Non-Thermal Physics Drives Compact, Self-Regulated Galaxy Morphologies at Cosmic Dawn

arXiv:2607.15357 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

Michelle S. Park, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Risa H. Wechsler

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 24 pages (16 in main text), 12 figures (7 in main text), 5 appendices. Under review at ApJ

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

Terminology

• Aperture — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 4× in this paper
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Catalogs of inferred morphological properties of galaxies from JWST/NIRCam imaging in GOODS-N and GOODS-S

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