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Probing the Initial Mass Function in the Early Universe: Direct Measurements in the Boötes I Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy with JWST/NIRCam

  • Authors: Keyi Ding, 可怿 丁, Mario Gennaro, Roberto J. Avila, Massimo Ricotti, Rachael L. Beaton, Martha L. Boyer, Thomas M. Brown, Annalisa Calamida, Santi Cassisi, Vedant Chandra, Roger E. Cohen, Matteo Correnti, Denija Crnojević, Kareem El-Badry, Marla Geha, Puragra Guhathakurta, Nitya Kallivayalil, Evan N. Kirby, Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino, Cheyanne Shariat, Joshua D. Simon, Daniel R. Weisz

Keyi Ding et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

CMD of sources extracted by DOLPHOT. Left: All photometric sources are shown in gray, with those passing the data quality cuts highlighted in black. Middle: Sources passing the quality cuts, overplotted with a synthetic foreground stellar population from TRILEGAL (blue) and synthesized photometry of background galaxies from the HUDF based on SED models (red), scaled by area to match the field-of-view of our observations. Right: The final selection of Boo I member stars in black, with likely foreground stars in blue and likely background galaxies in red based on color and magnitude cuts. The Boo I member giants, which we also exclude in our analysis, are plotted in green.

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