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JWST’s PEARLS: A Clumpy Ring Galaxy at z = 4.0148

  • Authors: David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail, Rogier A. Windhorst, Gibson B. Bowling, Cheng Cheng, Seth H. Cohen, Christopher J. Conselice, Jose M. Diego, Brenda L. Frye, Norman A. Grogin, Rolf A. Jansen, Patrick S. Kamieneski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Rafael Ortiz III, Massimo Ricotti, Bangzheng Sun, Hayley Williams, S. P. Willner, Haojing Yan, Aadya Agrawal, Manuel Solimano, Zachary Stone, Joaquin D. Vieira, Chentao Yang

David Vizgan et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Left: flux density vs. observed wavelength, plotting photometric points from the two HST and seven JWST wide-filter images in the green squares. These data are taken from an aperture corresponding to the “center” shown in Figure 3 (and the green circle in the right panel). The orange and blue spectra represent bagpipes models of a galaxy clump at z = 4.0148 vs. a foreground gravitational lens with a best-fit redshift of z = 1.66. The z ≃ 4 solution better describes the photometry, and the predicted source SED at z ≃ 1.7 exhibits a number of lines between 3.2–5.0 μm that are not found in the NIRSpec data (see Figure 2). Right: a scaled version of F182M imaging subtracted from the F200W imaging; we calculate a “corrective factor,” accounting for diffuse starlight near the “center” of the galaxy, from the flux enclosed within the magenta aperture.

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