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20222026
most citedA CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars

365 citations · 1.2k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW): A Population of Hidden AGN at Revealed by JWST/MIRI Imaging

Gene C. K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers, Ryan Endsley +25

We present the MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW), a JWST/MIRI imaging survey designed to detect dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) across cosmic time, with a parti…

astro-ph.GA2026

Massive Galaxies Form Early and Gray: Stellar Assembly and Dust Attenuation at from CAPERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Anthony J. Taylor +27

The stellar mass assembly of massive galaxies in the first few billion years of cosmic history remains a central challenge in galaxy formation. Galaxies with $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{1…

astro-ph.GA2025

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

astro-ph.GA2025

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog

Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley +35

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-Mass Galaxies at z=1-7 from Hα-to-UV Diagnostics

Marissa N. Perry, Anthony J. Taylor, Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz +15

We present an analysis of bursty star-formation histories (SFHs) of 346 star-forming galaxies at , selected from JWST/NIRSpec G395M and PRISM spectroscopy provided b…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of Multiply Ionized Iron Emission Powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus in a z~7 Little Red Dot

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Taylor Hutchison +50

Some of the most puzzling discoveries of NASA's JWST in the early Universe surround the surprising abundance of compact red sources, which show peculiar continuum shapes and broad…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas Enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line AGN at z=9.288

Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We present CAPERS-LRD-z9, a little red dot (LRD) which we confirm to be a broad-line AGN (BLAGN). First identified as a high-redshift LRD candidate from PRIMER NIRCam pho…

astro-ph.GA2024

The BoRG-JWST Survey: Program Overview and First Confirmations of Luminous Reionization-Era Galaxies from Pure-Parallel Observations

Guido Roberts-Borsani, Micaela Bagley, Sofía Rojas-Ruiz +18

We present the BoRG-JWST survey, a combination of two JWST Cycle 1 programs aimed at obtaining NIRSpec spectroscopy of representative, UV-bright galaxy candidates across 2…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public Near-Infrared Slitless Survey Epoch 1 (NGDEEP-NISS1): Extra-Galactic Star-formation and Active Galactic Nuclei at 0.5 < z < 3.6

Nor Pirzkal, Barry Rothberg, Casey Papovich +48

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) survey program was designed specifically to include Near Infrared Slitless Spectroscopic observations (NGDEEP-NIS…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at to from CEERS

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +36

We analyze the evolution of massive (log [] ) galaxies at 4--8 selected from the JWST Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. W…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ~ 8.5-14.5

Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung, Micaela B. Bagley +52

We present a sample of 88 candidate z~8.5-14.5 galaxies selected from the completed NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. These data cover…

astro-ph.GA2023

Uncovering a Massive z~7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-Loud QSO Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Erini Lambrides, Marco Chiaberge, Arianna Long +47

In this letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud AGN candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, sub-mm, and radio imaging in th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Unveiling the distant Universe: Characterizing Galaxies in the first epoch of COSMOS-Web

Maximilien Franco, Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey +47

We report the identification of 15 galaxy candidates at using the initial COSMOS-Web JWST observations over 77 arcmin through four NIRCam filters (F115W, F150W, F277W,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Efficient NIRCam Selection of Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < z < 6 in CEERS

Arianna S. Long, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Erini L. Lambrides +30

Substantial populations of massive quiescent galaxies at challenge our understanding of rapid galaxy growth and quenching over short timescales. In order to piece together…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XIV: The Balmer/4000~Å Breaks of Distant Galaxies

Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Dimitrios Irodotou +10

With the successful launch and commissioning of JWST we are now able to routinely spectroscopically probe the rest-frame optical emission of galaxies at for the first time. A…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

ALMA 1.1mm Observations of a Conservative Sample of High Redshift Massive Quiescent Galaxies in SHELA

Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Justin S. Spilker +11

We present a sample of 30 massive (log) quiescent galaxies selected from the \textit{Spitzer-}HETDEX Exploratory Large Area (SHELA) Survey and obser…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 191 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of CEERS NIRCam-selected Galaxies at

Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of seven galaxies selected from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) NIRCam imaging with photometric redshifts z_pho…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 209 cited

Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early universe

Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein +34

During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed, seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic medi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 365 cited

A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars

Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z=8.679, in CEERS_1019, a galaxy previously discovered via a Ly-break by Hubble and with a Ly redshift from…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey

Micaela B. Bagley, Nor Pirzkal, Steven L. Finkelstein +45

We present the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey, a deep slitless spectroscopic and imaging Cycle 1 JWST treasury survey designed to constrain f…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Spitzer-HETDEX Exploratory Large Area Survey. IV. Model-Based Multi-wavelength Photometric Catalog

Gene C. K. Leung, Steven Finkelstein, John Weaver +11

We present a 0.3--4.5 m 16-band photometric catalog for the Spitzer/HETDEX Exploratory Large-Area (SHELA) survey. SHELA covers a deg field within the footprint of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 165 cited

CEERS Spectroscopic Confirmation of NIRCam-Selected z > 8 Galaxy Candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: Initial Characterization of their Properties

Seiji Fujimoto, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson +38

We present JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy for 11 galaxy candidates with photometric redshifts of and newly identified in NIRCam images in the Co…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 81 cited

CEERS Key Paper IV: Galaxies at are Bluer than They Appear -- Characterizing Galaxy Stellar Populations from Rest-Frame micron Imaging

Casey Papovich, Justin Cole, Guang Yang +46

We present results from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Survey (CEERS) on the stellar-population parameters for 28 galaxies with redshifts using imaging data from the Ja…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

ALMA FIR View of Ultra High-redshift Galaxy Candidates at 11-17: Blue Monsters or Low- Red Interlopers?

Seiji Fujimoto, Steven L. Finkelstein, Denis Burgarella +50

We present ALMA Band~7 observations of a remarkably bright galaxy candidate at = (=), S5-z17-1, identified in JWST Early Releas…