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most citedThe case for super-Eddington accretion in JWST broad-line AGN during the first billion years

11 citations · 43 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

No evolution in the number density of little red dots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon

Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +24

We present our search for little red dots (LRDs) in the "J1030 field", a region of the sky around the quasar SDSS J1030+0524, observed by the JWST EIGER program. Over 1…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Incidence of Large Ionized Bubbles at Redshift 13

Peter Ziwei Hu, Massimo Stiavelli, Colin Norman

Ionized bubbles around the first galaxies link early galaxy growth, ionizing photon escape, intergalactic-medium topology, Lyα visibility, 21 cm structure, and the timing of reioni…

astro-ph.GA2026

Vision-Language Model Ensembles Achieve Human-Expert Accuracy for Galaxy Merger Classification

Marco Chiaberge, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Massimo Stiavelli +1

Models (VLMs) combined using a Bayesian statistical framework can classify galaxy merger morphologies with accuracy comparable to trained human experts. We deploy 15 VLM classifier…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions

Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39

The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio selection of heavily obscured AGN in the J1030 field: unraveling a missing Compton-thick population

Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +21

We tested the effectiveness of radio selection to discover heavily obscured AGNs, particularly at high-z, and we measured their abundance for the first time from a radio perspectiv…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

The z = 9.625 Cosmic Gems Galaxy was a "Compact Blue Monster" Propelled by Massive Star Clusters

E. Vanzella, M. Messa, A. Adamo +36

The recent discovery of five massive stellar clusters at z=9.625 in the Cosmic Gems has raised the question about the formation mechanism of star clusters in the first half Gyr aft…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

A big red dot at cosmic noon

Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +22

We report the discovery of a little red dot (LRD), dubbed BiRD ('big red dot'), at in the field around the quasar SDSSJ1030+0524. Using NIRCam images, we identifie…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

JWST Discovery of a High-Redshift Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Erini Lambrides +26

The rates and properties of tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide valuable insights into their host galaxy central stellar densities and the demographics of their central supermas…

astro-ph.GA2025

A recoiling supermassive black hole in a powerful quasar

Marco Chiaberge, Takahiro Morishita, Matteo Boschini +14

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are thought to grow through accretion of matter and mergers. Models of SMBH mergers have long suffered the final parsec problem, where SMBH binaries…

astro-ph.GA2024

What can we learn from the Nitrogen abundance of High-z galaxies?

Massimo Stiavelli, Takahiro Morishita, Marco Chiaberge +9

We present measurements of the gas-phase Oxygen and Nitrogen abundances obtained by applying the direct method to JWST NIRspec spectroscopy for 6 galaxies at redshift g…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

The case for super-Eddington accretion in JWST broad-line AGN during the first billion years

Erini Lambrides, Rebecca Larson, Kristen Garofali +23

A multitude of JWST studies reveal a surprising over-abundance of over-massive accreting super-massive black holes (SMBHs) -- leading to a deepening tension between theory and obse…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

JWST NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy of MACS0647-JD at z=10.167: Resolved [OII] Doublet and Electron Density in an Early Galaxy

Abdurro'uf, Rebecca L. Larson, Dan Coe +26

We present JWST/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy G395H/F290LP of MACS0647-JD, a gravitationally lensed galaxy merger at . The new spectroscopy, which is acquired for…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST MIRI detections of H and [O III] and direct metallicity measurement of the lensed galaxy MACS0647JD

Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Dan Coe +30

JWST spectroscopy has revolutionized our understanding of galaxies in the early universe. Covering wavelengths up to , NIRSpec can detect rest-frame optical emission…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Unveiling the Cosmic Gems Arc at with JWST NIRCam

Larry D. Bradley, Angela Adamo, Eros Vanzella +22

We present recent JWST NIRCam imaging observations of SPT0615-JD (also known as the Cosmic Gems Arc), lensed by the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0615-5746. The 5 arcsec long arc is the m…

astro-ph.GA2017

Extreme magnification of a star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens

Patrick L. Kelly, Jose M. Diego, Steven Rodney +42

Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses can magnify background galaxies by a total factor of up to ~50. Here we report an image of an individual star at redshift z=1.49 (dubbed "MACS J…