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Calcium Triplet Absorption is Common around Little Red Dots

Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu, Raphael E. Hviding +29

We present new evidence for an optically thick atmosphere surrounding Little Red Dots (LRDs) in the form of Ca absorption at rest-frame 8500A, the calcium triplet (CaT). Building o…

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Star Formation and Nebular Attenuation from Pa, Br, and Br in Massive Dust-obscured Galaxies at Cosmic Noon using JWST

Virginia Vanicek, Jed McKinney, Alexandra Pope +14

Near-infrared hydrogen recombination lines can provide robust star-formation rates if the effects of dust attenuation continue to diminish towards longer wavelengths. To quantify n…

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Quiescent Galaxies at from CAPERS spectroscopy and their Number densities

Lu Shen, Weida Hu, Casey Papovich +28

Recent JWST observations have revealed an overabundance of quiescent galaxies at high redshift. Photometric methods, such as photometry-derived sSFRs, colors, and synthetic $…

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Unified modelling of broad and narrow optical-UV emission lines from massive black holes: interpreting high-redshift JWST observations

Adele Plat, Michaela Hirschmann, Emma Curtis-Lake +10

JWST is uncovering a large population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshift, motivating the extension of models calibrated on local sources to a broader range of physica…

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The THRILS Factor: Investigating the properties of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 3<z<6 with JWST/NIRSpec

Ananya Ganapathy, Rebecca L. Larson, Erini Lambrides +20

JWST has uncovered a class of objects called LRDs, whose nature is still widely debated. In this work, we present a comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of nine LRDs in the Extende…

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The Ashes of Supermassive Stars: Globular Cluster-like Aluminum Enhancement in Little Red Dots

V. Kokorev, J. Chisholm, R. P. Naidu +16

The relative abundances of elements in galaxies serve as fossil records of the physical conditions and processes by which they were forged. While the Big Bang produced only the lig…

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The gradual decline of Ly visibility in the CANDELS fields: evidence for the combined effects of galaxy evolution and reionization

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, A. Ferrara +35

We investigate the evolution of Ly visibility and the physical properties of Ly emitters (LAEs) across the five CANDELS fields using publicly available JWST/NIRSpec PRISM spe…

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Skyfire: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots and Broad-Line AGN in the CEERS Field

Dale D. Kocevski, Anthony J. Taylor, Masafusa Onoue +24

We present the Skyfire program, a 21-hour Cycle 3 JWST/NIRSpec survey with the G395M medium-resolution grating covering five pointings in the Extended Groth Strip. The survey is de…

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An Optical Illusion: High Electron Densities Create Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxy Impostors

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Danielle A. Berg, Steven L. Finkelstein +8

JWST has enabled the discovery of dozens of extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) with metallicities below , representing a significant leap toward detecting the fi…

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Implications of Broad [O III] 4364 and UV Line Emission in Two Little Red Dots at z ~ 7 - 8

Casey Papovich, Kaila Ronayne, Weida Hu +17

We present deep, NIRSpec G140M and G395M spectroscopy of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at z = 6.68 and z = 8.35. Both LRDs show broad Balmer and [O III] 4364 emission. The broad [O III…

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How to raise a supermassive black hole: interpreting early JWST AGN with the AESOPICA simulations

Sophie Koudmani, Jan Scholtz, Anthony J. Taylor +11

The active black holes uncovered by JWST in the early Universe are highly abundant and seemingly overmassive with respect to local scaling relations, challenging standard models of…

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Hunting Wandering 3<z<8 Black Holes: Spatial Offsets in Ionization Ratio and Continuum Emission

Urvi Thakurdesai, Anthony J. Taylor, Steven L. Finkelstein +14

The early growth and assembly of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain key topics of interest in galaxy evolution. One of the scenarios predicted by theoretical models is that fr…

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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…

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OCEANS of Absorption: High-resolution NIRSpec Spectroscopy Reveals Diverse Balmer-line Absorption in Little Red Dots

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Raymond C. Simons +24

The ``Little Red Dots' (LRDs) that appeared in JWST deep field images have been the subject of significant study since their discovery. In this work, we present high-resolution fol…

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Other red dots: A possible GLIMPSE of normal AGB stars at Cosmic Noon through extreme lensing

Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Erik Zackrisson +18

We report the discovery of four extremely faint () red point sources in recent ultra-deep JWST/NIRCam images of the strong lensing galaxy cluster Abell…

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Using Ly Transmitted Spectrum to Probe IGM Transmission and Identify Ionized Structures in Cosmic Reionization

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Lu Shen +16

We present a study of intergalactic medium (IGM) transmission at using high-signal-to-noise JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of 143 galaxies at from the CAPE…

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Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in CEERS Are Powered by Star Formation, not AGN

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump +28

We present a spectroscopic study of photometrically identified extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with observed-frame equivalent widths (EWs) >5000 A of either H alpha or H bet…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of a large and luminous galaxy with weak emission lines at

Callum T. Donnan, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure +15

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of a robust galaxy candidate at , selected from pure-parallel NIRCam imaging; PAN-z14-1. The NIRSpec spectrum allows confirmat…

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From "The Cliff" to "Virgil": Mapping the Spectral Diversity of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec

Guillermo Barro, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Dale Kocevski +26

One of JWST's most unexpected discoveries is the emergence of "Little Red Dots'' (LRDs): compact sources at with blue rest-frame UV continua, red optical slopes, and…