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The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) DAWN is a collaboration between the Niels Bohr Institute (U. Cph) and DTU Space, dedicated to uncovering how the first galaxies, stars and black holes formed and evolved in the early Universe.
4MOST will observe the sky over the next 15 years, creating the largest spectroscopical atlas of the southerne hemisphere to date.

Several researchers at NBI and DAWN are involved in this project, including Johan Fynbo and affiliated assoc. prof. Jens-Kristian Krogager who lead a study on quasars.
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The conference is chaired and co-chaired by @kosmoskasper.bsky.social and @joriswitstok.bsky.social, respectively, and is designed to be inclusive of in particular early career researchers.

More info and abstract submission (𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿) in the link above 👆
August 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The five main themes of the workshop are:

🌀 Galaxy formation at cosmic dawn,
🌀 Reionization,
🌀 Origin of massive galaxies and AGN,
🌀 Dust and chemical enrichment, and
🌀 Galaxy morphology and dynamics

in the era of JWST, ALMA, and Euclid.
August 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The 150 spectra include
🌀 new deep spectroscopy of 10 key targets,
🌀 weak Hα+absorption features
🌀 2 AGNs out of 10 key targets
🌀 new Dn4000/UVJ insights

This is just the start — deep dives into stellar ages, dynamics, & more coming soon.

A public data release is also planned.
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
For instance, Shuntov et al. show how the galaxies' dark matter halos initially outpace galaxy assembly.

However, as accretion of gas and dark matter begins to slow down after some 1.5–2 billion years, halo growth stagnates while accumulated gas reservoirs keep star formation going.
February 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM