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most citedProbing the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Hosts

418 citations

32 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

HELM's deep: Highly Extincted Low-Mass galaxies seen by JWST

L. Bisigello, G. Gandolfi, A. Grazian +25

The dust content of star-forming galaxies is generally positively correlated with their stellar mass. However, some recent JWST studies have shown the existence of a population of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

VENUS: When Red meets Blue -- A multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383

Miriam Golubchik, Lukas J. Furtak, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We report the discovery of a doubly-imaged Little Red Dot (LRD) candidate behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383, which we dub A383-LRD1. Initially classified as a dropout galaxy in H…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A faint M Lyman-continuum leaker candidate in the epoch of reionization: Unprecedented Ly properties at z=5.725

M. Messa, E. Vanzella, T. Morishita +10

We report the unprecedented Ly properties of AMORE6, an extremely metal-poor (), low-mass (), and ultracompact (effec…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MIRI spectrophotometry of GN-z11: Detection and nature of an optical red continuum component

A. Crespo Gómez, L. Colina, P. G. Pérez-González +16

We present new MIRI F560W, F770W and F1000W imaging of GN-z11, extending the previous rest-frame coverage from 0.38 to 0.86m. We report significant detections (14) in the F56…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST observations of photodissociation regions III. Dust modelling at the illuminated edge of the Horsehead PDR

M. Elyajouri, A. Abergel, N. Ysard +19

Carbonaceous nano-grains are a significant component of interstellar dust and dominate the mid-infrared emission of photodissociation regions (PDRs). We study the evolution of nano…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Photometrically Selected Protocluster Candidates at z~9-10 in the JWST COSMOS-Web field

Cossas K. -W. Wu, Chih-Teng Ling, Tomotsugu Goto +8

High-redshift protoclusters are crucial for understanding the formation of galaxy clusters and the evolution of galaxies in dense environments. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

The z = 9.625 Cosmic Gems Galaxy was a "Compact Blue Monster" Propelled by Massive Star Clusters

E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Adamo +36

The recent discovery of five massive stellar clusters at z=9.625 in the Cosmic Gems has raised the question about the formation mechanism of star clusters in the first half Gyr aft…

astro-ph.GA2025

MIDIS: Quantifying the AGN component of X-ray-detected galaxies

Steven Gillman, John P. Pye, Almudena Alonso-Herrero +26

We combine the deepest X-ray survey from the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) `7-Ms' survey with the deepest mid-infrared (5.6) image from the JWST/MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (M…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 39 cited

The orbit and stellar masses of the archetype colliding-wind binary WR 140

Joshua D. Thomas, Noel D. Richardson, J. J. Eldridge +33

We present updated orbital elements for the Wolf-Rayet (WR) binary WR\,140 (HD\,193793; WC7pd + O5.5fc). The new orbital elements were derived using previously published measuremen…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

An extensive spectroscopic time series of three Wolf-Rayet stars -- II. A search for wind asymmetries in the dust-forming WC7 binary WR137

N. St-Louis, C. Piaulet, N. D. Richardson +39

We present the results of a four-month, spectroscopic campaign of the Wolf-Rayet dust-making binary, WR137. We detect only small-amplitude, random variability in the CIII5696 emiss…

astro-ph.IM2019

Infrastructure and Strategies for Time Domain and MMA and Follow-Up

B. W. Miller, L. Allen, E. Bellm +28

Time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics are growing and important modes of observational astronomy that will help define astrophysics in the 2020s. Significant effort is being…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

On the need for synthetic data and robust data simulators in the 2020s

Molly S. Peeples, Bjorn Emonts, Mark Kyprianou +6

As observational datasets become larger and more complex, so too are the questions being asked of these data. Data simulations, i.e., synthetic data with properties (pixelization,…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 70 cited

BRITE-Constellation high-precision time-dependent photometry of the early-O-type supergiant Puppis unveils the photospheric drivers of its small- and large-scale wind structures

Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Robert Harmon +33

From months of dual-band optical photometric monitoring at the mmag level, BRITE-Constellation has revealed two simultaneous types of variability in the O4I(n)fp star …

astro-ph.SR2017★ 22 cited

The variability of the BRITE-est Wolf-Rayet binary, Velorum I. Photometric and spectroscopic evidence for colliding winds

Noel D. Richardson, Christopher M. P. Russell, Lucas St-Jean +26

We report on the first multi-color precision light curve of the bright Wolf-Rayet binary Velorum, obtained over six months with the nanosatellites in the BRITE- Constellation…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 20 cited

An extensive spectroscopic time-series of three Wolf-Rayet stars. I. The lifetime of large-scale structures in the wind of WR 134

E. J. Aldoretta, N. St-Louis, N. D. Richardson +46

During the summer of 2013, a 4-month spectroscopic campaign took place to observe the variabilities in three Wolf-Rayet stars. The spectroscopic data have been analyzed for WR 134…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 27 cited

A Coordinated X-ray and Optical Campaign of the Nearest Massive Eclipsing Binary, delta Orionis Aa: III. Analysis of Optical Photometric MOST and Spectroscopic (Ground Based) Variations

Herbert Pablo, Noel D. Richardson, Anthony F. J. Moffat +44

We report on both high-precision photometry from the MOST space telescope and ground-based spectroscopy of the triple system delta Ori A consisting of a binary O9.5II+early-B (Aa1…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 4 cited

Spectroscopic variability of two Oe stars

G. Rauw, T. Morel, Y. Naze +28

The Oe stars HD45314 and HD60848 have recently been found to exhibit very different X-ray properties: whilst HD60848 has an X-ray spectrum and emission level typical of most OB sta…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 20 cited

The 2011 Periastron Passage of the Be Binary delta Scorpii

A. S. Miroshnichenko, A. V. Pasechnik, N. Manset +19

We describe the results of the world-wide observing campaign of the highly eccentric Be binary system delta Scorpii 2011 periastron passage which involved professional and amateur…

astro-ph.SR2011

The WR 140 periastron passage 2009: first results from MONS and other optical sources

R. Fahed, A. F. J. Moffat, J. Zorec +29

We present the results from the spectroscopic follow-up of WR140 (WC7 + O4-5) during its last periastron passage in January 2009. This object is known as the archetype of colliding…

astro-ph.SR2010

Variability monitoring of OB stars during the Mons campaign

T. Morel, G. Rauw, T. Eversberg +28

We present preliminary results of a 3-month campaign carried out in the framework of the Mons project, where time-resolved Halpha observations are used to study the wind and circum…

astro-ph2006★ 24 cited

The Host Galaxy of the Quasar HE 0450-2958

Minjin Kim, Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng +1

A recent study suggests that the quasar HE 0450-2958 is hosted by a galaxy substantially fainter than that inferred from the correlation between black hole mass and bulge luminosit…

astro-ph2006★ 117 cited

Remarks on statistical errors in equivalent widths

Klaus Vollmann, Thomas Eversberg

Equivalent width measurements for rapid line variability in atomic spectral lines are degraded by increasing error bars with shorter exposure times. We derive an expression for the…

astro-ph2006★ 418 cited

Probing the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Hosts

C. Y. Peng, C. D. Impey, H. -W. Rix +5

In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (MBH) appear to be strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study, we e…

astro-ph2004★ 105 cited

Stellar Population in LLAGN.I: Ground-based observations

Roberto Cid Fernandes, Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado, Henrique Schmitt +6

(Abridge): We present a spectroscopic study of the stellar populations of Low Luminosity AGN (LLAGN). Our main goal is to determine whether the stars who live in the innermost (100…