Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021)
Highlights

Hunting for dwarf galaxies at cosmic dawn

Viola Gelli
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Stefania Salvadori
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

Published 2021-09-21

Keywords

  • Dwarf galaxies,
  • first galaxies,
  • JWST

How to Cite

Gelli, V., & Salvadori, S. (2021). Hunting for dwarf galaxies at cosmic dawn. Il Colle Di Galileo, 10(2), 61–66. https://doi.org/10.36253/cdg-13090

Abstract

The greatest space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will be launched in October 2021, allowing us to observe the distant Universe in depth. Thanks to sophisticated high-resolution cosmological simulations, we demonstrate that for the very first time JWST will observe hundreds of small sources which though very faint are fundamental in cosmic history: dwarf satellite galaxies.

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