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20162026
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 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2026★ 4 cited

A Morphology Catalog of Galaxies in CEERS: Evolution in the Size and Color Gradients of Galaxies Since Cosmic Dawn

Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro +42

We present measurements of morphological parameters from fitting 53,885 galaxies detected to a magnitude limit of F356W in the CEERS NIRCam imaging with galfit in six broad…

astro-ph.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog

Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley +35

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000…

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

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Clumpiness of galaxies revealed in the near-infrared with COSMOS-Web

Wilfried Mercier, Boris Sindhu Kalita, Marko Shuntov +30

Clumps in the rest-frame UV emission of galaxies have been observed for decades. Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a large population is detected in the re…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation (First Data Release): 488k Redshifts Encompassing Two Decades of Spectroscopy

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Mara Salvato +54

We present the COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation encompassing ~ 20 years of spectroscopic redshifts within a 10 deg area centered on the 2 deg COSMOS legacy field.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +96

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates e…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Near-Infrared Slitless Survey Epoch 1 (NGDEEP-NISS1): Extra-Galactic Star-formation and Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.5 < z < 3.6

Nor Pirzkal, Barry Rothberg, Casey Papovich +48

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey program was designed specifically to include Near Infrared Slitless Spectroscopic observations (NGDEEP-NIS…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 365 cited

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

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z=8.679, in CEERS_1019, a galaxy previously discovered via a Ly-break by Hubble and with a Ly redshift from…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey

Micaela B. Bagley, Nor Pirzkal, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain f…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

Hydrogen Column Density Variability in a Sample of Local Compton-Thin AGN

N. Torres-Albà, S. Marchesi, X. Zhao +4

We present the analysis of multiepoch observations of a set of 12 variable, Compton-thin, local (z<0.1) active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from the 100-month BAT catalog. We ana…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

COSMOS-Web: An Overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

Caitlin M. Casey, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Nicole E. Drakos +82

We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hour treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of observations…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 153 cited

CEERS Key Paper III: The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z=3-9 with JWST

Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose, Brittany N. Vanderhoof +58

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z=3-9 using early JWST CEERS NIRCam observation…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 37 cited

Investigating the Effect of Galaxy Interactions on Star Formation at 0.5<z<3.0

Ekta A. Shah, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Christina T. Magagnoli +24

Observations and simulations of interacting galaxies and mergers in the local universe have shown that interactions can significantly enhance the star formation rates (SFR) and fue…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 139 cited

Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations

Jorge A. Zavala, Veronique Buat, Caitlin M. Casey +121

Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates at z>10 are rapidly being identified in JWST/NIRCam observations. Due to the (redshifted) break produced by neutral hydrogen absorption of rest-…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 350 cited

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +117

We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z~12 in the first epoch of the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. Following conservative se…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 53 cited

Investigating the Effect of Galaxy Interactions on AGN Enhancement at

Ekta A. Shah, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Christina T. Magagnoli +30

Galaxy interactions and mergers are thought to play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Studies in the nearby universe show a higher AGN fraction in interacting and mer…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 19 cited

Star Formation in Intermediate Redshift 0.2 < z < 0.7 Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Kevin C. Cooke, Christopher P. O'Dea, Stefi A. Baum +3

We present a multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic study of 42 Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in two samples of galaxy clusters chosen for a gravitational lensing study…