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Journal Article
The z ≳ 9 Galaxy UV Luminosity Function from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey: Insights into Early Galaxy Evolution and Reionization
2025
Overview
The high-redshift UV luminosity function provides important insights into the evolution of early galaxies. JWST has revealed an unexpectedly large population of bright (MUV ≲ −20) galaxies at z ≳ 10, implying fundamental changes in the star-forming properties of galaxies at increasingly early times. However, constraining the fainter population (MUV ≳ −18) has been more challenging. In this work, we present the z ≳ 9 UV luminosity function from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. We calculate the UV luminosity function from several hundred z ≳ 9 galaxy candidates that reach UV luminosities of MUV ∼ −17 in redshift bins of z ∼ 8.5–12 (309 candidates) and z ∼ 12–16 (63 candidates). We search for candidates at z ∼ 16–22.5 and find none. We also estimate the z ∼ 14–16 luminosity function from the z ≥ 14 subset of the z ∼ 12–16 sample. Consistent with other measurements, we find an excess of bright galaxies that is in tension with many theoretical models, especially at z ≳ 12. However, we also find high number densities at −18 ≲ MUV ≲ −17, suggesting that there is a larger population of faint galaxies than expected, as well as bright ones. From our parametric fits for the luminosity function, we find steep faint-end slopes of −2.5 ≲ α ≲ −2.3, suggesting a large population of faint (MUV ≳ −17) galaxies. Combined, the high normalization and steep faint-end slope of the luminosity function could imply that the reionization process is appreciably underway as early as z = 10.
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