8 papers
Misaligned or chaotic? A strong break of axial symmetry in the local LRD J1025 revealed with VLT/FORS2 spectropolarimetry
Francesco D'Eugenio, Gabriele Pezzulli, Roberto Maiolino +18
Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) with unusual spectral energy distributions and broad Balmer emission, candidate signposts of rapid black-hole growth…
Unsupervised selection and characterisation of Little Red Dots in JWST surveys with manifold learning
Michele Ginolfi, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Marconi +9
Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, red sources discovered at high redshift by JWST whose physical nature and selection function remain debated. We investigate whether an unsupervi…
An (in)complete NIRSpec census of Balmer absorption in Type 1 AGN -- radiation-driven outflows in little red dots, quasars and variable stars
Ignas Juodžbalis, Xihan Ji, Francesco D'Eugenio +17
A notable achievement of the first generation of JWST surveys was the discovery of an abundance of faint high-redshift () broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the $L_{…
The Pristine HeII Emitter near GN-z11: Constraining the Mass Distribution of the First Stars
Elka Rusta, Stefania Salvadori, Roberto Maiolino +6
The properties of the first metal-free stars remain largely unknown, and so far, the only data-driven constraints on their mass distribution (IMF) come from near-field cosmology. H…
The search for Population III: Confirmation of a HeII emitter with no metal lines at z=10.6
Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Ãbler, Michele Perna +49
We report the confirmation of a HeII1640 emitter located at 3 pkpc from the galaxy GN-z11, at z=10.6. The detection, based on JWST NIRSpec-IFU high-resolution spectroscopy, con…
Milky-Way-like stars in a galaxy core 8 billion years ago revealed by gravitational lensing
Quirino D'Amato, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +40
The assembly of stellar-dominated cores in elliptical galaxies is key to understanding how cosmic structures evolved. Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into the nature o…