The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken great strides in recent years, particularly with advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. This progress has stirred much public curiosity. However, general-purpose language models like ChatGPT sometimes 'hallucinate' or invent non-existent information when handling specialized subjects. This tendency has led to a common belie...
"Are we alone?" has been a fundamental question since the dawn of civilization, and we have always been curious about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Since the discovery of the first exoplanet, a hot Jupiter orbiting a sun-like star named 52 Peg, in 1995, the number of exoplanet detections has grown exponentially. To date, we have discovered over 5000 exoplanets, each with unique prop...
The Milky Way experienced several merger events which left their imprints on the stellar halo. In particular, it is known that a major merger happened during the Galaxy’s first Gyrs and, likely, perturbed its disc-shape structure. In order to fully understand the effects of such an event, we need to know the chemical and dynamical characteristics of the young Milky Way, i.e. before the major m...
I will present an overview of the JWST NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy (WFSS). This observing mode is highly efficient in spectroscopically confirming galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization through rest-frame optical emission lines (e.g., [OIII] and Hα). With NIRCam WFSS, galaxies at z>6 can be easily detected and confirmed with ~10-min integration. The following studies will be highlig...
In this talk I will discuss the geometry, structure and morphological transformation of star-forming and quiescent galaxies from the peak of cosmic star formation to the present day. Resolved observations from multiple wavelengths and tracers enable us to reconstruct where stars form within galaxies and how stellar distributions are assembled, while simultaneously revealing insights into the e...