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astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

A unique window into the Epoch of Reionisation: A double-peaked Lyman- emitter in the proximity zone of a quasar at

Klaudia Protušová, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Feige Wang +12

We present a study of a double-peaked Ly emitter, named LAE-11, found in the proximity zone of QSO J0910-0414 at . We use a combination of deep photometric data from S…

astro-ph.GA2024

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Spectroscopically Complete Census of Obscured Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density at

Fengwu Sun, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +25

We present a stringent measurement of the dust-obscured star-formation rate density (SFRD) at from the ASPIRE JWST Cycle-1 medium and ALMA Cycle-9 large program. We obtaine…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Extreme Deconvolution Reimagined: Conditional Densities via Neural Networks and an Application in Quasar Classification

Yi Kang, Joseph F. Hennawi, Jan-Torge Schindler +2

Density estimation is a fundamental problem that arises in many areas of astronomy, with applications ranging from selecting quasars using color distributions to characterizing ste…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

A Little Red Dot at within a Large Galaxy Overdensity

Jan-Torge Schindler, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +11

The nature of "Little Red Dots" and their relation to other forms of accreting supermassive black holes remain an open question. Here we report the discovery of a Little Red Dot at…

astro-ph.IM2024

Robust support for semi-automated reductions of Keck/NIRSPEC data using PypeIt

Adolfo S. Carvalho, Greg Doppmann, Kyle B. Westfall +7

We present a data reduction pipeline (DRP) for Keck/NIRSPEC built as an addition to the PypeIt Python package. The DRP is capable of reducing multi-order echelle data taken both be…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Supports Earlier Reionization around [OIII] Emitters

Xiangyu Jin, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +22

Understanding when and how reionization happened is crucial for studying the early structure formation and the properties of first galaxies in the Universe. At , the observe…

astro-ph.CO2024

Neural network emulator to constrain the high- IGM thermal state from Lyman- forest flux auto-correlation function

Zhenyu Jin, Molly Wolfson, Joseph F. Hennawi +1

We present a neural network emulator to constrain the thermal parameters of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at using the Lyman- (L…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Quasar-Anchored Protocluster at z=6.6 in the ASPIRE Survey: II. An Environmental Analysis of Galaxy Properties in an Overdense Structure

Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +21

We present paper II comprising a 35 arcmin \textit{JWST}/NIRCam imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy mosaic centered on J03053150, a luminous quasar at . The…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Quasar-Anchored Protocluster at z=6.6 in the ASPIRE Survey: I. Properties of [OIII] Emitters in a 10 Mpc Overdensity Structure

Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang, Haowen Zhang +25

ASPIRE (A SPectroscopic survey of bIased halos in the Reionization Era) is a quasar legacy survey primarily using \textit{JWST} to target a sample of 25 quasars with NIRCam s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 27 cited

"Little red dots" cannot reside in the same dark matter halos as comparably luminous unobscured quasars

Elia Pizzati, Joseph F. Hennawi, Joop Schaye +4

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a new population of candidate broad-line AGN emerging in the early Universe, named ''little red dots'' (LRDs) because of their c…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Broad-line AGN at revealed by JWST/NIRCam WFSS

Xiaojing Lin, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan +33

Low-luminosity AGNs with low-mass black holes (BHs) in the early universe are fundamental to understanding the BH growth and their co-evolution with the host galaxies. Utilizing JW…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

A blazar in the epoch of reionization

Eduardo Banados, Emmanuel Momjian, Thomas Connor +21

Relativistic jets are thought to play a crucial role in the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and supermassive black holes. Blazars, which are quasars with jets aligned a…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Quantifying the Precision of IGM Damping Wing Measurements Towards Quasars

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies

We investigate the precision with which the Lyman- damping wing signature imprinted on the spectra of high-redshift quasars (QSOs) by the foreground neutral intergalactic medium…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

[OIII] emission in z=2 quasars with and without Broad Absorption Lines

Matthew J. Temple, Amy L. Rankine, Manda Banerji +6

Understanding the links between different phases of outflows from active galactic nuclei is a key goal in extragalactic astrophysics. Here we compare [OIII] 4960,5008 outflow s…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Precisely Measuring the Cosmic Reionization History from IGM Damping Wings Towards Quasars

Joseph F. Hennawi, Timo Kist, Frederick B. Davies +1

We introduce a new approach for analyzing the IGM damping wings imprinted on the proximity zones of quasars in the epoch of reionization (EoR). Whereas past work has typically forg…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at : public data release and composite spectrum

Silvia Onorato, Joseph F. Hennawi, Jan-Torge Schindler +18

We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations for a sample of quasars at with absolute magnitudes at Å in the range $-28.82…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

AGNfitter-rx: Modelling the radio-to-X-ray SEDs of AGNs

L. N. Martínez-Ramírez, G. Calistro Rivera, Elisabeta Lusso +9

We present new frontiers in the modelling of the spectral energy distributions (SED) of active galaxies by introducing the radio-to-X-ray fitting capabilities of the publicly avail…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

MAMMOTH-Subaru. II. Diverse Populations of Circumgalactic Ly Nebulae at Cosmic Noon

Mingyu Li, Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai +23

Circumgalactic Lyman-alpha (Ly) nebulae are gaseous halos around galaxies exhibiting luminous extended Ly emission. This work investigates Ly nebulae from deep imaging of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A Spatially Resolved [CII] Survey of 31 Massive Galaxies Hosting Luminous Quasars

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +15

The [CII] 158 m emission line and the underlying far-infrared (FIR) dust continuum are important tracers for studying star formation and kinematic properties of early galaxies.…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 26 cited

A unified model for the clustering of quasars and galaxies at

Elia Pizzati, Joseph F. Hennawi, Joop Schaye +12

Recent observations from the EIGER JWST program have measured for the first time the quasar-galaxy cross-correlation function at . The auto-correlation function of faint…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

EIGER VI. The Correlation Function, Host Halo Mass and Duty Cycle of Luminous Quasars at

Anna-Christina Eilers, Ruari Mackenzie, Elia Pizzati +13

We expect luminous () high-redshift quasars to trace the highest density peaks in the early universe. Here, we present observations of four quasa…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Massive Protocluster Anchored by a Luminous Quasar at

Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi +13

Protoclusters, the progenitors of galaxy clusters, trace large scale structures in the early Universe and are important to our understanding of structure formation and galaxy evolu…

astro-ph.GA2024

A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Impact of Galaxies on the CGM Metal Enrichment at z > 6 Using the JWST and VLT

Siwei Zou, Zheng Cai, Feige Wang +27

We characterize the multiphase circumgalactic medium and galaxy properties at z = 6.0-6.5 in four quasar fields from the James Webb Space Telescope A SPectroscopic survey of biased…