An Ionized Superstructure at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by a Foundation Model for Astrophysical Research

arXiv:2609.36656 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Project page: https://jades-survey.github.io/scientists/data.html

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey — 5× in this paper
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Little Red Dots — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dawn JWST Archive — 2× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence — 1× in this paper
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• MSA Prism Line Spread Function — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
• AION-1: Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences
• Learning JWST. I. A Foundation Model for New Population Discoveries and Morphology-Aware Photometric Redshift Measurements in the JADES Survey
• 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
• JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: NIRCam Imaging in GOODS-S and GOODS-N
• JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: Photometric Catalog
• Attention Is All You Need
• Probing Direct Contributions of Galaxies and AGN to Cosmic Reionization in a Quasar Field J0226+0302 with JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec
• PhotoIFU: NIRCam as a Photometric Integral Field Unit for Mapping Feedback in Galaxies
• Clump-Scale Dust Attenuation in Epoch of Reionization Galaxies: Spatially Resolved Properties from FirstLight Simulations

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