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most citedDiscovery of a Unique Close Quasar-DSFG Pair Linked by a [C II] Bridge at

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Can Blue UV-Bright Galaxies Drive Reionization at Cosmic Dawn? An Galaxy with at

Yunjing Wu, Sijia Cai, Yongda Zhu +28

We revisit EBG-1, a gravitationally lensed galaxy at , using newly obtained deep (14 hr) JWST/NIRSpec G235M () spectroscopy. EBG-1 is one of the bluest gala…

astro-ph.GA2026

Learning JWST. I. A Foundation Model for New Population Discoveries and Morphology-Aware Photometric Redshift Measurements in the JADES Survey

Jiani Ding, Minghao Yue, Yongda Zhu +2

We present FM-JADES-v1, a self-supervised foundation model for James Webb Space Telescope ({\em JWST}) deep-field science, trained with 482,444 objects from the {\em JWST} Advanced…

astro-ph.GA2026

Super-Eddington Little Blue Dots May Reionize Helium Too Early

Christopher Cain, Brent Smith, Gibson B. Bowling +5

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified an abundant population of faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at which display broad emission lines, compact morph…

astro-ph.CO2026

A self-consistent analytical model for both the photoionization rate and reionization history

Christopher Cain, Kevin S. Croker, Anson D'Aloisio +4

Recent developments at the intersection of cosmology and astrophysics have highlighted the need for improved analytical models of observables that probe the Epoch of Reionization.…

astro-ph.GA2026

Probing Direct Contributions of Galaxies and AGN to Cosmic Reionization in a Quasar Field J0226+0302 with JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec

Xiangyu Jin, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +19

We present JWST Cycle 2 NIRCam and NIRSpec observations in a quasar field J0226+0302 at z=6.5412 to probe the direct connections between the intergalactic medium (IGM), galaxies, a…

astro-ph.GA2026

First-star imprints in a metal-poor galaxy overdensity near the end of reionization

Zihao Li, Koki Kakiichi, Lise Christensen +24

The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), formed from primordial gas consisting solely of hydrogen and helium and is believed to have emerged only a few hun…

astro-ph.GA2026

Early metal-enriched baryon cycling before the midpoint of cosmic reionization

Yongda Zhu, Zhiyuan Ji, George D. Becker +13

Models predict that chemical enrichment and gas redistribution should begin rapidly once star formation starts, but direct constraints at the earliest epochs have been scarce. Here…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatially Resolved AGN Ionization and Star Formation at Cosmic Noon with JWST/JEMS

Sophie Lebowitz, Kevin N. Hainline, Stephanie Juneau +7

At Cosmic Noon (), both star formation and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) activity peaked, each playing a significant role in ionizing interstellar gas on galaxy-wide s…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Deep Chandra X-ray Survey of a Luminous Quasar Sample at 7

Xiangyu Jin, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +11

We present new Chandra observations of seven luminous quasars at . Combined with archival Chandra observations of all other known quasars, they form nearly complete X-ray ob…

astro-ph.GA2025

A JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Unit Survey of Luminous Quasars at z ~ 5-6 (Q-IFU): Rest-frame Optical Nuclear Properties and Extended Nebulae

Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Richard Green +10

It remains debatable how billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form and evolve within the first billion years. We report results from a James Webb Space Telescope (JW…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey

Louise Welsh, Valentina D'Odorico, Fabio Fontanot +14

We aim to study the clustering of metal absorption lines and the structures that they arise in as a function of cosmic time. We focus on C IV and Si IV absorption features that are…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasar Radiative Feedback May Suppress Galaxy Growth on Intergalactic Scales at

Yongda Zhu, Eiichi Egami, Xiaohui Fan +27

We present observational evidence that intense ionizing radiation from a luminous quasar suppresses nebular emission in nearby galaxies on intergalactic scales at . Using JW…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

A long time ago in an LAE far, far away: a signpost of early reionization or a nascent AGN at ?

Joshua Cohon, Christopher Cain, Rogier Windhorst +3

The JADES survey recently reported the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-1-LA at , the highest redshift Ly emitter (LAE) ever observed. This observation suggests that either the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Enhanced Merger Fractions in a Reionization-Era Protocluster

Lorraine C. Marcelin, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang +4

Mergers play a critical role in galaxy evolution, but their relationship to their surrounding environments is unexplored at high redshift. We investigate the galaxy merger rate amo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A Potential Link between Nuclear Winds and Cold Gas Outflows on Kiloparsec Scales in Reionization-Era Quasars

Yongda Zhu, Marcia J. Rieke, Luis C. Ho +23

Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes may regulate galaxy evolution, but statistical evidence linking nuclear winds to kiloparsec-scale cold gas outflows remains limited…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Discovery of a Unique Close Quasar-DSFG Pair Linked by a [C II] Bridge at

Yongda Zhu, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Ryota Ikeda +11

We report the discovery of a unique quasar-dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG) system at , consisting of the bright quasar J1133+1603 () and its compact…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

sOPTICS: A Modified Density-Based Algorithm for Identifying Galaxy Groups/Clusters and Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Hai-Xia Ma, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, Suchetha Cooray +1

A direct approach to studying the galaxy-halo connection is to analyze groups and clusters of galaxies that trace the underlying dark matter halos, emphasizing the importance of id…