Star Formation under a Cosmic Microscope: Highly magnified z = 11 galaxy behind the Bullet Cluster
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| author | Bradač, Maruša Judež, Jon Willott, Chris Rihtaršič, Gregor Martis, Nicholas S. Harshan, Anishya Felicioni, Giordano Asada, Yoshihisa Desprez, Guillaume Clowe, Douglas Gonzalez, Anthony H. Jones, Christine Lemaux, Brian C. Markevitch, Maxim Markov, Vladan Mowla, Lamiya Noirot, Gaël Peter, Annika H. G. Robertson, Andrew Sarrouh, Ghassan T. E. Sawicki, Marcin Schrabback, Tim Tripodi, Roberta |
| author_facet | Bradač, Maruša Judež, Jon Willott, Chris Rihtaršič, Gregor Martis, Nicholas S. Harshan, Anishya Felicioni, Giordano Asada, Yoshihisa Desprez, Guillaume Clowe, Douglas Gonzalez, Anthony H. Jones, Christine Lemaux, Brian C. Markevitch, Maxim Markov, Vladan Mowla, Lamiya Noirot, Gaël Peter, Annika H. G. Robertson, Andrew Sarrouh, Ghassan T. E. Sawicki, Marcin Schrabback, Tim Tripodi, Roberta |
| contents | We present measurements of stellar population properties of a newly discovered spectroscopically confirmed $z=11.10^{+0.11}_{-0.26}$, gravitationally lensed galaxy, using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectroscopy and NIRCam imaging. The arc is highly magnified by the Bullet Cluster (magnification factor $μ=14.0^{+6.2}_{-0.3}$. It contains three star-forming components of which one is barely resolved and two are unresolved, giving intrinsic sizes of $\lesssim 10pc$. The clumps also contain ~50% of the total stellar mass. The galaxy formed the majority of its stars ~150Myr ago (by z~14). The spectrum shows a pronounced damping wing, typical for galaxies deep in the reionisation era and indicating a neutral IGM at this line of sight. The intrinsic luminosity of the galaxy is $0.086^{+0.008}_{-0.030} L^*$ (with $L^*$ being the characteristic luminosity for this redshift), making it the lowest luminosity spectroscopically confirmed galaxy at $z>10$ discovered to date. |
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| spellingShingle | Star Formation under a Cosmic Microscope: Highly magnified z = 11 galaxy behind the Bullet Cluster Bradač, Maruša Judež, Jon Willott, Chris Rihtaršič, Gregor Martis, Nicholas S. Harshan, Anishya Felicioni, Giordano Asada, Yoshihisa Desprez, Guillaume Clowe, Douglas Gonzalez, Anthony H. Jones, Christine Lemaux, Brian C. Markevitch, Maxim Markov, Vladan Mowla, Lamiya Noirot, Gaël Peter, Annika H. G. Robertson, Andrew Sarrouh, Ghassan T. E. Sawicki, Marcin Schrabback, Tim Tripodi, Roberta Astrophysics of Galaxies We present measurements of stellar population properties of a newly discovered spectroscopically confirmed $z=11.10^{+0.11}_{-0.26}$, gravitationally lensed galaxy, using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectroscopy and NIRCam imaging. The arc is highly magnified by the Bullet Cluster (magnification factor $μ=14.0^{+6.2}_{-0.3}$. It contains three star-forming components of which one is barely resolved and two are unresolved, giving intrinsic sizes of $\lesssim 10pc$. The clumps also contain ~50% of the total stellar mass. The galaxy formed the majority of its stars ~150Myr ago (by z~14). The spectrum shows a pronounced damping wing, typical for galaxies deep in the reionisation era and indicating a neutral IGM at this line of sight. The intrinsic luminosity of the galaxy is $0.086^{+0.008}_{-0.030} L^*$ (with $L^*$ being the characteristic luminosity for this redshift), making it the lowest luminosity spectroscopically confirmed galaxy at $z>10$ discovered to date. |
| title | Star Formation under a Cosmic Microscope: Highly magnified z = 11 galaxy behind the Bullet Cluster |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20446 |