13 papers
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…
A recoiling supermassive black hole in a powerful quasar
Marco Chiaberge, Takahiro Morishita, Matteo Boschini +14
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are thought to grow through accretion of matter and mergers. Models of SMBH mergers have long suffered the final parsec problem, where SMBH binaries…
Vision-Language Model Ensembles Achieve Human-Expert Accuracy for Galaxy Merger Classification
Marco Chiaberge, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Massimo Stiavelli +1
We present a proof-of-concept study demonstrating that an ensemble of Vision--Language Models (VLMs) combined using a Bayesian statistical framework can classify galaxy merger morp…
The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions
Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39
The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…
The case for super-Eddington accretion in JWST broad-line AGN during the first billion years
Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Kristen Garofali +23
A multitude of JWST studies reveal a surprising over-abundance of over-massive accreting super-massive black holes (SMBHs) -- leading to a deepening tension between theory and obse…
Radio selection of heavily obscured AGN in the J1030 field: unraveling a missing Compton-thick population
Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +21
We tested the effectiveness of radio selection to discover heavily obscured AGNs, particularly at high-z, and we measured their abundance for the first time from a radio perspectiv…