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20182026
most citedCEERS Key Paper I: An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST

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astro-ph.GA2026

Quiescent Galaxies at from CAPERS spectroscopy and their Number densities

Lu Shen, Weida Hu, Casey Papovich +28

Recent JWST observations have revealed an overabundance of quiescent galaxies at high redshift. Photometric methods, such as photometry-derived sSFRs, colors, and synthetic $…

astro-ph.GA2026

The THRILS Factor: Investigating the properties of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 3<z<6 with JWST/NIRSpec

Ananya Ganapathy, Rebecca L. Larson, Erini Lambrides +20

JWST has uncovered a class of objects called LRDs, whose nature is still widely debated. In this work, we present a comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of nine LRDs in the Extende…

astro-ph.GA2026

C3PO: A Lyα Emitting Galaxy at

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Taylor A. Hutchison +6

We present deep, hr, JWST NIRSpec G140M and G395M observations of a previously known galaxy C3PO-8447 at . Our new NIRSpec data from the Carbon-3 plus Oxygen (C3PO…

astro-ph.GA2026

The gradual decline of Ly visibility in the CANDELS fields: evidence for the combined effects of galaxy evolution and reionization

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, A. Ferrara +35

We investigate the evolution of Ly visibility and the physical properties of Ly emitters (LAEs) across the five CANDELS fields using publicly available JWST/NIRSpec PRISM spe…

astro-ph.GA2026

Skyfire: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots and Broad-Line AGN in the CEERS Field

Dale D. Kocevski, Anthony J. Taylor, Masafusa Onoue +24

We present the Skyfire program, a 21-hour Cycle 3 JWST/NIRSpec survey with the G395M medium-resolution grating covering five pointings in the Extended Groth Strip. The survey is de…

astro-ph.GA2026

Ripples in the OCEANS: Broad Line Variability of Little Red Dots

Madisyn Brooks, Kelcey Davis, Jonathan R. Trump +16

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a unique class of compact, red sources discovered in the JWST extragalactic deep fields. Determining if they are indeed powered by accreting supermassive…

astro-ph.GA2026

Implications of Broad [O III] 4364 and UV Line Emission in Two Little Red Dots at z ~ 7 - 8

Casey Papovich, Kaila Ronayne, Weida Hu +17

We present deep, NIRSpec G140M and G395M spectroscopy of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at z = 6.68 and z = 8.35. Both LRDs show broad Balmer and [O III] 4364 emission. The broad [O III…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

astro-ph.GA2026

OCEANS of Absorption: High-resolution NIRSpec Spectroscopy Reveals Diverse Balmer-line Absorption in Little Red Dots

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Raymond C. Simons +24

The ``Little Red Dots' (LRDs) that appeared in JWST deep field images have been the subject of significant study since their discovery. In this work, we present high-resolution fol…

astro-ph.GA2026

Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at from CAPERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anthony J. Taylor +27

The stellar mass assembly of massive galaxies in the first few billion years of cosmic history remains a central challenge in galaxy formation. Galaxies with $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{1…

astro-ph.GA2026

Using Ly Transmitted Spectrum to Probe IGM Transmission and Identify Ionized Structures in Cosmic Reionization

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Lu Shen +16

We present a study of intergalactic medium (IGM) transmission at using high-signal-to-noise JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of 143 galaxies at from the CAPE…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions

Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39

The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…

astro-ph.GA2026

A search for the first galaxies across deg of JWST imaging: new evidence for a rapid decline in star-formation activity at

D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure +20

We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) over the extreme redshift range , based on a wide-area search of 0.6 deg of JW…

astro-ph.GA2026

Prevailing thermally-pulsing-asymptotic-giant branch stars in the near-infrared rest-frame spectra of distant quiescent galaxies: towards robust galaxy ages and masses

Shiying Lu, Emanuele Daddi, Claudia Maraston +12

We recently reported the discovery of prominent features from the thermally pulsing asymptotic-giant-branch (TP-AGB) phase in the rest-frame near-infrared of a massive quiescent ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in CEERS Are Powered by Star Formation, not AGN

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump +28

We present a spectroscopic study of photometrically identified extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with observed-frame equivalent widths (EWs) >5000 A of either H alpha or H bet…

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

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Mysteries of Capotauro: investigating the puzzling nature of an extreme F356W-dropout

Giovanni Gandolfi, Giulia Rodighiero, Marco Castellano +38

JWST has uncovered a diverse population of extreme near-infrared dropouts, including ultra high-redshift () galaxy candidates, dust-obscured galaxies challenging dust product…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST+ALMA reveal the ISM kinematics and stellar structure of MAMBO-9, a merging pair of DSFGs in an overdense environment at

Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey, Jaclyn B. Champagne +14

We present high-resolution ALMA [CII] 158 micron observations and JWST/NIRCam+MIRI imaging of MAMBO-9, a pair of optically-dark, dusty star-forming galaxies at . MAMBO-9 is…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Very bright, very blue, and very red: JWST CAPERS analysis of highly luminous galaxies with extreme UV slopes at

Callum T. Donnan, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor +37

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of three luminous () galaxies at observed with the CAPERS Cycle 3 program. These galaxies exhibit extreme UV sl…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas Enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line AGN at z=9.288

Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We present CAPERS-LRD-z9, a little red dot (LRD) which we confirm to be a broad-line AGN (BLAGN). First identified as a high-redshift LRD candidate from PRIMER NIRCam pho…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGNBoost: A Machine Learning Approach to AGN Identification with JWST/NIRCam+MIRI Colors and Photometry

Kurt Hamblin, Allison Kirkpatrick, Bren E. Backhaus +18

We present AGNBoost, a machine learning framework utilizing XGBoostLSS to identify AGN and estimate redshifts from JWST NIRCam and MIRI photometry. AGNBoost constructs 66 input fea…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

CEERS: Forging the First Dust Grains in the Universe? A Population of Galaxies with spectroscopically-derived Extremely Low Dust Attenuation (GELDA) at 4.0<z<11.4

Denis Burgarella, Véronique Buat, Patrice Theulé +35

We investigate the coevolution of metals and dust in 173 galaxies at using NIRSpec spectroscopy. Focusing on galaxies with extremely low dust attenuation, we explore t…