10 papers
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…
TBD LBD: The nature of `little blue dots'
Albert Sneppen, Darach Watson, James H. Matthews +1
Previous Sirocco radiative-transfer models of gas-cocooned AGN predicted lower-column counterparts to little red dots (LRDs): compact, X-ray-weak sources with bluer continuum slope…
Quenching of X-ray emission in little red dots by both Compton-thick gas and high accretion rates
Albert Sneppen, Darach Watson, James H. Matthews +1
Little red dots (LRDs) are candidate high-redshift supermassive black holes accreting in dense gas. They remain undetected in X-rays. In previous work, we provided the first quanti…
Paschen Jumps in Little Red Dots: Evidence for Nebular Continua
Albert Sneppen, James H. Matthews, Darach Watson +6
''Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) are broad-line sources at high redshift, initially identified by their compact morphologies, red colours and prominent Balmer breaks. The origin of their…
Strontium and helium in the kilonova AT2017gfo: Origin of the 1μm feature constrained via NLTE calculations
Aayush Arya, Rasmus Damgaard, Albert Sneppen +4
Mergers of neutron stars are believed to be one of the primary sites for the synthesis of the universe's heavy elements via the rapid neutron capture process. AT2017gfo, the kilono…
A hot, nebular-dominated galaxy interacting with a pristine PopIII system uncovered by JWST
Henriette Reumert, Kasper E. Heintz, Clara L. Pollock +6
The discovery of galaxies with extremely strong nebular continuum emission at high redshifts provide novel, unique insights into the conditions under which the first super-massive…