ALMA Band 3 Selection of Ultra-high Redshift Dropouts: The final challenge to ΛCDM
2025/03/31 by C. Lovell, C. R. Lovell, Lovell, C. +34 · 8 voices
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Grism #Measure (data warehouse) #Multi band #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Range (aeronautics) #Redshift #Selection (genetic algorithm)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.24312
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
openalex publication_date 2025/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract
The Lyman-break technique has been used to successfully identify high-redshift candidates in broad-band photometric data in the rest-frame optical and NIR using the dropout technique. We pioneer the application of this technique to new wavelength regimes, and search for dropouts in combined ALMA and JWST data. We find a candidate that is undetected in NIRCam imaging including and blueward of the F444W filter, but clearly identified in ALMA band 3. Assuming this is a Lyman-break candidate, we measure a redshift in the range 40 < z < 21 380. This is the highest redshift galaxy candidate discovered to date, and is in significant tension with current and future predictions from cosmological simulations, with implications for galaxy evolution in the (very) early Universe.
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- Lol okay this one is legit good. A galaxy detected at a possible redshift of 21,380 arxiv.org/abs/2503.24312 [bsky, 19 points, 1 comments]
- It’s April fools day, so why not take a look at our ABSURD (ALMA Band-3 Selection of Ultra-high Redshift Dropouts) galaxy we found in the COSMOS field with a highly constrained redshift of 40<z<21380 [bsky, 6 points, 1 comments]
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- 🐟 Découverte d'un candidat de galaxie à ultra haut redshift entre 40 et 21 380, à partir de données du JWST (pas de détection sur toutes les bandes) et d'ALMA 🤯 Cette observation d'une fiabilité inc [bsky, 4 points, 1 comments]
- Our magnum opus (that is until the next one 😇) arxiv.org/abs/2503.24312 [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
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