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2024.01.08
Exploring the new high-redshift frontier with the James Webb Space Telescope
The advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has brought the study of early galaxy formation to a new level. Shortly after it began its scientific operation, JWST revealed a large number of candidate galaxies at redshift (z) greater than 11 when the universe was less than ~420 million years old, some of which could even be at z ~ 20 (age of the universe ~180 million years). This was comp...
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2024.01.02
Expanding our perspective to the distant universe through Intensity Mapping of HI and CII
As a prevalent and widely distributed component of galactic gas, neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) and Carbon lines (CO, CII) play a crucial role in comprehending various astrophysical processes, including star formation histories, galaxy interactions, and the tracing of cosmic large-scale structures. However, the sensitivity limitations of telescopes pose challenges to directly measuring line signa...
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2023.12.18
A New AGN Photoionization Model and Multi-wavelength Metallicity Diagnostics
The photoionization model of narrow-line regions (NLRs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been investigated for decades. Many published models are restricted to simple linear scaling abundance relations, dust-free assumption, uniform AGN radiation field, and using one specific photoionization code, which restricts them from providing a satisfactory prediction on a broad range of AGN observa...
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2023.12.11
Cross-correlation between the Thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich Effect and the Integrated Sachs–Wolfe Effect
Understanding the composition and distribution of baryonic matter in the Universe is a crucial step toward unraveling the mysteries of its formation and evolution. Early estimates and numerical simulations show that most baryons are “missing,” whereas the baryons that are already made into stars and galaxies constitute a small portion of the total baryon budget. Therefore accurate constraints...
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2023.12.04
Reconstruction of Cosmological Initial Density Field with Observations from the Epoch of Reionization
Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes, observations of high-redshift galaxies are performed with a small field of view and therefore can hardly be used for reconstruction. Here we propose to reconstruct t...
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