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most citedIdentification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>10

274 citations · 672 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The dark side of early galaxies: uncovers dark-matter fractions at

A. Lola Danhaive, Sandro Tacchella, Andrew J. Bunker +15

JWST/NIRCam slitless spectroscopy enables dynamical mass measurements for typical star-forming galaxies only a billion years after the Big Bang. We model the H morpho-kinematics…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from

Yunchong Zhang, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton +21

We present the number density of massive () quiescent galaxies at using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectra. This work relies on spectra fr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 44 cited

RUBIES: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots; All V-Shaped Point Sources Have Broad Lines

Raphael E. Hviding, Anna de Graaff, Tim B. Miller +16

The physical nature of Little Red Dots (LRDs) - a population of compact, red galaxies revealed by JWST - remains unclear. Photometric samples are constructed from varying selection…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Fast Rotators at Cosmic Noon: Stellar Kinematics for 15 Quiescent Galaxies from JWST-SUSPENSE

Martje Slob, Mariska Kriek, Anna de Graaff +14

We present spatially-resolved stellar kinematics of 15 massive () quiescent galaxies at from the JWST-SUSPENSE program. This is the larg…

astro-ph.GA2025

Measuring Emission Lines with JWST-MegaScience Medium-Bands: A New Window into Dust and Star Formation at Cosmic Noon

Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek +23

We demonstrate the power of JWST-NIRCam medium-band photometry to measure emission line fluxes and study dust and star formation properties of galaxies at cosmic noon. In this work…

astro-ph.CO2025

Detection of cosmological dipoles aligned with transverse peculiar velocities

Yan-Chuan Cai, John A. Peacock, Anna de Graaff +1

Peculiar velocities encode rich cosmological information, but their transverse components are hard to measure. Here, we present the first observations of a novel effect of transver…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz +48

The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

A merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at in the Cosmic Vine

K. Ito, F. Valentino, M. Farcy +26

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a merging pair of massive quiescent galaxies at . Using JWST observations, we confirm that the two galaxies lie at a projected s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 71 cited

A remarkable Ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a Little Red Dot at

Anna de Graaff, Hans-Walter Rix, Rohan P. Naidu +25

The origin of the rest-optical emission of compact, red, high-redshift sources known as `little red dots' (LRDs) poses a major puzzle. If interpreted as starlight, it would imply t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 28 cited

Gas outflows in two recently quenched galaxies at z = 4 and 7

F. Valentino, K. E. Heintz, G. Brammer +33

Outflows are a key element in the baryon cycle of galaxies, and their properties provide a fundamental test for our models of how star formation quenches in galaxies. Here we repor…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Detection of the 2175Å UV Bump at z>7: Evidence for Rapid Dust Evolution in a Merging Reionisation-Era Galaxy

Katherine Ormerod, Joris Witstok, Renske Smit +15

Dust is a fundamental component of the interstellar medium within galaxies, as dust grains are highly efficient absorbers of ultraviolet (UV) and optical photons. Accurately quanti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Discovery of Ancient Globular Cluster Candidates in the Relic, a Quiescent Galaxy at

Katherine E. Whitaker, Sam E. Cutler, Rupali Chandar +31

Globular clusters (GCs) are some of the oldest bound structures in the Universe, holding clues to the earliest epochs of star formation and galaxy assembly. However, accurate age m…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

An unambiguous AGN and a Balmer break in an Ultraluminous Little Red Dot at z=4.47 from Ultradeep UNCOVER and All the Little Things Spectroscopy

Ivo Labbe, Jenny E. Greene, Jorryt Matthee +37

We present a detailed exploration of the most optically-luminous Little Red Dot (erg/s, erg/s, F444W=22AB) found to date. Located in the Abell 2744 fie…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Environmental Evidence for Overly Massive Black Holes in Low Mass Galaxies and a Black Hole - Halo Mass Relation at

Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu, Gauri Kotiwale +14

JWST observations have unveiled faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high-redshift that provide insights on the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their coevolution…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

JWST UNCOVERs the Optical Size - Stellar Mass Relation at : Rapid Growth in the Sizes of Low Mass Galaxies in the First Billion Years of the Universe

Tim B. Miller, Katherine A. Suess, David J. Setton +21

We study the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet morphology of galaxies in the first billion years of the Universe. Using JWST data from the UNCOVER and MegaScience surveys targetin…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Little Red Dots at an Inflection Point: Ubiquitous "V-Shaped" Turnover Consistently Occurs at the Balmer Limit

David J. Setton, Jenny E. Greene, Anna de Graaff +18

Among the most puzzling early discoveries of JWST are "Little Red Dots" -- compact red sources that host broad Balmer emission lines and, in many cases, exhibit a "V shaped" change…

astro-ph.GA2024

RUBIES: JWST/NIRSpec resolves evolutionary phases of dusty star-forming galaxies at

Olivia R. Cooper, Gabriel Brammer, Kasper E. Heintz +24

The dearth of high quality spectroscopy of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) -- the main drivers of the assembly of dust and stellar mass at the peak of activity in the Universe…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The abundance and nature of high-redshift quiescent galaxies from JADES spectroscopy and the FLAMINGO simulations

William M. Baker, Seunghwan Lim, Francesco D'Eugenio +20

We use NIRSpec/MSA spectroscopy and NIRCam imaging to study a sample of 18 massive (dex), central quiescent galaxies at in the GOO…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 50 cited

UNCOVER: 404 Error -- Models Not Found for the Triply Imaged Little Red Dot A2744-QSO1

Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton +20

JWST has revealed an abundance of compact, red objects at dubbed "little red dots" (LRDs), whose SEDs display a faint blue UV continuum followed by a steep rise in th…

astro-ph.GA2024

The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Francesco Valentino, Ruby J. Wright +13

We present a comprehensive study of the star formation histories of massive-quenched galaxies at in 3 semi-analytic models (SHARK, GAEA, GALFORM) and 3 cosmological hydrodyna…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

UNCOVERing the High-redshift AGN Population among Extreme UV Line Emitters

Helena Treiber, Jenny Greene, John R. Weaver +23

JWST has revealed diverse new populations of high-redshift () AGN and extreme star-forming galaxies that challenge current models. In this paper, we use rest-frame UV em…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 102 cited

RUBIES: a complete census of the bright and red distant Universe with JWST/NIRSpec

Anna de Graaff, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel +25

We present the Red Unknowns: Bright Infrared Extragalactic Survey (RUBIES), providing JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of red sources selected across ~150 arcmin from public JWST/NIRC…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

RUBIES Reveals a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=7.3

Andrea Weibel, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton +26

We report the spectroscopic discovery of a massive quiescent galaxy at , just Myr after the Big Bang. RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 was selected from public…

astro-ph.GA2024

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Stellar-to-Dynamical Mass Relation II. Peculiar Velocities

M. Burak Dogruel, Edward Taylor, Michelle Cluver +7

Empirical correlations connecting starlight to galaxy dynamics (e.g., the fundamental plane (FP) of elliptical/quiescent galaxies and the Tully--Fisher relation of spiral/star-form…