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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

GA-NIFS view of LAP1: Assembly of Pop~III stellar clusters during EoR

J. Scholtz, R. Maiolino, S. Carniani +28

Lensed and Pristine 1 (LAP1) is one of the most promising candidates for the detection of so-called Pop~III stars at . In this work, we present new high-spectral-resoluti…

astro-ph.GA2026

PRISMS. GHZ1. A standard tale of galaxy evolution with atypical ionizing conditions at

Borja Pérez-Díaz, Marco Castellano, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +33

[Abridged] The first operating years of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a surprising number of UV-bright objects, many of them characterized by t…

astro-ph.GA2026

PhotoIFU: NIRCam as a Photometric Integral Field Unit for Mapping Feedback in Galaxies

Yongda Zhu, Marcia J. Rieke, Courtney Carreira +25

We present PhotoIFU, a workflow that uses deep multi-band imaging as a low-resolution photometric integral field unit. Applied to PSF-matched JWST/NIRCam imaging, PhotoIFU treats e…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

GA-NIFS and JADES: Confirmation of pristine gas near GN-z11

Hannah Übler, Roberto Maiolino, Pablo G. Pérez-González +32

According to the leading cosmological model, a first generation of stars called Population III (PopIII), condensed almost entirely out of hydrogen and helium, must have initiated t…

astro-ph.GA2026

GA-NIFS: Dissecting The Alchemised: JWST reveals turbulent metal-poor gas fuelling a co-spatial starburst in a complex system at

Robert G. Pascalau, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +25

Recent observations revealed that distant galaxies have bursty star formation histories, regulated by stellar or active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback and gas inflows. According to…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani +61

We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3<z<9.3, forming a representative spectroscopic subset of NIRCam-selected LRDs. We derive a median s…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

PRISMS. U37126, a very blue, ISM-naked starburst at z=10.255 with nearly 100% Lyman continuum escape fraction

R. Marques-Chaves, J. Álvarez-Márquez, L. Colina +31

We present very deep (~11h) JWST/MIRI low-resolution spectroscopy of the rest-frame optical emission of U37126, a UV-bright (M_UV ~ -20), mildly lensed () galaxy at z=…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

GA-NIFS: high prevalence of dusty and metal-enriched outflows in massive and luminous star-forming galaxies at

B. Rodríguez Del Pino, S. Arribas, M. Perna +16

We present a search for and characterization of ionized outflows in 15 star-forming systems at with no evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), observed with JWST/NIRSp…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

GA-NIFS: Powerful and frequent outflows in moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei at

Giacomo Venturi, Stefano Carniani, Elena Bertola +18

The period between z ~ 3-6, a key transformational phase in galaxy evolution preceding 'cosmic noon' (z ~ 1-3), is very poorly explored in terms of feedback from AGN acting through…

astro-ph.GA2025

BlackTHUNDER: Evidence of three massive black holes in a z~5 galaxy

Hannah Übler, Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Maiolino +41

We present observational evidence of three massive, accreting black holes (BHs) in the z=5.0167 galaxy J0148-4214 from JWST/NIRSpec-IFU spectroscopy. The BHs are revealed through b…

astro-ph.GA2024

GA-NIFS: the interplay between merger, star formation and chemical enrichment in MACS1149-JD1 at z=9.11 with JWST/NIRSpec

Cosimo Marconcini, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +15

We present JWST/NIRSpec integral-field spectroscopy observations of the z ~ 9.11 lensed galaxy MACS1149-JD1, as part of the GA-NIFS programme. The data was obtained with both the G…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Net-zero gas inflow: Measurement of the gas consumption history of a massive quiescent galaxy

Jan Scholtz, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +23

JWST is discovering increasing numbers of quiescent galaxies 1--2 billion years after the Big Bang, whose redshift, high mass, and old stellar ages indicate that their formation an…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 239 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of two luminous galaxies at

Stefano Carniani, Kevin Hainline, Francesco D'Eugenio +42

The first observations of JWST have revolutionized our understanding of the Universe by identifying for the first time galaxies at . In addition, the discovery of many lum…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

GA-NIFS: Witnessing the complex assembly of a star-forming system at

Gareth C. Jones, Andrew J. Bunker, Kseniia Telikova +19

We present observations of the Lyman-break galaxy HZ10 with the JWST/NIRSpec IFU in high and low spectral resolution (G395H, spectral resolving power and PRI…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

JADES -- The small blue bump in GN-z11: insights into the nuclear region of a galaxy at z=10.6

Xihan Ji, Roberto Maiolino, Gary Ferland +14

We report the detection of continuum excess in the rest-frame UV between 3000 Å and 3550 Å in the JWST/NIRSpec spectrum of GN-z11, a luminous galaxy . The shape of the co…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

GA-NIFS: An extremely nitrogen-loud and chemically stratified galaxy at

Xihan Ji, Hannah Übler, Roberto Maiolino +11

We report the chemical abundance pattern of GS\_3073, a galaxy at which was previously confirmed to host an overmassive active black hole, by leveraging the detection of a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 36 cited

GA-NIFS: High number of dual active galactic nuclei at z~3

Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, Isabella Lamperti +23

Merger events can trigger gas accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at the centre of galaxies, and form close pairs of AGN. The fraction of AGN in pairs offers cr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

GA-NIFS: co-evolution within a highly star-forming galaxy group at z=3.7 witnessed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

B. Rodríguez Del Pino, M. Perna, S. Arribas +17

We present NIRSpec IFS observations of a galaxy group around the massive GS_4891 galaxy at z=3.7 in GOODS-South that includes two other two systems, GS_4891_n to the north and GS_2…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 42 cited

JADES: Differing assembly histories of galaxies -- Observational evidence for bursty SFHs and (mini-)quenching in the first billion years of the Universe

Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +32

We use deep NIRSpec spectroscopic data from the JADES survey to derive the star formation histories (SFHs) of a sample of 200 galaxies at 0.6z11 and spanning stellar masses f…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 67 cited

GA-NIFS: Black hole and host galaxy properties of two z6.8 quasars from the NIRSpec IFU

Madeline A. Marshall, Michele Perna, Chris J. Willott +20

Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) with JWST NIRSpec will significantly improve our understanding of the first quasars, by providing spatially resolved, infrared spectroscopic capab…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 183 cited

In-orbit Performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph NIRSpec on the James Webb Space Telescope

T. Böker, T. L. Beck, S. M. Birkmann +47

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. In this paper, we summarize the in-orbit performance of NIRSp…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 30 cited

Velocities of warm galactic outflows from synthetic Hα observations of star-forming galaxies

Daniel Ceverino, Santiago Arribas, Luis Colina +3

The velocity structure imprinted in the Hα emission line profiles contains valuable information about galactic outflows. Using a set of high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulat…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 5 cited

Wavelength Self-Calibration and Sky Subtraction for Fabry-Perot Interferometers: Applications to OSIRIS

Tim Weinzirl, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Steven P. Bamford +3

We describe techniques concerning wavelength calibration and sky subtraction to maximise the scientific utility of data from tunable filter instruments. While we specifically addre…