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Deep X-ray View of a Distant Protocluster Anchored by a Quasar at : No Evidence for Enhanced X-ray AGN Activity
Shouyi Wang, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +22
Whether dense environments accelerate SMBH growth during cosmic reionization remains uncertain because X-ray constraints on protoclusters are rare. We analyze ks of…
NEXUS: Discovery of a Luminous Young Transient at
Ming-Yang Zhuang, Yue Shen, Lei Hu +8
We report the discovery of AT 2026abck, a young transient in a star-forming galaxy at , identified from Year-2 observations of the NEXUS JWST treasury program. AT…
: 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…
NEXUS: Transient Searches and First Results from Year One Observations
Ming-Yang Zhuang, Lei Hu, Justin D. R. Pierel +10
We describe ongoing efforts of high-redshift transient searches using multi-epoch NIRCam imaging (F200W+F444W) and NIRSpec MSA/PRISM spectroscopy from the NEXUS JWST multi-cycle Tr…
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…
Probing Direct Contributions of Galaxies and AGN to Cosmic Reionization in a Quasar Field J0226+0302 with JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec
Xiangyu Jin, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +19
We present JWST Cycle 2 NIRCam and NIRSpec observations in a quasar field J0226+0302 at z=6.5412 to probe the direct connections between the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxies, a…
CO(7-6) and [C I](2-1) survey in z > 6 quasars
Fuxiang Xu, Roberto Decarli, Ran Wang +13
High-redshift () quasars trace the earliest supermassive black holes and intense star formation, offering key laboratories for black hole-galaxy evolution at cosmic dawn…
Detection of an Extended Ly Halo around a Broad Absorption Line Quasar with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
Raymond P. Remigio, Aaron J. Barth, Feige Wang +6
We present the first results from a program searching for extended Ly halos around high redshift () quasars using the red channel of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (…
A Close Quasar Pair in a Massive Galaxy Merger at
Minghao Yue, Xiaohui Fan, Anna-Christina Eilers +3
Close quasar pairs are rare products of galaxy mergers in which both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are actively accreting, offering strong constraints on merger-driven active ga…
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…
Clustering of z~6.6 Quasars and [O III] Emitters Constrains Host Halo Masses and Duty Cycles in 25 ASPIRE Fields
Jiamu Huang, Joseph Hennawi, Elia Pizzati +21
We use data from the JWST ASPIRE Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) program to measure the auto-correlation function of [O,{\sc iii}] emitters at 5.37.0 and the quasar--[…
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…
ALMA and JWST Imaging of Quasars: No Spatial Position Offset Observed Between Quasars and Their Host Galaxies
Aurora Wilde, Marcel Neeleman, Romain Meyer +4
We present a study determining the spatial offset between the position of the supermassive black hole (as traced through their broad line regions) and the host galaxy in six $z > 6…
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…
BEES: Quasar lifetime measurements from extended rest-optical emission line nebulae at
Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Yuzo Ishikawa +13
Measurements of quasar lifetimes at high redshift indicate that the earliest billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have only been active as luminous quasars for less…
A first look at quasar-galaxy clustering at
Jan-Torge Schindler, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +8
We present JWST observations of the environments surrounding two high-redshift quasars, J02520503 at and J10072115 at , which enable the first constraints…
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…
JWST ASPIRE: How Did Galaxies Complete Reionization? Evidence for Excess IGM Transmission around Emitters during Reionization
Koki Kakiichi, Xiangyu Jin, Feige Wang +23
The spatial correlation between galaxies and the Ly forest provides insights into how galaxies reionized the Universe. Here, we present initial results on the spatial cross-corr…
A Little Red Dot at within a Large Galaxy Overdensity
Jan-Torge Schindler, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +11
The nature of "Little Red Dots" and their relation to other forms of accreting supermassive black holes remain an open question. Here we report the discovery of a Little Red Dot at…
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…
TRINITY VI: Connection between Galaxy Star Formation Rates and Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Rates from z=0-10
Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri +6
We infer supermassive black hole (SMBH) accretion rates and Eddington ratios as a function of SMBH/host galaxy mass and redshift with the empirical TRINITY model of dark matter hal…
NEXUS: the North ecliptic pole EXtragalactic Unified Survey
Yue Shen, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Junyao Li +8
NEXUS is a JWST Multi-Cycle (Cycles 3-5; 368 primary hrs) GO Treasury imaging and spectroscopic survey around the North Ecliptic Pole. It contains two overlapping tiers. The Wide t…
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…
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…