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most citedEPOCHS VII: Discovery of high redshift () AGN candidates in JWST ERO and PEARLS data

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44 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field V: Unraveling X-ray Spectral Variability

Samantha Creech, Francesca Civano, Daniel Wik +13

As one of the first deep time-domain surveys in the hard X-ray band, the NuSTAR campaign in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP-TDF) offers a prime opportunity to m…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the Light Curves of Magnified Stellar Events at z ~ 0.725

Carter Meyerhoff, Hayley Williams, Rafael Ortiz +5

Extreme magnification by lensing galaxy clusters allows the detection of high-luminosity stars during cluster caustic transient events at cosmological distances. The Dragon Arc at…

astro-ph.GA2026

EPOCHS-DR2 I: Expanded data release and properties of photometrically selected galaxies across NIRCam deep fields covering with the galfind software

Duncan Austin, Christopher J. Conselice, Thomas Harvey +14

We present the \epochstwo\ sample of star forming galaxies at produced using the \galfind\ photometric pipeline across $\sim650-740~\mathrm{arcmin}^2…

astro-ph.HE2026

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field IV: X-Ray Variability Analysis

Ross Silver, Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao +31

NuSTAR and XMM-Newton have observed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF) for almost five contiguous years starting in 2019. In th…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on the Pop III Sky Surface Brightness from High-Redshift Caustic Transients in MACS0416

Jakob P. Perivolotis, Pietro Bergamini, Rogier A. Windhorst +18

Population III (Pop III) stars are hypothetical zero-metallicity stellar structures formed from primordial hydrogen and helium. They are theorized to span a wide mass range, extend…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)

Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127

The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Super-Eddington Little Blue Dots May Reionize Helium Too Early

Christopher Cain, Brent Smith, Gibson B. Bowling +5

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified an abundant population of faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at which display broad emission lines, compact morph…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Koi Pond: A Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core hosting a Diverse Population of DSFGs

Nicholas Foo, Kevin C. Harrington, Brenda L. Frye +29

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of PJ0846+15, \textit{The Koi Pond}, a strongly lensed protocluster core at Cosm…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field VI: Multiwavelength SED Analysis

Rafael Ortiz, Francesca Civano, Rogier A. Windhorst +27

We model spectral energy distributions of 261 X-ray sources to in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field, extending prior XMM-Newton and NuSTAR analyses. Using the st…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Spokes

S. P. Willner, Hansung B. Gim, Maria del Carmen Polletta +18

JWST/NIRCam observations in the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (TDF) identify 4.4 micron counterparts for 206 of 211 radio sources with S(3 GHz) \gapprox 5 micro-Jy in a 65a…

astro-ph.GA2026

PEARLS: Two Distinct Populations of AGN Hosts Moving Between Star Formation and Quiescence

Gibson B. Bowling, Rafael Ortiz, S. P. Willner +29

We present the results of AGN--host-galaxy decomposition using JWST/NIRCam, HST/ACS, and HST/WFC3 imaging of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP-TDF). The light-profiles…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST's PEARLS: A clumpy ring galaxy at

David Vizgan, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Ian Smail +22

Ring galaxies are an uncommon class of galaxies whose morphology is closely related to dynamical processes that govern galaxy evolution. Some ring galaxies, known as "collisional r…

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.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.HE2025

The Distribution of Hard X-ray Selected AGN in the NEP Field

Samantha Creech, Francesca Civano, Daniel R. Wik +9

X-ray surveys are one of the most unbiased methods for detecting Compton Thick (CT; cm) AGN, which are thought to comprise up to of AGN…

astro-ph.HE2025

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-domain Field III

Ross Silver, Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao +28

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF) has been monitored by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton with a regular cadence for five years starting i…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Distribution of Quenched Galaxies in the Massive z = 0.87 Galaxy Cluster El Gordo

Rachel Honor, Seth Cohen, Timothy Carleton +27

El Gordo (ACT-CL J01024915) is a massive galaxy cluster with two major mass components at redshift . Using SED fitting results from JWST/NIRCam photometry, the fraction…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

SKYSURF-11: A New Zodiacal Light Model Optimized for Optical Wavelengths

Rosalia O'Brien, Richard G. Arendt, Rogier A. Windhorst +15

We present an improved zodiacal light model, optimized for optical wavelengths, using archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging from the SKYSURF program. The Kelsall et al. 199…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity History

Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Simon P. Driver, Claudia D. P. Lagos +23

The combination of the cosmic star formation history and active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history as inferred by the James Webb Space Telescope is connected to th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Peering into the heart of darkness with VLBA : Radio Quiet AGN in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field

Payaswini Saikia, Ramon Wrzosek, Joseph Gelfand +27

We present initial results from the 4.8 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field (TDF). From 106 radio sources found in the Karl…

astro-ph.GA2025

PEARLS: 21 Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope

Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +39

We present 21 transients from our three-epoch, four-band NIRCam observations covering 14.16 arcmin^2 in the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field (IDF), taken by the JWST Prime Extragalactic Are…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Self-Consistent JWST Census of Star Formation and AGN activity at z=5.5-13.5

Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Simon P. Driver, Claudia D. P. Lagos +24

The cosmic star formation history (CSFH) and cosmic active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history (CAGNH) are self consistently measured at . This is achieved by an…

astro-ph.GA2025

Explaining JWST counts with galaxy formation models

Giorgio Manzoni, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +18

A distinct power-law break is apparent m_AB approximately 21 in the deep Near-Infrared PEARLS-JWST galaxy counts. The break becomes more pronounced at longer wavelengths, with the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

JWST's PEARLS: A z=6 quasar in a train-wreck galaxy merger system

Madeline A. Marshall, Rogier A. Windhorst, Giovanni Ferrami +35

We present JWST NIRSpec integral field spectroscopy observations of the z=5.89 quasar NDWFS J1425+3254 from 0.6-5.3 microns, covering the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical at a sp…