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20162026
most citedNo overdensity of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies around a quasar at z~5.7

71 citations · 424 across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

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

: 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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extreme Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Three FeII-Strong Quasars at z > 6 from the JWST Aether survey

Anniek J. Gloudemans, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli +22

We present three outliers on the quasar main sequence at z>6, as revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations from the Aether survey, a program targeting ~200 quasars at cosmic dawn.…

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.HE2026

Rapid radio variability in the blazar VLASS J04100139: Indication of a hidden population of weak radio jets at Cosmic Dawn

Silvia Belladitta, Eduardo Bañados, Anniek J. Gloudemans +7

Doppler boosting allows blazars to be detected out to high-, making them promising probes of the intergalactic medium through the 21 cm forest. We report 0.14411 GHz observat…

astro-ph.GA2026

To be lensed or not to be lensed: on the nature of the alleged high-z lensed quasars J0109-5424 and P170+20

Aurora Mata-Sanchez, Emanuele P. Farina, Anniek J. Gloudemans +17

We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis of two gravitationally lensed z>6 quasar candidates: J0109-5424 and P170+20. Using JWST/NIRSpec near-infrared data from the Aether s…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Euclid: Discovery of 31 new quasars at

D. Yang, J. F. Hennawi, F. Guarneri +211

We report the discovery of 31 new high- quasars in the redshift range . These quasars were selected from approximately 3000 deg of sky covered during the firs…

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid: A UV-faint quasar in a highly luminous star-forming host galaxy at

S. Belladitta, R. Decarli, E. Bañados +180

Constraining the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang is essential for understanding the formation of the…

astro-ph.GA2026

A 6.2 Quasar on the Local M- Relation Quenching Its Host Galaxy from the Aether Survey

Weizhe Liu, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Xiaohui Fan +19

We report JWST/NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) observations of the quasar J15124422 at from the Aether survey. At 900 Myr after the Big Bang, this object al…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.GA2026★ 3 cited

Shedding the envelope: JWST reveals a kiloparsec-scale [OIII]-weak Balmer shell around a z=7.64 quasar

Julien Wolf, Eduardo Bañados, Xiaohui Fan +25

Luminous quasars at the redshift frontier z>7 serve as stringent probes of super-massive black hole formation and they are thought to undergo much of their growth obscured by dense…

astro-ph.GA2025

Infrared emission from quasar host galaxies: a direct estimate of dust physical properties

M. Costa, R. Decarli, F. Pozzi +6

Quasars at the dawn of Cosmic Time () are fundamental probes to investigate the early co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxy. Nevertheless, their infra…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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

Beneath the Surface: >85% of z>5.9 QSOs in Massive Host Galaxies are UV-Faint

R. J. Bouwens, E. Banados, R. Decarli +20

We use [CII] observations of a large quasi-stellar object (QSO) sample to segregate sources by host galaxy mass, aiming to identify those in the most massive hosts. [CII] luminosit…

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★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at Confirmed with JWST

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer +43

JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, , where few such sources were expected. Here we present the most distant example of t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Insights on Metal Enrichment and Environmental Effect at with JWST ASPIRE/EIGER and Chemical Evolution Model

Zihao Li, Koki Kakiichi, Lise Christensen +15

We present the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) for a parent sample of 604 galaxies at with \OIII\ doublets detected, using the deep JWST/NIRCam wide field slitless sp…

astro-ph.GA2025

Kiloparsec-Scale Alignment of a Radio Jet with Cool Gas and Dust in a z~6 Quasar

Fabian Walter, Eduardo Banados, Chris Carilli +11

We present high-angular resolution (0.068", ~400pc) ALMA imaging of the [CII] line and dust continuum emission of PSO J352.4034-15.3373, a radio-loud quasar at z=5.83. The observat…

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

ALMA 360 pc high-frequency observations reveal warm dust in the center of a quasar

Romain A. Meyer, Fabian Walter, Fabio Di Mascia +3

The temperature of the cold dust in z>6 galaxies is a potential tracer of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and stellar feedback, and is the dominant source of uncertainty in inferring…