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Unveiling the Cosmic Gems Arc at z ∼ 10 with JWST NIRCam

  • Authors: Larry D. Bradley, Angela Adamo, Eros Vanzella, Keren Sharon, Gabriel Brammer, Dan Coe, Jose M. Diego, Vasily Kokorev, Guillaume Mahler, Masamune Oguri, Abdurro'uf, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Lise Christensen, Seiji Fujimoto, Takuya Hashimoto, Tiger Y.-Y Hsiao, Akio K. Inoue, Yolanda Jiménez-Teja, Matteo Messa, Colin Norman, Massimo Ricotti, Yoichi Tamura, Rogier A. Windhorst, Xinfeng Xu, Adi Zitrin

Larry D. Bradley et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal 991 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Cutout images of the Cosmic Gems Arc (top) and the candidate counterimage (bottom), showing the Lyα-break using the JWST bands only. The field of view of the cutouts is 5 × 6″, and the images are shown with north up and east left. The stacked images blueward (F090W + F115W) and redward (F150W + F200W + F356W + F410M + F444W) of the Lyα-break are shown in the left and central panels, respectively. The right panels show color composites in the NIRCam filters. The Cosmic Gems Arc has an extremely strong NIRCam F115W−F200W break of >3.2 mag (2σ lower limit), is undetected (<2σ) in all bluer filters, and has a very blue continuum slope redward of the break. The candidate counterimage has similar colors to the arc, but is 3.9 mag fainter, with an observed F200W magnitude of mAB = 28.4, fully consistent with the LENSTOOL-A model prediction of the counterimage being ∼3.7−4.7 mag fainter. The predicted locations of the counterimage from the LENSTOOL-A and GLAFIC models (star symbols in the bottom-center panel) are within 1﹩\mathop{.}\limits{^{\prime\prime} }﹩8 and 2﹩\mathop{.}\limits{^{\prime\prime} }﹩2 of the candidate counterimage, respectively.

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