Recent observations reported a puzzling dearth of dark matter (DM) in a fraction of massive high-z galaxies and dwarf galaxies, challenging current simulation predictions within the standard ΛCDM scenario. This discrepancy underscores our limited understanding of the halo and galaxy structural evolution. Here, I will present a novel unified analytical framework for galaxy dynamical evolution d...
The JWST is ushering in a new era of observing galaxies in the reionization era, providing us new insights into this last major phase transition of the Universe. The Ly-alpha emission from young star forming galaxies, which is sensitive to the presence of neutral HI along the line of sight, has been used as an important probe of the reionization process. JWST/NIRSpec offers spectroscopic capabi...
Despite the remarkable success of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmological model, several challenges have recently emerged. One of the most prominent is the “Hubble tension”: the Hubble expansion rate (H_0) measured using the Cepheid-calibrated distance ladder of type Ia supernovae and the value extrapolated from the cosmic microwave background using LCDM disagree by 5 standard deviati...
Current and future galaxy surveys such as HETDEX, DESI, Euclid, PFS, and SPHEREx aim to address fundamental questions in cosmology. For all these galaxy surveys, galaxy clustering is the primary observable, so modeling the nonlinearities in galaxy clustering is essential to decipher the survey data. Perturbative modeling offers an efficient, flexible, and robust method to achieve this.In this t...
Investigating spatially resolved properties of galaxies offers important constraints on the mechanisms by which galaxies form stars and grow in stellar mass. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) not only facilitates a systematic exploration of high redshift galaxies, but also enables a detailed study of the rest-frame mid-infrared (mid-IR) and the optical emission lines of galaxies at intermed...