Investigating the star formation histories of galaxies from Cosmic Dawn to the Epoch of Reionization with the Santa Cruz SAM

arXiv:2607.02650 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-02

Updated: 2026-10-07

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Terminology

• Adam — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 4× in this paper
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics — 2× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Star Formation Efficiency (SFE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Cosmological Polytopes and the Wavefuncton of the Universe for Light States
• Probing the dawn of galaxies: star formation and feedback in the JWST era through the GAEA model
• Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at $\mathbf{z>3.5}$ from CAPERS
• Physical properties of galaxies and the UV Luminosity Function from $z\sim6$ to $z\sim14$ in COSMOS-Web
• The Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies
• BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. III. Constraints on the UV LF and the Clustering of z~7-14 Galaxies
• A search for the first galaxies across $>0.6$ deg$^2$ of JWST imaging: new evidence for a rapid decline in star-formation activity at $z>12$
• Galaxy formation in the first billion years
• How Bursty is Star Formation at z>5?
• The $z \gtrsim 9$ galaxy UV luminosity function from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey: insights into early galaxy evolution and reionization
• Candidate Galaxies at z ~ 11.3--21.8 and beyond: results from JWST's public data taken in its first year

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