All the Little Things in Abell 2744: $>$1000 Gravitationally Lensed Dwarf Galaxies at $z=0-9$ from JWST NIRCam Grism Spectroscopy
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| author | Naidu, Rohan P. Matthee, Jorryt Kramarenko, Ivan Weibel, Andrea Brammer, Gabriel Oesch, Pascal A. Lechner, Peter Furtak, Lukas J. Di Cesare, Claudia Torralba, Alberto Kotiwale, Gauri Bezanson, Rachel Bouwens, Rychard J. Chandra, Vedant Claeyssens, Adélaïde Danhaive, A. Lola Frebel, Anna de Graaff, Anna Greene, Jenny E. Heintz, Kasper E. Ji, Alexander P. Kashino, Daichi Katz, Harley Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Maseda, Michael V. Richard, Johan Shivaei, Irene Simcoe, Robert A. Sobral, David Suess, Katherine A. Tacchella, Sandro Williams, Christina C. |
| author_facet | Naidu, Rohan P. Matthee, Jorryt Kramarenko, Ivan Weibel, Andrea Brammer, Gabriel Oesch, Pascal A. Lechner, Peter Furtak, Lukas J. Di Cesare, Claudia Torralba, Alberto Kotiwale, Gauri Bezanson, Rachel Bouwens, Rychard J. Chandra, Vedant Claeyssens, Adélaïde Danhaive, A. Lola Frebel, Anna de Graaff, Anna Greene, Jenny E. Heintz, Kasper E. Ji, Alexander P. Kashino, Daichi Katz, Harley Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Maseda, Michael V. Richard, Johan Shivaei, Irene Simcoe, Robert A. Sobral, David Suess, Katherine A. Tacchella, Sandro Williams, Christina C. |
| contents | Dwarf galaxies hold the key to crucial frontiers of astrophysics, however, their faintness renders spectroscopy challenging. Here we present the JWST Cycle 2 survey, All the Little Things (ALT, PID 3516), which is designed to seek late-forming Pop III stars and the drivers of reionization at $z\sim6-7$. ALT has acquired the deepest NIRCam grism spectroscopy yet (7-27 hr), at JWST's most sensitive wavelengths (3-4 $μ$m), covering the powerful lensing cluster Abell 2744. Over the same 30 arcmin$^2$, ALT's ultra-deep F070W+F090W imaging ($\sim$30 mag) enables selection of very faint sources at $z>6$. We demonstrate the success of ALT's novel ``butterfly" mosaic to solve spectral confusion and contamination, and introduce the ``Allegro" method for emission line identification. By collecting spectra for every source in the field of view, ALT has measured precise ($R\sim1600$) redshifts for 1630 sources at $z=0.2-8.5$. This includes one of the largest samples of distant dwarf galaxies: [1015, 475, 50] sources less massive than the SMC, Fornax, and Sculptor with $\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})<$[8.5, 7.5, 6.5]. We showcase ALT's discovery space with: (i) spatially resolved spectra of lensed clumps in galaxies as faint as $M_{\rm{UV}}\sim-15$; (ii) large-scale clustering -- overdensities at $z$=[2.50, 2.58, 3.97, 4.30, 5.66, 5.77, 6.33] hosting massive galaxies with striking Balmer breaks; (iii) small-scale clustering -- a system of satellites around a Milky Way analog at $z\sim6$; (iv) spectroscopically confirmed multiple images that help constrain the lensing model underlying all science in this legacy field; (v) sensitive star-formation maps based on dust-insensitive tracers such as Pa$α$; (vi) direct spectroscopic discovery of rare sources such as AGN with ionized outflows. These results provide a powerful proof of concept for how grism surveys maximize the potential of strong lensing fields. |
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| spellingShingle | All the Little Things in Abell 2744: $>$1000 Gravitationally Lensed Dwarf Galaxies at $z=0-9$ from JWST NIRCam Grism Spectroscopy Naidu, Rohan P. Matthee, Jorryt Kramarenko, Ivan Weibel, Andrea Brammer, Gabriel Oesch, Pascal A. Lechner, Peter Furtak, Lukas J. Di Cesare, Claudia Torralba, Alberto Kotiwale, Gauri Bezanson, Rachel Bouwens, Rychard J. Chandra, Vedant Claeyssens, Adélaïde Danhaive, A. Lola Frebel, Anna de Graaff, Anna Greene, Jenny E. Heintz, Kasper E. Ji, Alexander P. Kashino, Daichi Katz, Harley Labbe, Ivo Leja, Joel Li, Yijia Maseda, Michael V. Richard, Johan Shivaei, Irene Simcoe, Robert A. Sobral, David Suess, Katherine A. Tacchella, Sandro Williams, Christina C. Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Dwarf galaxies hold the key to crucial frontiers of astrophysics, however, their faintness renders spectroscopy challenging. Here we present the JWST Cycle 2 survey, All the Little Things (ALT, PID 3516), which is designed to seek late-forming Pop III stars and the drivers of reionization at $z\sim6-7$. ALT has acquired the deepest NIRCam grism spectroscopy yet (7-27 hr), at JWST's most sensitive wavelengths (3-4 $μ$m), covering the powerful lensing cluster Abell 2744. Over the same 30 arcmin$^2$, ALT's ultra-deep F070W+F090W imaging ($\sim$30 mag) enables selection of very faint sources at $z>6$. We demonstrate the success of ALT's novel ``butterfly" mosaic to solve spectral confusion and contamination, and introduce the ``Allegro" method for emission line identification. By collecting spectra for every source in the field of view, ALT has measured precise ($R\sim1600$) redshifts for 1630 sources at $z=0.2-8.5$. This includes one of the largest samples of distant dwarf galaxies: [1015, 475, 50] sources less massive than the SMC, Fornax, and Sculptor with $\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})<$[8.5, 7.5, 6.5]. We showcase ALT's discovery space with: (i) spatially resolved spectra of lensed clumps in galaxies as faint as $M_{\rm{UV}}\sim-15$; (ii) large-scale clustering -- overdensities at $z$=[2.50, 2.58, 3.97, 4.30, 5.66, 5.77, 6.33] hosting massive galaxies with striking Balmer breaks; (iii) small-scale clustering -- a system of satellites around a Milky Way analog at $z\sim6$; (iv) spectroscopically confirmed multiple images that help constrain the lensing model underlying all science in this legacy field; (v) sensitive star-formation maps based on dust-insensitive tracers such as Pa$α$; (vi) direct spectroscopic discovery of rare sources such as AGN with ionized outflows. These results provide a powerful proof of concept for how grism surveys maximize the potential of strong lensing fields. |
| title | All the Little Things in Abell 2744: $>$1000 Gravitationally Lensed Dwarf Galaxies at $z=0-9$ from JWST NIRCam Grism Spectroscopy |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01874 |