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9 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Ripples in the OCEANS: Broad Line Variability of Little Red Dots

Madisyn Brooks, Kelcey Davis, Jonathan R. Trump +16

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a unique class of compact, red sources discovered in the JWST extragalactic deep fields. Determining if they are indeed powered by accreting supermassive…

astro-ph.GA2026

OCEANS of Absorption: High-resolution NIRSpec Spectroscopy Reveals Diverse Balmer-line Absorption in Little Red Dots

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Raymond C. Simons +24

The ``Little Red Dots' (LRDs) that appeared in JWST deep field images have been the subject of significant study since their discovery. In this work, we present high-resolution fol…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in CEERS Are Powered by Star Formation, not AGN

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump +28

We present a spectroscopic study of photometrically identified extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with observed-frame equivalent widths (EWs) >5000 A of either H alpha or H bet…

astro-ph.GA2025

NGDEEP: A New Non-Parametric Measure of Local Star-Formation and Attenuation at Cosmic Noon

Grace M. Forrey, Raymond C. Simons, Jonathan R. Trump +6

We introduce a new non-parametric technique to quantify the spatially-resolved relationship between the local star-formation rate (SFR) and dust attenuation. We then apply it to 14…

astro-ph.GA2025

Beyond the Monsters: A More Complete Census of Black Hole Activity at Cosmic Dawn

Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump, Raymond C. Simons +19

JWST has revealed an abundance of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshifts (), pushing the limits of black hole (BH) science in the early Universe. Resu…

astro-ph.GA2025

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

Nikko J. Cleri, Grace M. Olivier, Bren E. Backhaus +24

High-redshift observations from JWST indicate that optical strong line ratios do not carry the same constraining power as they do at low redshifts. Critically, this prevents a sepa…