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astro-ph.GA2026

An Attenuation Bump at z=9.3: Probing Dust Diversity at Cosmic Dawn

Giulia Rodighiero, Santiago Álvarez-Córdoba, Michele Catone +46

We report the identification of a UV attenuation bump in the Black Pearl, a galaxy at a spectroscopic redshift of 9.3335 observed with JWST/NIRSpec as part of the ZENITH and EMBER…

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

PAHSPECS: JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy of PAHs at Cosmic Noon

Irene Shivaei, Tanio Díaz Santos, Leindert A. Boogaard +14

The physical conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM) are thought to differ greatly at high redshifts compared to local galaxies. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are key…

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

JWST spectroscopy of galaxies at : Damped Ly absorbers reveal efficient star formation and hidden redshift biases

Kasper E. Heintz, Clara L. Pollock, Joris Witstok +23

Recent observations with JWST have revealed a remarkable population of surprisingly luminous galaxies at redshifts . Their abundance exceed predictions from simulations and e…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Life After the Quasar: Overmassive Black Holes and Remnant Ionised Bubbles in and Around Two z~6.6 Galaxies

Romain A. Meyer, Pascal A. Oesch, Callum Witten +7

Supermassive black holes (SMBH, ) powering luminous quasars already exist one billion years after the Big Bang, yet their connection to their star-formi…

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

Characterising Ly damping wings at the onset of reionisation: Evidence for highly efficient star formation driven by dense, neutral gas in UV-bright galaxies at

Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Joris Witstok +23

One of the major conundrums in contemporary extragalactic astrophysics is the apparent overabundance of a remarkable population of UV-bright galaxies at redshifts . We…

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.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

Resolving the dusty star-forming galaxy GN20 at z=4.055 with NOEMA and JWST: A similar distribution of stars, gas and dust despite distinct apparent profiles

Leindert A. Boogaard, Fabian Walter, Axel Weiss +8

We present high-resolution (0.13"-0.23") NOEMA observations of the dust continuum emission at 1.1 mm (rest-frame 220 micron) and JWST/NIRCam and MIRI imaging of the z=4.055 starbur…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Quasar lifetime measurements from extended Ly nebulae at

Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Romain A. Meyer +7

The existence of billion-solar-mass black holes hosted in luminous quasars within the first gigayear of cosmic history poses a challenge to our understanding of supermassive black…

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…