12 papers
(LRDs): The Low-ReDshift Little Red Dots Survey. II. DESI DR1 Sample
Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai +12
JWST has revealed a substantial population of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) at , challenging conventional AGN frameworks. However, the low-redshift regime remains largely unexplore…
Can LLMs Produce Original Astronomy Research in a Semester? A Graduate Class Experiment
Ann Zabludoff, Chen-Yu Chuang, Parker Thomas Johnson +5
We discuss the results of using large language models (LLMs) to conduct original scientific research in an unfamiliar subject area during the Fall 2025 semester. Students in a grad…
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…
COSMOS-3D: Black Hole Mass Estimators and Luminosity Functions of Paschen-line AGNs
Danyang Jiang, Linhua Jiang, Shuqi Fu +13
Near-IR Paschen lines are potentially an excellent tracer of Type 1 AGNs that is hardly affected by dust extinction. JWST allows us, for the first time, to explore Paschen-line obj…
Shedding the envelope: JWST reveals a kiloparsec-scale [OIII]-weak Balmer shell around a z=7.64 quasar
Julien Wolf, Eduardo Bañados, Xiaohui Fan +25
Luminous quasars at the redshift frontier z>7 serve as stringent probes of super-massive black hole formation and they are thought to undergo much of their growth obscured by dense…
The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai +25
JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0…