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most citedSHELLQs. Bridging the Gap: JWST Unveils Obscured Quasars in the Most Luminous Galaxies at z > 6

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astro-ph.GA2026

SHELLQs. Black Hole Mass and Eddington Ratio Distributions of Intermediate-Luminosity Quasars at 6<z<7

Masafusa Onoue, John D. Silverman, Yoshiki Matsuoka +31

We present near-infrared spectroscopy of 21 quasars at 6.07 < z < 6.90 obtained with JWST/NIRSpec and Subaru/MOIRCS. These targets have absolute ultraviolet magnitudes of -25 < M_1…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Scientific Overview and Sample Characteristics

Hengxiao Guo, Jiancheng Wu, Wenwen Zuo +38

Recent discoveries with the James Webb Space Telescope of massive black holes at high redshift have highlighted fundamental questions about black hole seed formation and the coevol…

astro-ph.GA2026

Magnetically Arrested Discs Powering Jets in a Large Sample of Low-Accretion FR I Radio Galaxies

Huibo Fei, Han He, Bei You +4

We study a sample of 289 Fanaroff-Riley type I (FR I) radio galaxies selected from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) DR1, identified by their edge-darkened radio morphologies.…

astro-ph.GA2026

COSMOS-Web: A Multi-wavelength Morphological Catalog of ~780,000 Galaxies

Lilan Yang, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Nicole E. Drakos +20

We present multi-wavelength morphological measurements for all galaxies in the COSMOS-Web survey, i.e., 780,000 galaxies contained in the COSMOS2025 catalog. We perform both…

astro-ph.GA2026

Gas Fraction and Depletion Time Drive the Main-Sequence Scatter in Massive Galaxies at

Daichi Kashino, Boris S. Kalita, John D. Silverman +8

We present ALMA Band 7 dust continuum observations of 57 massive () star-forming galaxies at , selected from the FMOS-COSMOS survey t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spectroscopic confirmation of dual and offset quasars from the Subaru HSC-SSP program

Shenli Tang, John Silverman, Xavier Prochaska +4

We present a spectroscopic follow-up program targeting closely-separated dual quasar candidates selected from imaging of SDSS quasars with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strat…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

A Bending in the Size-mass Relation of Star-forming Galaxies across at a Critical Stellar Mass of Revealed by JWST

Longyue Chen, Tao Wang, Hanwen Sun +12

We investigate the rest-frame optical size-stellar mass relation of galaxies at using deep JWST/NIRCam and MIRI imaging from the PRIMER survey. We find that star-formin…

astro-ph.GA2026

Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual Subkiloparsec AGN (VODKA): Three Quadruply Lensed Quasars at Cosmic Noon in HST and JWST

Mingrui Liu, Yu-Ching Chen, Nadia L. Zakamska +7

We present results from imaging observations of three quadruply lensed quasars by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at redshifts , 2.975…

astro-ph.GA2026

Obscured AGN at z < 1.5: X-ray to Far-Infrared SEDs and Host Galaxy Morphologies in the GOODS Fields

William W. H. Jarvis, Connor Auge, David Sanders +9

We present an analysis of spectral energy distributions (SEDs), galaxy light profiles, and visual morphological classifications for 194 X-ray luminous AGN (intrinsic absorption-cor…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 5 cited

Through Thick and Thin: The Cosmic Evolution of Disk Scale Height

Si-Yue Yu, Luis C. Ho, Takafumi Tsukui +16

To investigate the formation and evolution of vertical structures in disk galaxies, we measure global scale heights, averaging thin and thick components whe…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 4 cited

Galactic bars are already mature at Cosmic Noon: bar strength and flatness at z ~ 1.5

Boris S. Kalita, Luis C. Ho, John D. Silverman +6

In this work, we explore the nature of galactic bars. Once thought to be highly transient, our results demonstrate otherwise. Our sample consists of nine massive ($>10^{10.5}…

astro-ph.GA2025

HST Confirms Sub-5 kpc Dual Quasar Pairs at Cosmic Noon

Qian Wang, Xuheng Ding, John Silverman +12

During cosmic noon (), when both star formation and black hole growth peaked, galaxy mergers are predicted to trigger dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) that eventually co…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

SHELLQs-JWST: Revealing the Spectra of Extended Emission in 12 z > 6 Quasar Host Galaxies using the JWST NIRSpec Fixed Slit

Camryn L. Phillips, Michael A. Strauss, Masafusa Onoue +15

We present an analysis of the rest frame optical JWST NIRSpec Fixed Slit spectra of extended host galaxy emission in 12 quasars from the Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extended Components of Little Red Dots in the Rest-Frame Optical

Yiyang Zhang, Xuheng Ding, Lilan Yang +26

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift objects called Little Red Dots (LRDs), whose host components have remained largely unconstrained,…

astro-ph.GA2025

Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XXIV. 54 New Quasars and Candidate Obscured Quasars at

Yoshiki Matsuoka, Kazushi Iwasawa, Masafusa Onoue +18

We present spectroscopic identification of 43 quasars and 11 candidate obscured quasars in the epoch of reionization (EoR) at , along with 29 galaxies at simil…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Discovery of a Little Red Dot candidate at in COSMOS-Web based on MIRI-NIRCam selection

Takumi S. Tanaka, Hollis B. Akins, Yuichi Harikane +64

JWST has revealed a new high-redshift population called little red dots (LRDs). Since LRDs may be in the early phase of black hole growth, identifying them in the early universe is…

astro-ph.GA2025

SHELLQs-JWST perspective on the intrinsic mass relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at z > 6

John Silverman, Junyao Li, Xuheng Ding +36

The relation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies encodes information on their mode of growth, especially at the earliest epochs. The Jame…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling Galaxy Structures: Systematic Analysis of Bulge+Disk Decomposition Using Simulated JWST/NIRCam Observations

Zhengxin Tang, Xuheng Ding, Boris S. Kalita +1

Characterizing and accurately decomposing galaxies into structural components, such as bulges and disks, is essential for understanding galaxy formation and evolution, particularly…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A PAH deficit in the starburst core of a distant spiral galaxy

Zhaoxuan Liu, John D. Silverman, Emanuele Daddi +32

We present high-resolution and spatially-matched observations with JWST and ALMA of a starburst galaxy (PACS-830) at . The NIRCam observations mainly trace the stellar ligh…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 13 cited

SHELLQs. Bridging the Gap: JWST Unveils Obscured Quasars in the Most Luminous Galaxies at z > 6

Yoshiki Matsuoka, Masafusa Onoue, Kazushi Iwasawa +17

The unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a surprisingly abundant population of mildly obscured, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (A…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

SHELLQs-JWST Unveils the Host Galaxies of 12 Quasars at z>6

Xuheng Ding, Masafusa Onoue, John D. Silverman +35

The advent of JWST has opened new horizons in the study of quasar host galaxies during the reionization epoch (z>6). Building upon our previous initial measurements of stellar ligh…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

COSMOS-Web: Unraveling the Evolution of Galaxy Size and Related Properties at

Lilan Yang, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Maximilien Franco +26

We measure galaxy sizes from using COSMOS-Web, the largest-area JWST imaging survey to date, covering 0.54 deg. We analyze the rest-frame optical (~5000A) si…

astro-ph.GA2024

Combining Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements and Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics to Calibrate the - Relation of Active Galaxies

Nico Winkel, Vardha N. Bennert, Raymond P. Remigio +8

The origin of the tight scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; ) and their host-galaxy properties remains unclear. Active galactic nuclei…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

A new approach to constraining properties of AGN host galaxies by combining image and SED decomposition: testing upon the MBH-M* relation

Haoran Yu, Lulu Fan, Yunkun Han +4

The outshining light from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) poses significant challenges in studying the properties of AGN host galaxies. To address this issue, we propose a novel appr…