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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackTHUNDER Reveals a Massive Filament around a Compact AGN at

Giulia Tozzi, Hannah Übler, Eleonora Parlanti +27

Despite the growing number of compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) at discovered by JWST, their formation and evolution remain poorly understood. This paper investigates the…

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No evolution in the number density of little red dots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon

Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +24

We present our search for little red dots (LRDs) in the "J1030 field", a region of the sky around the quasar SDSS J1030+0524, observed by the JWST EIGER program. Over 1…

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Little Red and Blue Dots: AGN-excited narrow lines, Lyman- emission, and resemblance to standard quasars

Sophia Geris, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +35

We present an analysis of a sample of 36 Little Red and Blue Dots (LRDs and LBDs) at , identified by JWST in the GOODS fields. While both categories are selected to ha…

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JADES: the mass-metallicity relation at . New calibrations, extremely metal-poor galaxies, and chemical diversity

Yuki Isobe, Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino +28

We present gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies at -10 with deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the JADES full data release, Dark Horse, and OASIS programmes. We stack…

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A Steep-Extinction QSO at z=4.6: JWST Evidence for Abundant Small Dust Grains

Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai, Roberto Maiolino +9

The rapid accumulation of massive dust reservoirs in the early Universe remains a major challenge in astrophysics. While core-collapse supernovae can inject large dust grains ($a \…

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BlackTHUNDER: Evidence of three massive black holes in a z~5 galaxy

Hannah Übler, Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Maiolino +41

We present observational evidence of three massive, accreting black holes (BHs) in the z=5.0167 galaxy J0148-4214 from JWST/NIRSpec-IFU spectroscopy. The BHs are revealed through b…