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most citedA direct black hole mass measurement in a Little Red Dot at the Epoch of Reionization

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34 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

From Giant Envelopes to Rapidly Contracting Cores in Rotating Population III Stars from to

Devesh Nandal, John Chisholm, Daniel J. Whalen +4

Population III (Pop III) stars link the chemical enrichment of the early Universe to the formation of the first massive black holes, yet their evolution remains poorly understood a…

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

A dense, metal-rich absorber driven by a heavily dust-obscured galaxy: The direct evidence of CGM enrichment at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +23

We report the serendipitous discovery of a dense, metal-enriched circumgalactic medium (CGM) absorber at z=7.03, together with its host galaxy, identified along the sightline towar…

astro-ph.GA2026

The THRILS Factor: Investigating the properties of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 3<z<6 with JWST/NIRSpec

Ananya Ganapathy, Rebecca L. Larson, Erini Lambrides +20

JWST has uncovered a class of objects called LRDs, whose nature is still widely debated. In this work, we present a comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of nine LRDs in the Extende…

astro-ph.GA2026

How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars

Alessandra Venditti, Daniel Schaerer, Erik Zackrisson +26

Finding the first (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the fundamental quests of astronomy, aiming to deliver the missing link in how stars form at early cosmic times. Yet t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Determining Total Infrared Luminosities from Submm Measurements of High Redshift Galaxies

Maria Emilia De Rossi, George H. Rieke, Christina C. Williams +6

Determining total infrared luminosities for very high redshift galaxies is important to estimate the rate of star formation in heavily dust-embedded environments. It is also challe…

astro-ph.GA2026

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

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

astro-ph.GA2026

Towards A Universal Analytical Model of Population III Star Formation: A Bridge Between Cosmological Scales and Protostars

James Gurian, Boyuan Liu, Donghui Jeong +4

We construct an analytical model of Population III star formation that connects the cosmological radiation background to sub-AU protostellar disk fragmentation, a dynamic range ina…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions

Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39

The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The search for Population III: Confirmation of a HeII emitter with no metal lines at z=10.6

Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Übler, Michele Perna +49

We report the confirmation of a HeII1640 emitter located at 3 pkpc from the galaxy GN-z11, at z=10.6. The detection, based on JWST NIRSpec-IFU high-resolution spectroscopy, conf…

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

Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +24

We present a panchromatic optical-mm characterization of GNz7q, a recently identified X-ray weak, rapidly growing red quasar embedded within a dusty starburst galaxy at ,…

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.HE2026

A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13

David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88

Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…

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

Hunting for the First Explosions at the High-Redshift Frontier

Junehyoung Jeon, Volker Bromm, Alessandra Venditti +2

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spectroscopically confirmed galaxies up to , 300 Myr after the Big Bang, and several candidates have been discovered at $z\sim15-…

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

THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog

Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson, Pablo Arrabal Haro +46

To date, many spectroscopic confirmations of z>7 galaxies have been obtained using JWST/NIRSpec prism observations, with most of their physical properties inferred from these obser…

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★ 1 cited

Significant Evidence of an AGN Contribution in GHZ2 at z = 12.34

Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz, Steven L. Finkelstein, Adele Plat +18

GHZ2 is among the highest-redshift galaxies discovered to date, exhibiting a spectrum rich with prominent emission lines in the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and optical. These featu…

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.…