming galaxies at lower redshifts (z<7) may also mimic the near-infrared (near-IR) colors of z>10 LBGs, representing potential contaminants in LBG candidate samples. First, we analyze CEERS-DSFG-1, a NIRCam dropout undetected in the F115W and F150W filters but detected at longer wavelengths. Combining the JWST data with (sub)millimeter constraints, including deep NOEMA interferometric observations, we show that this source is a dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) at z~5.1. We also present a tentative 2.6sigma SCUBA-2 detection at 850um around a recently identified z~16 LBG candidate in the same field and show that, if the emission is real and associated with this candidate, the available photometry is consistent with a z~5 dusty galaxy with strong nebular emission lines despite its blue near-IR colors. Further observations on this candidate are imperative to mitigate the low confidence of this tentative submillimeter emission and its positional uncertainty. Our analysis shows that robust (sub)millimeter detections of NIRCam dropout galaxies likely imply z=4-6 redshift solutions, where the observed near-IR break would be the result of a strong rest-frame optical Balmer break combined with high dust attenuation and strong nebular line emission, rather than the rest-frame UV Lyman break. This provides evidence that DSFGs may contaminate searches for ultra high-redshift LBG candidates from JWST observations., Comment: Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (updated to match the published version)

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2022
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15. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging

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Finkelstein, Steven L., Bagley, Micaela B., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Papovich, Casey, Burgarella, Denis, Kocevski, Dale D., Huertas-Company, Marc, Iyer, Kartheik G., Larson, Rebecca L., Pérez-González, Pablo G., Rose, Caitlin, Tacchella, Sandro, Wilkins, Stephen M., Chworowsky, Katherine, Medrano, Aubrey, Morales, Alexa M., Somerville, Rachel S., Yung, L. Y. Aaron, Fontana, Adriano, Giavalisco, Mauro, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Kewley, Lisa J., Koekemoer, Anton M., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Kurczynski, Peter, Lotz, Jennifer M., Pentericci, Laura, Pirzkal, Nor, Ravindranath, Swara, Ryan Jr., Russell E., Trump, Jonathan R., Yang, Guang, Almaini, Omar, Amorín, Ricardo O., Annunziatella, Marianna, Backhaus, Bren E., Barro, Guillermo, Behroozi, Peter, Bell, Eric F., Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bisigello, Laura, Bromm, Volker, Buat, Véronique, Buitrago, Fernando, Calabró, Antonello, Casey, Caitlin M., Castellano, Marco, Ortiz, Óscar A. Chávez, Ciesla, Laure, Cleri, Nikko J., Cohen, Seth H., Cole, Justin W., Cooke, Kevin C., Cooper, M. C., Cooray, Asantha R., Costantin, Luca, Cox, Isabella G., Croton, Darren, Daddi, Emanuele, Davé, Romeel, de la Vega, Alexander, Dekel, Avishai, Elbaz, David, Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente, Faber, Sandra M., Fernández, Vital, Finkelstein, Keely D., Freundlich, Jonathan, Fujimoto, Seiji, García-Argumánez, Ángela, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Gómez-Guijarro, Carlos, Guo, Yuchen, Hamilton, Timothy S., Hathi, Nimish P., Holwerda, Benne W., Hirschmann, Michaela, Hutchison, Taylor A., Jaskot, Anne, Jha, Saurabh W., Jogee, Shardha, Juneau, Stéphanie, Jung, Intae, Kassin, Susan A., Bail, Aurélien Le, Leung, Gene C. K., Lucas, Ray A., Magnelli, Benjamin, Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, Matharu, Jasleen, McGrath, Elizabeth J., McIntosh, Daniel H., Merlin, Emiliano, Mobasher, Bahram, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nicholls, David C., Pandya, Viraj, Rafelski, Marc, Ronayne, Kaila, Santini, Paola, Seillé, Lise-Marie, Shah, Ekta A., Shen, Lu, Simons, Raymond C., Snyder, Gregory F., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Straughn, Amber N., Teplitz, Harry I., Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Vega-Ferrero, Jesús, Wang, Weichen, Weiner, Benjamin J., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Wuyts, Stijn, and Zavala, Jorge A.

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z~12 in the first epoch of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. Following conservative selection criteria we identify a source with a robust z_phot = 11.8^+0.3_-0.2 (1-sigma uncertainty) with m_F200W=27.3, and >7-sigma detections in five filters. The source is not detected at lambda < 1.4um in deep imaging from both HST and JWST, and has faint ~3-sigma detections in JWST F150W and HST F160W, which signal a Ly-alpha break near the red edge of both filters, implying z~12. This object (Maisie's Galaxy) exhibits F115W-F200W > 1.9 mag (2-sigma lower limit) with a blue continuum slope, resulting in 99.6% of the photo-z PDF favoring z > 11. All data quality images show no artifacts at the candidate's position, and independent analyses consistently find a strong preference for z > 11. Its colors are inconsistent with Galactic stars, and it is resolved (r_h = 340 +/- 14 pc). Maisie's Galaxy has log M*/Msol ~ 8.5 and is highly star-forming (log sSFR ~ -8.2 yr^-1), with a blue rest-UV color (beta ~ -2.5) indicating little dust though not extremely low metallicity. While the presence of this source is in tension with most predictions, it agrees with empirical extrapolations assuming UV luminosity functions which smoothly decline with increasing redshift. Should followup spectroscopy validate this redshift, our Universe was already aglow with galaxies less than 400 Myr after the Big Bang., Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, ApJL in press. Summary of changes from original submission: Improvements in astrometry generated a weak detection in F150W that reduces the photo-z to 11.8 but does not increase the likelihood of lower-z solutions. A full discussion of changes from the original version is available at: https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/ceersdata/papers/Maisie_update.pdf

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2022
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16. The Physical Conditions of Emission-Line Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations

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Trump, Jonathan R., Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Simons, Raymond C., Backhaus, Bren E., Amorín, Ricardo O., Dickinson, Mark, Fernández, Vital, Papovich, Casey, Nicholls, David C., Kewley, Lisa J., Brunker, Samantha W., Salzer, John J., Wilkins, Stephen M., Almaini, Omar, Bagley, Micaela B., Berg, Danielle A., Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bisigello, Laura, Buat, Véronique, Burgarella, Denis, Calabrò, Antonello, Casey, Caitlin M., Ciesla, Laure, Cleri, Nikko J., Cole, Justin W., Cooper, M. C., Cooray, Asantha R., Costantin, Luca, Ferguson, Henry C., Finkelstein, Steven L., Fujimoto, Seiji, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gawiser, Eric, Giavalisco, Mauro, Grazian, Andrea, Grogin, Norman A., Hathi, Nimish P., Hirschmann, Michaela, Holwerda, Benne W., Huertas-Company, Marc, Hutchison, Taylor A., Jogee, Shardha, Juneau, Stéphanie, Jung, Intae, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Kirkpatrick, Allison, Koekemoer, Anton M., Lotz, Jennifer M., Lucas, Ray A., Magnelli, Benjamin, Matharu, Jasleen, Pérez-González, Pablo G., Pirzkal, Nor, Rafelski, Marc, Rose, Caitlin, Seillé, Lise-Marie, Somerville, Rachel S., Straughn, Amber N., Tacchella, Sandro, Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Weiner, Benjamin J., Wuyts, Stijn, Yung, L. Y. Aaron, and Zavala, Jorge A.

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five $z>5$ galaxies observed by the JWST Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in the SMACS 0723 Early Release Observations. We add several quality-control and post-processing steps to the NIRSpec pipeline reduction products in order to ensure reliable relative flux calibration of emission lines that are closely separated in wavelength, despite the uncertain \textit{absolute} spectrophotometry of the current version of the reductions. Compared to $z\sim3$ galaxies in the literature, the $z>5$ galaxies have similar [OIII]$\lambda$5008/H$\beta$ ratios, similar [OIII]$\lambda$4364/H$\gamma$ ratios, and higher ($\sim$0.5 dex) [NeIII]$\lambda$3870/[OII]$\lambda$3728 ratios. We compare the observations to MAPPINGS V photoionization models and find that the measured [NeIII]$\lambda$3870/[OII]$\lambda$3728, [OIII]$\lambda$4364/H$\gamma$, and [OIII]$\lambda$5008/H$\beta$ emission-line ratios are consistent with an interstellar medium that has very high ionization ($\log(Q) \simeq 8-9$, units of cm~s$^{-1}$), low metallicity ($Z/Z_\odot \lesssim 0.2$), and very high pressure ($\log(P/k) \simeq 8-9$, units of cm$^{-3}$). The combination of [OIII]$\lambda$4364/H$\gamma$ and [OIII]$\lambda$(4960+5008)/H$\beta$ line ratios indicate very high electron temperatures of $4.1<\log(T_e/{\rm K})<4.4$, further implying metallicities of $Z/Z_\odot \lesssim 0.2$ with the application of low-redshift calibrations for ``$T_e$-based'' metallicities. These observations represent a tantalizing new view of the physical conditions of the interstellar medium in galaxies at cosmic dawn., Comment: Accepted for publication in AAS Journals. 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables

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2022
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17. The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

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Rigby, Jane, Perrin, Marshall, McElwain, Michael, Kimble, Randy, Friedman, Scott, Lallo, Matt, Doyon, René, Feinberg, Lee, Ferruit, Pierre, Glasse, Alistair, Rieke, Marcia, Rieke, George, Wright, Gillian, Willott, Chris, Colon, Knicole, Milam, Stefanie, Neff, Susan, Stark, Christopher, Valenti, Jeff, Abell, Jim, Abney, Faith, Abul-Huda, Yasin, Acton, D. Scott, Adams, Evan, Adler, David, Aguilar, Jonathan, Ahmed, Nasif, Albert, Loïc, Alberts, Stacey, Aldridge, David, Allen, Marsha, Altenburg, Martin, Marquez, Javier Alvarez, de Oliveira, Catarina Alves, Andersen, Greg, Anderson, Harry, Anderson, Sara, Argyriou, Ioannis, Armstrong, Amber, Arribas, Santiago, Artigau, Etienne, Arvai, Amanda, Atkinson, Charles, Bacon, Gregory, Bair, Thomas, Banks, Kimberly, Barrientes, Jaclyn, Barringer, Bruce, Bartosik, Peter, Bast, William, Baudoz, Pierre, Beatty, Thomas, Bechtold, Katie, Beck, Tracy, Bergeron, Eddie, Bergkoetter, Matthew, Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Birkmann, Stephan, Blazek, Ronald, Blome, Claire, Boccaletti, Anthony, Boeker, Torsten, Boia, John, Bonaventura, Nina, Bond, Nicholas, Bosley, Kari, Boucarut, Ray, Bourque, Matthew, Bouwman, Jeroen, Bower, Gary, Bowers, Charles, Boyer, Martha, Bradley, Larry, Brady, Greg, Braun, Hannah, Breda, David, Bresnahan, Pamela, Bright, Stacey, Britt, Christopher, Bromenschenkel, Asa, Brooks, Brian, Brooks, Keira, Brown, Bob, Brown, Matthew, Brown, Patricia, Bunker, Andy, Burger, Matthew, Bushouse, Howard, Cale, Steven, Cameron, Alex, Cameron, Peter, Canipe, Alicia, Caplinger, James, Caputo, Francis, Cara, Mihai, Carey, Larkin, Carniani, Stefano, Carrasquilla, Maria, Carruthers, Margaret, Case, Michael, Catherine, Riggs, Chance, Don, Chapman, George, Charlot, Stéphane, Charlow, Brian, Chayer, Pierre, Chen, Bin, Cherinka, Brian, Chichester, Sarah, Chilton, Zack, Chonis, Taylor, Clampin, Mark, Clark, Charles, Clark, Kerry, Coe, Dan, Coleman, Benee, Comber, Brian, Comeau, Tom, Connolly, Dennis, Cooper, James, Cooper, Rachel, Coppock, Eric, Correnti, Matteo, Cossou, Christophe, Coulais, Alain, Coyle, Laura, Cracraft, Misty, Curti, Mirko, Cuturic, Steven, Davis, Katherine, Davis, Michael, Dean, Bruce, DeLisa, Amy, deMeester, Wim, Dencheva, Nadia, Dencheva, Nadezhda, DePasquale, Joseph, Deschenes, Jeremy, Detre, Örs Hunor, Diaz, Rosa, Dicken, Dan, DiFelice, Audrey, Dillman, Matthew, Dixon, William, Doggett, Jesse, Donaldson, Tom, Douglas, Rob, DuPrie, Kimberly, Dupuis, Jean, Durning, John, Easmin, Nilufar, Eck, Weston, Edeani, Chinwe, Egami, Eiichi, Ehrenwinkler, Ralf, Eisenhamer, Jonathan, Eisenhower, Michael, Elie, Michelle, Elliott, James, Elliott, Kyle, Ellis, Tracy, Engesser, Michael, Espinoza, Nestor, Etienne, Odessa, Etxaluze, Mireya, Falini, Patrick, Feeney, Matthew, Ferry, Malcolm, Filippazzo, Joseph, Fincham, Brian, Fix, Mees, Flagey, Nicolas, Florian, Michael, Flynn, Jim, Fontanella, Erin, Ford, Terrance, Forshay, Peter, Fox, Ori, Franz, David, Fu, Henry, Fullerton, Alexander, Galkin, Sergey, Galyer, Anthony, Marin, Macarena Garcia, Gardner, Jonathan, Gardner, Lisa, Garland, Dennis, Garrett, Bruce, Gasman, Danny, Gaspar, Andras, Gaudreau, Daniel, Gauthier, Peter, Geers, Vincent, Geithner, Paul, Gennaro, Mario, Giardino, Giovanna, Girard, Julien, Giuliano, Mark, Glassmire, Kirk, Glauser, Adrian, Glazer, Stuart, Godfrey, John, Golimowski, David, Gollnitz, David, Gong, Fan, Gonzaga, Shireen, Gordon, Michael, Gordon, Karl, Goudfrooij, Paul, Greene, Thomas, Greenhouse, Matthew, Grimaldi, Stefano, Groebner, Andrew, Grundy, Timothy, Guillard, Pierre, Gutman, Irvin, Ha, Kong Q., Haderlein, Peter, Hagedorn, Andria, Hainline, Kevin, Haley, Craig, Hami, Maryam, Hamilton, Forrest, Hammel, Heidi, Hansen, Carl, Harkins, Tom, Harr, Michael, Hart, Jessica, Hart, Quyen, Hartig, George, Hashimoto, Ryan, Haskins, Sujee, Hathaway, William, Havey, Keith, Hayden, Brian, Hecht, Karen, Heller-Boyer, Chris, Henriques, Caroline, Henry, Alaina, Hermann, Karl, Hernandez, Scarlin, Hesman, Brigette, Hicks, Brian, Hilbert, Bryan, Hines, Dean, Hoffman, Melissa, Holfeltz, Sherie, Holler, Bryan J., Hoppa, Jennifer, Hott, Kyle, Howard, Joseph, Howard, Rick, Hunter, Alexander, Hunter, David, Hurst, Brendan, Husemann, Bernd, Hustak, Leah, Ignat, Luminita Ilinca, Illingworth, Garth, Irish, Sandra, Jackson, Wallace, Jahromi, Amir, Jakobsen, Peter, James, LeAndrea, James, Bryan, Januszewski, William, Jenkins, Ann, Jirdeh, Hussein, Johnson, Phillip, Johnson, Timothy, Jones, Vicki, Jones, Ron, Jones, Danny, Jones, Olivia, Jordan, Ian, Jordan, Margaret, Jurczyk, Sarah, Jurling, Alden, Kaleida, Catherine, Kalmanson, Phillip, Kammerer, Jens, Kang, Huijo, Kao, Shaw-Hong, Karakla, Diane, Kavanagh, Patrick, Kelly, Doug, Kendrew, Sarah, Kennedy, Herbert, Kenny, Deborah, Keski-kuha, Ritva, Keyes, Charles, Kidwell, Richard, Kinzel, Wayne, Kirk, Jeff, Kirkpatrick, Mark, Kirshenblat, Danielle, Klaassen, Pamela, Knapp, Bryan, Knight, J. Scott, Knollenberg, Perry, Koehler, Robert, Koekemoer, Anton, Kovacs, Aiden, Kulp, Trey, Kumari, Nimisha, Kyprianou, Mark, La Massa, Stephanie, Labador, Aurora, Ortega, Alvaro Labiano, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Lajoie, Charles-Phillipe, Lallo, Matthew, Lam, May, Lamb, Tracy, Lambros, Scott, Lampenfield, Richard, Langston, James, Larson, Kirsten, Law, David, Lawrence, Jon, Lee, David, Leisenring, Jarron, Lepo, Kelly, Leveille, Michael, Levenson, Nancy, Levine, Marie, Levy, Zena, Lewis, Dan, Lewis, Hannah, Libralato, Mattia, Lightsey, Paul, Link, Miranda, Liu, Lily, Lo, Amy, Lockwood, Alexandra, Logue, Ryan, Long, Chris, Long, Douglas, Loomis, Charles, Lopez-Caniego, Marcos, Alvarez, Jose Lorenzo, Love-Pruitt, Jennifer, Lucy, Adrian, Luetzgendorf, Nora, Maghami, Peiman, Maiolino, Roberto, Major, Melissa, Malla, Sunita, Malumuth, Eliot, Manjavacas, Elena, Mannfolk, Crystal, Marrione, Amanda, Marston, Anthony, Martel, André, Maschmann, Marc, Masci, Gregory, Masciarelli, Michaela, Maszkiewicz, Michael, Mather, John, McKenzie, Kenny, McLean, Brian, McMaster, Matthew, Melbourne, Katie, Meléndez, Marcio, Menzel, Michael, Merz, Kaiya, Meyett, Michele, Meza, Luis, Miskey, Cherie, Misselt, Karl, Moller, Christopher, Morrison, Jane, Morse, Ernie, Moseley, Harvey, Mosier, Gary, Mountain, Matt, Mueckay, Julio, Mueller, Michael, Mullally, Susan, Murphy, Jess, Murray, Katherine, Murray, Claire, Mustelier, David, Muzerolle, James, Mycroft, Matthew, Myers, Richard, Myrick, Kaila, Nanavati, Shashvat, Nance, Elizabeth, Nayak, Omnarayani, Naylor, Bret, Nelan, Edmund, Nickson, Bryony, Nielson, Alethea, Nieto-Santisteban, Maria, Nikolov, Nikolay, Noriega-Crespo, Alberto, O'Shaughnessy, Brian, O'Sullivan, Brian, Ochs, William, Ogle, Patrick, Oleszczuk, Brenda, Olmsted, Joseph, Osborne, Shannon, Ottens, Richard, Owens, Beverly, Pacifici, Camilla, Pagan, Alyssa, Page, James, Park, Sang, Parrish, Keith, Patapis, Polychronis, Paul, Lee, Pauly, Tyler, Pavlovsky, Cheryl, Pedder, Andrew, Peek, Matthew, Pena-Guerrero, Maria, Pennanen, Konstantin, Perez, Yesenia, Perna, Michele, Perriello, Beth, Phillips, Kevin, Pietraszkiewicz, Martin, Pinaud, Jean-Paul, Pirzkal, Norbert, Pitman, Joseph, Piwowar, Aidan, Platais, Vera, Player, Danielle, Plesha, Rachel, Pollizi, Joe, Polster, Ethan, Pontoppidan, Klaus, Porterfield, Blair, Proffitt, Charles, Pueyo, Laurent, Pulliam, Christine, Quirt, Brian, Neira, Irma Quispe, Alarcon, Rafael Ramos, Ramsay, Leah, Rapp, Greg, Rapp, Robert, Rauscher, Bernard, Ravindranath, Swara, Rawle, Timothy, Regan, Michael, Reichard, Timothy A., Reis, Carl, Ressler, Michael E., Rest, Armin, Reynolds, Paul, Rhue, Timothy, Richon, Karen, Rickman, Emily, Ridgaway, Michael, Ritchie, Christine, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robberto, Massimo, Robinson, Gregory, Robinson, Michael, Robinson, Orion, Rock, Frank, Rodriguez, David, Del Pino, Bruno Rodriguez, Roellig, Thomas, Rohrbach, Scott, Roman, Anthony, Romelfanger, Fred, Rose, Perry, Roteliuk, Anthony, Roth, Marc, Rothwell, Braden, Rowlands, Neil, Roy, Arpita, Royer, Pierre, Royle, Patricia, Rui, Chunlei, Rumler, Peter, Runnels, Joel, Russ, Melissa, Rustamkulov, Zafar, Ryden, Grant, Ryer, Holly, Sabata, Modhumita, Sabatke, Derek, Sabbi, Elena, Samuelson, Bridget, Sapp, Benjamin, Sappington, Bradley, Sargent, B., Sauer, Arne, Scheithauer, Silvia, Schlawin, Everett, Schlitz, Joseph, Schmitz, Tyler, Schneider, Analyn, Schreiber, Jürgen, Schulze, Vonessa, Schwab, Ryan, Scott, John, Sembach, Kenneth, Shanahan, Clare, Shaughnessy, Bryan, Shaw, Richard, Shawger, Nanci, Shay, Christopher, Sheehan, Evan, Shen, Sharon, Sherman, Allan, Shiao, Bernard, Shih, Hsin-Yi, Shivaei, Irene, Sienkiewicz, Matthew, Sing, David, Sirianni, Marco, Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Skipper, Joy, Sloan, Gregory, Slocum, Christine, Slowinski, Steven, Smith, Erin, Smith, Eric, Smith, Denise, Smith, Corbett, Snyder, Gregory, Soh, Warren, Sohn, Tony, Soto, Christian, Spencer, Richard, Stallcup, Scott, Stansberry, John, Starr, Carl, Starr, Elysia, Stewart, Alphonso, Stiavelli, Massimo, Straughn, Amber, Strickland, David, Stys, Jeff, Summers, Francis, Sun, Fengwu, Sunnquist, Ben, Swade, Daryl, Swam, Michael, Swaters, Robert, Swoish, Robby, Taylor, Joanna M., Taylor, Rolanda, Plate, Maurice Te, Tea, Mason, Teague, Kelly, Telfer, Randal, Temim, Tea, Thatte, Deepashri, Thompson, Christopher, Thompson, Linda, Thomson, Shaun, Tikkanen, Tuomo, Tippet, William, Todd, Connor, Toolan, Sharon, Tran, Hien, Trejo, Edwin, Truong, Justin, Tsukamoto, Chris, Tustain, Samuel, Tyra, Harrison, Ubeda, Leonardo, Underwood, Kelli, Uzzo, Michael, Van Campen, Julie, Vandal, Thomas, Vandenbussche, Bart, Vila, Begoña, Volk, Kevin, Wahlgren, Glenn, Waldman, Mark, Walker, Chanda, Wander, Michel, Warfield, Christine, Warner, Gerald, Wasiak, Matthew, Watkins, Mitchell, Weaver, Andrew, Weilert, Mark, Weiser, Nick, Weiss, Ben, Weissman, Sarah, Welty, Alan, West, Garrett, Wheate, Lauren, Wheatley, Elizabeth, Wheeler, Thomas, White, Rick, Whiteaker, Kevin, Whitehouse, Paul, Whiteleather, Jennifer, Whitman, William, Williams, Christina, Willmer, Christopher, Willoughby, Scott, Wilson, Andrew, Wirth, Gregory, Wislowski, Emily, Wolf, Erin, Wolfe, David, Wolff, Schuyler, Workman, Bill, Wright, Ray, Wu, Carl, Wu, Rai, Wymer, Kristen, Yates, Kayla, Yeager, Christopher, Yeates, Jared, Yerger, Ethan, Yoon, Jinmi, Young, Alice, Yu, Susan, Zak, Dean, Zeidler, Peter, Zhou, Julia, Zielinski, Thomas, Zincke, Cristian, and Zonak, Stephanie

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies., Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb293

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2022
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18. UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

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Batsuren, Khuyagbaatar, Goldman, Omer, Khalifa, Salam, Habash, Nizar, Kieraś, Witold, Bella, Gábor, Leonard, Brian, Nicolai, Garrett, Gorman, Kyle, Ate, Yustinus Ghanggo, Ryskina, Maria, Mielke, Sabrina J., Budianskaya, Elena, El-Khaissi, Charbel, Pimentel, Tiago, Gasser, Michael, Lane, William, Raj, Mohit, Coler, Matt, Samame, Jaime Rafael Montoya, Camaiteri, Delio Siticonatzi, Sagot, Benoît, Rojas, Esaú Zumaeta, Francis, Didier López, Oncevay, Arturo, Bautista, Juan López, Villegas, Gema Celeste Silva, Hennigen, Lucas Torroba, Ek, Adam, Guriel, David, Dirix, Peter, Bernardy, Jean-Philippe, Scherbakov, Andrey, Bayyr-ool, Aziyana, Anastasopoulos, Antonios, Zariquiey, Roberto, Sheifer, Karina, Ganieva, Sofya, Cruz, Hilaria, Karahóǧa, Ritván, Markantonatou, Stella, Pavlidis, George, Plugaryov, Matvey, Klyachko, Elena, Salehi, Ali, Angulo, Candy, Baxi, Jatayu, Krizhanovsky, Andrew, Krizhanovskaya, Natalia, Salesky, Elizabeth, Vania, Clara, Ivanova, Sardana, White, Jennifer, Maudslay, Rowan Hall, Valvoda, Josef, Zmigrod, Ran, Czarnowska, Paula, Nikkarinen, Irene, Salchak, Aelita, Bhatt, Brijesh, Straughn, Christopher, Liu, Zoey, Washington, Jonathan North, Pinter, Yuval, Ataman, Duygu, Wolinski, Marcin, Suhardijanto, Totok, Yablonskaya, Anna, Stoehr, Niklas, Dolatian, Hossep, Nuriah, Zahroh, Ratan, Shyam, Tyers, Francis M., Ponti, Edoardo M., Aiton, Grant, Arora, Aryaman, Hatcher, Richard J., Kumar, Ritesh, Young, Jeremiah, Rodionova, Daria, Yemelina, Anastasia, Andrushko, Taras, Marchenko, Igor, Mashkovtseva, Polina, Serova, Alexandra, Prud'hommeaux, Emily, Nepomniashchaya, Maria, Giunchiglia, Fausto, Chodroff, Eleanor, Hulden, Mans, Silfverberg, Miikka, McCarthy, Arya D., Yarowsky, David, Cotterell, Ryan, Tsarfaty, Reut, and Vylomova, Ekaterina

Subjects
Computer Science - Computation and Language
Abstract

The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse world languages. The project comprises two major thrusts: a language-independent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data in diverse languages realizing that schema. This paper presents the expansions and improvements made on several fronts over the last couple of years (since McCarthy et al. (2020)). Collaborative efforts by numerous linguists have added 67 new languages, including 30 endangered languages. We have implemented several improvements to the extraction pipeline to tackle some issues, e.g. missing gender and macron information. We have also amended the schema to use a hierarchical structure that is needed for morphological phenomena like multiple-argument agreement and case stacking, while adding some missing morphological features to make the schema more inclusive. In light of the last UniMorph release, we also augmented the database with morpheme segmentation for 16 languages. Lastly, this new release makes a push towards inclusion of derivational morphology in UniMorph by enriching the data and annotation schema with instances representing derivational processes from MorphyNet., Comment: LREC 2022; The first two authors made equal contributions

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2022

19. JWST PEARLS. Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

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Windhorst, Rogier A, Cohen, Seth H, Jansen, Rolf A, Summers, Jake, Tompkins, Scott, Conselice, Christopher J, Driver, Simon P, Yan, Haojing, Coe, Dan, Frye, Brenda, Grogin, Norman, Koekemoer, Anton, Marshall, Madeline A, O’Brien, Rosalia, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Russell E, Willmer, Christopher NA, Carleton, Timothy, Diego, Jose M, Keel, William C, Porto, Paolo, Redshaw, Caleb, Scheller, Sydney, Wilkins, Stephen M, Willner, SP, Zitrin, Adi, Adams, Nathan J, Austin, Duncan, Arendt, Richard G, Beacom, John F, Bhatawdekar, Rachana A, Bradley, Larry D, Broadhurst, Tom, Cheng, Cheng, Civano, Francesca, Dai, Liang, Dole, Hervé, D’Silva, Jordan CJ, Duncan, Kenneth J, Fazio, Giovanni G, Ferrami, Giovanni, Ferreira, Leonardo, Finkelstein, Steven L, Furtak, Lukas J, Gim, Hansung B, Griffiths, Alex, Hammel, Heidi B, Harrington, Kevin C, Hathi, Nimish P, Holwerda, Benne W, Honor, Rachel, Huang, Jia-Sheng, Hyun, Minhee, Im, Myungshin, Joshi, Bhavin A, Kamieneski, Patrick S, Kelly, Patrick, Larson, Rebecca L, Li, Juno, Lim, Jeremy, Ma, Zhiyuan, Maksym, Peter, Manzoni, Giorgio, Meena, Ashish Kumar, Milam, Stefanie N, Nonino, Mario, Pascale, Massimo, Petric, Andreea, Pierel, Justin DR, del Carmen Polletta, Maria, Röttgering, Huub JA, Rutkowski, Michael J, Smail, Ian, Straughn, Amber N, Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Swirbul, Andi, Trussler, James AA, Wang, Lifan, Welch, Brian, Wyithe, J Stuart B, Yun, Min, Zackrisson, Erik, Zhang, Jiashuo, and Zhao, Xiurui

Subjects
Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abstract

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST “Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science” (PEARLS) project. PEARLS uses up to eight NIRCam filters to survey several prime extragalactic survey areas: two fields at the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP); seven gravitationally lensing clusters; two high redshift protoclusters; and the iconic backlit VV 191 galaxy system to map its dust attenuation. PEARLS also includes NIRISS spectra for one of the NEP fields and NIRSpec spectra of two high-redshift quasars. The main goal of PEARLS is to study the epoch of galaxy assembly, active galactic nucleus (AGN) growth, and First Light. Five fields—the JWST NEP Time-Domain Field (TDF), IRAC Dark Field, and three lensing clusters—will be observed in up to four epochs over a year. The cadence and sensitivity of the imaging data are ideally suited to find faint variable objects such as weak AGN, high-redshift supernovae, and cluster caustic transits. Both NEP fields have sightlines through our Galaxy, providing significant numbers of very faint brown dwarfs whose proper motions can be studied. Observations from the first spoke in the NEP TDF are public. This paper presents our first PEARLS observations, their NIRCam data reduction and analysis, our first object catalogs, the 0.9-4.5 μm galaxy counts and Integrated Galaxy Light. We assess the JWST sky brightness in 13 NIRCam filters, yielding our first constraints to diffuse light at 0.9-4.5 μm. PEARLS is designed to be of lasting benefit to the community.

Published
2023

21. CLEAR: Boosted Ly$\alpha$ Transmission of the Intergalactic Medium in UV bright Galaxies

Author

Jung, Intae, Papovich, Casey, Finkelstein, Steven L., Simons, Raymond C., Estrada-Carpenter, Vicente, Backhaus, Bren E., Cleri, Nikko J., Finlator, Kristian, Giavalisco, Mauro, Ji, Zhiyuan, Matharu, Jasleen, Momcheva, Ivelina, Straughn, Amber N., and Trump, Jonathan R.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Reionization is an inhomogeneous process, thought to begin in small ionized bubbles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around overdense regions of galaxies. Recent Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) studies during the epoch of reionization show growing evidence that ionized bubbles formed earlier around brighter galaxies, suggesting higher IGM transmission of Ly$\alpha$ from these galaxies. We investigate this problem using IR slitless spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide-Field Camera 3 (WFC3) G102 grism observations of 148 galaxies selected via photometric redshifts at $6.06$. Furthermore, we compare the redshift evolution of $W_0$ between galaxies at different UV luminosities. The UV-bright ($M_{\text{UV}}<-21$, or $L_{\text{UV}}>L^{*}$) galaxies show weaker evolution with a decrease of 0.4 ($\pm$0.2) dex in $W_0$ at $z>6$ while UV-faint ($M_{\text{UV}}>-21$, or $L_{\text{UV}}6$. Our results add to the accumulating evidence that UV-bright galaxies exhibit boosted Ly$\alpha$ transmission in the IGM, suggesting that reionization completes sooner in regions proximate to galaxies of higher UV luminosity., Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, 1st revision submitted to ApJ

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2021
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22. Quality corner: Safely using cephalosporins in almost all patients with penicillin allergies: Mini-review and suggested protocol to improve efficacy and surgical outcomes

Author

Teresa K.L. Boitano, Abinash Virk, J. Michael Straughn Jr, and Sean C. Dowdy

Subjects
Quality improvement, Antimicrobial stewardship, Surgical site infections, Postoperative care, Cost savings, Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract

Surgical site infections (SSI) are one of the most common gynecologic oncology postoperative complications and they have a significant deleterious impact on the healthcare system and in patients’ outcomes. Cefazolin is the recommended antibiotic in women undergoing gynecologic surgical procedures that require that require prophylaxis. However, 10–20% of patients may report a penicillin allergy which can result in administration of a less effective antibiotic. This quality review evaluated the literature around this common perioperative issue and demonstrated that healthcare teams should consider the implementation of a protocol to safely use cefazolin in most patients with a penicillin allergy. Overall, literature shows this is a safe adjustment and would improve antimicrobial stewardship, decrease SSI rates, avoid acute kidney injury, and increase cost savings.

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2024
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23. On the Nature of AGN and Star Formation Enhancement in the $z = 3.1$ SSA22 Protocluster: The HST WFC3 IR View

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Monson, Erik B., Lehmer, Bret D., Doore, Keith, Eufrasio, Rafael T., Bonine, Brett, Alexander, David M., Harrison, Chris M., Kubo, Mariko, Mantha, Kameswara B., Saez, Cristian, Straughn, Amber, and Umehata, Hideki

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We examine possible environmental sources of the enhanced star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in the $z = 3.09$ SSA22 protocluster using Hubble WFC3 F160W ($\sim1.6\ \rm \mu m$) observations of the SSA22 field, including new observations centered on eight X-ray selected protocluster AGN. To investigate the role of mergers in the observed AGN and star formation enhancement, we apply both quantitative (S\'ersic-fit and Gini-$M_{20}$) and visual morphological classifications to F160W images of protocluster Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) in the fields of the X-ray AGN and $z \sim 3$ field LBGs in SSA22 and GOODS-N. We find no statistically significant differences between the morphologies and merger fractions of protocluster and field LBGs, though we are limited by small number statistics in the protocluster. We also fit the UV-to-near-IR spectral energy distributions (SED) of F160W-detected protocluster and field LBGs to characterize their stellar masses and star formation histories (SFH). We find that the mean protocluster LBG is by a factor of $\sim2$ times more massive and more attenuated than the mean $z \sim 3$ field LBG. We take our results to suggest that ongoing mergers are not more common among protocluster LBGs than field LBGs, though protocluster LBGs appear to be more massive. We speculate that the larger mass of the protocluster LBGs contributes to the enhancement of SMBH mass and accretion rate in the protocluster, which in turn drives the observed protocluster AGN enhancement., Comment: 43 pages, 18 figures. 32 page body and 11 page appendix. Updated with published version

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2021
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24. 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate is not inferior to andexanet alfa for the reversal or oral factor Xa inhibitors: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study

Author

Estroff, Jordan M., Devlin, Joseph, Hoteit, Lara, Hassoune, Adnan, Neal, Matthew D., Brown, Joshua B., Lu, Liling, Kotch, Shannon, Hazelton, Joshua P., Christian, Ashton B., Yeates, Eric O., Nahmias, Jeffry, Jacobson, Lewis E., Williams, Jamie, Schuster, Kevin M., O’Connor, Rick, Semon, Gregory R., Straughn, Angela D., Cullinane, Daniel, Egodage, Tanya, Kincaid, Michelle, Rollins, Allison, Amdur, Richard, and Sarani, Babak

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2024
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27. Investigating the Effect of Galaxy Interactions on AGN Enhancement at $0.5<z<3.0$

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Shah, Ekta A., Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Magagnoli, Christina T., Cox, Isabella G., Wetherell, Caleb T., Vanderhoof, Brittany N., Calabro, Antonello, Chartab, Nima, Conselice, Christopher J., Croton, Darren J., Donley, Jennifer, de Groot, Laura, de la Vega, Alexander, Hathi, Nimish P., Ilbert, Olivier, Inami, Hanae, Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lemaux, Brian C., Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, Marchesi, Stefano, Martig, Marie, Masters, Daniel C., McGrath, Elizabeth J., McIntosh, Daniel H., Moreno, Jorge, Nayyeri, Hooshang, Pampliega, Belen Alcalde, Salvato, Mara, Snyder, Gregory F., Straughn, Amber N., Treister, Ezequiel, and Weston, Madalyn E.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Galaxy interactions and mergers are thought to play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Studies in the nearby universe show a higher AGN fraction in interacting and merging galaxies than their isolated counterparts, indicating that such interactions are important contributors to black hole growth. To investigate the evolution of this role at higher redshifts, we have compiled the largest known sample of major spectroscopic galaxy pairs (2381 with $\Delta V <5000$ km s$^{-1}$) at $0.5

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2020
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28. Texas Spectroscopic Search for Ly$\alpha$ Emission at the End of Reionization III. the Ly$\alpha$ Equivalent-width Distribution and Ionized Structures at $z > 7$

Author

Jung, Intae, Finkelstein, Steven L., Dickinson, Mark, Hutchison, Taylor A., Larson, Rebecca L., Papovich, Casey, Pentericci, Laura, Straughn, Amber N., Guo, Yicheng, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Rhoads, James, Song, Mimi, Tilvi, Vithal, and Wold, Isak

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Ly$\alpha$ emission from galaxies can be utilized to characterize the ionization state in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We report our search for Ly$\alpha$ emission at $z>7$ using a comprehensive Keck/MOSFIRE near-infrared spectroscopic dataset, as part of the Texas Spectroscopic Search for Ly$\alpha$ Emission at the End of Reionization Survey. We analyze data from 10 nights of MOSFIRE observations which together target 72 high-$z$ candidate galaxies in the GOODS-N field, all with deep exposure times of 4.5-19 hr. Utilizing an improved automated emission-line search, we report 10 Ly$\alpha$ emission lines detected ($>$4$\sigma$) at $z>7$, significantly increasing the spectroscopically confirmed sample. Our sample includes large equivalent-width (EW) Ly$\alpha$ emitters ($>$50\r{A}), and additional tentative Ly$\alpha$ emission lines detected at 3 - 4$\sigma$ from five additional galaxies. We constrain the Ly$\alpha$ EW distribution at $z\sim7.6$, finding a significant drop from $z\lesssim6$, suggesting an increasing fraction of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the IGM in this epoch. We estimate the Ly$\alpha$ transmission through the IGM ($=$EW$_{z\sim\text{7.6}}$/EW$_{z\sim\text{2-6}}$), and infer an IGM HI fraction ($X_{\text{HI}}$) of $49^{+19}_{-19}\%$ at $z\sim7.6$, which is lower in modest tension ($>$1$\sigma$) with recent measurements at $z \sim$ 7.6. The spatial distribution of the detected Ly$\alpha$ emitters implies the presence of a potential highly ionized region at $z\sim7.55$ which hosts four Ly$\alpha$ emitters within a $\sim$ 40 cMpc spatial separation. The prominence of this ionized region in our dataset could explain our lower inferred value of $X_{\text{HI}}$, though our analysis is also sensitive to the chosen reference Ly$\alpha$ EW distribution values and reionization models., Comment: Published 2020 November 27 in ApJ. Changed to match the published version (HI fraction & Figure 12 updated and other minor changes). 27 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables

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2020
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31. Withaferin A as a Potential Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Angiotensin II-Induced Cardiac Cachexia

Author

Vasa Vemuri, Nicholas Kratholm, Darini Nagarajan, Dakotah Cathey, Ahmed Abdelbaset-Ismail, Yi Tan, Alex Straughn, Lu Cai, Jiapeng Huang, and Sham S. Kakar

Subjects
cardiac cachexia, cardiac disorders, cardiac dysfunction, withaferin A, angiotensin II, inflammatory cytokines, Cytology, QH573-671
Abstract

In our previous studies, we showed that the generation of ovarian tumors in NSG mice (immune-compromised) resulted in the induction of muscle and cardiac cachexia, and treatment with withaferin A (WFA; a steroidal lactone) attenuated both muscle and cardiac cachexia. However, our studies could not address if these restorations by WFA were mediated by its anti-tumorigenic properties that might, in turn, reduce the tumor burden or WFA’s direct, inherent anti-cachectic properties. To address this important issue, in our present study, we used a cachectic model induced by the continuous infusion of Ang II by implanting osmotic pumps in immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice. The continuous infusion of Ang II resulted in the loss of the normal functions of the left ventricle (LV) (both systolic and diastolic), including a significant reduction in fractional shortening, an increase in heart weight and LV wall thickness, and the development of cardiac hypertrophy. The infusion of Ang II also resulted in the development of cardiac fibrosis, and significant increases in the expression levels of genes (ANP, BNP, and MHCβ) associated with cardiac hypertrophy and the chemical staining of the collagen abundance as an indication of fibrosis. In addition, Ang II caused a significant increase in expression levels of inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-17, MIP-2, and IFNγ), NLRP3 inflammasomes, AT1 receptor, and a decrease in AT2 receptor. Treatment with WFA rescued the LV functions and heart hypertrophy and fibrosis. Our results demonstrated, for the first time, that, while WFA has anti-tumorigenic properties, it also ameliorates the cardiac dysfunction induced by Ang II, suggesting that it could be an anticachectic agent that induces direct effects on cardiac muscles.

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2024
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32. CEERS Key Paper. IX. Identifying Galaxy Mergers in CEERS NIRCam Images Using Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks

Author

Caitlin Rose, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Gregory F. Snyder, Marc Huertas-Company, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Micaela B. Bagley, Laura Bisigello, Antonello Calabrò, Nikko J. Cleri, Mark Dickinson, Henry C. Ferguson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Adriano Fontana, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Benne W. Holwerda, Kartheik G. Iyer, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Jennifer M. Lotz, Ray A. Lucas, Lorenzo Napolitano, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Nor Pirzkal, Swara Ravindranath, Rachel S. Somerville, Amber N. Straughn, Jonathan R. Trump, Stephen M. Wilkins, and Guang Yang

Subjects
James Webb Space Telescope, Galaxy mergers, Astronomical simulations, Random Forests, Convolutional neural networks, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

A crucial yet challenging task in galaxy evolution studies is the identification of distant merging galaxies, a task that suffers from a variety of issues ranging from telescope sensitivities and limitations to the inherently chaotic morphologies of young galaxies. In this paper, we use random forests and convolutional neural networks to identify high-redshift JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) galaxy mergers. We train these algorithms on simulated 3 < z < 5 CEERS galaxies created from the IllustrisTNG subhalo morphologies and the Santa Cruz SAM light cone. We apply our models to observed CEERS galaxies at 3 < z < 5. We find that our models correctly classify ∼60%–70% of simulated merging and nonmerging galaxies; better performance on the merger class comes at the expense of misclassifying more nonmergers. We could achieve more accurate classifications, as well as test for a dependency on physical parameters such as gas fraction, mass ratio, and relative orbits, by curating larger training sets. When applied to real CEERS galaxies using visual classifications as ground truth, the random forests correctly classified 40%–60% of mergers and nonmergers at 3 < z < 4 but tended to classify most objects as nonmergers at 4 < z < 5 (misclassifying ∼70% of visually classified mergers). On the other hand, the CNNs tended to classify most objects as mergers across all redshifts (misclassifying 80%–90% of visually classified nonmergers). We investigate what features the models find most useful, as well as the characteristics of false positives and false negatives, and also calculate merger rates derived from the identifications made by the models.

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2024
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34. A Catalog of Emission-Line Galaxies from the Faint Infrared Grism Survey: Studying Environmental Influence on Star Formation

Author

Pharo, John, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Rhoads, James E., Pirzkal, Norbert, Finkelstein, Steven L., Ryan, Russell, Cimatti, Andrea, Christensen, Lise, Hathi, Nimish, Koekemoer, Anton, Harish, Santosh, Smith, Mark, Straughn, Amber, Windhorst, Rogier, Ferreras, Ignacio, Gronwall, Caryl, Hibon, Pascale, Larson, Rebecca, O'Connell, Robert, Pasquali, Anna, and Tilvi, Vithal

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present a catalog of 208 $0.3 < z < 2.1$ Emission Line Galaxies (ELG) selected from 1D slitless spectroscopy obtained using Hubble's WFC3 G102 grism, as part of the Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS). We identify ELG candidates by searching for significant peaks in all continuum-subtracted G102 spectra, and, where possible, confirm candidates by identifying consistent emission lines in other available spectra or with published spectroscopic redshifts. We provide derived emission line fluxes and errors, redshifts, and equivalent widths (EW) for H$\alpha$ $\lambda6563$, [OIII]$\lambda\lambda4959,5007$, and [OII]$\lambda\lambda3727$ emission lines, for emission line galaxies down to AB(F105W) $ > 28$ and $> 10^{-17}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ line flux. We use the resulting line catalog to investigate a possible relationship between line emission and a galaxy's environment. We use 7th-nearest-neighbor distances to investigate the typical surroundings of ELGs compared to non-ELGs, and we find that [OIII] emitters are preferentially found at intermediate galaxy densities near galaxy groups. We characterize these ELGs in terms of the galaxy specific star formation rate (SSFR) versus stellar mass, and find no significant influence of environment on that relation. We calculate star formation rates (SFR), and find no dependence of SFR on local galaxy surface density for $0.3 < z < 0.8$ H$\alpha$ emitters and for $0.8

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2019
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35. On the observability of individual Population III stars and their stellar-mass black hole accretion disks through cluster caustic transits

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Windhorst, Rogier A., Alpaslan, M., Andrews, S., Ashcraft, T., Broadhurst, T., Coe, D., Cohen, S., Conselice, C., Diego, J., Dijkstra, M., Driver, S., Duncan, K., Finkelstein, S., Frye, B., Griffiths, A., Grogin, N., Hathi, N., Hopkins, A., Jansen, R., Joshi, B., Kashlinsky, A., Keel, W., Kelly, P., Kim, D., Koekemoer, A., Larson, R., Livermore, R., Marshall, M., Mechtley, M., Pirzkal, N., Rieke, M., Riess, A., Robotham, A., Rodney, S., Röttgering, H., Rutkowski, M., Ryan Jr., R., Smith, B., Straughn, A., Strolger, L., Tilvi, V., Timmes, F., Wilkins, S., Willmer, C., Wyithe, S., Yan, H., and Zitrin, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Recent near-IR power-spectra and panchromatic Extragalactic Background Light measurements provide upper limits on the near-IR surface brightness (SB>31 mag/arcsec^2) that may come from Pop III stars and accretion disks around resulting stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in the epoch of First Light (z=7-17). Physical parameters for zero metallicity Pop III stars at z>7 can be estimated from MESA stellar evolution models through helium-depletion, and for BH accretion disks from quasar microlensing results and multicolor accretion models. Second-generation stars can form at higher multiplicity, so that BH accretion disks may be fed by Roche-lobe overflow from lower-mass companions in their AGB stage. The near-IR SB constraints can be used to calculate the number of caustic transits behind lensing clusters that JWST and the 25~39 m ground-based telescopes may detect for both Pop III stars and stellar mass BH accretion disks. Because Pop III stars and stellar mass BH accretion disks have sizes of a few x 10^-11 arcsec at z>7, typical caustic magnifications can be mu=10^4~10^5, with rise times of hours and decline times of < 1 year for cluster transverse velocities of v<1000 km/s. Microlensing by intracluster medium objects can modify transit magnifications, and lengthen visibility times. Depending on BH masses, accretion-disk radii and feeding efficiencies, stellar-mass BH accretion-disk caustic transits could outnumber those from Pop III stars. To observe Pop III caustic transits directly may require monitoring 3~30 lensing clusters to AB< 29 mag over a decade or more. Such a program must be started with JWST in Cycle 1, and -- depending on the role of microlensing in the Intra Cluster Light -- should be continued for decades with the GMT and TMT, where JWST and the ground-based telescopes each will play a unique and strongly complementary role., Comment: 6 pages + references, 3 figures, science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 decadal survey. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1801.03584

Published
2019

36. UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology.

Author

Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Witold Kieras, Gábor Bella, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Elena Budianskaya, Charbel El-Khaissi, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Gasser, William Abbott Lane, Mohit Raj, Matt Coler, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Delio Siticonatzi Camaiteri, Esaú Zumaeta Rojas, Didier López Francis, Arturo Oncevay, Juan López Bautista, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Adam Ek, David Guriel, Peter Dirix, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Scherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Roberto Zariquiey, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Hilaria Cruz, Ritván Karahóga, Stella Markantonatou, George Pavlidis, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Candy Angulo, Jatayu Baxi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Krizhanovskaya, Elizabeth Salesky, Clara Vania, Sardana Ivanova, Jennifer C. White, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Josef Valvoda, Ran Zmigrod, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Aelita Salchak, Brijesh Bhatt, Christopher Straughn, Zoey Liu, Jonathan North Washington, Yuval Pinter, Duygu Ataman, Marcin Wolinski, Totok Suhardijanto, Anna Yablonskaya, Niklas Stoehr, Hossep Dolatian, Zahroh Nuriah, Shyam Ratan, Francis M. Tyers, Edoardo M. Ponti, Grant Aiton, Aryaman Arora, Richard J. Hatcher, Ritesh Kumar, Jeremiah Young, Daria Rodionova, Anastasia Yemelina, Taras Andrushko, Igor Marchenko, Polina Mashkovtseva, Alexandra Serova, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Maria Nepomniashchaya, Fausto Giunchiglia, Eleanor Chodroff, Mans Hulden, Miikka Silfverberg, Arya D. McCarthy, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell, Reut Tsarfaty, and Ekaterina Vylomova

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2022

37. Emission Line Metallicities From The Faint Infrared Grism Survey and VLT/MUSE

Author

Pharo, John, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Rhoads, James, Christensen, Lise, Finkelstein, Steven L., Grogin, Norman, Harish, Santosh, Jiang, Tianxing, Kim, Keunho, Koekemoer, Anton, Pirzkal, Norbert, Smith, Mark, Yang, Huan, Cimatti, Andrea, Ferreras, Ignacio, Hathi, Nimish, Hibon, Pascale, Meurer, Gerhardt, Oestlin, Goeran, Pasquali, Anna, Ryan, Russell, Straughn, Amber, and Windhorst, Rogier

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We derive direct measurement gas-phase metallicities of $7.4 < 12 + \log(O/H) < 8.4$ for 14 low-mass Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) at $0.3 < z < 0.8$ identified in the Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS). We use deep slitless G102 grism spectroscopy of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), dispersing light from all objects in the field at wavelengths between 0.85 and 1.15 microns. We run an automatic search routine on these spectra to robustly identify 71 emission line sources, using archival data from VLT/MUSE to measure additional lines and confirm redshifts. We identify 14 objects with $0.3 < z < 0.8$ with measurable O[III]$\lambda$4363 \AA\ emission lines in matching VLT/MUSE spectra. For these galaxies, we derive direct electron-temperature gas-phase metallicities with a range of $7.4 < 12 + \log(O/H) < 8.4$. With matching stellar masses in the range of $10^{7.9} M_{\odot} < M_{\star} < 10^{10.4} M_{\odot}$, we construct a mass-metallicity (MZ) relation and find that the relation is offset to lower metallicities compared to metallicities derived from alternative methods (e.g.,$R_{23}$, O3N2, N2O2) and continuum selected samples. Using star formation rates (SFR) derived from the $H\alpha$ emission line, we calculate our galaxies' position on the Fundamental Metallicity Relation (FMR), where we also find an offset toward lower metallicities. This demonstrates that this emission-line-selected sample probes objects of low stellar masses but even lower metallicities than many comparable surveys. We detect a trend suggesting galaxies with higher Specific Star Formation (SSFR) are more likely to have lower metallicity. This could be due to cold accretion of metal-poor gas that drives star formation, or could be because outflows of metal-rich stellar winds and SNe ejecta are more common in galaxies with higher SSFR., Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted in ApJ

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2018
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38. A Two-Dimensional Spectroscopic Study of Emission Line Galaxies in the Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS) I: Detection Method and Catalog

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Pirzkal, Norbert, Rothberg, Barry, Ryan, Russell E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Rhoads, James, Grogin, Norman, Curtis-Lake, Emma, Chevallard, Jacopo, Charlot, Stephane, Finkelstein, Steven L., Koekemoer, Anton M., Ghavamian, Parviz, Rodrigues, Myriam, Hammer, François, Puech, Mathieu, Larson, Rebecca L., Christensen, Lise, Cimatti, Andrea, Ferreras, Ignacio, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gronwall, Caryl, Hathi, Nimish P., Joshi, Bhavin, Kuntschner, Harald, Meurer, Gerhardt R., O'Connell, Robert W., Oestlin, Goeran, Pasquali, Anna, Pharo, John, Straughn, Amber N., Walsh, Jeremy R., Watson, Darach, Windhorst, Rogier A., and Zakamsk, Nadia L

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present the results from the application of a two-dimensional emission line detection method, EMission-line two-Dimensional (EM2D), to the near-infrared G102 grism observations obtained with the Wide-Field Camera 3 (WFC3) as part of the Cycle 22 {\em Hubble Space Telescope} Treasury Program: the Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS). Using the EM2D method, we have assembled a catalog of emission line galaxies (ELGs) with resolved star formation from each of the four FIGS fields. Not only can one better assess the global properties of ELGs, but the EM2D method allows for the analysis and an improved study of the individual emission-line region {\it within} each galaxy. This paper includes a description of the methodology, advantages, and the first results of the EM2D method applied to ELGs in FIGS. The advantage of 2D emission line measurements includes significant improvement of galaxy redshift measurements, approaching the level of accuracy seen in high-spectral-resolution data, but with greater efficiency; and the ability to identify and measure the properties of multiple sites of star-formation and over scales of $\sim$ 1 kpc within individual galaxies out to z $\sim$ 4. The EM2D method also significantly improves the reliability of high-redshift ($z\sim7$) Lyman-$\alpha$ detections. Coupled with the wide field of view and high efficiency of space-based grism observations, EM2D provides a noteworthy improvement on the physical parameters that can be extracted from grism observations., Comment: Accepted by ApJ

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2018
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39. Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Extended [O III] {\lambda}5007 Emission in Nearby QSO2s: New Constraints On AGN / Host Galaxy Interaction

Author

Fischer, Travis C., Kraemer, S. B., Schmitt, H. R., Micchi, L. F. Longo, Crenshaw, D. M., Revalski, M., Vestergaard, M., Elvis, M., Gaskell, C. M., Hamann, F., Ho, L. C., Hutchings, J., Mushotsky, R., Netzer, H., Storchi-Bergmann, T., Straughn, A., Turner, T. J., and Ward, M. J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey of extended [O III] {\lambda}5007 emission for a sample of 12 nearby (z < 0.12), luminous Type 2 quasars (QSO2s), which we use to measure the extent and kinematics of their AGN-ionized gas. We find the size of the observed [O III] regions scale with luminosity in comparison to nearby, less luminous Seyfert galaxies and radially outflowing kinematics to exist in all targets. We report an average maximum outflow radius of $\sim$600 pc, with gas continuing to be kinematically influenced by the central AGN out to an average radius of $\sim$1130 pc. These findings question the effectiveness of AGN being capable of clearing material from their host bulge in the nearby universe and suggest that disruption of gas by AGN activity may prevent star formation without requiring evacuation. Additionally, we find a dichotomy in our targets when comparing [O III] radial extent and nuclear FWHM, where QSO2s with compact [O III] morphologies typically possess broader nuclear emission-lines., Comment: 24 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2018
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41. Documenting Classification Systems: A Case Study and Considerations

Author

Straughn, Christopher

Subjects
Classification -- Case studies, Government publications -- Identification and classification, Company systems management, Business, Library and information science, Northern Illinois University -- Information management
Abstract

There is little literature on documenting the correct application of classification systems. This paper seeks to remedy this gap by describing how Northeastern Illinois University created documentation for their implementation of system that describes Illinois State publications. We recommend creating documentation that is flexible, accessible, and user-oriented. Flexible documentation not only facilitates changes to the documentation, it also allows librarians to take advantage of other uses of this documentation. In our case, the process of documentation produced a near complete listing of Illinois publications and provided the basis for a structural history of Illinois government. Documentation of classification systems not only improves library work, but also assists in preserving artifacts of library history., The goal of library classification is to 'bring together those books which will be most used together,' (1) and by doing so improve retrieval and enhance browsing, among other things. [...]

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2023

42. Major Merging History in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the Incidence of Massive Galaxy-Galaxy Pairs from z=3 to z~0

Author

Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, McIntosh, Daniel H., Brennan, Ryan, Ferguson, Henry C., Kodra, Dritan, Newman, Jeffrey A., Rafelski, Marc, Somerville, Rachel S., Conselice, Christopher J., Cook, Joshua S., Hathi, Nimish P., Koo, David C., Lotz, Jennifer M., Simmons, Brooke D., Straughn, Amber N., Synder, Gregory F., Wuyts, Stijn, Bell, Eric F., Dekel, Avishai, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan, Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lee, Seong-Kook, Lucas, Ray A., Pacifici, Camilla, Peth, Michael A., Barro, Guillermo, Dahlen, Tomas, Finkelstein, Steven L., Fontana, Adriano, Galametz, Audrey, Grogin, Norman A., Guo, Yicheng, Mobasher, Bahram, Nayyeri, Hooshang, Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G., Pforr, Janine, Santini, Paola, Stefanon, Mauro, and Wiklind, Tommy

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

The rate of major galaxy-galaxy merging is theoretically predicted to steadily increase with redshift during the peak epoch of massive galaxy development ($1{\leq}z{\leq}3$). We use close-pair statistics to objectively study the incidence of massive galaxies (stellar $M_{1}{\geq}2{\times}10^{10}M_{\odot}$) hosting major companions ($1{\leq}M_{1}/M_{2}{\leq}4$; i.e., $<$4:1) at six epochs spanning $0{<}z{<}3$. We select companions from a nearly complete, mass-limited ($\geq5{\times}10^{9}M_{\odot}$) sample of 23,696 galaxies in the five CANDELS fields and the SDSS. Using $5-50$ kpc projected separation and close redshift proximity criteria, we find that the major companion fraction $f_{\mathrm{mc}}(z)$ based on stellar mass-ratio (MR) selection increases from 6% ($z{\sim}0$) to 16% ($z{\sim}0.8$), then turns over at $z{\sim}1$ and decreases to 7% ($z{\sim}3$). Instead, if we use a major F160W flux ratio (FR) selection, we find that $f_{\mathrm{mc}}(z)$ increases steadily until $z=3$ owing to increasing contamination from minor (MR$>$4:1) companions at $z>1$. We show that these evolutionary trends are statistically robust to changes in companion proximity. We find disagreements between published results are resolved when selection criteria are closely matched. If we compute merger rates using constant fraction-to-rate conversion factors ($C_{\mathrm{merg,pair}}{=}0.6$ and $T_{\mathrm{obs,pair}}{=}0.65\mathrm{Gyr}$), we find that MR rates disagree with theoretical predictions at $z{>}1.5$. Instead, if we use an evolving $T_{\mathrm{obs,pair}}(z){\propto}(1+z)^{-2}$ from Snyder et al., our MR-based rates agree with theory at $0{<}z{<}3$. Our analysis underscores the need for detailed calibration of $C_{\mathrm{merg,pair}}$ and $T_{\mathrm{obs,pair}}$ as a function of redshift, mass and companion selection criteria to better constrain the empirical major merger history., Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

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2017
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43. Clumpy Galaxies in CANDELS. II. Physical Properties of UV-bright Clumps at $0.5\leq z<3$

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Guo, Yicheng, Rafelski, Marc, Bell, Eric F., Conselice, Christopher J., Dekel, Avishai, Faber, S. M., Giavalisco, Mauro, Koekemoer, Anton M., Koo, David C., Lu, Yu, Mandelker, Nir, Primack, Joel R., Ceverino, Daniel, de Mello, Duilia F., Ferguson, Henry C., Hathi, Nimish, Kocevski, Dale, Lucas, Ray A., Pérez-González, Pablo G., Ravindranath, Swara, Soto, Emmaris, Straughn, Amber, and Wang, Weichen

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

Studying giant star-forming clumps in distant galaxies is important to understand galaxy formation and evolution. At present, however, observers and theorists have not reached a consensus on whether the observed "clumps" in distant galaxies are the same phenomenon that is seen in simulations. In this paper, as a step to establish a benchmark of direct comparisons between observations and theories, we publish a sample of clumps constructed to represent the commonly observed "clumps" in the literature. This sample contains 3193 clumps detected from 1270 galaxies at $0.5 \leq z < 3.0$. The clumps are detected from rest-frame UV images, as described in our previous paper. Their physical properties, e.g., rest-frame color, stellar mass (M*), star formation rate (SFR), age, and dust extinction, are measured by fitting the spectral energy distribution (SED) to synthetic stellar population models. We carefully test the procedures of measuring clump properties, especially the method of subtracting background fluxes from the diffuse component of galaxies. With our fiducial background subtraction, we find a radial clump U-V color variation, where clumps close to galactic centers are redder than those in outskirts. The slope of the color gradient (clump color as a function of their galactocentric distance scaled by the semi-major axis of galaxies) changes with redshift and M* of the host galaxies: at a fixed M*, the slope becomes steeper toward low redshift, and at a fixed redshift, it becomes slightly steeper with M*. Based on our SED-fitting, this observed color gradient can be explained by a combination of a negative age gradient, a negative E(B-V) gradient, and a positive specific star formation rate gradient of the clumps. We also find that the color gradients of clumps are steeper than those of intra-clump regions. [Abridged], Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures. Accepted by ApJ. The clump catalog will be published online in ApJ. It can also be requested through emails to the first author or this link http://faculty.missouri.edu/guoyic/data/clump/

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2017
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44. FIGS -- Faint Infrared Grism Survey: Description and Data Reduction

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Pirzkal, Norbert, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Ryan, Russell E., Rothberg, Barry, Grogin, Norman, Finkelstein, Steven L., Koekemoer, Anton M., Rhoads, James, Larson, Rebecca L., Christensen, Lise, Cimatti, Andrea, Ferreras, Ignacio, Gardner, Jonathan P., Gronwall, Caryl, Hathi, Nimish P., Hibon, Pascale, Joshi, Bhavin, Kuntschner, Harald, Meurer, Gerhardt R., O'Connell, Robert W., Oestlin, Goeran, Pasquali, Anna, Pharo, John, Straughn, Amber N., Walsh, Jeremy R., Watson, Darach, Windhorst, Rogier A., Zakamska, Nadia L, and Zirm, Andrew

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

The Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS) is a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3/IR (Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared) slitless spectroscopic survey of four deep fields. Two fields are located in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-N) area and two fields are located in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South (GOODS-S) area. One of the southern fields selected is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Each of these four fields were observed using the WFC3/G102 grism (0.8$\mu m$-1.15$\mu m$ continuous coverage) with a total exposure time of 40 orbits (~ 100 kilo-seconds) per field. This reaches a 3 sigma continuum depth of ~26 AB magnitudes and probes emission lines to $\approx 10^{-17}\ erg\ s^{-1} \ cm^{-2}$. This paper details the four FIGS fields and the overall observational strategy of the project. A detailed description of the Simulation Based Extraction (SBE) method used to extract and combine over 10000 spectra of over 2000 distinct sources brighter than m_F105W=26.5 mag is provided. High fidelity simulations of the observations is shown to significantly improve the background subtraction process, the spectral contamination estimates, and the final flux calibration. This allows for the combination of multiple spectra to produce a final high quality, deep, 1D-spectra for each object in the survey., Comment: 21 Pages. 17 Figures. To appear in ApJ

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2017
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45. The intrinsic characteristics of galaxies on the SFR-stellar mass plane at 1.2<z<4: I. the correlation between stellar age, central density and position relative to the main sequence

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Lee, Bomee, Giavalisco, Mauro, Whitaker, Katherine, Williams, Christina C., Ferguson, Henry C., Acquaviva, Viviana, Koekemoer, Anton M., Straughn, Amber N., Guo, Yicheng, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S., Lotz, Jennifer, Pacifici, Camilla, Croton, Darren J., Somerville, Rachel S., and Lu, Yu

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We use the deep CANDELS observations in the GOODS North and South fields to revisit the correlations between stellar mass ($M_*$), star--formation rate (SFR) and morphology, and to introduce a fourth dimension, the mass-weighted stellar age, in galaxies at $1.2

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2017
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46. Galaxies Going Bananas: Inferring the 3D Geometry of High-redshift Galaxies with JWST-CEERS

Author

Viraj Pandya, Haowen Zhang, Marc Huertas-Company, Kartheik G. Iyer, Elizabeth McGrath, Guillermo Barro, Steven L. Finkelstein, Martin Kümmel, William G. Hartley, Henry C. Ferguson, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Joel Primack, Avishai Dekel, Sandra M. Faber, David C. Koo, Greg L. Bryan, Rachel S. Somerville, Ricardo O. Amorín, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Micaela B. Bagley, Eric F. Bell, Emmanuel Bertin, Luca Costantin, Romeel Davé, Mark Dickinson, Robert Feldmann, Adriano Fontana, Raphael Gavazzi, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Yuchen Guo, ChangHoon Hahn, Benne W. Holwerda, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Jennifer M. Lotz, Ray A. Lucas, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Nor Pirzkal, Swara Ravindranath, Caitlin Rose, Marc Schefer, Raymond C. Simons, Amber N. Straughn, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Alexander de la Vega, Stephen M. Wilkins, Stijn Wuyts, Guang Yang, and L. Y. Aaron Yung

Subjects
High-redshift galaxies, Galaxy classification systems, Dwarf galaxies, Galaxy structure, James Webb Space Telescope, Galaxy disks, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The 3D geometries of high-redshift galaxies remain poorly understood. We build a differentiable Bayesian model and use Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to efficiently and robustly infer the 3D shapes of star-forming galaxies in James Webb Space Telescope Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science observations with $\mathrm{log}{M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot }=9.0\mbox{--}10.5$ at z = 0.5–8.0. We reproduce previous results from the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey in a fraction of the computing time and constrain the mean ellipticity, triaxiality, size, and covariances with samples as small as ∼50 galaxies. We find high 3D ellipticities for all mass–redshift bins, suggesting oblate (disky) or prolate (elongated) geometries. We break that degeneracy by constraining the mean triaxiality to be ∼1 for $\mathrm{log}{M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot }=9.0\mbox{--}9.5$ dwarfs at z > 1 (favoring the prolate scenario), with significantly lower triaxialities for higher masses and lower redshifts indicating the emergence of disks. The prolate population traces out a “banana” in the projected $b/a\mbox{--}\mathrm{log}a$ diagram with an excess of low- b / a , large- $\mathrm{log}a$ galaxies. The dwarf prolate fraction rises from ∼25% at z = 0.5–1.0 to ∼50%–80% at z = 3–8. Our results imply a second kind of disk settling from oval (triaxial) to more circular (axisymmetric) shapes with time. We simultaneously constrain the 3D size–mass relation and its dependence on 3D geometry. High-probability prolate and oblate candidates show remarkably similar Sérsic indices ( n ∼ 1), nonparametric morphological properties, and specific star formation rates. Both tend to be visually classified as disks or irregular, but edge-on oblate candidates show more dust attenuation. We discuss selection effects, follow-up prospects, and theoretical implications.

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2024
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47. CEERS: Diversity of Lyα Emitters during the Epoch of Reionization

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Intae Jung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Henry C. Ferguson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Rebecca L. Larson, Raymond C. Simons, Casey Papovich, Hyunbae Park, Laura Pentericci, Jonathan R. Trump, Ricardo O. Amorín, Bren E. Backhaus, Micaela B. Bagley, Caitlin M. Casey, Yingjie Cheng, Nikko J. Cleri, M. C. Cooper, Olivia R. Cooper, Jonathan P. Gardner, Eric Gawiser, Andrea Grazian, Nimish P. Hathi, Michaela Hirschmann, Anton M. Koekemoer, Ray A. Lucas, Bahram Mobasher, Nor Pirzkal, Swara Ravindranath, Amber N. Straughn, L. Y. Aaron Yung, and Alexander de la Vega

Subjects
Reionization, Early universe, Intergalactic medium, High-redshift galaxies, Lyman-alpha galaxies, Extragalactic astronomy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

We analyze rest-frame ultraviolet to optical spectra of three z ≃ 7.47–7.75 galaxies whose Ly α emission lines were previously detected with Keck/MOSFIRE observations, using the JWST/NIRSpec observations from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science survey. From NIRSpec data, we confirm the systemic redshifts of these Ly α emitters, and emission-line ratio diagnostics indicate these galaxies were highly ionized and metal-poor. We investigate Ly α line properties, including the line flux, velocity offset, and spatial extent. For the one galaxy where we have both NIRSpec and MOSFIRE measurements, we find a significant offset in their flux measurements (∼1.3–5× greater in MOSFIRE) and a marginal difference in the velocity shifts. The simplest interpretation is that the Ly α emission is extended and not entirely encompassed by the NIRSpec slit. The cross-dispersion profiles in NIRSpec reveal that Ly α in one galaxy is significantly more extended than the nonresonant emission lines. We also compute the expected sizes of ionized bubbles that can be generated by the Ly α sources and discuss viable scenarios for the creation of sizable ionized bubbles (>1 physical Mpc). The source with the highest-ionization condition is possibly capable of ionizing its own bubble, while the other two do not appear to be capable of ionizing such a large region, but require additional sources of ionizing photons. Therefore, the fact that we detect Ly α from these galaxies suggests diverse scenarios for the escape of Ly α during the epoch of reionization. High-spectral-resolution spectra with JWST/NIRSpec will be extremely useful for constraining the physics of patchy reionization.

Published
2024
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