Massive Population III Galaxies Near a GN-z11 Analog: The Role of the Baryon-Dark Matter Streaming Velocity

arXiv:2609.35941 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Abundance — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Recently the James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper

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