قوس عدسة جذبية عند z≈10: نافذة جديدة على عصر النجوم الأولى ✛ ✦

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كما كتبه المؤلفون، بالإنجليزية arXiv:2606.23869

Strong gravitational lensing provides a powerful route to probing intrinsically faint galaxies during the first few hundred million years of cosmic history. In this Letter, we report the identification of GAR10, a highly magnified F115W-dropout galaxy at $$z\approx10$$ in the Abell S1063 cluster field, using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging from the GLIMPSE and GO-1840 programs. The source shows an unusually blue ultraviolet (UV) continuum and a significant F200W excess relative to adjacent bands. Under our high-magnification lensing solution, we infer a median magnification of $$\mu=43^{+78}_{-20}$$, corresponding to an intrinsic UV magnitude of $$M_{\rm UV}\approx-15.8$$. We use exploratory Prospector SED modeling to examine two physically motivated interpretations of the observed photometry. In Case I, GAR10 is described by an extremely metal-poor, continuum-dominated stellar population at $$z=10.75_{-0.34}^{+0.41}$$, with a blue UV slope of $$\beta=-2.92\pm0.12$$ and a low metallicity of $$\log(Z/Z_\odot)=-3.56_{-0.85}^{+0.65}$$, consistent with an extremely metal-poor or Pop III-like continuum-dominated interpretation under the adopted priors. In Case II, GAR10 is interpreted as an extremely young (1--3 Myr), high-ionization galaxy at $$z=10.45_{-0.21}^{+0.11}$$, in which the F200W excess is produced by intense rest-frame UV emission lines, including CIV, HeII, and CIII]. Both cases can partially reproduce the current photometry within the adopted priors, but they imply distinct ionizing sources, enrichment histories, and possible contributions to cosmic reionization. GAR10 therefore represents a rare laboratory for studying ultra-faint galaxy formation at cosmic dawn. Future JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy will be essential to distinguishing between the steep continuum and emission-line origins of the F200W excess.