The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2023)

Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XVIII. A First Morphological Atlas of the 1 < z < 5 Universe in the Rest-frame Optical

  • C. Jacobs,
  • K. Glazebrook,
  • A. Calabrò,
  • T. Treu,
  • T. Nannayakkara,
  • T. Jones,
  • E. Merlin,
  • R. Abraham,
  • A. R. H. Stevens,
  • B. Vulcani,
  • L. Yang,
  • A. Bonchi,
  • K. Boyett,
  • M. Bradač,
  • M. Castellano,
  • A. Fontana,
  • D. Marchesini,
  • M. Malkan,
  • C. Mason,
  • T. Morishita,
  • D. Paris,
  • P. Santini,
  • M. Trenti,
  • X. Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/accd6d
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 948, no. 2
p. L13

Abstract

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We present a rest-frame optical morphological analysis of galaxies observed with the NIRCam imager on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science program. We select 388 sources at redshifts 0.8 1.5, revealed by rest-frame optical imaging. We detect 123 clear disks (58 at z > 1.5) of which 76 have bulges. No evolution of bulge fraction with redshift is evident: 61% at z 10 ^9.5 M _⊙ ( N = 41) but only 52% at M 1.5, with smoother (i.e., lower Gini) and more symmetrical light distributions.

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