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most citedReionization after JWST: a photon budget crisis?

86 citations · 179 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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49 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulations of Dust Content and Attenuation in Galaxies

Dhruv T. Zimmerman, Jed McKinney, Desika Narayanan +10

Correctly modeling the dust attenuation law in galaxies is essential to properly inferring their growth and physical properties. With the rapid discovery of galaxies by JWST…

astro-ph.GA2026

A tidal disruption event in a quasar at redshift 7.19

S. Fujimoto, Q. Fei, G. B. Brammer +41

We report a long-lived nuclear transient in GNz7q, a red quasar at powered by a black hole and hosted by a compact, dusty starburst galaxy. Th…

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…

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Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Hanpu Liu +17

Little Red Dots (LRDs) display singular properties unlike any known class of AGN or galaxies, motivating novel mass estimators for their central engines. Inspired by their similari…

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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…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST Reveals a Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binary at z=4.3 in the Brightest Sub-millimeter Galaxy in COSMOS-Web

Jed McKinney, Ansh Gupta, Julian B. Munoz +13

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM and G395M grating spectroscopy for AzTEC-1, a massive sub-mm bright galaxy at in the COSMOS extragalactic field. The PRISM spectrum reveals s…

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Can Little Red Dots Contribute To The Early Universe Cosmic Dust Budget?

Chris Ashall, Rohan P. Naidu, Alberto Torralba +11

The origin of dust in the early Universe remains uncertain. We explore whether Little Red Dots (LRDs) could provide a high-redshift dust-production channel. Motivated by an analogy…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Evolution of Low-Ionization Electron Densities in Galaxies Across Cosmic Epochs

Mabel G. Stephenson, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez +12

We investigate the low-ionization electron density in the interstellar medium of galaxies across , derived with the [O II] and [S II]$λ\lambda6718…

astro-ph.GA2026

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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VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We present the first characterization of the host galaxy of a recently discovered type IIP SN at (SN Eos). SN Eos and its host galaxy are gravitationally lensed and multip…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatial decomposition of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec IFU into broad-line red cores and narrow-line blue host galaxies

Yuzo Ishikawa, Anna-Christina Eilers, Rohan P. Naidu +11

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a population of compact red sources discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Imaging and spectroscopy have shown that LRDs exhibit a complex…

astro-ph.GA2026

Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of Carinae

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Anna de Graaff +20

JWST's Little Red Dots (LRDs) display a unique constellation of features that do not occur simultaneously in any other class of galaxies or AGN. Here we observe that many of these…

astro-ph.GA2026

How I Wonder What You Are -- JWST's Little Red Dots do not TWINKLE

Zhaoran Liu, Rohan P. Naidu, Amy Secunda +20

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a population of compact, red sources that have emerged as one of the most puzzling findings of JWST. Variability provides a direct probe of their central…

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A GLIMPSE of the 99%: a census of the faintest galaxies during the epoch of reionization and its implications for galaxy formation models

Hakim Atek, Iryna Chemerynska, Lukas J. Furtak +19

We present a comprehensive study of the galaxy UV luminosity function (UVLF) at leveraging deep JWST observations from the GLIMPSE survey. Thanks to gravitational lensing,…

astro-ph.GA2026

Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Ultra-cool Brown Dwarfs

Maruša Bradač, Chris Willott, Yoshihisa Asada +37

From the onset of observations of JWST we have discovered unexpectedly luminous galaxies at redshifts and as high as . With their discovery, the question immediately f…

astro-ph.GA2026

Catching the Nebular Needle in a Polluted Haystack: Line-emission Signatures from Population III-forming Pockets around Massive Galaxies at the End of Reionization

Alessandra Venditti, Luca Graziani, Raffaella Schneider +10

Finding the first generation of (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the most ambitious and exciting challenges of astrophysics. JWST opened concrete prospects for their det…

astro-ph.GA2026

How Massive Can a Population III Starburst Be? Simulating the First Galaxies with High Lyman-Werner Background

Tae Bong Jeong, Alessandra Venditti, Volker Bromm +4

Observing the first generation of Population~III (Pop~III) stars is one of the most demanding challenges in astronomy. Indeed, Pop~III stars are expected to predominantly form with…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation

John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +7

Little Red Dots (LRDs), among the most enigmatic high-redshift discoveries by JWST, are commonly believed to be powered by accreting supermassive black holes. Here, we explore the…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

A first GLIMPSE into star clusters populations across cosmic time

Adélaïde Claeyssens, Angela Adamo, Vasily Kokorev +12

We present the first sample of 222 high-redshift (z>0.5) star clusters, detected with JWST/NIRCam in 78 magnified galaxies from different galaxy cluster fields. The majority of the…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

VENUS: Strong-lensing model of MACS J1931.8-2635 -- revealing the farthest multiply imaged supernova

Joseph F. V. Allingham, Adi Zitrin, Vasily Kokorev +42

We present a parametric strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster MACS J1931.8-2635 (), accompanying the detection of the spectroscopically confirmed SN Eos at $z = 5…

astro-ph.GA2026

GLIMPSE-DDT spectroscopic properties of faint-end galaxies at : Towards first metal enrichment, dust production, and ionizing photon production

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, John Chisholm +16

Ultra-faint galaxies at high- are fundamental elements of the early galaxy assembly, and spectroscopic characterization of this population is essential to understand the earlies…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

VENUS: Two Faint Little Red Dots Separated by Hidden in a Single Lensed Galaxy at

Hiroto Yanagisawa, Masami Ouchi, Miriam Golubchik +47

We report the identification of a pair of faint little red dots (LRDs), dubbed Red Eyes, in a strongly-lensed galaxy at behind the PLCKG004.5-10.5 cluster, identified from…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 5 cited

Little Red Dot Host Galaxy Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee +30

The central engines of Little Red Dots (LRDs) may be ``black hole stars" (BH*s), early stages of black hole growth characterized by dense gas envelopes. So far, the most direct evi…

astro-ph.GA2026

A GLIMPSE into the UV Continuum Slopes of the Faintest Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Michelle C. Jecmen, John Chisholm, Hakim Atek +23

As observations have yet to constrain the ionizing properties of the faintest (M > -16) galaxies, their contribution to cosmic reionization remains unclear. The rest-fra…