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: a close quasar pair at cosmic dawn in the Aether survey
Silvia Onorato, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli +32
We present the discovery and first characterization of : the most compact known quasar pair candidate in the Epoch of Reionization, with a projected se…
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.…
To be lensed or not to be lensed: on the nature of the alleged high-z lensed quasars J0109-5424 and P170+20
Aurora Mata-Sanchez, Emanuele P. Farina, Anniek J. Gloudemans +17
We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis of two gravitationally lensed z>6 quasar candidates: J0109-5424 and P170+20. Using JWST/NIRSpec near-infrared data from the Aether s…
Quasar Impostors: Two Extremely UV-Bright () Reionisation-Epoch Galaxies Powered by Very Massive Stars
Daming Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sarah E. I. Bosman +20
The extreme bright end of the galaxy UV luminosity function during reionisation remains poorly constrained, particularly where the galaxy and quasar luminosity functions overlap an…
Euclid: Discovery of 31 new quasars at
D. Yang, J. F. Hennawi, F. Guarneri +211
We report the discovery of 31 new high- quasars in the redshift range . These quasars were selected from approximately 3000 deg of sky covered during the firs…
Euclid: A UV-faint quasar in a highly luminous star-forming host galaxy at
S. Belladitta, R. Decarli, E. Bañados +180
Constraining the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang is essential for understanding the formation of the…
SKAVLBI view of AGN jets in the early Universe
C. Spingola, M. Mezcua, Y. Liu +33
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are among the brightest sources in the Universe, and those that are also jetted are uniquely valuable at the earliest epochs, because their relativisti…
The host halo masses of AGNs and quasars at with TNG-Cluster, FLAMINGO and other cosmological galaxy simulations
Akanksha Kapahtia, Annalisa Pillepich, Joey Braspenning +5
Most observations and clustering analyses suggest that quasars inhabit a narrow range of dark-matter halo masses ( M) across cosmic time (). Recen…
4MOST ChANGES: Catalog of high-redshift quasar candidates (4.5 < < 7) selected with SED fitting
T. Mkrtchyan, C. Mazzucchelli, R. J. Assef +12
The identification of high-redshift quasars () is critical for studying the early Universe, supermassive black hole growth, and cosmic reionization. Most known high-redshi…
Persephone's Torch: A 15th Magnitude Quadruply-Lensed Quasar From the Couch Discovered with SPHEREx and the LBT
Frederick B. Davies, Eduardo Bañados, Sarah E. I. Bosman +4
Here we report the spectroscopic and geometric confirmation of an extremely bright () and compact (Einstein radius of ) quadruply-lensed quasar at , J1…
Three Hundred Quasars from the Couch: A first look at high-redshift quasar discovery with SPHEREx
Frederick B. Davies, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Arpita Ganguly +9
Photometric selection of luminous high-redshift () quasars is plagued by contamination from numerous low-mass Galactic stars, reddened lower-redshift quasars, as well as…
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.…
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…
Milliarcsecond-resolution Radio-imaging Survey of Blazar Candidates at 4 < z < 5.4
Máté Krezinger, Alessandro Caccianiga, Daniele Dallacasa +9
We present a milliarcsecond-resolution radio survey of 17 high-redshift (4 < z < 5.4) blazar candidates observed with the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network…
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…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 1. Identification and redshift determination of 3500 bright quasars
Euclid Collaboration, Y. Fu, R. Bouwens +354
The slitless spectroscopy mode of the NISP onboard Euclid has enabled efficient spectroscopy of objects within a large FoV. We present a large and homogeneous sample of bright quas…
Euclid: The first statistical census of dusty and massive objects in the ERO/Perseus field
G. Girardi, A. Grazian, G. Rodighiero +175
Our comprehension of the history of star formation at relies on rest-frame UV observations, yet this selection misses the most dusty and massive sources, yielding an incomple…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Hunting for luminous z > 6 galaxies in the Euclid Deep Fields -- forecasts and first bright detections
Euclid Collaboration, N. Allen, P. A. Oesch +309
The evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) is a powerful probe of early star formation and stellar mass build-up. At z > 6, its bright end (MUV < -21)…
A close look at the black hole masses and hot dusty toruses of the first quasars with MIRI-MRS
Sarah E. I. Bosman, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Frederick B. Davies +29
The presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs, ) at remains a puzzle. While their existence appears to require exotic formation or growth proce…
X-ray investigation of possible super-Eddington accretion in a radio-loud quasar at
L. Ighina, A. Caccianiga, T. Connor +19
We present radio and X-ray observations of the recently discovered radio-powerful quasar RACS J032021.44352104.1 using uGMRT, ATCA, LBA, and Chandra. The observed radio…
Extreme Galaxy-scale Outflows Are Frequent among Luminous Early Quasars
Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Huan Li +23
The existence of abundant post-starburst/quiescent galaxies just 1-2 Gyrs after the Big Bang challenges our current paradigm of galaxy evolution. Cosmological simulations sug…
Euclid: The potential of slitless infrared spectroscopy: A z=5.4 quasar and new ultracool dwarfs
E. Bañados, V. Le Brun, S. Belladitta +226
We demonstrate the potential of Euclid's slitless spectroscopy to discover high-redshift (z>5) quasars and their main photometric contaminant, ultracool dwarfs. Sensitive infrared…
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…
Lyman-Break Galaxies in the Mpc-Scale Environments Around Three Quasars With JWST Imaging
Maria Pudoka, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +16
We study the Mpc-scale environments of the three highest redshift luminous quasars at (J031343.84-180636.40, J134208.11+092838.61, and J100758.27+211529.21) to understa…