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astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery of a Broad-Line Active Galactic Nucleus at

Xingyao Cai, Akio K. Inoue, Masafusa Onoue +12

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a previously unexplored population of faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe. We present MoM-BL-z10 at $z=9.9…

astro-ph.GA2026

The DAWN JWST Archive: A spectroscopically-informed population study of the physical properties of galaxies at z>2

Rashmi Gottumukkala, Gabriel Brammer, Sune Toft +30

Charting the evolution of star-formation, stellar mass and dust build-up over cosmic time relies on the accurate characterisation of the stellar population properties of high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Balmer Absorption Series and Broad Metal Lines in Two Luminous Little Red Dots

Bingjie Wang, Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu +21

Balmer absorption is common among little red dots (LRDs), but absorbers at or redward of systemic are rare, occurring in only \% of H absorbers. In this paper, we stu…

astro-ph.GA2026

A PANORAMIC of UV-optical morphologies of "Little Red Dots": Two groups of LRDs distinguished by UV half-light radius

Aidan P. Cloonan, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sinclaire M. Manning +13

Among the most remarkable results from JWST is the discovery of abundant, compact, and very red sources in the early Universe known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs). The relative degree…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The Engine and its Flows: Little Red Dot spectra are shaped by the column densities of their gas envelopes

Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba, Gabriele Pezzulli +23

JWST data have enabled the abundant identification of compact broad Balmer line sources nicknamed the Little Red Dots. While they share broad lines with active galactic nuclei, the…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Everything Every Band All at Once II: The Relationship Between Optical Size and Stellar Mass Over Eight Billion Years of Cosmic History

Tim B. Miller, Yunchong Zhang, Sedona H. Price +24

While the size-mass relation provides insight into the structural evolution of galaxies, the data available and methods employed have hindered our ability to study a detailed and c…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry

Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek +25

We constrain the nebular attenuation curve and investigate dust geometry in star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon using photometric medium-band emission line measurements. We measur…

astro-ph.GA2026

Water absorption confirms cool atmospheres in two little red dots

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Ivo Labbe +35

Little red dots (LRDs) are an abundant population of compact high-redshift sources with red rest-frame optical continua, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Their…

astro-ph.GA2026

From Grism to IFU: Revising the Redshift and Nature of the Massive Dusty Galaxy S1 with JWST and ALMA

Mengyuan Xiao, Longji Bing, Gabriel Brammer +21

We report a revised spectroscopic redshift for the dusty massive galaxy S1, previously inferred with an exceptionally high baryon-to-star conversion efficiency from NIRCam slitless…

astro-ph.GA2026

3D-Herschel: Constraining Dust Emission with Panchromatic Modeling of 3D-HST Galaxies

Seamus McNulty, Mimi Song, Katherine E. Whitaker +9

We present 3D-Herschel, a new publicly released 0.3-350m photometric catalog that combines deblended Herschel far-infrared (FIR) imaging with the CANDELS/3D-HST legacy fields to…

astro-ph.GA2026

UNCOVER/MegaScience Finds Uniform and Highly Bursty Star Formation at 3 < z < 9, consistent with the High-Redshift UV Luminosity Function

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja +24

Star formation timescales are key to understanding fundamental physics like feedback mechanisms, as well as the abundance of bright galaxies at . We investigate galaxy star f…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Little red dot variability over a century reveals black hole envelope via a giant Einstein cross

Zijian Zhang, Mingyu Li, Masamune Oguri +79

"Little red dots" (LRDs) represent a new population of astronomical objects uncovered by JWST whose nature remains debated. Although many LRDs are suspected as active galactic nucl…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Mass-Metallicity Relation and its Observational Effects at z~3-6

Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Anna de Graaff +21

The correlation between galaxy stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity, known as the mass-metallicity relation (MZR), gives key insights into the processes that govern galaxy evolut…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Anna de Graaff, Raphael E. Hviding, Rohan P. Naidu +34

We use the DAWN JWST Archive to construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0<z<9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from NIR…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

VENUS: A Strongly Lensed Clumpy Galaxy at behind the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0257.1-2325

Minami Nakane, Vasily Kokorev, Seiji Fujimoto +75

We present the discovery of a strongly lensed galaxy at , dubbed the ``Misty Moons'', identified in the JWST Treasury Survey, Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored S…

astro-ph.GA2025

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda +25

At low redshift, massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) are most frequently found in massive, rich galaxy clusters, but at high redshift the trend is less clear. Here, we present spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of red galaxy candidates at z ~ 12: Early dust growth or significant nebular emission with high-temperature stars?

Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja +18

We report the discovery of two z ~ 12 galaxy candidates with unusually red UV slopes (betaUV ~> -1.5), and probe the origin of such colors at cosmic dawn. From Prospector fits to t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

What you see is what you get: empirically measured bolometric luminosities of Little Red Dots

Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton, Lukas J. Furtak +27

New populations of red active galactic nuclei (known as ``Little Red Dots'') discovered by JWST exhibit remarkable spectral energy distributions. Leveraging X-ray through far-infra…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function

Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Marta Volonteri +14

One of the most surprising results of early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations is the discovery of an abundance of red, compact, broad-line objects dubbed "little red d…

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★ 2 cited

MINERVA: A NIRCam Medium Band and MIRI Imaging Survey to Unlock the Hidden Gems of the Distant Universe

Adam Muzzin, Katherine A. Suess, Danilo Marchesini +81

We present an overview of the MINERVA survey, a 259.8 hour (prime) and 127 hour (parallel) Cycle 4 treasury program on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). MINERVA is obtaining 8…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

Population Models for Star Formation Timescales in Early Galaxies: The First Step Towards Solving Outshining in Star Formation History Inference

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Hakim Atek +13

JWST have revealed temporarily-quenched and ultraviolet-luminous galaxies in the early universe, suggesting enhanced star formation stochasticity. Verifying this hypothesis is crit…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at Confirmed with JWST

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer +43

JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, , where few such sources were expected. Here we present the most distant example of t…