Globular Clusters in the Time of the JWST. I. Survey Design and First Results on Multiple Populations and Beyond

arXiv:2606.20979 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-18 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-18

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 21 pages, 17 Figures, submitted to MNRAS

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 47× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 4× in this paper
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hubble Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Principal Investigator — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Spectral Signature — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation
• Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Internal kinematics and the convective-transition gap of NGC 6397

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