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most citedTwo Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at Revealed by JWST

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astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery of a Broad-Line Active Galactic Nucleus at

Xingyao Cai, Akio K. Inoue, Masafusa Onoue +12

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a previously unexplored population of faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe. We present MoM-BL-z10 at $z=9.9…

astro-ph.GA2026

SN Helios: A Multiply Imaged Type II Supernova Opening Time-Delay Cosmography beyond redshift of 3

Seiji Fujimoto, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +64

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of SN Helios, a strongly lensed, multiply imaged Type II supernova (SN) at behind the galaxy cluster RXC J0018.5+162…

astro-ph.GA2026

Calcium Triplet Absorption is Common around Little Red Dots

Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu, Raphael E. Hviding +29

We present new evidence for an optically thick atmosphere surrounding Little Red Dots (LRDs) in the form of Ca absorption at rest-frame 8500A, the calcium triplet (CaT). Building o…

astro-ph.GA2026

Balmer Absorption Series and Broad Metal Lines in Two Luminous Little Red Dots

Bingjie Wang, Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu +21

Balmer absorption is common among little red dots (LRDs), but absorbers at or redward of systemic are rare, occurring in only \% of H absorbers. In this paper, we stu…

astro-ph.GA2026

A dense, metal-rich absorber driven by a heavily dust-obscured galaxy: The direct evidence of CGM enrichment at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +23

We report the serendipitous discovery of a dense, metal-enriched circumgalactic medium (CGM) absorber at z=7.03, together with its host galaxy, identified along the sightline towar…

astro-ph.GA2026

Chemo-dynamical Analysis of a CNO-Enhanced Ultra Metal-poor Star (): Insights into Early Enrichment by Faint Population III Supernova

Guilherme Limberg, Vinicius M. Placco, Alexander P. Ji +10

We report an independent identification of the ultra metal-poor (UMP) star () DR3 $\texttt{source_id}$ 4795913112968206720 (GDR3_479591) in the miss…

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Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Hanpu Liu +17

Little Red Dots (LRDs) display singular properties unlike any known class of AGN or galaxies, motivating novel mass estimators for their central engines. Inspired by their similari…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)

Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…

astro-ph.CO2026

Little Red Dot Cosmology: A Matter-Era Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Probe of CDM

Jessica A. Zebrowski, Rohan P. Naidu

The discovery of Little Red Dots (LRDs) with JWST provides a new source population for cosmology in a largely unmapped period of cosmic history. LRDs are most numerous at $4\lesssi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Weighing Little Red Dots with Transient Events

Vinh Tran, Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier +3

Recent JWST observations have revealed a large population of compact red sources at , known as Little Red Dots (LRDs), many of which show signatures of accreting massi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Can Little Red Dots Contribute To The Early Universe Cosmic Dust Budget?

Chris Ashall, Rohan P. Naidu, Alberto Torralba +11

The origin of dust in the early Universe remains uncertain. We explore whether Little Red Dots (LRDs) could provide a high-redshift dust-production channel. Motivated by an analogy…

astro-ph.HE2026

Little Red Dots as Shock-Powered High-Energy Neutrino Sources

Tyco Mera, Chris Ashall, Shunsaku Horiuchi +3

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, high-redshift sources whose physical nature remains uncertain. Their optical spectra bear many similarities to Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn), mo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ionizing properties of JWST's compact broad-line emitters

Sara Mascia, Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba +4

The recent JWST discovery of a numerous population of broad-line emitters (BLEs) at has reopened the question of whether sources other than faint galaxies contributed signifi…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Evolution of Low-Ionization Electron Densities in Galaxies Across Cosmic Epochs

Mabel G. Stephenson, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez +12

We investigate the low-ionization electron density in the interstellar medium of galaxies across , derived with the [O II] and [S II]$λ\lambda6718…

astro-ph.GA2026

Outflows in the Early Universe: Neutral gas Absorption in Galaxies at z > 3 from low-resolution JWST Spectroscopy

Matteo Sapori, Sirio Belli, Letizia Bugiani +14

Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have shown that Na I D absorption tracing neutral gas outflows is widespread in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon (-), but their prevalenc…

astro-ph.GA2026

VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We present the first characterization of the host galaxy of a recently discovered type IIP SN at (SN Eos). SN Eos and its host galaxy are gravitationally lensed and multip…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatial decomposition of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec IFU into broad-line red cores and narrow-line blue host galaxies

Yuzo Ishikawa, Anna-Christina Eilers, Rohan P. Naidu +11

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a population of compact red sources discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Imaging and spectroscopy have shown that LRDs exhibit a complex…

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Little Red Dots at z~2 in EIGER reveal a gentle decline with respect to their peak number density at z~5

Shrriya Kapoor, Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba +10

We report the discovery of a sample of little red dots (LRDs) at identified from deep JWST/NIRCam imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy over arcmin f…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST spectroscopy of galaxies at : Damped Ly absorbers reveal efficient star formation and hidden redshift biases

Kasper E. Heintz, Clara L. Pollock, Joris Witstok +23

Recent observations with JWST have revealed a remarkable population of surprisingly luminous galaxies at redshifts . Their abundance exceed predictions from simulations and e…

astro-ph.GA2026

Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of Carinae

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Anna de Graaff +20

JWST's Little Red Dots (LRDs) display a unique constellation of features that do not occur simultaneously in any other class of galaxies or AGN. Here we observe that many of these…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation

John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7

Little Red Dots (LRDs), among the most enigmatic high-redshift discoveries by JWST, are commonly believed to be powered by accreting supermassive black holes. Here, we explore the…

astro-ph.GA2026

Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +24

We present a panchromatic optical-mm characterization of GNz7q, a recently identified X-ray weak, rapidly growing red quasar embedded within a dusty starburst galaxy at ,…

astro-ph.GA2026

Characterising Ly damping wings at the onset of reionisation: Evidence for highly efficient star formation driven by dense, neutral gas in UV-bright galaxies at

Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Joris Witstok +23

One of the major conundrums in contemporary extragalactic astrophysics is the apparent overabundance of a remarkable population of UV-bright galaxies at redshifts . We…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlastBerries: How Supernovae Affect Lyman Continuum Escape Fractions and Ionizing Photon Production in Local Analogs of High-Redshift Galaxies

Miranda Y. Kong, David O. Jones, Nicole E. Drakos +16

While compact, star-forming galaxies are believed to play a key role in cosmic reionization, the physical mechanisms enabling the escape of ionizing photons through the galactic in…