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Harvard ADS: Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic Star-Formation Rate Density 300 Myr after the Big Bang
Paper abstract: We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters spanning 0.4-0.9\mu\mathrm{m}) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8-5\mu\mathrm{m}, including 7 medium-band filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all the imaging data at >2\mu\mathrm{m} to construct the deepest imaging ever taken at these wavelengths, reaching as deep as ~31.4 AB mag in the stack and 30.1-30.8 AB mag (5\sigma, r=0.1" circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts z=11.5-15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R_{1/2}~50-200pc, stellar masses of M_*~10^7-10^8M_\odot, and star-formation rates of \mathrm{SFR}~0.1-1~M_\odot~\mathrm{yr}^{-1}. Our search finds no candidates at 15
