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20182026
most citedA CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars

365 citations · 1.2k across the 62 of their papers we have counts for

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66 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Can Blue UV-Bright Galaxies Drive Reionization at Cosmic Dawn? An Galaxy with at

Yunjing Wu, Sijia Cai, Yongda Zhu +28

We revisit EBG-1, a gravitationally lensed galaxy at , using newly obtained deep (14 hr) JWST/NIRSpec G235M () spectroscopy. EBG-1 is one of the bluest gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

CHAMPS: The COSMOS High-Redshift ALMA-MIRI Population Survey - A New Census of the Dusty Early Universe

Andreas L. Faisst, Felix Martinez, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe +86

Understanding how dust forms and evolves over cosmic time is a key open problem in extragalactic astrophysics. Galaxies in the early Universe were once thought to be mostly dust-po…

astro-ph.GA2026

COSMOS-3D: Diverse Environments and Hot-dust Signatures among Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at = 4.9-7.2

Siwei Zou, Manuel Aravena, Shaoze Geng +20

Dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) are expected to trace early massive-halo assembly, but the connection between dust-obscured star formation, morphology, hot dust, and environmen…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW): A Population of Hidden AGN at Revealed by JWST/MIRI Imaging

Gene C. K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers, Ryan Endsley +25

We present the MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW), a JWST/MIRI imaging survey designed to detect dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) across cosmic time, with a parti…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Chaotic Molecular Gas in Five Dusty Star-forming Galaxies in the Spiderweb Protocluster at

Jaclyn B. Champagne, Helmut Dannerbauer, Jose Manuel Perez-Martinez +4

Measuring the properties of cold molecular gas available for intense star formation in galaxy protoclusters at is a crucial step in understanding large scale structure format…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIGHTEE/COSMOS-3D: The discovery of three spectroscopically confirmed radio-selected star-forming galaxies at z=4.9-5.6

R. G. Varadaraj, A. Saxena, S. Fakiolas +10

Radio observations offer a dust-independent probe of star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, but sufficiently deep data are required to access the crossover lumi…

astro-ph.GA2026

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--[…

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.GA2025

Sparse by the River: Diverse Environments of z > 3 Massive Quiescent Galaxies

Nguyen Binh, Arianna S. Long, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso +29

High-redshift (), massive quiescent galaxies (QGs) offer a significant window into early Universe galaxy formation. Previous works have predicted miscellaneous properties fo…

astro-ph.GA2025

COSMOS-3D: Dense Circumnuclear Gas across Black Hole Growth Phases at z ~ 3

Zi-Jian Li, Siwei Zou, Jianwei Lyu +25

We report the discovery of two broad-line X-ray AGNs (cid_414 and cid_947) at z ~ 3 identified in the JWST Cycle 3 COSMOS-3D program using NIRCam F444W grism spectroscopy. Both exh…

astro-ph.GA2025

A JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Unit Survey of Luminous Quasars at z ~ 5-6 (Q-IFU): Rest-frame Optical Nuclear Properties and Extended Nebulae

Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Richard Green +10

It remains debatable how billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form and evolve within the first billion years. We report results from a James Webb Space Telescope (JW…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasar Radiative Feedback May Suppress Galaxy Growth on Intergalactic Scales at

Yongda Zhu, Eiichi Egami, Xiaohui Fan +27

We present observational evidence that intense ionizing radiation from a luminous quasar suppresses nebular emission in nearby galaxies on intergalactic scales at . Using JW…

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

Discovery of a Little Red Dot candidate at in COSMOS-Web based on MIRI-NIRCam selection

Takumi S. Tanaka, Hollis B. Akins, Yuichi Harikane +64

JWST has revealed a new high-redshift population called little red dots (LRDs). Since LRDs may be in the early phase of black hole growth, identifying them in the early universe is…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes

Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai +25

JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Identification of Two JWST/NIRCam-Dark Starburst Galaxies at with ALMA

Fengwu Sun, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +20

We analyze two dusty star-forming galaxies at . These galaxies are selected from the ASPIRE survey, a JWST Cycle-1 medium and ALMA Cycle-9 large program targeting 25 quasars…

astro-ph.GA2025

A 13-Billion-Year View of Galaxy Growth: Metallicity Gradient Evolution from the Local Universe to with JWST and Archival Surveys

Zihao Li, Zheng Cai, Xin Wang +25

The galaxy gas-phase metallicity gradients have been extensively studied over the past four decades, both in the local and high-redshift universe, as they trace the baryon cycle an…

astro-ph.GA2025

Enhanced Merger Fractions in a Reionization-Era Protocluster

Lorraine C. Marcelin, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang +4

Mergers play a critical role in galaxy evolution, but their relationship to their surrounding environments is unexplored at high redshift. We investigate the galaxy merger rate amo…

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

SCUBADive II: Searching for Dust-Obscured Galaxies via F150W-Dropouts in COSMOS-Web

Sinclaire M. Manning, Jed McKinney, Katherine E. Whitaker +24

The relative fraction of obscured galaxies at compared to lower redshifts remains highly uncertain as accurate bookkeeping of the dust-obscured component proves difficult. We…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Bridging Quasars and Little Red Dots: Insights into Broad-Line AGNs at from the First JWST COSMOS-3D Dataset

Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang +30

We report the discovery of 13 broad-line AGNs at from the first 10% data of the JWST Cycle 3 Treasury Program COSMOS-3D. These AGNs are identified by their broad H o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

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…