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most citedSystematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). V. The Complete SMUDGes Catalog and the Nature of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies

69 citations · 192 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Reduced incidence of little red dots at z < 3 based on number density and halo mass evolution

Chenxuan Zhang, Huanian Zhang, Qingwen Wu +2

An intriguing puzzle in extragalactic astronomy is the scarcity of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at , compared to their higher abundance at earlier cosmic epochs. To investigate th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM

Huanian Zhang, Lizhi Xie, Zhijie Qu +9

Using integral field spectroscopy, we explore the disk-halo interface, or the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM), of individual galaxies by constructing and analyzing emission-line…

astro-ph.GA2026

First-star imprints in a metal-poor galaxy overdensity near the end of reionization

Zihao Li, Koki Kakiichi, Lise Christensen +24

The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), formed from primordial gas consisting solely of hydrogen and helium and is believed to have emerged only a few hun…

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.GA2026

Probing Dark Matter Halos of High-redshift Quasars via Wide-Field Clustering

Hao Meng, Guangping Ye, Huanian Zhang

High-redshift quasars are powerful tracers of both astrophysical processes and large-scale structure in the early Universe. Using a sample of 1,251 spectroscopically confirmed quas…

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★ 2 cited

Extreme Galaxy-scale Outflows Are Frequent among Luminous Early Quasars

Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Huan Li +23

The existence of abundant post-starburst/quiescent galaxies just 1-2 Gyrs after the Big Bang challenges our current paradigm of galaxy evolution. Cosmological simulations sug…

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.HE2025★ 1 cited

Composite spectrum of Little Red Dot from a standard inner disk and an unstable outer disk

Chenxuan Zhang, Qingwen Wu, Xiao Fan +6

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new class of high-redshift, very red, compact broad-line sources, termed as "little red dots" (LRDs). The physical mechanism drivin…

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

A Local Dwarf Galaxy Search Using Machine Learning

Huanian Zhang, Guangping Ye, Rongyu Wu +1

We present a machine learning search for local, low-mass galaxies ( and ) using the combined photometric data from the DESI Imaging Leg…

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.GA2024

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Spectroscopically Complete Census of Obscured Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density at

Fengwu Sun, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +25

We present a stringent measurement of the dust-obscured star-formation rate density (SFRD) at from the ASPIRE JWST Cycle-1 medium and ALMA Cycle-9 large program. We obtaine…

astro-ph.GA2024

A MUSE Source-Blind Survey for Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium

Huanian Zhang, Dennis Zaritsky

The recent detection of optical emission lines from the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in combined, large samples of low-redshift, normal galaxy spectra hints at the potential to map…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Anisotropic Circumgalactic Medium of Sub-L Galaxies

Huanian Zhang, Miao Li, Dennis Zaritsky

Using stacked emission line flux measurements of cool circumgalactic gas (CGM) in lower-mass galaxies (), we measure the dependence of the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 26 cited

A quasar-galaxy merger at : rapid host growth via accretion of two massive satellite galaxies

Roberto Decarli, Federica Loiacono, Emanuele Paolo Farina +38

We present JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Spectroscopy in the rest-frame optical bands of the system PJ308-21, a quasar at caught as its host galaxy interacts with companio…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant at 3<z<10 with JWST emission-line galaxies

Linhua Jiang, Shuqi Fu, Feige Wang +7

We present constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant at redshifts using JWST emission-line galaxies. The galaxy sample consists of 62…

astro-ph.GA2024

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Impact of Galaxies on the CGM Metal Enrichment at z > 6 Using the JWST and VLT

Siwei Zou, Zheng Cai, Feige Wang +27

We characterize the multiphase circumgalactic medium and galaxy properties at z = 6.0-6.5 in four quasar fields from the James Webb Space Telescope A SPectroscopic survey of biased…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 69 cited

Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). V. The Complete SMUDGes Catalog and the Nature of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies

Dennis Zaritsky, Richard Donnerstein, Arjun Dey +5

We present the completed catalog of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates (7070 objects) from our search of the DR9 Legacy Survey images, including distance and total mass estimate…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

The Anisotropic Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Early-Type Galaxies

Huanian Zhang, Dennis Zaritsky

Using measurements of the [O III], H and [N II] emission line fluxes originating in the cool (T K) gas that populates the halos of massive early-type galaxies with st…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). III. The Southern SMUDGes Catalog

Dennis Zaritsky, Richard Donnerstein, Ananthan Karunakaran +5

We present a catalog of 5598 ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates with effective radius arcsec distributed throughout the southern portion of the DESI Legacy Imaging S…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 16 cited

Emission line ratios for the Circumgalactic Medium and the "Bimodal" Nature of Galaxies

Huanian Zhang, Dennis Zaritsky, Jessica Werk +1

We find significantly different diagnostic emission line ratios for the circumgalactic gas associated with galaxies of stellar masses above and below M using SD…