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astro-ph.GA2025

GLIMPSE-D: An Exotic Balmer-Jump Object at z=6.20? Revisiting Photometric Selection and the Cosmic Abundance of Pop III Galaxies

Seiji Fujimoto, Yoshihisa Asada, Rohan P. Naidu +19

We present deep JWST/NIRSpec G395M spectroscopy of GLIMPSE-16043, a promising Pop III candidate originally identified through NIRCam photometry as having weak [OIII]$λ\lam…

astro-ph.GA2025

An Extremely-red, UV-bright, and Extended Galaxy at z~6 in PRIMER/UDS: An Early Massive Galaxy Caught Quenching after an Obscured Starburst?

Nadara Hudson, Ryan Endsley, John Chisholm

JWST continues to reveal an astonishing number of massive quiescent galaxies at , with number densities higher than model predictions. NIRSpec spectra imply…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Spatially Resolved Physical Properties of Young Star Clusters and Star-forming Clumps in the Brightest z>6 Galaxy, the Strongly Lensed Cosmic Spear at z=6.2

Abdurro'uf, Dan Coe, Tom Resseguier +49

We present spatially resolved analysis of stellar populations in the brightest galaxy known to date (AB mag 23), the strongly lensed MACS0308zD1 (dubbed the ``Cosmic Spear…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

VENUS: When Red meets Blue -- A multiply imaged Little Red Dot with an apparent blue companion behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383

Miriam Golubchik, Lukas J. Furtak, Joseph F. V. Allingham +50

We report the discovery of a doubly-imaged Little Red Dot (LRD) candidate behind the galaxy cluster Abell 383, which we dub A383-LRD1. Initially classified as a dropout galaxy in H…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Deepest GLIMPSE of a Dense Gas Cocoon Enshrouding a Little Red Dot

Vasily Kokorev, John Chisholm, Rohan P. Naidu +19

The detection of strong Balmer breaks and absorption features in Little Red Dots (LRDs) suggests they host AGN embedded within dense gas envelopes, potentially powered by super-Edd…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

JWST's GLIMPSE: an overview of the deepest probe of early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization

Hakim Atek, John Chisholm, Vasily Kokorev +44

We present an overview of the JWST GLIMPSE program, highlighting its survey design, primary science goals, gravitational lensing models, and first results. GLIMPSE provides ultra-d…

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★ 2 cited

A Fleeting GLIMPSE of N/O Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Evidence for Wolf Rayet N Stars in a z = 6.1 Galaxy

Danielle A. Berg, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm +18

We present the discovery of extreme nitrogen enrichment by Wolf Rayet nitrogen stars (WN) in the metal-poor (~10% Z_odot), lensed, compact (R_eff ~ 20 pc) galaxy RXCJ2248 at z=6.1,…

astro-ph.GA2025

A GLIMPSE of Intermediate Mass Black holes in the epoch of reionization: Witnessing the Descendants of Direct Collapse?

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu +17

JWST has revealed an abundance of supermassive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe, and yet the lowest mass seed black holes that gave rise to these populations remain elusive.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

A GLIMPSE into the very faint-end of the H+[OIII]4960,5008 luminosity function at z=7-9 behind Abell S1063

Damien Korber, Iryna Chemerynska, Lukas J. Furtak +12

We use the ultra-deep GLIMPSE JWST/NIRCam survey to constrain the faint-end of the H+[OIII]4960,5008 luminosity function (LF) down to erg/s at z=7-9 behind the len…

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★ 11 cited

The first GLIMPSE of the faint galaxy population at Cosmic Dawn with JWST: The evolution of the ultraviolet luminosity function across z~9-15

Iryna Chemerynska, Hakim Atek, Lukas J. Furtak +27

Using ultra-deep JWST NIRCam imaging from the GLIMPSE Survey, enhanced by gravitational lensing of the AbellS1063 cluster, we investigate the faintest galaxies ever observed in the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters

Desika Narayanan, Paul Torrey, Daniel Stark +9

A combination of JWST observations at z~12-14 and ALMA observations of extremely dust-rich systems at z~6 has demonstrated that dust grows extremely fast in the early Universe, wit…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Little Red Dots and their Progenitors from Direct Collapse Black Holes

Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm +7

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a new population of objects, the Little Red Dots (LRDs), characterized by V-shaped spectra indicative of strong breaks around t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas Enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line AGN at z=9.288

Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski +49

We present CAPERS-LRD-z9, a little red dot (LRD) which we confirm to be a broad-line AGN (BLAGN). First identified as a high-redshift LRD candidate from PRIMER NIRCam pho…

astro-ph.GA2025

Bursty or heavy? The surprise of bright Population III systems in the Reionization era

Alessandra Venditti, Julian B. Munoz, Volker Bromm +3

The nature of the first, so-called Population III (Pop III) stars has for long remained largely unconstrained. However, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally opened new con…

astro-ph.GA2025

CAPERS Observations of Two UV-Bright Galaxies at z>10. More Evidence for Bursting Star Formation in the Early Universe

Vasily Kokorev, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Anthony J. Taylor +38

We present the first results from the CAPERS survey, utilizing PRISM observations with the JWST/NIRSpec MSA in the PRIMER-UDS field. With just 14 % of the total planned data volume…

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

The Emerging Black Hole Mass Function in the High-Redshift Universe

Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu, Anthony J. Taylor +5

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified an abundant population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) already in place during the first few hundred mil…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

GLIMPSE: An ultra-faint 10 Pop III Galaxy Candidate and First Constraints on the Pop III UV Luminosity Function at

Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm +32

Detecting the first generation of stars, Population III (PopIII), has been a long-standing goal in astrophysics, yet they remain elusive even in the JWST era. Here we present a nov…