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20202026
most citedOn the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z=9-11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times

212 citations · 919 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Chasing Cosmic Reionization: An Extremely Faint Highly Magnified Source at with high

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Matteo Messa, Eros Vanzella +5

We present JWST NIRSpec IFU spectroscopic measurements of one of the faintest (M) known ionizing sources at , dubbed Small And Lensed Source Arc, SALSA. This s…

astro-ph.GA2026

First-star imprints in a metal-poor galaxy overdensity near the end of reionization

Zihao Li, Koki Kakiichi, Lise Christensen +24

The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), formed from primordial gas consisting solely of hydrogen and helium and is believed to have emerged only a few hun…

astro-ph.CO2026

TDCOSMO XXV: Measuring H0 to 6.5% precision with quasar strong lensing and maximally flexible mass-sheet dynamics

William Sheu, Tommaso Treu, Martin Millon +16

We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble-Lemaître constant based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433+6007. Our analysis combines deep Hubble S…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The BoRG- Survey: Analogs at to the UV-luminous Galaxy Population at

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Takahiro Morishita +7

The population of bright galaxies at discovered by JWST, including the so-called "blue monsters", has been difficult to reconcile with standard galaxy evolution models…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Kiloparsec-Scale Alignment of a Radio Jet with Cool Gas and Dust in a z~6 Quasar

Fabian Walter, Eduardo Banados, Chris Carilli +11

We present high-angular resolution (0.068", ~400pc) ALMA imaging of the [CII] line and dust continuum emission of PSO J352.4034-15.3373, a radio-loud quasar at z=5.83. The observat…

astro-ph.GA2025

First Measurements of Black Hole Accretion and Radio-jet Timescales in a Young Quasar at the Edge of Reionization

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Emmanuel Momjian, Frederick B. Davies +8

We present the first study dedicated to measuring the timescales for black hole accretion and jet launch in a quasar at the edge of Reionization, PSO J352.4034-15.3373 at z = 5.832…

astro-ph.HE2025

NuSTAR observations of a varying-flux quasar in the Epoch of Reionization

Lea Marcotulli, Thomas Connor, Eduardo Bañados +13

With enough X-ray flux to be detected in a 160s scan by SRG/eROSITA, the quasar CFHQS J142952+544717 is, by far, the most luminous X-ray source known at . We pres…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The host galaxies of radio-loud quasars at z>5 with ALMA

C. Mazzucchelli, R. Decarli, S. Belladitta +13

The interaction between radio-jets and quasar host galaxies plays a paramount role in quasar/galaxy co-evolution. However, very little has been known so far about this interaction…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 49 cited

Seven wonders of Cosmic Dawn: JWST confirms a high abundance of galaxies and AGNs at z 9-11 in the GLASS field

L. Napolitano, M. Castellano, L. Pentericci +24

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM follow-up of candidate galaxies at z=9-11 selected from deep JWST/NIRCam photometry in GLASS-JWST Early Release Science data. We spectroscopically con…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

Far-Infrared and [CII] observations of a z=7 blazar

Eduardo Banados, Yana Khusanova, Roberto Decarli +7

We present millimeter observations of the host galaxy of the most distant blazar known, VLASSJ041009.05-013919.88 (hereafter J0410-0139) at z=7, using ALMA and NOEMA observations.…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

The BoRG- Survey: Abundance and Mass-to-light Ratio of Luminous Galaxies from Independent Sight Lines with NIRSpec

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Micaela B. Bagley, Guido Roberts-Borsani +12

We present new results on the rest-frame UV luminosity function (UVLF) and stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratio of bright (M mag) spectroscopically-confirmed gal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Broad-line AGN at revealed by JWST/NIRCam WFSS

Xiaojing Lin, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +33

Low-luminosity AGNs with low-mass black holes (BHs) in the early universe are fundamental to understanding the BH growth and their co-evolution with the host galaxies. Utilizing JW…

astro-ph.GA2024

The BoRG-JWST Survey: Program Overview and First Confirmations of Luminous Reionization-Era Galaxies from Pure-Parallel Observations

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Micaela Bagley, Sofía Rojas-Ruiz +18

We present the BoRG-JWST survey, a combination of two JWST Cycle 1 programs aimed at obtaining NIRSpec spectroscopy of representative, UV-bright galaxy candidates across 2…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

A blazar in the epoch of reionization

Eduardo Banados, Emmanuel Momjian, Thomas Connor +21

Relativistic jets are thought to play a crucial role in the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and supermassive black holes. Blazars, which are quasars with jets aligned a…

astro-ph.GA2024

Exploring the Mpc Environment of the Quasar ULAS J1342+0928 at z = 7.54

Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Steven L. Finkelstein +10

Theoretical models predict that z~6 quasars are hosted in the most massive halos of the underlying dark matter distribution and thus would be immersed in protoclusters of galaxies.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 52 cited

XQR-30: Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates of 42 z>6 Quasars

C. Mazzucchelli, M. Bischetti, V. D'Odorico +19

We present bolometric luminosities, black hole masses and Eddington ratios for 42 luminous quasars at z>6 using high signal-to-noise ratio VLT/X-Shooter spectra, acquired in the en…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 80 cited

XQR-30: the ultimate XSHOOTER quasar sample at the reionization epoch

Valentina D'Odorico, E. Banados, G. D. Becker +46

The final phase of the reionization process can be probed by rest-frame UV absorption spectra of quasars at z>6, shedding light on the properties of the diffuse intergalactic mediu…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 91 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z=6.61 Quasar

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi +56

We present the first results from the JWST ASPIRE program (A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic sur…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 77 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): A First Look at the Rest-frame Optical Spectra of Quasars Using JWST

Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +53

Studies of rest-frame optical emission in quasars at have historically been limited by the wavelengths accessible by ground-based telescopes. The James Webb Space Telescope (…