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most citedRUBIES: Evolved Stellar Populations with Extended Formation Histories at in Candidate Massive Galaxies Identified with JWST/NIRSpec

128 citations · 901 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The DAWN JWST Archive: A spectroscopically-informed population study of the physical properties of galaxies at z>2

Rashmi Gottumukkala, Gabriel Brammer, Sune Toft +30

Charting the evolution of star-formation, stellar mass and dust build-up over cosmic time relies on the accurate characterisation of the stellar population properties of high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2026

Balmer Absorption Series and Broad Metal Lines in Two Luminous Little Red Dots

Bingjie Wang, Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu +21

Balmer absorption is common among little red dots (LRDs), but absorbers at or redward of systemic are rare, occurring in only \% of H absorbers. In this paper, we stu…

astro-ph.GA2026

Caught Napping by JWST UNCOVER+MegaScience: Constraining bursty star formation histories and number densities of mini-quenched galaxies at redshifts 4-7

Gourav Khullar, Rachel Bezanson, Katherine A. Suess +27

We explore the prevalence of mini-quenched or ``napping'' galaxies selected from spectroscopic and photometric samples in the UNCOVER/MegaScience survey. These galaxies are empiric…

astro-ph.GA2026

Metal-Poor Gas Accretion Drives Giant Clump Formation at 0.6 < z < 2.6

Visal Sok, Adam Muzzin, Ben Forrest +20

The physical properties of kiloparsec-scale clumps in high-redshift star-forming galaxies (SFGs) contain crucial constraints on how they assemble. Building on recent work that indi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Toward Unbreaking the Universe: MINERVA Measurements of Color Gradients in Massive Quiescent Galaxies Can Help Ease Too-Early Star Formation Tensions

Sam E. Cutler, Luke Robbins, Danilo Marchesini +41

The discovery of a population of massive, ancient quiescent galaxies within the first 2 Gyr of the Universe's history has led to significant tensions with models of galaxy formatio…

astro-ph.GA2026

MAGAZ3NE: Spatially Resolved Ages and Chemical Abundances of Ultra-Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z 3.5 using JWST/NIRSpec IFU

Adit H. Edward, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Adam Muzzin +14

We present spatially-resolved measurements of stellar age, [Fe/H], and [/Fe] in three ultra-massive (), compact ( kpc) quie…

astro-ph.GA2026

RUBIES: The Evolution of the Ionization Parameter from 0 < z < 9

Nikko J. Cleri, Zach J. Lewis, Joel Leja +10

The dimensionless ionization parameter, U=q/c, where q is the ratio of the local ionizing photon flux to the local hydrogen density, is a key metric to parameterize nebular conditi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Winding Back the Clock: Recent Star Formation Histories of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Are Consistent With Their Rapid Number Density Evolution Since

Yunchong Zhang, Zhiyuan Ji, Rachel Bezanson +17

Massive quiescent galaxies have been identified out to in early JWST data in a substantial excess ( at ) of number densities from most theoretical…

astro-ph.GA2026

MAGAZ3NE: Dust Deficiency in Ultramassive Quiescent Galaxies at with ALMA Observations

Wenjun Chang, Gillian Wilson, Ben Forrest +14

A major challenge in identifying massive quiescent galaxies at is distinguishing truly passive systems from dust-obscured star-forming galaxies, as both populations exhibit s…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Mass-Metallicity Relation and its Observational Effects at z~3-6

Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Anna de Graaff +21

The correlation between galaxy stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity, known as the mass-metallicity relation (MZR), gives key insights into the processes that govern galaxy evolut…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of Seven Cold and Distant Brown Dwarfs with JWST RUBIES

Sara J. Morrissey, Adam J. Burgasser, Anna de Graaff +2

We report near-infrared spectral model fits to seven distant L- and T-type dwarfs observed with the JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) as part of the Red Unknowns: Bright In…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Anna de Graaff, Raphael E. Hviding, Rohan P. Naidu +34

We use the DAWN JWST Archive to construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0<z<9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from NIR…

astro-ph.GA2025

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda +25

At low redshift, massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) are most frequently found in massive, rich galaxy clusters, but at high redshift the trend is less clear. Here, we present spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025

MAGAZ3NE: Far-IR and Radio Insights into the Nature and Properties of Ultramassive Galaxies at

Wenjun Chang, Gillian Wilson, Ben Forrest +12

Deep and wide-field near-infrared (NIR) surveys have recently discovered and confirmed ultramassive galaxies (UMGs; ) spectroscopically at high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2025

Excavating The Ruins: an Ancient Galaxy Which Formed in the First 500 Myr

Ian McConachie, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Wenjun Chang +14

We present the analysis of an ancient galaxy at which we dub ``Eridu.'' Simultaneously modeling the JWST/NIRSpec G140M and G235M spectra from the SMILES program and $0.4-…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Missing Hard Photons of Little Red Dots: Their Incident Ionizing Spectra Resemble Massive Stars

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Harley Katz +11

The nature of Little Red Dots (LRDs) has largely been investigated through their continuum emission, with lines assumed to arise from a broad-line region. In this paper, we instead…

astro-ph.GA2025

A massive and evolved slow-rotating galaxy in the early Universe

Ben Forrest, Adam Muzzin, Danilo Marchesini +15

In the contemporary Universe, most galaxies are supported by ordered rotation, yet a significant subset of the most massive and quiescent systems are dominated by random stellar mo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from

Yunchong Zhang, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton +21

We present the number density of massive () quiescent galaxies at using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectra. This work relies on spectra fr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MINERVA: A NIRCam Medium Band and MIRI Imaging Survey to Unlock the Hidden Gems of the Distant Universe

Adam Muzzin, Katherine A. Suess, Danilo Marchesini +81

We present an overview of the MINERVA survey, a 259.8 hour (prime) and 127 hour (parallel) Cycle 4 treasury program on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). MINERVA is obtaining 8…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 44 cited

RUBIES: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots; All V-Shaped Point Sources Have Broad Lines

Raphael E. Hviding, Anna de Graaff, Tim B. Miller +16

The physical nature of Little Red Dots (LRDs) - a population of compact, red galaxies revealed by JWST - remains unclear. Photometric samples are constructed from varying selection…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz +48

The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios…

astro-ph.GA2025

A confirmed deficit of hot and cold dust emission in the most luminous Little Red Dots

David J. Setton, Jenny E. Greene, Justin S. Spilker +33

Luminous broad H emission and red rest-optical SEDs are the hallmark of compact Little Red Dots (LRDs), implying highly attenuated dusty starbursts and/or obscured active galact…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 71 cited

A remarkable Ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a Little Red Dot at

Anna de Graaff, Hans-Walter Rix, Rohan P. Naidu +25

The origin of the rest-optical emission of compact, red, high-redshift sources known as `little red dots' (LRDs) poses a major puzzle. If interpreted as starlight, it would imply t…

astro-ph.GA2024

MAGAZ3NE: Evidence for Galactic Conformity in Protoclusters

Ian McConachie, Gillian Wilson, Ben Forrest +16

We examine the quiescent fractions of massive galaxies in six spectroscopically-confirmed protoclusters in the COSMOS field, one of which is newly confirmed and present…