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Publications (26)

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: Detecting [OIII] Emitters and Testing Strong Line Calibrations in the High- Universe with Ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy up to

Isaac H. Laseter, Michael V. Maseda, Mirko Curti +32

We present 10 novel [OIII] auroral line detections up to measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z=10.3-13.2

Emma Curtis-Lake, Stefano Carniani, Alex Cameron +56

Finding and characterising the first galaxies that illuminated the early Universe at cosmic dawn is pivotal to understand the physical conditions and the processes that led to the…

astro-ph.IM2018

Preparing the NIRSpec/JWST science data calibration: from ground testing to sky

Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Stephan M. Birkmann, Torsten Boeker +7

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of four instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRSpec is developed by ESA with AIRBUS Defence & Space as prime c…

astro-ph.GA2024

A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang

Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +42

Local and low-redshift (<) galaxies are known to broadly follow a bimodal distribution: actively star forming galaxies with relatively stable star-formation rates, and passiv…

astro-ph.GA2024

A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe

Roberto Maiolino, Jan Scholtz, Joris Witstok +36

Multiple theories have been proposed to describe the formation of black hole seeds in the early Universe and to explain the emergence of very massive black holes observed in the fi…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: deep spectroscopy of a low-mass galaxy at redshift 2.3 quenched by environment

Lester Sandles, Francesco D'Eugenio, Jakob M. Helton +22

We report the discovery of a quiescent galaxy at with a stellar mass of only , based on deep JWST/NIRSpec spect…

astro-ph.GA2023

GA-NIFS: A massive black hole in a low-metallicity AGN at revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

Hannah Übler, Roberto Maiolino, Emma Curtis-Lake +20

We present JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph rest-frame optical data of the compact galaxy GS_3073. Its prominent broad components in several hydrogen and helium li…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: Probing interstellar medium conditions at with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Alex J. Cameron, Aayush Saxena, Andrew J. Bunker +42

We present emission line ratios from a sample of 26 Lyman break galaxies from with , measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy fro…

astro-ph.GA2023

Carbonaceous dust grains seen in the first billion years of cosmic time

Joris Witstok, Irene Shivaei, Renske Smit +39

Large dust reservoirs (up to ) have been detected in galaxies out to redshift , when the age of the universe was only about 600 Myr. Genera…

astro-ph.GA2024

JADES NIRSpec Initial Data Release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Redshifts and Line Fluxes of Distant Galaxies from the Deepest JWST Cycle 1 NIRSpec Multi-Object Spectroscopy

Andrew J. Bunker, Alex J. Cameron, Emma Curtis-Lake +63

We describe the NIRSpec component of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), and provide deep spectroscopy of 253 sources targeted with the NIRSpec micro-shutter assembly in th…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: Discovery of extremely high equivalent width Lyman-alpha emission from a faint galaxy within an ionized bubble at z=7.3

Aayush Saxena, Brant E. Robertson, Andrew J. Bunker +43

We report the discovery of a remarkable Ly emitting galaxy at z = 7.2782, JADES-GS-z7-LA, with EW(Ly) Ã and UV magnitude -17.0. The spectroscopic reds…

astro-ph.GA2024

JADES Data Release 3 -- NIRSpec/MSA spectroscopy for 4,000 galaxies in the GOODS fields

Francesco D'Eugenio, Alex J. Cameron, Jan Scholtz +51

We present the third data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing both imaging and spectroscopy in the two GOODS fields. Spectroscopy consists of m…

astro-ph.GA2024

JADES. The diverse population of infant Black Holes at 4<z<11: merging, tiny, poor, but mighty

Roberto Maiolino, Jan Scholtz, Emma Curtis-Lake +25

We present 12 new AGN at 4<z<7 in the JADES survey (in addition to the previously identified AGN in GN-z11 at z=10.6) revealed through the detection of a Broad Line Region as seen…

astro-ph.GA2024

GA-NIFS: JWST discovers an offset AGN 740 million years after the Big Bang

Hannah Übler, Roberto Maiolino, Pablo G. Pérez-González +24

A surprising finding of recent studies is the large number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) associated with moderately massive black holes (), i…

astro-ph.GA2026

JADES Data Release 4 Paper I: Sample Selection, Observing Strategy and Redshifts of the complete spectroscopic sample

Emma Curtis-Lake, Alex J. Cameron, Andrew J. Bunker +34

This paper accompanies Data Release 4 of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which presents the full NIRSpec spectroscopy of the survey. We provide spectra of 5190 targets…

astro-ph.GA2025

The JADES Origins Field: A New JWST Deep Field in the JADES Second NIRCam Data Release

Daniel J. Eisenstein, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson +58

We summarize the properties and initial data release of the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the longest single pointing yet imaged with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This field…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: Balmer Decrement Measurements at redshifts 4 < z < 7

Lester Sandles, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +33

We present Balmer decrement H/ H measurements for a sample of 51 galaxies at redshifts z = 4-7 observed with the JWST/NIRSpec MSA, as part of the JADES survey. Leveraging 2…

astro-ph.GA2024

The NIRSpec Wide GTO Survey

Michael V. Maseda, Anna de Graaff, Marijn Franx +20

The Near-infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope is uniquely suited to studying galaxies in the distant Universe with its combination of multi-object capa…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES Imaging of GN-z11: Revealing the Morphology and Environment of a Luminous Galaxy 430 Myr After the Big Bang

Sandro Tacchella, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kevin Hainline +45

We present JWST NIRCam 9-band near-infrared imaging of the luminous galaxy GN-z11 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) of the GOODS-N field. We find a…

astro-ph.GA2024

Spectroscopic confirmation of two luminous galaxies at

Stefano Carniani, Kevin Hainline, Francesco D'Eugenio +42

The first observations of JWST have revolutionized our understanding of the Universe by identifying for the first time galaxies at . In addition, the discovery of many lum…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES: Insights on the low-mass end of the mass--metallicity--star-formation rate relation at from deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino, Emma Curtis-Lake +37

We analyse the gas-phase metallicity properties of a sample of low stellar mass (log M*/M_sun <= 9) galaxies at 3 < z < 10, observed with JWST/NIRSpec as part of the JADES programm…

astro-ph.GA2025

Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

Daniel J. Eisenstein, Chris Willott, Stacey Alberts +75

We present an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), an ambitious program of infrared imaging and spectroscopy in the GOODS-S…

astro-ph.GA2023

JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman- emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in a luminous galaxy

Andrew J. Bunker, Aayush Saxena, Alex J. Cameron +59

We present JADES JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of GN-z11, the most luminous candidate Lyman break galaxy in the GOODS-North field with . We derive a redshift of $z…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Cosmos in its Infancy: JADES Galaxy Candidates at z > 8 in GOODS-S and GOODS-N

Kevin N. Hainline, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson +40

We present a catalog of 717 candidate galaxies at selected from 125 square arcminutes of NIRCam imaging as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). We c…

astro-ph.GA2023

Ionised gas kinematics and dynamical masses of galaxies from JADES/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy

Anna de Graaff, Hans-Walter Rix, Stefano Carniani +28

We explore the kinematic gas properties of six galaxies in the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), using high-resolution JWST/NIRSpec multi-object spectros…

astro-ph.GA2017

SHARDS Frontier Fields: Physical properties of a low mass Lyman-alpha emitter at z=5.75

Antonio Hernán-Caballero, Pablo G. Pérez-González, José M. Diego +20

We analyze the properties of a multiply-imaged Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitter at z=5.75 identified through SHARDS Frontier Fields intermediate-band imaging of the Hubble Frontier Fields…