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Publications (27)

astro-ph.GA2025

A Large Molecular Gas Reservoir in the Protocluster SPT234956 at

Dazhi Zhou, Scott C. Chapman, Nikolaus Sulzenauer +13

We present Atacama Compact Array (ACA) Band-3 observations of the protocluster SPT234956, an extreme system hosting submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at $z\,{=}\,4.3…

astro-ph.GA2023

Extended Lyman- emission towards the SPT2349-56 protocluster at

Yordanka Apostolovski, Manuel Aravena, Timo Anguita +20

Context. Deep spectroscopic surveys with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed that some of the brightest infrared sources in the sky correspond to…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST Early Release Science Program TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and their Extended Star formation

Jane R. Rigby, Joaquin D. Vieira, Kedar A. Phadke +33

This paper gives an overview of TEMPLATES, a JWST Early Release Science program that targeted four extremely bright, gravitationally lensed galaxies: two extremely dusty, two with…

astro-ph.GA2025

Ly-alpha emission reveals two satellite halos around massive groups at z ~ 3: the puzzling case of a quiescent central galaxy

Sicen Guo, Emanuele Daddi, Raphael Gobat +17

We present the discovery and characterisation of two Ly nebulae (LANs), RO-1001-Sat and RO-0959-Sat, as satellite structures of two giant LANs at and 3.092. They are…

astro-ph.GA2025

An Overabundance of Radio-AGN in the SPT2349-56 Protocluster: Preheating the Intra-Cluster Medium

Scott C. Chapman, Roger P. Deane, Dazhi Zhou +22

Following the detection of a radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in the z=4.3 protocluster SPT2349-56, we have obtained additional observations with MeerKAT in S-band (2.4 GHz…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Resolved kinematic studies of main sequence star-forming galaxies at 4<z<6

Lilian L. Lee, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus +30

We present a detailed kinematic study of a sample of 32 massive () main-sequence star-forming galaxies (MS SFGs) at from…

astro-ph.GA2023

The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Widespread dust-obscured star formation in typical star-forming galaxies at z=4-6

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Ryota Ikeda +29

We present the morphological parameters and global properties of dust-obscured star formation in typical star-forming galaxies at z=4-6. Among 26 galaxies composed of 20 galaxies o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Resolving the black hole sphere of influence in a hyper-luminous obscured quasar at redshift 4.6

Mai Liao, Roberto J. Assef, Chao-Wei Tsai +17

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) imprint gravitational signatures on the matter within their sphere of influence (SoI). Nuclear gas dynamics can hence be used to accurately measure…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk

Belén Alcalde Pampliega, Kevin C. Harrington, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis +21

We present a detailed analysis of J154506, a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy behind the Lupus-I molecular cloud, and characterisation of its physical properties using a combin…

astro-ph.GA2024

TEMPLATES: Direct Abundance Constraints for Two Lensed Lyman-Break Galaxies

Brian Welch, Grace M. Olivier, Taylor A. Hutchison +19

Using integrated spectra for two gravitationally lensed galaxies from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Science program, we analyze faint auroral lines, which provide direct measure…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Spatially-resolved Star Formation Activity and Dust Content in 4 < z < 6 Star-forming Galaxies

Juno Li, Elisabete Da Cunha, Jorge González-López +28

Using a combination of HST, JWST, and ALMA data, we perform spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SED) fitting of fourteen 4<z<6 UV-selected main-sequence galaxies targ…

astro-ph.GA2026

A census of star-formation and gas mass tracers in two lensed dusty star-forming galaxies

David Vizgan, Joaquin D. Vieira, Justin S. Spilker +20

We present new and archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of two strongly lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) selected from the South Pole…

astro-ph.GA2023

Brightest Cluster Galaxy Formation in the z=4.3 Protocluster SPT2349-56: Discovery of a Radio-Loud AGN

Scott C. Chapman, Ryley Hill, Manuel Aravena +29

We have observed the z=4.3 protocluster SPT2349-56 with ATCA with the aim of detecting radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) amongst the ~30 submillimeter galaxies identified in…

astro-ph.GA2025

A large thermal energy reservoir in the nascent intracluster medium at a redshift of 4.3

Dazhi Zhou, Scott Chapman, Manuel Aravena +21

Most baryons in present-day galaxy clusters exist as hot gas (), forming the intracluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict th…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: weak evidence for star-formation driven outflows in main-sequence galaxies

Jack E. Birkin, Justin S. Spilker, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus +23

There is a broad consensus from theory that stellar feedback in galaxies at high redshifts is essential to their evolution, alongside conflicting evidence in the observational lite…

astro-ph.GA2022

Revealing the Nature of a Lyman- Halo in a Strongly Lensed Interacting System at

Manuel Solimano, Jorge González-López, Manuel Aravena +12

Spatially extended halos of H I Ly emission are now ubiquitously found around high-redshift star-forming galaxies. But our understanding of the nature and powering mechanisms o…

astro-ph.GA2026

An extreme ram-pressure stripping event in a protocluster at redshift 4.3

Dazhi Zhou, Scott C. Chapman, Manuel Aravena +16

In the nearby Universe, the environment plays a crucial role in suppressing star formation in dense regions. In particular, ram-pressure stripping (RPS) is a major mechanism for re…

astro-ph.IM2023

TEMPLATES: A Robust Outlier Rejection Method for JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy

Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian D. Welch, Jane R. Rigby +13

We describe a custom outlier rejection algorithm for JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy. This method uses a layered sigma clipping approach that adapts clipping thresholds ba…

astro-ph.GA2023

TEMPLATES: Characterization of a Merger in the Dusty Lensing SPT0418-47 System

Jared Cathey, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Sidney Lower +22

We present JWST and ALMA results for the lensing system SPT0418-47, which includes a strongly-lensed, dusty star-forming galaxy at redshift z=4.225 and an associated multiply-image…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: Revealing Less Massive Black Holes in High-Redshift Galaxies

Wenke Ren, John D. Silverman, Andreas L. Faisst +25

We present a systematic search for broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST sample of 18 star-forming galaxies () at redshift…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Spatial extent of [CII] line emission in star-forming galaxies at

Ryota Ikeda, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Ikki Mitsuhashi +24

We investigate the spatial extent and structure of the [CII] line emission in a sample of 34 galaxies at from the ALMA-CRISTAL Survey. By modeling the [CII] line emission i…

astro-ph.GA2025

Bright [CII]158m Streamers as a Beacon for Giant Galaxy Formation in SPT234956 at

Nikolaus Sulzenauer, Axel Weiß, Ryley Hill +17

Observations of extreme starbursts, often located in the cores of protoclusters, challenge the classical bottom-up galaxy formation paradigm. Giant elliptical galaxies at mus…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: Stellar and nebular dust attenuation of main-sequence galaxies at z~4-6

Akiyoshi Tsujita, Seiji Fujimoto, Andreas Faisst +39

Characterizing dust attenuation is crucial for revealing the intrinsic physical properties of galaxies. We present an analysis of dust attenuation in 18 spectroscopically confirmed…

astro-ph.HE2022

Localizing narrow Fe K emission within bright AGN

Carolina Andonie, Franz E. Bauer, Rosamaria Carraro +11

The 6.4 keV Fe Ka emission line is a ubiquitous feature in X-ray spectra of AGN, and its properties track the interaction between the variable primary X-ray continuum and the surro…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spatial variations in aromatic hydrocarbon emission in a dust-rich galaxy

Justin S. Spilker, Kedar A. Phadke, Manuel Aravena +35

Dust grains absorb half of the radiation emitted by stars throughout the history of the universe, re-emitting this energy at infrared wavelengths. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail +22

Ring galaxies are an uncommon class of galaxies whose morphology is closely related to dynamical processes that govern galaxy evolution. Some ring galaxies, known as "collisional r…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST's TEMPLATES for Star Formation: The First Resolved Gas-Phase Metallicity Maps of Dust-Obscured Star-Forming Galaxies at 4

Jack E. Birkin, Taylor A. Hutchison, Brian Welch +23

We present the first spatially resolved maps of gas-phase metallicity for two dust-obscured star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at 4, from the JWST TEMPLATES Early Release Scienc…