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arXiv: 2207.09428
handle: 10810/58852 , 10261/305503
Abstract We present early results regarding the morphological and structural properties of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at z > 3 in the Early Release Observations toward the SMACS 0723 cluster field. Using JWST we investigate, for the first time, the optical morphologies of a significant number of z > 3 galaxies with accurate photometric redshifts in this field to determine the form of galaxy structure in the relatively early universe. We use visual morphologies and Morfometryka measures to perform quantitative morphology measurements, both parametric with light profile fitting (Sérsic indices) and nonparametric (concentration, asymmetry, and smoothness (CAS) values). Using these, we measure the relative fraction of disk, spheroidal, and peculiar galaxies at 3 < z < 8. We discover the surprising result that at z > 1.5 disk galaxies dominate the overall fraction of morphologies, with a factor of ∼10 relative higher number of disk galaxies than seen by the Hubble Space Telescope at these redshifts. Our visual morphological estimates of galaxies align closely with their locations in CAS parameter space and their Sérsic indices.
photometric redshifts, massive galaxies, less than 3, stellar populations, space telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, cluster galaxies, deep field, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Hubble sequence, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), distant galaxies, faint galaxies
photometric redshifts, massive galaxies, less than 3, stellar populations, space telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, cluster galaxies, deep field, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Hubble sequence, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), distant galaxies, faint galaxies
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