WorksPhysics and Astronomy
Why a Multi-Cycle Treasury Program is Essential to Maximize JWST's Scientific Contributions to Galaxy Formation
Abstract
The Genesis Initiative is an extragalactic community-wide effort to coordinate white papers in response to the STScI Multi-Cycle Treasury (MCT) concept call. Two of JWST's primary science goals are to discover and characterize the first stars and galaxies, and to understand how they evolved into the galaxies we see today - questions whose fundamental importance has been affirmed by the past three decadal surveys. JWST's first five years have surpassed expectations, revealing a bounty of unexpected discoveries about the early universe. Yet these discoveries have raised as many questions as they have answered, and key mission goals remain unmet. Transforming this excitement into a quantitative physical understanding of early galaxy formation requires a uniform, statistically controlled legacy dataset that the current portfolio of smaller, heterogeneous programs cannot provide. The history of the Hubble Space Telescope offers a clear precedent. Its most transformative extragalactic results came from large, coordinated surveys far exceeding what the standard time-allocation process typically approves, and these uniform datasets remain scientifically productive decades later. We argue that JWST is now poised for the same leap. Answering the field's central open questions demands coordinated, community-led surveys of ~1000-2000 hr, with uniform and well-characterized selection functions that are structurally impossible within single-cycle programs. Such an investment is time-critical while JWST's instruments remain at peak performance, and would maximize synergy with ALMA, Euclid, Roman, Rubin, and future facilities. We therefore urge STScI to open a MCT channel, enabling the bold, ambitious surveys needed to understand how galaxies evolve from first light to the present day.
Introduction
Two of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) primary science goals are “discovering and characterizing the first stars and galaxies”, and “understanding how these objects evolved into the galaxies we see in the nearby Universe” [39]. These questions – when the first galaxies emerged from the cosmic dark ages, how the first massive black holes formed, and how the heavy elements necessary for life were forged in the first stars —- together mark the genesis of our own Milky Way, and of the conditions that made life possible.
The fundamental importance of these questions has been called out by the past three Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal surveys, and formed the primary motivation for investing decades of effort and billions of dollars to making the JWST mission a reality. Most recently, the Astro2020 decadal identified “Cosmic Ecosystems: Unveiling the Hidden Drivers of Galaxy Growth” as a priority science area, stating: “An essential milestone on the pathway to revealing these drivers is a complete understanding of the formation and buildup of galaxies and their structures, stellar populations, metals, and central black holes over cosmic time. JWST is poised to revolutionize this subject by imaging and identifying galaxies out to some of the first generations during the epoch of reionization, and by obtaining deep redshifted ultraviolet–visible spectra for thousands of galaxies spanning the period from reionization to the present.” [77]. Other key questions identified by the Astro2020 science panels that JWST can address include: 1) What are the seeds of supermassive black holes and how do they grow? 2) How did the intergalactic medium and the first sources of radiation evolve from cosmic dawn through the epoch of reionization? 3) How do gas, metals, and dust flow into, through, and out of galaxies? 4) How do supermassive black holes form, and how is their growth coupled to the evolution of their host galaxies? [78]
JWST’s performance has been even better than expected, and the Universe has also cooperated by disclosing a bounty of unexpected discoveries. Despite the associated excitement, these discoveries have posed as many new questions as they have answered, and major goals of the JWST mission arguably remain un-achieved. A uniform, statistically controlled legacy dataset is now required to transform these discoveries into a quantitative physical understanding of early galaxy formation. Here we argue that this requires a coordinated and ambitious community-led strategy, demanding a significantly larger time allocation than has been approved through the standard TAC process to date. Over the past five years, the JWST user community has gained substantial expertise in designing observing strategies and in interpreting the resulting data. Now is the time for JWST to embark on the next phase of scientific discovery, by enabling these kinds of larger efforts.
Lessons from the Hubble Space Telescope
Large, ambitious extragalactic surveys with space telescopes have a long and successful legacy, beginning in 1995 when HST devoted ten consecutive days of telescope time to an apparently blank patch of sky, creating the iconic Hubble Deep Field [102]. While this program was considered a significant risk, and arguably never would have survived the standard peer-review TAC process, these observations revealed a universe teeming with galaxies at every stage of evolution, fundamentally changing our understanding of galaxy formation. The HDF pioneered an entirely new mode of “blank-field” astronomy, which is now the dominant observational paradigm for early universe discovery. Major advances in our empirical understanding of galaxy formation over the past three decades trace back to this lineage: from the HDF [102] (done in HST Cycle 5!) to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field [3] and Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS, a GO program; [43]), to the Hubble Frontier Fields [66], and many in between. These programs were made possible through Director’s Discretionary Time (DDT). Their success led to the first HST Multi-Cycle Treasury (MCT) program call to enable programs far beyond what the standard TAC process could accommodate. This call resulted in three transformative programs: CANDELS [47, 60], the largest HST survey ever at the time, which mapped galaxy evolution across five legacy fields over 902 orbits; CLASH (524 orbits), which used cluster lensing to probe the high-redshift universe [86], paving the way for the HFFs; and PHAT (828 orbits), which resolved stellar populations across a third of the Andromeda galaxy [23]. DDT contributed roughly a third of the allocated orbits, with the remainder drawn from the GO pool. A second MCT call in 2023 yielded two programs now underway [58, 67].

Figure 1. Distribution of approved GO program sizes for HST (in orbits; from the TALL database) and JWST (in hours; from STScI approved-program GO listings). For HST, we indicate Treasury programs including MCT in purple, and DDT programs in green [87]. We also highlight the JWST GTO programs JADES (NIRCam+NIRSpec) and MIDIS (MIRI) programs.
Figure 1 shows the distribution of HST GO program sizes, which are predominantly orbits. Only Treasury/MCT and DDT programs exceed this threshold, accounting for all programs which exceed 400 orbits. Among these are the most transformative studies in galaxy evolution history which have continuously pushed back our redshift horizon to (HDF), (e.g., GOODS and COSMOS [90]), and (e.g., CANDELS and CLASH). These programs are highly impactful even 1–2 decades after survey completion, providing legacy data in the key fields which continue to be observed with JWST and other facilities today. GOODS and CANDELS are generating and 5 citations/orbit/year even today. The gold histogram indicates the JWST GO program distribution – similar to HST, the TAC-gated GO programs rarely exceed 300 hr.
The Galaxy Formation Landscape and Key Unanswered Questions
The observable properties of galaxies are forged by a complex suite of multi-scale and multi-physics processes. Scaling relations (correlations between observable properties such as mass, internal velocity, size, star formation rate [SFR], and metallicity) encode these processes and are essential for constraining theories of galaxy formation. Over the past several decades, HST, Spitzer, and ground-based observations pushed our view of galaxy evolution ever farther back in cosmic time, revealing the evolution of these fundamental scaling relations and the emergence of the Hubble sequence.
Just prior to JWST’s launch, the redshift frontier had been pushed back to [e.g., [80, 31]]. Empirical extrapolations from these observations as well as the general consensus of theoretical models predicted that the cosmic SFR density and the number density of UV-bright galaxies would continue to decline towards even higher redshifts [with the exact rate of decline debated; e.g., [6, 79, 72]], forecasting that JWST should see few if any UV luminous galaxies at in the initial rather small surveys. Instead, JWST has transformed our understanding of the very early universe by revealing that galaxies grow surprisingly fast and furiously at cosmic dawn, reaching unexpectedly high luminosities and masses, at earlier times than most pre-launch theoretical and empirical models predicted [e.g., 32, 49, 65, 1, 26]. Moreover, the exquisite capability of the NIRSpec instrument onboard JWST has not only confirmed the redshifts of many of these high- objects [e.g., 20, 2], but has begun to reveal their internal physical properties. These studies suggest that early galaxies have experienced significant chemical enrichment [7, 9]. Some have elemental abundance ratios and ISM properties that are significantly different from those of their lower redshift counterparts, and perhaps reflective of early star-cluster formation [e.g., 10, 96].
The highest-redshift spectroscopically confirmed galaxies identified with JWST to date are at redshifts of [13, 74], and there are photometric candidates with redshifts as high as [e.g., 84, 38, 16]. The inferred star formation histories and metallicities of the objects strongly imply that they should have detectable progenitors at [29]. Although these objects are apparently not composed of Pop III stars, JWST has found tantalizing, though hotly debated, hints of possible pockets of Pop III star formation at lower redshifts [e.g., 73, 69, 99]. Lyman- emission has been discovered out to [103], indicating that regions of the Universe were already re-ionized at these surprisingly early epochs, and painting a picture of highly patchy reionization.
Another major discovery area is the study of early black hole growth at , via the measurement of Balmer emission lines tracing the AGN broad-line region [e.g., 50, 95]. In addition, JWST has discovered a mysterious population of objects termed “Little Red Dots” [LRDs; [71]], which have ultra-compact morphologies and unusual “V-shaped” spectral energy distributions, and are more common at [59, 61]. The majority of LRDs exhibit very broad emission lines [45], leading to the interpretation that they are powered by supermassive black holes which may be overmassive relative to their host galaxies [e.g., 81, 48], but they are generally undetected in the X-ray and radio [37, 91], unlike traditional AGN. Their red nature is (typically) not linked to the presence of large amounts of dust [82, 14], complicating the interpretation in terms of the canonical AGN engine structure. Their physical nature remains highly debated, with interpretations ranging from accreting black holes with unusual accretion and obscuration properties [55] to alternative stellar-powered scenarios, including supermassive stars [76, 85, 63], star clusters [18], and quasi-stars [75, 4].
The ability to perform continuum and absorption-line spectroscopy of massive galaxies at has revealed the existence of a surprisingly large population that apparently assembled and quenched their star formation very early and rapidly [12, 44]. Some of the tension with current simulations may be relieved by appealing to stellar population models with more realistic chemical abundance patterns [24], spatially resolved spectroscopy [22], and more sophisticated modeling of early star formation and AGN feedback [93, 28], but just how much remains to be seen. Furthermore, JWST imaging has revealed the emergence of well-developed structural and morphological features like bars, spheroids, and disks, earlier in cosmic history than previously thought [e.g. 54].
These discoveries lead to several open questions that JWST can uniquely address:
When and how do the earliest galaxies first emerge from the cosmic dark ages, and which processes govern their star formation?
Can we identify and characterize primordial Population III stars during their lives or their explosive deaths?
What do the unusual elemental abundance patterns reveal about the formation modes of the first galaxies?
When and how do the first massive black holes form, what are their masses, and what is their connection to the mysterious population of LRDs?
How do massive galaxies form and quench so early and rapidly?
When do the scaling relations that encode the physics regulating galaxy evolution first emerge, and how do they evolve across the first few billion years?
When and how did reionization occur, and what were the powering sources?
The Limits of Existing Programs to Answer These Questions
The Limits of Existing Programs to Answer These Questions
Over the course of the first five cycles of JWST observations, inclusive of Early Release Science (ERS [33, 15]), Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO [27, 83, 89, 98]), and GO programs, the galaxy formation community has employed many of the telescope’s key observational modes. These include large multi-band NIRCam imaging surveys, utilizing both broad and medium-band filters, undertaken in well-studied legacy fields (e.g., JADES, CEERS, PRIMER, COSMOS-Web, MINERVA) and in lensing cluster fields (e.g., GLASS-ERS, CANUCS, UNCOVER, GLIMPSE, VENUS), while multi-epoch imaging campaigns have enabled high-redshift time-domain astrophysics (e.g., NEXUS, VENUS, PEARLS-NEP). Spectroscopic survey programs have utilized the NIRSpec MSA (e.g., JADES, CEERS, CAPERS, JWS3, RUBIES) and NIRCam grism (e.g., FRESCO, COSMOS-3D, CONGRESS) to assemble large samples. Smaller samples have been observed with NIRSpec and NIRISS to greater depths (e.g., SPURS, DIVER, DAJE, NGDEEP), and with the NIRSpec IFU to spatially map high-redshift galaxies (e.g., GA-NIFS, ALPINE-CRISTAL, REBELS-IFU, Black-THUNDER). MIRI imaging has been obtained in parallel for several NIRCam programs (e.g., CEERS, PRIMER, COSMOS-Web, MINERVA) and prime in the HUDF (e.g., MIDIS, SMILES, MIRAGE, MEOW), whereas MIRI spectroscopy has yet to be widely deployed over large samples.
Large quantities of data from ERS, Large, and GTO programs suitable for high-redshift analyses are now publicly available, and have been reduced into a science-ready state in archives such as the DAWN JWST Archive [53]. Public imaging data from multiple surveys have been combined to produce powerful statistical samples tracing the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at to (and even, tentatively, to ; [34], and references therein), and the galaxy stellar mass function at to (and even, tentatively, to ; e.g., [101, 52]). Lensing enables the extension of the UV luminosity function magnitudes fainter at [17, 62]. Spectroscopic emission-line measurements (e.g., H, H, [OIII], [OII], [NeIII]) out to allow us to constrain the evolving fundamental baryonic scaling relations among galaxy SFR, stellar mass, metallicity, and chemical abundance patterns; measure the ionizing efficiency and burstiness of galaxy stellar populations; and reveal strikingly different relations between the masses of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, compared to observations in the local universe.
Despite significant progress in uncovering the first billion years of galaxies with JWST enabled by this wealth of data, we identify several fundamental limitations of the currently available data:
The surveyed imaging area is too small at the depth required to uncover a robust photometric sample for spectroscopic follow-up (the deepest imaging [NGDEEP+MIDIS [65, 84] reaches over ). Furthermore, the sample of galaxies at with robust stellar masses based on MIRI rest-optical data is insufficient for determining the dominant physics behind the observed UV luminosity function evolution (bursty star-formation histories, enhanced star-formation efficiency; [25]).
Despite efforts at photometric pre-selection [36, 97] and spectroscopic observations of low-mass systems at [73, 69], we still lack any confirmed Pop III systems, as the current upper limits on metal-line fluxes do not reach the Pop III regime.
There is no consensus regarding the underlying physical model for LRDs. Ongoing debate pertains to the mass scale of their SMBHs (e.g., [46]), or if LRDs even contain BHs (e.g., [18, 85]). Key problems include the heterogeneity of LRD selection criteria, and the small, biased and incomplete samples with high-quality spectra.
Simulations [e.g. 100, 64] predict that disentangling BH seeding and accretion models will require pushing to either higher redshifts () or lower-mass galaxies than probed by current samples [42]. Uncertainties in single-epoch SMBH estimates must also be surmounted [81, 92, 68, 88].
Although large photometric samples of apparently quiescent galaxies have been assembled within the first 2 billion years of cosmic time (), the number with deep spectroscopic measurements [44, 11, 24] remains too incomplete to systematically constrain quenching models.
Spectroscopic samples at have several critical limitations: (1) they are incomplete and biased towards higher than average sSFR values at low masses (); (2) the subset of galaxies with sufficient depth for detecting multiple emission lines is still too small to perform robust evolutionary studies of galaxy scaling relations across multiple redshift bins at [e.g. 19, 56]; (3) there is no comprehensive spectroscopic sample with sufficient statistics, which was also selected uniformly from NIRCam imaging [cf. JADES 8, 21]. Such uniform selection is essential for comparison with galaxy formation simulations.
Ultradeep spectroscopy has proven particularly powerful for elucidating the origin of multiple chemical elements (C, N, O, Fe) in the earliest galaxies, the nature of massive stars, and the central regions of LRDs [e.g., 96, 5, 70, 94], yet the sample of distant galaxies with such coverage () is too small for robust population studies.
The Time is Now for a JWST MCT-Scale Investment
While JWST is fully capable of acquiring the ambitious datasets needed to answer these questions, the distribution of approved JWST GO programs across Cycles 1-5 tells a clear story: the largest extragalactic GO programs (NEXUS [368 hr], VENUS [303 hr], and COSMOS-Web [255 hr]) represent the practical ceiling of what TACs are willing to approve, and several of these required multi-cycle strategies (both for scheduling and science reasons). The science described above demands larger time allocations: 1000-2000 hr. As discussed in many companion white papers, reaching requires NIRCam imaging depths mag deeper than existing data (100–150 hr/filter in a deep blank or lensed field to reach , or over a substantially wide field). A spectroscopic survey capable of robustly constraining galaxy scaling relations dictates thousands of uniformly selected targets, across a wide dynamic range in source luminosity, requiring long integration times. The earliest black holes, (relatively) evolved stellar populations, and dust-obscured systems require MIRI imaging depths and areas significantly exceeding what has been achieved (tens of hours per filter over many pointings). Time domain science requires cadenced observations that are structurally impossible within a single-cycle program. One or more unified MCT programs will optimize survey design to most effectively use critical observing resources (such as the MSA) with uniform and well characterized selection functions, which are crucial for statistical studies and for addressing multiple science goals, as demonstrated by previous legacy surveys such as the SDSS.
While existing programs provide invaluable constraints, their heterogeneous selection criteria, depths, and observing strategies limit the construction of statistically complete and uniform samples. A comprehensive JWST MCT program would provide the scale, homogeneity, and multi-cycle continuity needed to address these interconnected science goals [e.g. 30, 57, 35, 51]. Such a program would naturally yield high-level data products, catalogs, and tools for comparison with theory.
A suite of extragalactic MCT programs is time-critical: as JWST completes its five-year prime mission, most instruments are still at peak performance, but there are modes that are at risk or already in reduced efficiency (e.g., longer wavelength MIRI, NIRSpec MSA growing stuck shutters). MCT programs over the next few cycles will maximize synergy with contemporary and upcoming facilities such as ALMA, Euclid, Roman, Rubin, SKA, PRIMA, and LISA; identify high-value science targets for the ELTs and ngVLA; and guide the scientific goals of the next-generation missions from X-ray to radio. Now is the time for bold, ambitious surveys to fully complete the picture of how galaxies evolve from first light in the universe to our Milky Way today, accomplishing the first two primary science goals for the JWST mission.
Authors – 420 Co-Signers From the Extragalactic Community
Alice Shapley1, Steven L. Finkelstein2,3, Rachel S. Somerville4, James Dunlop5, Adriano Fontana6, Pascal A. Oesch7,8, Danielle A. Berg2, Rachel Bezanson9, Maruša Bradač10, Gabriel Brammer8, Caitlin M Casey11, John Chisholm2, Emma Curtis-Lake12, Mark Dickinson13, Xiaohui Fan14, Yuichi Harikane15, Harley Katz16, Pablo G. Pérez-González17, Brant E. Robertson18, Raffaella Schneider19, Abdurro’uf20, Angela Adamo21, K. Aditya22, Jose M. Afonso23,24, Belen Alcalde Pampliega25, Hiddo Algera26, Omar Almaini27, Almudena Alonso-Herrero17, Javier Álvarez-Márquez17, Ricardo Amorín28, Makoto Ando29, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso30, Lorena Aragüete Riesco31, Archana Aravindan2, Karla Z. Arellano-Cordova32, Flor Denisse Arevalo Gonzalez33, Junya Arita34, Hakim Atek35, Mic Bagley36, William M. Baker37, Guillermo Barro38, Arghyadeep Basu39, Andrew J. Battisti40, Ryan Begley41, Peter Behroozi14, Sirio Belli42, Samantha Berek43, Pietro Bergamini44, Davide Bevacqua6, Souradeep Bhattacharya12, Fuyan Bian45, Longji Bing46, Laura Bisigello47, Torsten Böker48, Leindert A. Boogaard49, Sownak Bose50, Sarah E. I. Bosman51, Martin A. Bourne12, Gibson B. Bowling52, Michael Boylan-Kolchin2, Larry D. Bradley53, Volker Bromm2, Greg L. Bryan54, Andrew J Bunker55, Denis Burgarella56, Emilie Burnham57, Cristina Cabello58, Corentin Cadiou35, Christopher Cain59,60,52, Antonello Calabro’̀6, Riccardo Caleno61,6, Alex J. Cameron62,8, Pedro R. Capelo63, Karina Caputi64, Timothy Carleton52, Adam Carnall5, Stefano Carniani65, Courtney Carreira18, Marco Castellano6, Michele Catone66,47, Karin Cescon67, Anirban Chakraborty68, Jaclyn Champagne53, Tsang Keung Chan69, Chandana Chandrashekhar62, Stéphane Charlot35, Owen Chase2, Yingjie Cheng70, Chloe M. Cheng30, Hyunseop Choi71, Sunmyon Chon72, Nicholas Choustikov60,59, Katherine Chworowsky2, Leonardo Clarke1, Nikko J. Cleri57, R. K. Cochrane73, Luis Colina17, Benjamin P. Collins74, Thomas Connor75, Christopher J. Conselice76, M. C. Cooper77, Ryan A. Cooper78, Suchetha Cooray79, Carla Cornil-Baïotto80,81, Luca Costantin17, Nuno Miguel Andrez de Oliveira Covas82, Isa Cox83, Weiguang Cui84, Fergus Cullen5, Mirko Curti44, Poulomi Dam85, Romeel Davé5, Rebecca L. Davies86, Kelcey Davis87, Maya Debski2,3, Alice Deconto-Machado88, Guillaume Desprez89, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky7, Claudia Di Cesare90, Jose M. Diego91, Floor van Donkelaar59,60, Callum T. Donnan92, Nicole E. Drakos93, Qiao Duan60, Eiichi Egami14, Anna-Christina Eilers94, Daniel J. Eisenstein95, David Elbaz96, Richard Ellis97, Gaia Edes Esposito47, Andreas L. Faisst98, Marion Fardcy99, Emanuele Paolo Farina100,44, Qinyue Fei30, Henry Ferguson53, Juan Antonio Fernández Ontiveros32, Andrea Ferrara65, Anna Ferré-Mateu101, Sophia R. Flury5, Maximilien Franco35, Seiji Fujimoto30, Lukas Furtak2, Francesco Gabrielli102, Samuel Gagnon-Hartman65, Prakash Gaikwad103, Giovanni Gandolfi6, Enrico Garaldi104, Ismael García-Bernete17, Eric Gawiser105, Mauro Giavalisco43, Steven Gillman62, Giovanni106, Giorgia Girardi47, Karl Glazebrook107, Anniek Gloudemans13, Simon C. O. Glover108, Nickolay Y. Gnedin109, Sebastian Gomez2, Mauro González-Otero110, Andrea Grazian47, Luca Graziani19, Jenny E Greene111, Thomas R. Greve62, Norman A. Grogin53, Yicheng Guo112, Ansh R. Gupta2,3, Thales A. Gutcke113, Martin G. Haehnelt60, Aryana Haghjoo114, ChangHoon Hahn2, Santosh Harish53, Pablo Arrabal Haro115,116, Anishya Harshan117, Nimish P. Hathi118, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou101,45, Calum Hawcroft53, Matthew J. Hayes21, Kasper E. Heintz62, Jakob M. Helton57, Aurélien Henry119, Michaela Hirschmann120, Benne W. Holwerda121, Tiger Hsiao2, Marc Huertas-Company101,122, Taylor A. Hutchison2, Anne Hutter123, Patricia Iglesias-Navarro101, Felix Martinez III124, Ryota Ikeda67, Kohei Inayoshi125, Akio Inoue126, Kei Ito62, Lucy R. Ivey60, Kartheik Iyer127, Takuma Izumi128, Mathilde Jauzac129, Junehyoung Jeon2, Tae Bong Jeong2, Christian Kragh Jespersen30, Shuowen Jin, Gareth C Jones, Tucker Jones, Brenda L. Jones, Stephanie Juneau, Intae Jung, Ignas Juodžbalis, Darshan Kakkad, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Shreya Karthikeyan, Gourav Khullar, Taysun Kimm, Tomokazu Kiyota, Dale Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Vasily Kokorev, Mitsuru Kokubo, Hyunsu Kong, Sophie Koudmani, Mariska Kriek, Nimisha Kumari, Haruka Kusakabe, Alvaro Labiano, Erini Lambrides, Ivanna Langan, Danial Langeroodi, Andrea Lapi, Muhammad Latif, Khee-Gan Lee, Joohyun Lee, Joel Leja, Gene C. K. Leung, Ho-Hin Leung, Zi-Jian Li, Mingyu Li, Yongming Liang, Yongming Liang, Xiaojing Lin, Weizhe Liu, Yuankang Liu, Mario Llerena, Federica Loiacono, Arianna S. Long, Christopher C. Lovell, Ting-Yi Lu, Alessandro Lupi, Georgios Magdis, Umberto Maio, Matthew Malkan, Filippo Mannucci, Rui Marques-Chaves, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Zorayda Martinez, Nicholas S. Martis, Sara Mascia, Richard Massey, Jorryt Matthee, Lucio Mayer, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Derek J. McLeod, Shyam H Menon, Emiliano Merlin, Andrei Mesinger, Romain A. Meyer, Mar Mezcua, Iker Millan-Irigoyen, Takahiro Morishita, Takashi Moriya, Lauro Moscardini, Julian B. Munoz, Kentaro Nagamine, Yurina Nakazato, Themiya Nanayakkara, Lorenzo Napolitano, Desika Narayanan, Olof Nebrin, Dylan Nelson, Ivan Nikolić, Gaël Noirot, Pierre Ocvirk, Kazuyuki Omukai, Yoshiaki Ono, Masafusa Onoue, Katherine Ormerod, Göran Östlin, Masami Ouchi, Fabio Pacucci, Anthony Pahl, Zhiwei Pan, Richard Pan, Casey Papovich, Robert Pascalau, Yingjie Peng, Laura Pentericci, Borja Pérez-Díaz, Elia Pizzati, Ava Polzin, Francesca Pozzi, Sedona H. Price, Maria Pudoka, Louis Quilley, Marc Rafelski, Raunaq Singh Rai, John Regan, Eniko Regos, Marta Reina-Campos, Martin P. Rey, Massimo Ricotti, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Daniel Roberts, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Giulia Rodighiero, Francisco Rodríguez Montero, William Roper, Lucie E. Rowland, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Elka Rusta, R. E. Ryan Jr, Kanak Saha, Bahareh S. Salmasi, Stefania Salvadori, Rasha M. Samir, Jenna Samuel, Ryan L. Sanders, Paola Santini, Daniel Schaerer, Jan-Torge Schindler, Dominik R.G. Schleicher, Francesco Shankar, Paul Shapiro, Xuejian Shen, Yue Shen, Irene Shivaei, Maddie Silcock, Robert Simcoe, Charlotte Simmonds, Raymond C. Simons, Renske Smit, Thomas M. Stanton, Elizabeth R. Stanway, Mauro Stefanon, Massimo Stiavelli, Maria C. Straight, Amber Straughn, Yuma Sugahara, Yang Sun, Guochao Sun, Sandro Tacchella, Margherita Talia, Yoichi Tamura, Takumi Tanaka, Masayuki Tanaka, Maxime Tarrasse, Anthony J. Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Wei Leong Tee, Chamilla Terp, Dewachter Tim, Yoshiki Toba, Daisuke Toyouchi, Alberto Traina, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michele Trenti, Tommaso Treu, Nikolaos Triantafyllou, Alessandro Trinca, Roberta Tripodi, Jonathan R. Trump, Takafumi Tsukui, Jack C. Turner, Hannah Übler, Hideki Umehara, Anavi Uppal, Eros Vanzella, Alessandra Venditti, Giacomo Venturi, Enrico Veraldi, Aswin P Vijayan, Natalia C. Villanueva, Fabio Vito, Mark Vogelsberger, Marta Volonteri, Benedetta Vulcani, Fabian Walter, Feige Wang, Tao Wang, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Arjen van der Wel, Andrew Weldon, Katherine E. Whitaker, Stephen Wilkins, Hayley Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Rogier Windhorst, John H. Wise, Eden Wise, Joris Witstok, Ian E. Wolter, Zihao Wu, Yunjing Wu, Po-Feng Wu, Mengyuan Xiao, Haojing Yan, Hiroto Yanagisawa, Jinyi Yang, Guang Yang, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Erik Zackrisson, Tommaso Zana, Anita Zanella, Zijian Zhang, Huanian Zhang, Saiyang Zhang, Hao Zhang, Haowen Zhang, Roy J. Zhao, Dazhi Zhou, Yongda Zhu14, Ming-Yang Zhuang232, Adi Zitrin233
1 University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 2 Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 3 Cosmic Frontier Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 4 Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010, USA 5 Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK 6 INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy 7 Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Chemin Pegasi 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland 8 Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark 9 University of Pittsburgh 10 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jadranska ulica 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 11 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 12 Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK 13 NSF NOIRLab 14 Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 15 Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 16 Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 17 Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Ctra. de Ajalvir km 4, E-28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain 18 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 19 Sapienza University of Rome 20 Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, 727 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA 21 Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Centre, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden 22 Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile 23 Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal 24 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 25 SKA Observatory, Jodrell Bank, SK11 9FT, UK 26 Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taipei 106319, Taiwan 27 University of Nottingham 28 Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) 29 Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo 30 David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada 31 Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos. Avenida de Fuentenueva S/N, 18071, Granada, Spain 32 Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA), Plaza San Juan 1, 44001 Teruel, Spain 33 INAF – Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1. 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