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astro-ph.GA2026

A Dusty Quenching-candidate AGN host at z=5.7: massive quiescent galaxies may quench already during the dust-obscured phase

Francesco D'Eugenio, Matilde Brazzini, Roberto Maiolino +12

We present a spectro-photometric analysis of RUBIES-EGS-9809, a broad-line AGN host at z=5.7 with a Balmer break and a dominant point source. The source is dust reddened (3 m…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone

Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…

astro-ph.GA2026

The FAST Hundred-Deg HI Deep (HD) Survey: Early Results from the Pilot Survey

Chen Xu, Yingjie Jing, Jie Wang +26

The Hundred-deg HI Deep (HD) survey carried out with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is planned to map a contiguous region within the DESI DR1 fo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Connecting the dusty dots: dust depletion and extinction of local interstellar clouds

T. Ramburuth-Hurt, A. De Cia, J. -K. Krogager +2

Investigating the chemical complexity of the interstellar medium (ISM) is key for understanding its physical nature and evolution. In this work, we study parsec-scale interstellar…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

SDSS-V LVM: A spatially resolved study of the physical conditions and the chemical abundance discrepancy in the Lagoon Nebula (M 8)

Amrita Singh, Guillermo A. Blanc, Nimisha Kumari +19

The abundance discrepancy problem refers to the systematic differences observed between chemical abundances derived from collisionally excited lines (CELs) and recombination lines…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling large-scale rotational motions in the intragroup medium at z~1 through gravitational-arc tomography

Cédric Ledoux, Fernanda Muñoz-Olivares, L. Felipe Barrientos +8

We present the first spatially resolved characterisation of the cool intragroup medium (IGrM) in a spectroscopically confirmed galaxy group at z=1.167. Using 30 independent sightli…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Structure and Evolution of LRDs: Insights from JWST NIRSpec Medium and High Resolution Spectroscopy at

Yuxuan Pang, Xin Wang, Cheng Cheng +5

We present an analysis of medium/high-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectra for 11 LRDs at . By decomposing the broad and narrow components of the Balmer emission lines, we inv…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

ASPIRE: The Environments and Dark Matter Halos of Luminous Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization

Feige Wang, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Jiamu Huang +42

We present a systematic study of the environments of 25 luminous quasars at from the ASPIRE program. Using JWST/NIRCam WFSS data, we identified 487 galaxies at $5.3 \less…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The multiple coherence scales of C IV at cosmic noon

H. Cortés-Muñoz, S. Lopez, N. Tejos +6

The spatial and kinematic structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) remains poorly constrained observationally. In this article we compute the clustering of CIV absorption syste…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

Relatively Fast and Reasonably Furious: Evidence for Increased Burstiness in Smaller Halos at Cosmic Dawn

Julian B. Muñoz, John Chisholm, Guochao Sun +7

We introduce an effective framework to model star-formation burstiness and use it to jointly fit galaxy UV luminosity functions (UVLFs), clustering, and H/UV ratios, providing t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

HALO I: Photometric continuum reverberation mapping of Fairall 9

Amit Kumar Mandal, Francisco Pozo Nuñez, Vikram Kumar Jaiswal +23

We investigate the origin of inter-band continuum time delays in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to study the structure and properties of their accretion disks. We aim to measure the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

On the Dusty Proximate Damped Lyman-α System toward Q2310-3358 at z = 2.40

S. Han, J. -K. Krogager, C. Ledoux +6

Quasar absorption systems not only affect the way quasars are selected, but also serve as key probes of galaxies, providing insight into their chemical evolution and interstellar m…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Tracking Protostellar Variability in Massive Protoclusters with ALMA: I. Insights from QUARKS and MaMMOtH

Yuhan Yang, Tie Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu +22

Millimeter/submillimeter variability is often attributed to dynamical disk-mediated accretion, yet detection is limited to low-mass protostars in nearby clouds. Recent observations…

astro-ph.GA2025

Black Hole merger rates in the first billion years in light of JWST data

P. F. V. Cáceres-Burgos, P. Dayal, P. Lira +3

Context. Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discoveries have unveiled an abundance of faint and massive Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) at high redshifts (z=4-9), that surpass…

astro-ph.GA2025

What is the True HI Gas Content in Massive Quiescent Galaxies in the Local Universe?

Xiao Li, Cheng Li, Cheng Cheng +3

While massive quiescent galaxies are known to be poor in atomic hydrogen (HI), their true HI content remains poorly constrained due to the limited sensitivity and morphological bia…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

How far have metals reached? Reconciling statistical constraints and enrichment models at reionization

Sebastian Lopez, Jens-Kristian Krogager

The incidence of quasar absorption systems and the space density of their galaxies are proportional, the proportionality factor being the mean absorbing cross section. In this pape…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Revealing the Structure of the Rosette Nebula

Mónica A. Villa-Durango, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga +19

The Rosette Nebula is a well-known H II region shaped by the interaction of gas with the OB stars of the NGC 2244 stellar association. Located within the remnant of a giant molecul…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Converging on the Cepheid Metallicity Dependence: Implications of Non-Standard Gaia Parallax Recalibration on Distance Measures

Louise Breuval, Gagandeep S. Anand, Richard I. Anderson +20

By comparing Cepheid brightnesses with geometric distance measures including Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, most recent analyses conclude metal-rich Cepheids are brighter, quantified as $γ\…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

VLTI/GRAVITY upper limit on near-infrared emission from the nearby 33 Msun black hole Gaia BH3

Pierre Kervella, Pasquale Panuzzo, Alexandre Gallenne +11

The recent astrometric discovery of the nearby (590 pc) massive () dormant black hole candidate Gaia BH3 offers the possibility to angularly resolve the black hole from…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

ALMA-IMF XVII -- Census and lifetime of high-mass prestellar cores in 14 massive protoclusters

M. Valeille-Manet, S. Bontemps, T. Csengeri +24

High-mass prestellar cores are extremely rare. The search for such objects has long been hindered by small sample sizes, leading to large uncertainties in their lifetimes and the c…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Exploring quasar evolution with proximate molecular absorbers: Insights from the kinematics of highly ionized nitrogen

R. Cuellar, P. Noterdaeme, S. Balashev +3

We investigate the presence and kinematics of NV absorption proximate to high redshift quasars selected upon the presence of strong and HI absorption at the quasar redshift…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

The ALMA-ATOMS survey: Vibrationally excited HCN lines in hot cores

Li Chen, Sheng-Li Qin, Tie Liu +26

Interstellar molecules are excellent tools for studying the physical and chemical environments of massive star-forming regions. In particular, vibrationally excited HCN (HC…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

The Success of Optical Variability in Uncovering AGNs in Low-stellar Mass Galaxies

S. Bernal, P. Sánchez-Sáez, P. Arévalo +3

We used random forest algorithms to classify all objects in a large portion of the sky, using optical light curves obtained, or built from images provided, by the Zwicky Transient…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Investigating chemical variations between interstellar gas clouds in the Solar neighbourhood

T. Ramburuth-Hurt, A. De Cia, J. -K. Krogager +6

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a fundamental component of the Milky Way. Studying its chemical composition and the level of its chemical diversity gives us insight into the evolu…