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most citedUnveiling the Nature of Infrared Bright, Optically Dark Galaxies with Early JWST Data

107 citations · 648 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Sleeping or Dead? Probing the Quenching Mechanism of JWST Dormant Galaxies at z > 3 with ALMA

Mengyuan Xiao, Songnan Qi, Pascal A. Oesch +16

JWST has revealed a population of "dormant'' galaxies at z>3 with strong Balmer breaks and weak emission lines, whose star formation appears to have declined only recently. Whether…

astro-ph.GA2026

The DAWN JWST Archive: A spectroscopically-informed population study of the physical properties of galaxies at z>2

Rashmi Gottumukkala, Gabriel Brammer, Sune Toft +30

Charting the evolution of star-formation, stellar mass and dust build-up over cosmic time relies on the accurate characterisation of the stellar population properties of high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2026

Beyond orientation: Evidence for distinct physical regimes among Little Red Dots and Little Blue Dots

L. Barrufet, J. S. Dunlop, M. L. Hamadouche +6

Little Red Dots (LRDs) and Little Blue Dots (LBDs) may represent the same population of compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed along different lines of sight. We test this s…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Census of the 200 Most Massive Galaxies Spectroscopically Observed with JWST at zspec 3-15

Mengyuan Xiao, Pascal A. Oesch, Longji Bing +26

Massive galaxies provide strong tests of galaxy formation models, yet a comprehensive spectroscopic view of their properties and demographics in the early Universe has remained elu…

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

Chemical signatures from the first stars embedded in metal-poor gas in galaxies at cosmic dawn

Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Elka Rusta +15

The first generation of stars formed from pristine, neutral hydrogen gas. The most massive of these exploded as supernovae within a few million years of their birth, producing the…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ionised interstellar medium of DSFGs revealed by JWST/NIRSpec and ALMA: Super-solar metallicity, low ionisation parameters and, typical electron densities

Steven Gillman, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino +25

We present a detailed study of near-infrared (2-4m) JWST/NIRSpec spectra of 48 high-redshift () galaxies detected with ALMA at . From a multi-wa…

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

DeepDive: Tracing the early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at from their star-formation histories and chemical abundances

Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Katherine E. Whitaker, Francesco Valentino +21

We investigate the chemical abundances and star-formation histories (SFH) of ten massive () quiescent galaxies at usi…

astro-ph.GA2026

There and back again? Neutral outflows in z~3.5 quiescent galaxies

Pengpei Zhu, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino +16

Neutral gas outflows play a crucial role in the baryon cycle of galaxies, their properties provide key insights into the transition from star formation to quiescence. In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Dynamical properties and star formation history of a low-mass quenched galaxy at Cosmic Noon

K. Ito, F. Valentino, W. M. Baker +12

We present the spectroscopic confirmation and in-depth analysis of AURORA-LQG1, a low-mass quiescent galaxy at with observed with…

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

ECOGAL I. Project design and the first catalogue

Minju M. Lee, Georgios Magdis, Gabriel Brammer +10

We present ECOology for Galaxies using ALMA archive and Legacy surveys (ECOGAL), an ALMA data mining project. Using the footprints of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the…

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

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda +25

At low redshift, massive quiescent galaxies (MQGs) are most frequently found in massive, rich galaxy clusters, but at high redshift the trend is less clear. Here, we present spectr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Evidence for inefficient dust production in a massive, metal-rich galaxy at uncovered by JWST and ALMA

Kasper E. Heintz, Darach Watson, Francesco Valentino +17

Recent observations have revealed a remarkably rapid buildup of cosmic dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) of high redshift galaxies, with complex dust compositions and large abu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from

Yunchong Zhang, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton +21

We present the number density of massive () quiescent galaxies at using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectra. This work relies on spectra fr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Breaking Through the Cosmic Fog: JWST/NIRSpec Constraints on Ionizing Photon Escape in Reionization-Era Galaxies

Emma Giovinazzo, Pascal A. Oesch, Andrea Weibel +15

The escape fraction of Lyman continuum photons (fesc(LyC)) is the last key unknown in our understanding of cosmic reionization. Directly estimating the escape fraction (fesc) of io…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Novel auroral line measurements extend the gradual offset of the FMR deep into the first Gyr of cosmic time

Clara L. Pollock, Rashmi Gottumukkala, Kasper E. Heintz +15

The mass assembly and chemical enrichment of the first galaxies provide key insights into their star-formation histories and the earliest stellar populations at cosmic dawn. Here w…

astro-ph.GA2025

DeepDive: A deep dive into the physics of the first massive quiescent galaxies in the Universe

K. Ito, F. Valentino, G. Brammer +26

We present the DeepDive program, in which we obtained deep JWST/NIRSpec G235M/F170LP spectra for ten primary massive () quiescent galaxies at $z\…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 22 cited

Exploring over 700 massive quiescent galaxies at z = 2-7: Demographics and stellar mass functions

William M. Baker, Francesco Valentino, Claudia del P. Lagos +6

High-redshift () massive quiescent galaxies are crucial tests of early galaxy formation and evolutionary mechanisms through their cosmic number densities and stellar mass func…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 57 cited

Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons

V. Rusakov, D. Watson, G. P. Nikopoulos +14

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered many compact galaxies at high redshift with broad hydrogen and helium lines, including the enigmatic population of little red do…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 28 cited

Gas outflows in two recently quenched galaxies at z = 4 and 7

F. Valentino, K. E. Heintz, G. Brammer +33

Outflows are a key element in the baryon cycle of galaxies, and their properties provide a fundamental test for our models of how star formation quenches in galaxies. Here we repor…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Going deeper into the dark with COSMOS-Web: JWST unveils the total contribution of Radio-Selected NIRfaint galaxies to the cosmic Star Formation Rate Density

Fabrizio Gentile, Margherita Talia, Andrea Enia +34

We present the first follow-up with JWST of radio-selected NIRfaint galaxies as part of the COSMOS-Web survey. By selecting galaxies detected at radio frequencies ($S_{\rm 3 GHz}>1…