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astro-ph.GA2026

Constraints on the Gas Geometry Surrounding Little Red Dots through Narrow-Line Diagnostics

Visal Sok, Erica J. Nelson, Mitchell C. Begelman +10

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a recently identified population of high-redshift sources, with a common interpretation being accreting black holes embedded within a spherical, opticall…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

JADES: the mass-metallicity relation at . New calibrations, extremely metal-poor galaxies, and chemical diversity

Yuki Isobe, Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino +28

We present gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies at -10 with deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the JADES full data release, Dark Horse, and OASIS programmes. We stack…

astro-ph.GA2026

Everything Every Band All at Once I: A Global Morphology Catalog in Abell 2744 based on UNCOVER/MegaScience

Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price +31

We present spectrally-resolved structural parameter measurements of 28,274 sources from the legacy lensing field of Abell 2744, quantifying global structures from observed $0.7 μm…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

JADES Dark Horse: demonstrating high-multiplex observations with JWST/NIRSpec dense-shutter spectroscopy in the JADES Origins Field

Francesco D'Eugenio, Erica J. Nelson, Daniel J. Eisenstein +40

We present JWST/NIRSpec dense-shutter spectroscopy (DSS). This novel observing strategy with the NIRSpec/MSA deliberately permits a high number of controlled spectral overlaps to r…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 14 cited

The warm outer layer of a Little Red Dot as the source of [Fe II] and collisional Balmer lines with scattering wings

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriele Pezzulli +22

The population of the Little Red Dots (LRDs) may represent a key phase of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. A cocoon of dense excited gas is emerging as key component to expla…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Irony at z=6.68: a bright AGN with forbidden Fe emission and multi-component Balmer absorption

Francesco D'Eugenio, Erica Nelson, Xihan Ji +11

We present the deepest medium-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy to date of a bright Little Red Dot (LRD) AGN, Irony at z=6.68. The data reveal broad Balmer emission from H-H$…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST+ALMA reveal the build up of stellar mass in the cores of dusty star-forming galaxies at Cosmic Noon

Sarah Bodansky, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ayesha Abdullah +14

Dusty star-forming galaxies have long been suspected to serve as the missing evolutionary bridge between the star-forming and quiescent phases of massive galaxy evolution. With the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Stellar Populations and Rest-Frame Colors of Star-Forming Galaxies at : Exploring the Impact of Filter Choice and Star Formation History Assumption with JADES

Jakob M. Helton, Stacey Alberts, George H. Rieke +30

Our understanding of the physical properties of star-forming galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, at ) suffers from degeneracies among the apparent properties of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JADES and BlackTHUNDER: rest-frame Balmer-line absorption and the local environment in a Little Red Dot at z = 5

Francesco D'Eugenio, Ignas Juodžbalis, Xihan Ji +32

We present a broad-line AGN at z=5.077, observed with both NIRSpec/MSA and NIRSpec/IFU by the JADES and BlackTHUNDER surveys. The target exhibits all the hallmark features of a 'Li…

astro-ph.GA2025

Big, Dusty Galaxies in Blue Jay: Insights into the Relationship Between Morphology and Dust Attenuation at Cosmic Noon

Gabriel Maheson, Sandro Tacchella, Sirio Belli +10

The dust attenuation of galaxies is highly diverse and closely linked to stellar population properties and the star dust geometry, yet its relationship to galaxy morphology remains…

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★ 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★ 9 cited

BlackTHUNDER strikes twice: rest-frame Balmer-line absorption and high Eddington accretion rate in a Little Red Dot at

Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino, Michele Perna +29

JWST has revealed a population of 'Little Red Dots' (LRDs): compact, red objects at redshifts z=2-9 with 'v'-shaped spectral energy distributions, broad permitted lines, and, often…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A Tentative Detection of Molecular Hydrogen (H) Emission Lines at Cosmic Dawn

Madisen Johnson, Blakesley Burkhart, Francesco D'Eugenio +11

We present a theoretical framework for interpreting far-ultraviolet (FUV) fluorescent emission from molecular hydrogen (H) in high-redshift galaxies, motivated by the unique ca…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The Evolution of Half-Mass Radii and Color Gradients for Young and Old Quiescent Galaxies at with JWST/PRIMER

Maike Clausen, Ivelina Momcheva, Katherine E. Whitaker +12

We present a study of the size growth of the red sequence between tracing the evolution of quiescent galaxies in both effective half-light and half-mass radii using mult…

astro-ph.GA2024

Stacking and Analyzing MOSDEF Galaxies by Spectral Types: Implications for Dust Geometry and Galaxy Evolution

Brian Lorenz, Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley +12

We examine star-formation and dust properties for a sample of 660 galaxies at in the MOSDEF survey by dividing them into groups with similarly-shaped spectral…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

JADES Ultra-red Flattened Objects: Morphologies and Spatial Gradients in Color and Stellar Populations

Justus L. Gibson, Erica Nelson, Christina C. Williams +20

One of the more surprising findings after the first year of JWST observations is the large number of spatially extended galaxies (ultra-red flattened objects, or UFOs) among the op…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 128 cited

RUBIES: Evolved Stellar Populations with Extended Formation Histories at in Candidate Massive Galaxies Identified with JWST/NIRSpec

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Anna de Graaff +17

The identification of red, apparently massive galaxies at in early JWST photometry suggests a strongly accelerated timeline compared to standard models of galaxy growth. A ma…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 22 cited

AGN Feedback in Quiescent Galaxies at Cosmic Noon Traced by Ionized Gas Emission

Letizia Bugiani, Sirio Belli, Minjung Park +17

We analyze ionized gas emission lines in deep rest-frame optical spectra of 16 quiescent galaxies at redshift observed with JWST/NIRSpec by the Blue Jay survey. Robust…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Size Estimate for Galaxy GN-z11

James O. Baldwin, Erica Nelson, Benjamin D. Johnson +5

GN-z11 is the highest redshift galaxy spectroscopically confirmed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Previous measurements of the effective radius of GN-z11 utilized galfit, wh…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Relation between AGN and Host Galaxy Properties in the JWST Era: I. Seyferts at Cosmic Noon are Obscured and Disturbed

Nina Bonaventura, Jianwei Lyu, George H. Rieke +22

The morphology of a galaxy reflects the mix of physical processes occurring within and around it, offering indirect clues to its formation and evolution. We apply both visual class…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

JADES: Rest-frame UV-to-NIR Size Evolution of Massive Quiescent Galaxies from Redshift z=5 to z=0.5

Zhiyuan Ji, Christina C. Williams, Katherine A. Suess +37

We present the UV-to-NIR size evolution of a sample of 161 quiescent galaxies (QGs) with over . With deep multi-band NIRCam images in GOODS-South from…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic Star-Formation Rate Density 300 Myr after the Big Bang

Brant Robertson, Benjamin D. Johnson, Sandro Tacchella +33

We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 86 cited

JADES: Carbon enrichment 350 Myr after the Big Bang in a gas-rich galaxy

Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino, Stefano Carniani +25

Finding the emergence of the first generation of metals in the early Universe, and identifying their origin, are some of the most important goals of modern astrophysics. We present…