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most citedThe Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: overview and point source catalog

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48 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

SHELLQs. Black Hole Mass and Eddington Ratio Distributions of Intermediate-Luminosity Quasars at 6<z<7

Masafusa Onoue, John D. Silverman, Yoshiki Matsuoka +31

We present near-infrared spectroscopy of 21 quasars at 6.07 < z < 6.90 obtained with JWST/NIRSpec and Subaru/MOIRCS. These targets have absolute ultraviolet magnitudes of -25 < M_1…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spectroscopic confirmation of dual and offset quasars from the Subaru HSC-SSP program

Shenli Tang, John Silverman, Xavier Prochaska +4

We present a spectroscopic follow-up program targeting closely-separated dual quasar candidates selected from imaging of SDSS quasars with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strat…

astro-ph.GA2026

Subaru High- Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XXV. Large-scale environments of low-luminosity quasars at traced by Ly emitters

Junya Arita, Nobunari Kashikawa, Yoshiki Matsuoka +18

High- quasars are believed to reside in massive dark matter haloes (DMHs), suggesting that they reside in galaxy overdense regions. However, previous observations have shown a r…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The early Universe with JWST and ALMA

Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Natascha Förster Schreiber, Livia Vallini +2

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the James Webb Space Telescope are transforming our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution in the early Universe. By c…

astro-ph.GA2025

HST Confirms Sub-5 kpc Dual Quasar Pairs at Cosmic Noon

Qian Wang, Xuheng Ding, John Silverman +12

During cosmic noon (), when both star formation and black hole growth peaked, galaxy mergers are predicted to trigger dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) that eventually co…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

SHELLQs-JWST: Revealing the Spectra of Extended Emission in 12 z > 6 Quasar Host Galaxies using the JWST NIRSpec Fixed Slit

Camryn L. Phillips, Michael A. Strauss, Masafusa Onoue +15

We present an analysis of the rest frame optical JWST NIRSpec Fixed Slit spectra of extended host galaxy emission in 12 quasars from the Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extended Components of Little Red Dots in the Rest-Frame Optical

Yiyang Zhang, Xuheng Ding, Lilan Yang +26

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift objects called Little Red Dots (LRDs), whose host components have remained largely unconstrained,…

astro-ph.GA2025

Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XXIV. 54 New Quasars and Candidate Obscured Quasars at

Yoshiki Matsuoka, Kazushi Iwasawa, Masafusa Onoue +18

We present spectroscopic identification of 43 quasars and 11 candidate obscured quasars in the epoch of reionization (EoR) at , along with 29 galaxies at simil…

astro-ph.GA2025

SHELLQs-JWST perspective on the intrinsic mass relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at z > 6

John Silverman, Junyao Li, Xuheng Ding +36

The relation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies encodes information on their mode of growth, especially at the earliest epochs. The Jame…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs) XXII. Chandra observations of narrow-line quasar candidates at z>6

K. Iwasawa, R. Gilli, F. Vito +13

We report on Chandra X-ray observations of four narrow-line quasar candidates at z~6, selected from the SHELLQs project, based on the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey. These objects…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 13 cited

SHELLQs. Bridging the Gap: JWST Unveils Obscured Quasars in the Most Luminous Galaxies at z > 6

Yoshiki Matsuoka, Masafusa Onoue, Kazushi Iwasawa +17

The unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a surprisingly abundant population of mildly obscured, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (A…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

SHELLQs-JWST Unveils the Host Galaxies of 12 Quasars at z>6

Xuheng Ding, Masafusa Onoue, John D. Silverman +35

The advent of JWST has opened new horizons in the study of quasar host galaxies during the reionization epoch (z>6). Building upon our previous initial measurements of stellar ligh…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Disk-jet coupling across the spectral transition in supermassive black holes

Jia-Lai Kang, Chris Done, Scott Hagen +5

Accretion flows in both stellar and supermassive black holes show a distinct spectral transition. This is seen directly in binaries and changing look AGN, and also in a recent samp…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

A Post-Starburst Pathway for the Formation of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at z>6

Masafusa Onoue, Xuheng Ding, John D. Silverman +45

Understanding the rapid formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe requires insight into stellar mass growth in host galaxies. Here, we present NIRSpec res…

astro-ph.GA2024

Rich and diverse molecular gas environments of closely-separated dual quasars viewed by ALMA

Shenli Tang, John D. Silverman, Zhaoxuan Liu +12

We present a study of the molecular gas in five closely-spaced ( kpc) dual quasars () at redshifts with the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

Discovery of merging twin quasars at z = 6.05

Yoshiki Matsuoka, Takuma Izumi, Masafusa Onoue +14

We report the discovery of two quasars at a redshift of = 6.05, in the process of merging. They were serendipitously discovered from the deep multi-band imaging data collected…

astro-ph.GA2024

Merging gas-rich galaxies that harbor low-luminosity twin quasars at z = 6.05: a promising progenitor of the most luminous quasars

Takuma Izumi, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Masafusa Onoue +15

We present ALMA [CII] 158 m line and underlying far-infrared (FIR) continuum emission observations ( resolution) toward a quasar-quasar pair system recentl…

astro-ph.GA2024

Cosmic Himalayas: The Highest Quasar Density Peak Identified in a 10,000 deg Sky with Spatial Discrepancies between Galaxies, Quasars, and IGM HI

Yongming Liang, Masami Ouchi, Dongsheng Sun +27

We report the identification of a quasar overdensity in the BOSSJ0210 field, dubbed Cosmic Himalayas, consisting of 11 quasars at , the densest overdensity of quasars…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

Tip of the iceberg: overmassive black holes at 4<z<7 found by JWST are not inconsistent with the local - relation

Junyao Li, John D. Silverman, Yue Shen +8

JWST is revealing a new remarkable population of high-redshift (), low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) in deep surveys and detecting the host galaxy stellar lig…

astro-ph.GA2024

Steep-spectrum AGN in eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Their host galaxies and multi-wavelength properties

K. Iwasawa, T. Liu, Th. Boller +12

We selected sources with a steep soft-X-ray-band spectrum with a photon index larger than 2.5 -- measured by eROSITA on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) -- from the eFEDS AG…

astro-ph.GA2024

Two rest-frame wavelength measurements of galaxy sizes at : the evolutionary effects of emerging bulges and quenched newcomers

Angelo George, Ivana Damjanov, Marcin Sawicki +6

We analyze the size evolution of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) and quiescent galaxies (QGs) with mass at from the COSMOS field using…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Dark matter halos of luminous AGNs from galaxy-galaxy lensing with the HSC Subaru Strategic Program

Wentao Luo, John D. Silverman, Surhud More +12

We assess the dark matter halo masses of luminous AGNs over the redshift range 0.2 to 1.2 using galaxy-galaxy lensing based on imaging data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strate…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 42 cited

The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] Survey: A Triple Merger at z~4.56

G. C. Jones, M. Bethermin, Y. Fudamoto +29

We report the detection of [CII]158um emission from a system of three closely-separated sources in the COSMOS field at z~4.56, as part of the ALMA Large Program to INvestigate CII…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 83 cited

Starburst to quiescent from HST/ALMA: Stars and dust unveil minor mergers in submillimeter galaxies at

C. Gómez-Guijarro, S. Toft, A. Karim +32

Dust-enshrouded, starbursting, submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at have been proposed as progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies (cQGs). To test this connectio…