Research Division Seminar
Too much star formation, nuclear activity, and dust production in the early Universe: the good, the bad and the ugly of first JWST results

Abstract

In the first two years of scientific operations of JWST, three results have emerged, closely related to each other: an unexpected large abundance of bright galaxies at z>9 as well as AGN at z>5, and the existence of some dust even in the confirmed galaxies at the highest redshifts, with large contents present in some particular sources known as little red dots up to at least z~9. I will discuss the details and reliability of these results based on some of the recent work published by the MIRI European and US GTO, the CEERS, and the JADES-SMILES teams.