Publications

Prof. Michaela Hirschmann

Journal Articles

2025

The Pandora project. II: how non-thermal physics drives bursty star formation and temperate mass-loaded outflows in dwarf galaxies

S. Martin-Alvarez; D. Sijacki; M. G. Haehnelt; A. Concas; Y. Yuan et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf2106.

Testing Photometric Techniques for Measuring the Rest-frame UV Spectral Slope against JWST PRISM Spectroscopy

S. L. Finkelstein; K. Davis; M. Dickinson; M. Giavalisco; N. P. Hathi et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 994, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ae145c.

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

B. E. Backhaus; J. Leja; J. R. Trump; E. Burnham; A. Calabrò et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 994, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0f17.

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionization. A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

L. Welsh; V. D’Odorico; F. Fontanot; R. L. Davies; S. E. I. Bosman et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202554459.

COSMOS-Web: MIRI Data Reduction and Number Counts at 7.7 μm Using JWST

S. Harish; J. S. Kartaltepe; D. Liu; A. M. Koekemoer; C. M. Casey et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 992, num. 1, p. 45. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adfa1e.

Exploring the Nature of Little Red Dots: Constraints on Active Galactic Nucleus and Stellar Contributions from PRIMER MIRI Imaging

G. C. K. Leung; S. L. Finkelstein; P. G. Pérez‐González; A. M. Morales; A. J. Taylor et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 992, num. 1. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adfcce.

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High-ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift

M. Tang; D. P. Stark; A. Plat; A. Feltre; H. Katz et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 991, p. 217. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adfd57.

Parallel Alignments Between Magnetic Fields and Dense Structures in the Central Molecular Zone

X. Pan; Q. Zhang; K. Qiu; D. M. Pare; D. T. Chuss et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 991, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adf8c7.

COSMOS-web: The Overabundance and Physical Nature of “Little Red Dots”—Implications for Early Galaxy and SMBH Assembly

H. B. Akins; C. M. Casey; E. Lambrides; N. Allen; I. T. Andika et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 991, num. 1, p. 37. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ade984.

A Confirmed Deficit of Hot and Cold Dust Emission in the Most Luminous Little Red Dots

D. J. Setton; J. E. Greene; J. S. Spilker; C. C. Williams; I. Labbe et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS. 2025. Vol. 991, num. 1. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ade78b.

COSMOS-Web: The emergence of the Hubble sequence

M. Huertas-Company; M. Shuntov; Y. Dong; M. Walmsley; O. Ilbert et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553782.

Characterizing the roles of transitory obscured phases and inner torus in shaping the fractions of obscured AGN at cosmic noon

A. V. Alonso-Tetilla; F. Shankar; F. Fontanot; A. Lapi; M. Valentini et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf1485.

MISTRAL: a model for AGN winds from radiatively efficient accretion in cosmological simulations

M. Farcy; M. Hirschmann; R. S. Somerville; E. Choi; S. Koudmani et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf1464.

A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at z = 3.5

A. de Graaff; H. W. Rix; R. P. Naidu; I. Labbé; B. Wang et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 701, p. A168. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202554681.

Investigating the Impact of Supernova Feedback on Satellites in Elliptical Galaxies

S. Kim; E. Choi; A. C. Quirk; R. S. Somerville; T. Naab et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 990, num. 1, p. 4. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adec96.

MIRACLE I. Unveiling the multi-phase, multi-scale physical properties of the active galaxy NGC 424 with MIRI, MUSE, and ALMA

C. Marconcini; A. Feltre; I. Lamperti; M. Ceci; A. Marconi et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 701, p. A113. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202554797.

The Dynamical Impact of Cosmic Rays in the Rhea Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

K. Kjellgren; P. Girichidis; J. Goeller; N. Brucy; R. S. Klessen et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 700, p. A124. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553754.

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas-enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line Active Galactic Nucleus at z = 9.288

A. J. Taylor; V. Kokorev; D. D. Kocevski; H. B. Akins; F. Cullen et al. 

Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2025. Vol. 989, num. 1, p. L7. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ade789.

Gas Outflows in Two Recently Quenched Galaxies at z=4 and 7

F. Valentino; K. E. Heintz; G. Brammer; K. Ito; V. Kokorev et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 699. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553908.

CAPERS Observations of Two UV-bright Galaxies at z > 10. More Evidence for Bursting Star Formation in the Early Universe

V. Kokorev; Ó. A. Chávez Ortiz; A. J. Taylor; S. L. Finkelstein; P. Arrabal Haro et al. 

Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2025. Vol. 988, num. 1, p. L10. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ade8f5.

Characterising the z ≈ 7.66 Type-II AGN candidate SMACS S06355 using BEAGLE-AGN and JWST NIRSpec/NIRCam

M. S. Silcock; E. Curtis-Lake; D. J. B. Smith; I. E. B. Wallace; A. Vidal-García et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf1087.

The effect of measurement uncertainties on the inferred stability of planes of satellite galaxies

P. Kumar; M. S. Pawlowski; K. J. Kanehisa; P. Li; M. P. Júlio et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 699, p. A363. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202453087.

An LBT view of the co-rotating group of galaxies around NGC2750: Deep imaging and new satellite candidates

S. Taibi; M. S. Pawlowski; O. Müller; M. Bílek; M. P. Júlio et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 699, p. A285. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202554365.

MUSE observations of dwarf galaxies and a stellar stream in the M 83 group

O. Müller; M. Rejkuba; K. Fahrion; M. S. Pawlowski; B. Famaey et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 699, p. A207. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202452923.

Galaxy assembly and evolution in the P-Millennium simulation: Galaxy clustering

F. Fontanot; G. De Lucia; L. Xie; M. Hirschmann; C. Baugh et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 699, p. A108. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202452029.

NeutralUniverseMachine: Predictions of H I gas in different theoretical models

L. Wen; H. Guo; W. Ma; L. Xie; G. De Lucia et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 699, p. A14. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202452697.

The Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency of Star-forming Galaxies at z ∼ 4-10

M. Llerena; L. Pentericci; L. Napolitano; S. Mascia; R. Amorin et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 698, p. A302. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202453251.

The Rise of Faint, Red Active Galactic Nuclei at z > 4: a Sample of Little Red Dots in the Jwst Extragalactic Legacy Fields

D. D. Kocevski; S. L. Finkelstein; G. Barro; A. J. Taylor; A. Calabro et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 986, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adbc7d.

Here There Be (dusty) Monsters: High-redshift Active Galactic Nuclei Are Dustier Than Their Hosts

M. Brooks; R. C. Simons; J. R. Trump; A. J. Taylor; M. B. Bagley et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 986, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/addac4.

Broad-line AGNs at 3.5 < z < 6: The Black Hole Mass Function and a Connection with Little Red Dots

A. J. Taylor; S. L. Finkelstein; D. D. Kocevski; J. Jeon; V. Bromm et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 986, num. 2, p. 165. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/add15b.

The Impact of Cosmic Ray Feedback During the Epoch of Reionisation

M. Farcy; J. Rosdahl; Y. Dubois; J. Blaizot; S. Martin-Alvarez et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 698. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553924.

Evolution of the UV slope of galaxies at cosmic morning (z > 4): The properties of extremely blue galaxies

D. Dottorini; A. Calabrò; L. Pentericci; S. Mascia; M. Llerena et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 698, p. A234. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202453267.

A 3D view of dwarf galaxies with Gaia and VLT/FLAMES: II. the Sextans dwarf spheroidal

E. Tolstoy; G. Battaglia; J. M. Arroyo-Polonio; A. G. Brown; T. Van Essen et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 698, p. A53. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202554176.

The Impact of Ram Pressure on Cluster Galaxies, Insights From Gaea and Tng

L. Xie; G. De Lucia; M. Fossati; F. Fontanot; M. Hirschmann 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 698. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553915.

A Merging Pair of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z=3.44 in the Cosmic Vine

K. Ito; F. Valentino; M. Farcy; G. De Lucia; C. D. P. Lagos et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 697. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202453211.

3d Cmz. III. Constraining the 3d Structure of the Central Molecular Zone Via Molecular Line Emission and Absorption

D. L. Walker; C. Battersby; D. Lipman; M. Sormani; A. Ginsburg et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb5ef.

3d Cmz. II. Hierarchical Structure Analysis of the Central Molecular Zone

C. Battersby; D. L. Walker; A. Barnes; A. Ginsburg; D. Lipman et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb844.

3d Cmz. IV. Distinguishing Near Versus Far Distances in the Galactic Center Using Spitzer and Herschel

D. Lipman; C. Battersby; D. L. Walker; M. Sormani; J. Bally et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb5ee.

3d Cmz. I. Central Molecular Zone Overview

C. Battersby; D. L. Walker; A. Barnes; A. Ginsburg; D. Lipman et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb5f0.

Rubies: Jwst/nirspec Confirmation of an Infrared-luminous, Broad-line Little Red Dot with an Ionized Outflow

B. Wang; A. de Graaff; R. L. Davies; J. GREEN; J. Leja et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adc1ca.

RUBIES: A complete census of the bright and red distant Universe with JWST/NIRSpec

A. De Graaff; G. Brammer; A. Weibel; Z. Lewis; M. V. Maseda et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 697, p. A189. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202452186.

Euclid: The Early Release Observations Lens Search Experiment

J. A. Acevedo Barroso; C. M. O’Riordan; B. Clément; C. Tortora; T. E. Collett et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 697, p. A14. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202451868.

Compact dust-obscured star formation and the origin of the galaxy bimodality

M. Tarrasse; C. Gómez-Guijarro; D. Elbaz; B. Magnelli; M. Dickinson et al. 

Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 697, p. A181. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202452869.

Euclid I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Y. Mellier; N. Abdurro’uf; J. A. Acevedo Barroso; A. Achúcarro; J. Adamek et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 697, p. A1. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202450810.

RUBIES Reveals a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=7.3

A. Weibel; A. de Graaff; D. J. Setton; T. B. Miller; P. A. Oesch et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 983, num. 1. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adab7a.

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

M. B. Bagley; P. Arrabal Haro; M. Dickinson; H. C. Ferguson; J. S. Kartaltepe et al. 

Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2025. Vol. 983, num. 1, p. L4. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/adbbd3.

RUBIES: JWST/NIRSpec Resolves Evolutionary Phases of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2

O. R. Cooper; G. Brammer; K. E. Heintz; S. Toft; C. M. Casey et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 982, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb8e1.

You Shall Not Pass! The Propagation of Low-/Moderate-powered Jets Through a Turbulent Interstellar Medium

O. Borodina; Y. Ni; J. S. Bennett; R. Weinberger; G. L. Bryan et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 981, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb016.

[Erratum] Study of backward Brillouin scattering in gas-filled anti-resonant fibers (vol 8, 086104, 2023)

M. Galal; L. Zhang; S. Gao; Y. Wang; L. Thevenaz 

APL PHOTONICS. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 3. DOI : 10.1063/5.0263994.

Molecular gas and dust properties in z > 7 quasar hosts

F. Salvestrini; C. Feruglio; R. Tripodi; F. Fontanot; M. Bischetti et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 695. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202453226.

COSMOS-Web: The Role of Galaxy Interactions and Disk Instabilities in Producing Starbursts at z < 4

A. L. Faisst; L. Yang; M. Brinch; C. M. Casey; N. Chartab et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 980, num. 2, p. 204. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ada566.

Discovering Large-scale Structure at 2 < z < 5 in the C3VO Survey

D. Hung; B. C. Lemaux; O. Cucciati; B. Forrest; E. A. Shah et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 980, num. 1. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ada616.

The MBHM Relation up to z ∼ 2 through Decomposition of COSMOS-Web NIRCam Images

T. S. Tanaka; J. D. Silverman; X. Ding; K. Jahnke; B. Trakhtenbrot et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 979, num. 2, p. 215. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9d0a.

SCUBADive. I. JWST plus ALMA Analysis of 289 Submillimeter Galaxies in COSMOS-web

J. Mckinney; C. M. Casey; A. S. Long; O. R. Cooper; S. M. Manning et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 979, num. 2, p. 229. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ada357.

CEERS: Increasing Scatter along the Star-forming Main Sequence Indicates Early Galaxies Form in Bursts

J. W. Cole; C. Papovich; S. L. Finkelstein; M. B. Bagley; M. Dickinson et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 979, num. 2, p. 193. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9a6a.

The importance of nuclear star clusters for massive black hole growth and nuclear star formation in simulated low-mass galaxies

C. Partmann; T. Naab; N. Lahen; A. Rantala; M. Hirschmann et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2025. Vol. 537, num. 2, p. 956 – 977. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf002.

Unveiling the Dark Side of Ultraviolet/Optical Bright Galaxies: Optically Thick Dust Absorption

Y. Cheng; M. Giavalisco; B. E. Backhaus; R. Bhatawdekar; N. J. Cleri et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 979, num. 1, p. 71. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9909.

Clumps as multiscale structures in cosmic noon galaxies

B. S. Kalita; T. L. Suzuki; D. Kashino; J. D. Silverman; E. Daddi et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2025. num. 3, p. 3090 – 3111. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2781.

Do stars still form in molecular gas within CO-dark dwarf galaxies?

D. J. Whitworth; R. J. Smith; S. C. O. Glover; R. Tress; E. J. Watkins et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2025. num. 3, p. 2936 – 2955. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2759.

2024

The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations

C. d. P. Lagos; F. Valentino; R. Wright; A. de Graaff; K. Glazebrook et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2024. num. 3, p. 2324 – 2354. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2626.

Testing kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential Investigating systematic errors in the kinematic distance method arising from a non-axisymmetric potential

G. H. Hunter; M. C. Sormani; J. P. Beckmann; E. Vasiliev; S. C. O. Glover et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 692. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202450000.

MAGAZ3NE: Massive, Extremely Dusty Galaxies at z ∼ 2 Lead to Photometric Overestimation of Number Densities of the Most Massive Galaxies at 3 < z < 4

B. Forrest; M. C. Cooper; A. Muzzin; G. Wilson; D. Marchesini et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. num. 1, p. 51. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8b1c.

The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds. III. Galaxy evolution and black hole growth from semi-analytic modelling

V. Cammelli; P. Monaco; J. C. Tan; J. Singh; F. Fontanot et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2024. Vol. 536, num. 1, p. 851 – 870. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2663.

Efficient formation of a massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.9

A. de Graaff; D. J. Setton; G. Brammer; S. E. Cutler; K. A. Suess et al. 

Nature Astronomy. 2024. Vol. 9, num. 2, p. 280 – 292. DOI : 10.1038/s41550-024-02424-3.

Magnetic field morphology and evolution in the Central Molecular Zone and its effect on gas dynamics

R. G. Tress; M. C. Sormani; P. Girichidis; S. C. O. Glover; R. S. Klessen et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2024. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202450035.

ASTRODEEP-JWST: NIRCam-HST multi-band photometry and redshifts for half a million sources in six extragalactic deep fields

E. Merlin; P. Santini; D. Paris; M. Castellano; A. Fontana et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 691. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202451409.

Crimson Behemoth: A massive clumpy structure hosting a dusty AGN at z =4.91

T. S. Tanaka; J. D. Silverman; Y. Nakazato; M. Onoue; K. Shimasaku et al. 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN. 2024. Vol. 76, num. 6, p. 1323 – 1335. DOI : 10.1093/pasj/psae091.

Physical properties of extreme emission-line galaxies at z~4-9 from the JWST CEERS survey

M. Llerena; R. Amorín; L. Pentericci; P. Arrabal Haro; B. E. Backhaus et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 691, p. A59. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202449904.

On the origin of star formation quenching in massive galaxies at z ≳ 3 in the cosmological simulations Illustris TNG

S. Kurinchi-Vendhan; M. Farcy; M. Hirschmann; F. Valentino 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 534, num. 4, p. 3974 – 3988. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2297.

What Are the Pillars of Reionization? Revising the AGN Luminosity Function at z ∼ 5

A. Grazian; E. Giallongo; K. Boutsia; S. Cristiani; F. Fontanot et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 974, num. 1, p. 84. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6980.

Evolution of the star formation rate and ΣSFR of galaxies at cosmic morning (4 < z < 10)

A. Calabrò; L. Pentericci; P. Santini; A. Ferrara; M. Llerena et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 690, p. A290. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202449768.

A Census from JWST of Extreme Emission-line Galaxies Spanning the Epoch of Reionization in CEERS

K. Davis; J. R. Trump; R. C. Simons; E. J. McGrath; S. M. Wilkins et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 974, num. 1, p. 42. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6865.

Not-so-little Red Dots: Two Massive and Dusty Starbursts at z ∼ 5-7 Pushing the Limits of Star Formation Discovered by JWST in the COSMOS-Web Survey

F. Gentile; C. M. Casey; H. B. Akins; M. Franco; J. McKinney et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2024. Vol. 973, num. 1, p. L2. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ad738a.

Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web

M. Franco; H. B. Akins; C. M. Casey; S. L. Finkelstein; M. Shuntov et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 973, num. 1, p. 23. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5e6a.

Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at z = 4-8 from CEERS

K. Chworowsky; S. L. Finkelstein; M. Boylan-Kolchin; E. J. McGrath; K. G. Iyer et al. 

Astronomical Journal. 2024. Vol. 168, num. 3, p. 113. DOI : 10.3847/1538-3881/ad57c1.

Lyα Emission Line Profiles of Extreme [O iii]- emitting Galaxies at z ≳ 2: Implications for Lyα Visibility in the Reionization Era

M. Tang; D. P. Stark; R. S. Ellis; M. W. Topping; C. Mason et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 972, num. 1, p. 56. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5ae0.

Euclid preparation: XLV. Optical emission-line predictions of intermediate-z galaxy populations in GAEA for the Euclid Deep and Wide Surveys

L. Scharré; M. Hirschmann; G. De Lucia; S. Charlot; F. Fontanot et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 689, p. A276. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202449500.

Characterizing the Average Interstellar Medium Conditions of Galaxies at z ∼ 5.6-9 with Ultraviolet and Optical Nebular Lines

W. Hu; C. Papovich; M. Dickinson; R. Kennicutt; L. Shen et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 971, num. 1, p. 21. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5015.

BEAGLE-AGN I: simultaneous constraints on the properties of gas in star-forming and AGN narrow-line regions in galaxies

A. Vidal-Garcia; A. Plat; E. Curtis-Lake; A. Feltre; M. Hirschmann et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 527, num. 3, p. 7217 – 7241. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad3252.

Efficient NIRCam Selection of Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < z < 6 in CEERS

A. S. Long; J. Antwi-Danso; E. L. Lambrides; C. C. Lovell; A. de la Vega et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 970, num. 1, p. 68. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4cea.

pyC 2 Ray: A flexible and GPU-accelerated radiative transfer framework for simulating the cosmic epoch of reionization

P. Hirling; M. Bianco; S. K. Giri; I. T. Iliev; G. Mellema et al. 

Astronomy and Computing. 2024. Vol. 48, p. 100861. DOI : 10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100861.

The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ∼ 8.5-14.5

S. L. Finkelstein; G. C. K. Leung; M. B. Bagley; M. Dickinson; H. C. Ferguson et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2024. Vol. 969, num. 1, p. L2. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ad4495.

Tracing the quenching journey across cosmic time

G. De Lucia; F. Fontanot; L. Xie; M. Hirschmann 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 687, p. 1 – 17. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202349045.

RUBIES: Evolved Stellar Populations with Extended Formation Histories at z ∼ 7–8 in Candidate Massive Galaxies Identified with JWST/NIRSpec

B. Wang; J. Leja; A. de Graaff; G. Brammer; A. Weibel et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2024. Vol. 969, num. 1. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ad55f7.

Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation Timeline Unveiled by ALMA, HST, and JWST in NGC 3351

J. Sun; H. He; K. Batschkun; R. C. Levy; K. Emig et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 967, num. 2, p. 133. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3de6.

The First Quenched Galaxies: When and How?

L. Xie; G. De Lucia; F. Fontanot; M. Hirschmann; Y. M. Bahe et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2024. Vol. 966, num. 1, p. L2. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/ad380a.

CEERS: Diversity of Lyα Emitters during the Epoch of Reionization

I. Jung; S. L. Finkelstein; P. A. Haro; M. Dickinson; H. C. Ferguson et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 967, num. 1, p. 73. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3913.

Tracing the rise of supermassive black holes A panchromatic search for faint, unobscured quasars at z ≥ 6 with COSMOS-Web and other surveys

I. T. Andika; K. Jahnke; M. Onoue; J. D. Silverman; I. K. Fitriana et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 685, p. A25. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202349025.

New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey

S. Mascia; L. Pentericci; A. Calabro; P. Santini; L. Napolitano et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2024. Vol. 685, p. A3. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202347884.

On the origin of globular clusters in a hierarchical universe

G. De Lucia; J. M. D. Kruijssen; S. Trujillo-Gomez; M. Hirschmann; L. Xie 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 530, num. 3, p. 2760 – 2777. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae1006.

The effect of cosmic rays on the observational properties of the CGM

D. Defelippis; F. Bournaud; N. Bouche; E. Tollet; M. Farcy et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 530, num. 1, p. 52 – 65. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae837.

COSMOS-Web: Intrinsically Luminous z ≳ 10 Galaxy Candidates Test Early Stellar Mass Assembly

C. M. Casey; H. B. Akins; M. Shuntov; O. Ilbert; L. Paquereau et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 965, num. 1, p. 98. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2075.

Extremely Red Galaxies at z=5-9 with MIRI and NIRSpec: Dusty Galaxies or Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei?

G. Barro; P. G. Perez-Gonzalez; D. D. Kocevski; E. J. McGrath; J. R. Trump et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 963, num. 2, p. 128. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad167e.

The Origins of Gas Accreted by Supermassive Black Holes: The Importance of Recycled Gas

E. Choi; R. S. Somerville; J. P. Ostriker; M. Hirschmann; T. Naab 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 964, num. 1, p. 54. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad245a.

Evolution of the Size-Mass Relation of Star-forming Galaxies Since z=5.5 Revealed by CEERS

E. Ward; A. de la Vega; B. Mobasher; E. J. Mcgrath; K. G. Iyer et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 962, num. 2, p. 176. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad20ed.

CEERS Key Paper. VIII. Emission-line Ratios from NIRSpec and NIRCam Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy at z > 2

B. E. Backhaus; J. R. Trump; N. Pirzkal; G. Barro; S. L. Finkelstein et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 962, num. 2, p. 195. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1520.

CLASSY. VIII. Exploring the Source of Ionization with UV Interstellar Medium Diagnostics in Local High-z Analogs

M. Mingozzi; B. L. James; D. A. Berg; K. Z. Arellano-Cordova; A. Plat et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 962, num. 1, p. 95. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1033.

Environmental effects on satellite galaxies from the perspective of cold gas

H. Chen; L. Xie; J. Wang; W. Hu; G. De Lucia et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 528, num. 2, p. 2451 – 2463. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae162.

A luminous and young galaxy at z = 12.33 revealed by a JWST/MIRI detection of Hα and [O iii]

J. A. Zavala; M. Castellano; H. B. Akins; T. J. Bakx; D. Burgarella et al. 

Nature Astronomy. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41550-024-02397-3.

Book Chapters

2026

Cosmic quenching

G. De Lucia; F. Fontanot; M. Hirschmann; L. Xie 

Encyclopedia of Astrophysics; Elsevier, 2026. p. 282 – 311.

Dr. Robin Tress

Journal Articles

2025

Parallel Alignments Between Magnetic Fields and Dense Structures in the Central Molecular Zone

X. Pan; Q. Zhang; K. Qiu; D. M. Pare; D. T. Chuss et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 991, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adf8c7.

The Dynamical Impact of Cosmic Rays in the Rhea Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

K. Kjellgren; P. Girichidis; J. Goeller; N. Brucy; R. S. Klessen et al. 

Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2025. Vol. 700, p. A124. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553754.

3d Cmz. I. Central Molecular Zone Overview

C. Battersby; D. L. Walker; A. Barnes; A. Ginsburg; D. Lipman et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 984, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb5f0.

Do stars still form in molecular gas within CO-dark dwarf galaxies?

D. J. Whitworth; R. J. Smith; S. C. O. Glover; R. Tress; E. J. Watkins et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2025. num. 3, p. 2936 – 2955. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2759.

2024

Testing kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential Investigating systematic errors in the kinematic distance method arising from a non-axisymmetric potential

G. H. Hunter; M. C. Sormani; J. P. Beckmann; E. Vasiliev; S. C. O. Glover et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 692. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202450000.

Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation Timeline Unveiled by ALMA, HST, and JWST in NGC 3351

J. Sun; H. He; K. Batschkun; R. C. Levy; K. Emig et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 967, num. 2, p. 133. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3de6.

2023

Kinematics of Galactic Centre clouds shaped by shear-seeded solenoidal turbulence

M. A. Petkova; J. M. D. Kruijssen; J. D. Henshaw; S. N. Longmore; S. C. O. Glover et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 525, num. 1, p. 962 – 968. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad2344.

On the distribution of the cold neutral medium in galaxy discs

R. J. Smith; R. Tress; J. D. Soler; R. S. Klessen; S. C. O. Glover et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 524, num. 1, p. 873 – 885. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad1537.

Fuelling the nuclear ring of NGC 1097

M. C. Sormani; A. T. Barnes; J. Sun; S. K. Stuber; E. Schinnerer et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 523, num. 2, p. 2918 – 2927. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad1554.

The PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

J. C. Lee; K. M. Sandstrom; A. K. Leroy; D. A. Thilker; E. Schinnerer et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2023. Vol. 944, num. 2, p. L17. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/acaaae.

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Rapid Evolution of Star Formation in the Central Molecular Gas Ring of NGC 1365

E. Schinnerer; E. Emsellem; J. D. Henshaw; D. Liu; S. E. Meidt et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2023. Vol. 944, num. 2, p. L15. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/acac9e.

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Multiwavelength View of Feedback-driven Bubbles (the Phantom Voids) across NGC 628

A. T. Barnes; E. J. Watkins; S. E. Meidt; K. Kreckel; M. C. Sormani et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2023. Vol. 944, num. 2, p. L22. DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/aca7b9.

Magnetic fields do not suppress global star formation in low metallicity dwarf galaxies

D. J. Whitworth; R. J. Smith; R. S. Klessen; M-M. Mac Low; S. C. O. Glover et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 520, num. 1, p. 89 – 106. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad105.

Dr. Farcy Marion

Journal Articles

2025

The Pandora project. II: how non-thermal physics drives bursty star formation and temperate mass-loaded outflows in dwarf galaxies

S. Martin-Alvarez; D. Sijacki; M. G. Haehnelt; A. Concas; Y. Yuan et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf2106.

MISTRAL: a model for AGN winds from radiatively efficient accretion in cosmological simulations

M. Farcy; M. Hirschmann; R. S. Somerville; E. Choi; S. Koudmani et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf1464.

The Impact of Cosmic Ray Feedback During the Epoch of Reionisation

M. Farcy; J. Rosdahl; Y. Dubois; J. Blaizot; S. Martin-Alvarez et al. 

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2025. Vol. 698. DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202553924.

You Shall Not Pass! The Propagation of Low-/Moderate-powered Jets Through a Turbulent Interstellar Medium

O. Borodina; Y. Ni; J. S. Bennett; R. Weinberger; G. L. Bryan et al. 

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2025. Vol. 981, num. 2. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adb016.

2024

On the origin of star formation quenching in massive galaxies at z ≳ 3 in the cosmological simulations Illustris TNG

S. Kurinchi-Vendhan; M. Farcy; M. Hirschmann; F. Valentino 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 534, num. 4, p. 3974 – 3988. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae2297.

The effect of cosmic rays on the observational properties of the CGM

D. Defelippis; F. Bournaud; N. Bouche; E. Tollet; M. Farcy et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 530, num. 1, p. 52 – 65. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stae837.

2023

The Pandora project – I. The impact of radiation, magnetic fields, and cosmic rays on the baryonic and dark matter properties of dwarf galaxies

S. Martin-Alvarez; D. Sijacki; M. G. Haehnelt; M. Farcy; Y. Dubois et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 525, num. 3, p. 3806 – 3830. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad2559.

Dr. Adèle Plat

Journal Articles

2025

JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High-ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift

M. Tang; D. P. Stark; A. Plat; A. Feltre; H. Katz et al. 

Astrophysical Journal. 2025. Vol. 991, p. 217. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/adfd57.

Characterising the z ≈ 7.66 Type-II AGN candidate SMACS S06355 using BEAGLE-AGN and JWST NIRSpec/NIRCam

M. S. Silcock; E. Curtis-Lake; D. J. B. Smith; I. E. B. Wallace; A. Vidal-García et al. 

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf1087.

2024

Lyα Emission Line Profiles of Extreme [O iii]- emitting Galaxies at z ≳ 2: Implications for Lyα Visibility in the Reionization Era

M. Tang; D. P. Stark; R. S. Ellis; M. W. Topping; C. Mason et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 972, num. 1, p. 56. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5ae0.

CLASSY. VIII. Exploring the Source of Ionization with UV Interstellar Medium Diagnostics in Local High-z Analogs

M. Mingozzi; B. L. James; D. A. Berg; K. Z. Arellano-Cordova; A. Plat et al. 

The Astrophysical Journal. 2024. Vol. 962, num. 1, p. 95. DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1033.

2023

Emission-line properties of IllustrisTNG galaxies: from local diagnostic diagrams to high-redshift predictions for JWST

M. Hirschmann; S. Charlot; A. Feltre; E. Curtis-Lake; R. S. Somerville et al. 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2023. Vol. 526, num. 3, p. 3610 – 3636. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stad2955.

Jonathan Petersson

Journal Articles

2025

The importance of nuclear star clusters for massive black hole growth and nuclear star formation in simulated low-mass galaxies

C. Partmann; T. Naab; N. Lahen; A. Rantala; M. Hirschmann et al. 

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2025. Vol. 537, num. 2, p. 956 – 977. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/staf002.

2022

From starburst to quenching: merger-driven evolution of the star formation regimes in a shell galaxy

J. Petersson; F. Renaud; O. Agertz; A. Dekel; P-A. Duc 

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society. 2022. Vol. 518, num. 3, p. 3261 – 3273. DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stac3136.

Lucie Scharré

Journal Articles

2023

Solar Wind Protons in the Diamagnetic Cavity at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

C. Goetz; L. Scharre; C. S. Wedlund; A. Moeslinger; H. Nilsson et al. 

Journal Of Geophysical Research-Space Physics. 2023. Vol. 128, num. 4, p. e2022JA031249. DOI : 10.1029/2022JA031249.

Dr. Malak Galal

Journal Articles

2025

[Erratum] Study of backward Brillouin scattering in gas-filled anti-resonant fibers (vol 8, 086104, 2023)

M. Galal; L. Zhang; S. Gao; Y. Wang; L. Thevenaz 

APL PHOTONICS. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 3. DOI : 10.1063/5.0263994.

2023

Study of backward Brillouin scattering in gas-filled anti-resonant fibers

M. Galal; L. Zhang; S. Gao; Y. Wang; L. Thévenaz 

APL Photonics. 2023. Vol. 8, num. 8, p. 086104. DOI : 10.1063/5.0151018.

2022

Enhanced Signal-Associated Noise in a φ-OTDR System

M. Galal; S. Sebastian; L. Thévenaz 

IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 44974 – 44981. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3170243.

2021

On the Measurement Accuracy of Coherent Rayleigh-based Distributed Sensors

M. Galal; S. Sebastian; Z. Yang; L. Zhang; S. Zaslawski et al. 

Optics Express. 2021. Vol. 29, num. 26, p. 42538 – 42552. DOI : 10.1364/OE.442790.

2020

Distributed and dynamic strain sensing with high spatial resolution and large measurable strain range

L. Zhang; Z. Yang; N. Gorbatov; R. Davidi; M. Galal et al. 

Optics Letters. 2020. Vol. 45, num. 18, p. 5020 – 5023. DOI : 10.1364/OL.395922.

Conference Papers

2024

Investigations on assembly and coverage for modular focal planes of multiplexed telescopes

M. Rombach; X. Xu; R. Araujo; M. Thurneysen; S. Caseiro et al. 

2024. 10 Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy, Yokohama, Japan, 2024-06-16 – 2024-06-21. DOI : 10.1117/12.3018315.

2023

New Avenues in Optical Fiber Sensing Using Gas

L. Thévenaz; F. Yang; F. Gyger; L. Zhang; M. Galal et al. 

2023. 28th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Hamamatsu, Japan, November 20-24, 2023. DOI : 10.1364/OFS.2023.W5.1.

Novel low-temperature fiber sensing technique using Brillouin scattering in gas

Y. Yang; M. A. Soto; L. Thévenaz 

2023. 28th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS-28), Hamamatsu, Japan, November 20-24, 2023. DOI : 10.1364/OFS.2023.F2.3.

Study on the possibility of Φ-OTDR sensing in hollow-core fibres

Y. Yang; M. Galal; L. Thévenaz 

2023. European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS 2023), Mons, Belgium, May 23-26, 2023. DOI : 10.1117/12.2679743.

2022

Analytical prediction of the final error due to noise in a ϕ-OTDR system

Y. Yang; M. Galal; S. Sebastian; L. Zhang; L. Thévenaz 

2022. 27th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 29 August–2 September 2022. DOI : 10.1364/OFS.2022.Th4.60.

Distributed Temperature Sensing Using Gas-filled Conjoined-tube Anti-resonant Fiber

M. Galal; L. Zhang; S. Gao; Y. Wang; L. Thévenaz 

2022. 27th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 29 August–2 September 2022. DOI : 10.1364/OFS.2022.Tu2.3.

2021

Determination of the Measurement Accuracy of a Phase-sensitive OTDR

M. Galal; S. Sebastian; Z. Yang; L. Thévenaz 

2021. OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES), Washington, DC United States, July 19-23, 2021. DOI : 10.1364/SENSORS.2021.SM5A.5.

Distributed Temperature Sensing Based on φ-OTDR Using Back-reflection-enhanced Fiber

M. Galal; S. Sebastian; L. Zhang; L. Thévenaz 

2021. CLEO: Science and Innovations 2021Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, California, United States, May 9-17, 2021. DOI : 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2021.STu1A.3.

Theses

2022

Investigating Novel Optical Fibres for More Advanced Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing

M. M. H. O. M. Galal / L. Thévenaz (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

2018

Distributed analyses using distinct classes of Brillouin scatterings in optical fibres

D. Chow Ming Chia / L. Thévenaz (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Talks

2021

Spontaneous Brillouin Scattering in Gas-filled Anti-resonant Fibre

M. Galal; L. Zhang; F. Yang; S. Sebastian; S. Gao et al. 

Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021, Online, November 1–4, 2021.