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Extreme Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Three FeII-Strong Quasars at z > 6 from the JWST Aether survey
Anniek J. Gloudemans, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli +22
We present three outliers on the quasar main sequence at z>6, as revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations from the Aether survey, a program targeting ~200 quasars at cosmic dawn.…
Rapid growth in a dual AGN during a gas-rich merger at z~4.5
Hyewon Suh, Roberto Decarli, Emanuele Paolo Farina +15
The late stages of galaxy mergers - when two supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reach kiloparsec-scale separations - represent a critical phase for understanding SMBH growth, galaxy…
No evolution in the number density of little red dots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon
Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +24
We present our search for little red dots (LRDs) in the "J1030 field", a region of the sky around the quasar SDSS J1030+0524, observed by the JWST EIGER program. Over 1…
A 6.2 Quasar on the Local M- Relation Quenching Its Host Galaxy from the Aether Survey
Weizhe Liu, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Xiaohui Fan +19
We report JWST/NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) observations of the quasar J15124422 at from the Aether survey. At 900 Myr after the Big Bang, this object al…
A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at
A. Bolamperti, M. Messa, A. Zanella +21
The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0416, showing extreme physical properties at . We combine JWST/NIRCam with deep VL…
Radio selection of heavily obscured AGN in the J1030 field: unraveling a missing Compton-thick population
Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +21
We tested the effectiveness of radio selection to discover heavily obscured AGNs, particularly at high-z, and we measured their abundance for the first time from a radio perspectiv…
16 new quasars at the end of the reionization unveiled by self-supervised learning
L. N. Martínez-Ramírez, Julien Wolf, Silvia Belladitta +8
Luminous quasars at are key probes of early supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth, massive galaxy evolution, and intergalactic medium properties during cosmic reionization.…
Shedding the envelope: JWST reveals a kiloparsec-scale [OIII]-weak Balmer shell around a z=7.64 quasar
Julien Wolf, Eduardo Bañados, Xiaohui Fan +25
Luminous quasars at the redshift frontier z>7 serve as stringent probes of super-massive black hole formation and they are thought to undergo much of their growth obscured by dense…
The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: NIRSpec IFU Data Processing and Spatially-resolved Views of Chemical Enrichment in Normal Galaxies at z=4-6
Seiji Fujimoto, Andreas L. Faisst, Akiyoshi Tsujita +37
We present a statistical study of spatially resolved chemical enrichment in 18 main-sequence galaxies at --6, observed with \jwst/NIRSpec IFU as part of the ALPINE-CRISTAL-\jw…
The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-Sequence Galaxies at z=4-6
A. L. Faisst, S. Fujimoto, A. Tsujita +80
To fully characterize the formation and evolution of galaxies, we need to observe their stars, gas, and dust on resolved spatial scales. We present the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST survey,…
A Pristine Star-Forming Complex at z=4.19
E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Zanella +14
We report the discovery of a faint (M_1700 ~ -12.2), oxygen-deficient strongly-lensed ionizing source -- dubbed LAP2 (Lensed And Pristine 2) -- at a spectroscopic redshift of z=4.1…
JWST spectroscopic confirmation of the Cosmic Gems arc at z=9.625 -- Insights into the small scale structure of a post-burst system
M. Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +30
We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy of the Cosmic Gems arc, strongly magnified by the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J06155746. Six-hour integration using NIRSpec prism s…
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…
A big red dot at cosmic noon
Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +22
We report the discovery of a little red dot (LRD), dubbed BiRD ('big red dot'), at in the field around the quasar SDSSJ1030+0524. Using NIRCam images, we identifie…
Discovery and characterization of 25 new quasars at 4.6 < z < 6.9 from wide-field multi-band surveys
Silvia Belladitta, Eduardo Bañados, Zhang-Liang Xie +18
Luminous quasars at provide key insights into the early Universe. Their rarity necessitates wide-field multi-band surveys to efficiently separate them from the main astrophys…
A Quasar-Anchored Protocluster at z=6.6 in the ASPIRE Survey: II. An Environmental Analysis of Galaxy Properties in an Overdense Structure
Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +21
We present paper II comprising a 35 arcmin \textit{JWST}/NIRCam imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy mosaic centered on J03053150, a luminous quasar at . The…
A Quasar-Anchored Protocluster at z=6.6 in the ASPIRE Survey: I. Properties of [OIII] Emitters in a 10 Mpc Overdensity Structure
Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang, Haowen Zhang +25
ASPIRE (A SPectroscopic survey of bIased halos in the Reionization Era) is a quasar legacy survey primarily using \textit{JWST} to target a sample of 25 quasars with NIRCam s…
Fast Outflow in the Host Galaxy of the Luminous z 7.5 Quasar J10072115
Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Jinyi Yang +24
James Webb Space Telescope opens a new window to directly probe luminous quasars powered by billion solar mass black holes in the epoch of reionization and their co-evolution with…
Extreme Ionizing Properties of Metal-Poor, Muv ~ -12 Star Complex in the first Gyr
E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono, M. Messa +38
We report the serendipitous discovery of a faint (M_UV > -12.2), low-metallicity (Z ~ 0.02 Zsun), ionizing source (dubbed T2c) with a spectroscopic redshift of z=6.146. T2c is part…
Anatomy of a z=6 Lyman-α emitter down to parsec scales: extreme UV slopes, metal-poor regions and possibly leaking star clusters
Matteo Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +31
We present a detailed JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam analysis of a gravitationally-lensed galaxy () at redshift 6.14 magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MAC…
A quasar-galaxy merger at : rapid host growth via accretion of two massive satellite galaxies
Roberto Decarli, Federica Loiacono, Emanuele Paolo Farina +38
We present JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy in the rest-frame optical bands of the system PJ308-21, a quasar at caught as its host galaxy interacts with companio…
Feeding Hidden Monsters: a Super-Eddington accreting Black Hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang
Hyewon Suh, Julia Scharwächter, Emanuele Paolo Farina +13
Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed a surprisingly abundant population of faint, dusty active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z~4-7. Together with the pre…
Quasar Island -- Three new quasars, including a lensed candidate, identified with contrastive learning
Xander Byrne, Romain A. Meyer, Emanuele Paolo Farina +5
Of the hundreds of quasars discovered to date, only one is known to be gravitationally lensed, despite the high lensing optical depth expected at . High-reds…
A quasar-galaxy merger at : black hole mass and quasar properties from the NIRSpec spectrum
Federica Loiacono, Roberto Decarli, Marco Mignoli +31
We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field data of the quasar PJ308-21 at . As shown by previous ALMA and HST imaging, the quasar has two companion sources, interacting with…