Too many or too bright? Status and perspectives in the study of the UV Luminosity Function at z>10

arXiv:2610.12121 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• AGN — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ab Initio — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 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
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper
• Feedback In Realistic Environments — 1× in this paper
• Hubble Tension — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Primordial Magnetic Fields — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Massive Galaxy at the Edge of Feedback-Free Efficiency
• Strong rest-UV emission lines in a "little red dot" AGN at $z=7$: Early SMBH growth alongside compact massive star formation?
• PRISMS. UNCOVER-26185, a metal-poor SFG at z=10.05 with no evidence for a X-ray-luminous AGN
• GLIMPSE-DDT spectroscopic properties of faint-end galaxies at $z\sim6$: Towards first metal enrichment, dust production, and ionizing photon production
• Bright z~9 Galaxies in Parallel: The Bright End of the Rest-UV Luminosity Function from HST Parallel Programs
• Spatially resolved metallicity and ionization in the merging system Gz9p3 at z=9.3
• Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Ultra-cool Brown Dwarfs
• Stardust Galaxies at z>9: A Dust-Origin Transition Behind the Excess of UV-Bright Galaxies
• Probing the dawn of galaxies: star formation and feedback in the JWST era through the GAEA model
• Investigating ionising sources and the complex interstellar medium of GHZ2 at $z=12.3$
• Significant Evidence of an AGN Contribution in GHZ2 at z = 12.34
• SPURS: Bursty Star Formation in an Extremely Luminous Weak Emission Line Galaxy at $z=9.3$
• JADES: Insights on the low-mass end of the mass--metallicity--star-formation rate relation at $3 < z < 10$ from deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy
• Light, heavy, primordial: exploring the diversity of black hole seeding and growth mechanisms in the JWST era
• Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
• JWST Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields
• UV slopes of Starforming Galaxies in Strong Lensing fields at the Epoch of Reionization with JWST
• No Blue without Red: Evolutionary Properties of Super-Early Galaxies
• Reinterpreting the puzzling properties of z>6 galaxies within a variable IMF framework
• Physical properties of galaxies and the UV Luminosity Function from $z\sim6$ to $z\sim14$ in COSMOS-Web

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