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SUNBURSTFALL, John Bozeman

SUNBURSTFALL

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SUNBURSTFALL, John Bozeman

SUNBURSTFALL

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How the early Universe was reionized is a key science case for JWST. The majority of ionizing Lyman Continuum (LyC) photons were produced by massive stars in the first galaxies, and had to find their way through the neutral ISM and escape into intergalactic Space. How this happened is unclear, and due to the high fraction of neutral gas in the IGM, we cannot study ionizing escape directly at z>4, but must rely on lower redshift analogs.

In the local Universe, escape fractions are far too low to account for the energy needed to cause reionization. In order to determine which physical processes regulate ionizing escape, and how they can evolve over cosmic time, we need to study the ISM of leaking galaxies in high detail, across Cosmological epochs.

RA: 15 50 6.0000 (237.5250000d)
Dec: -78 11 25.00 (-78.19028d)
Equinox: J2000

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope MAST Portal. Release date: 2024-04-10

Camera: NIRCAM
Color Mapped:
Red-F444W
Green-F356W
Blue-F200W

Processed with FITS Liberator, Registar, GraXpert, PixInsight and Photoshop 2024.

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SUNBURSTFALL, John Bozeman