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Deep X-ray View of a Distant Protocluster Anchored by a Quasar at : No Evidence for Enhanced X-ray AGN Activity
Shouyi Wang, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +22
Whether dense environments accelerate SMBH growth during cosmic reionization remains uncertain because X-ray constraints on protoclusters are rare. We analyze ks of…
Nearly pristine gas in a galaxy 1 billion years after the Big Bang
Sarah E. I. Bosman, Frederick B. Davies, Louise Welsh +22
Excitation of carbon and oxygen ions is the primary mechanism by which collapsing gas clouds dissipate heat to form new stars. At early cosmic times, in galaxies with chemically pr…
: a close quasar pair at cosmic dawn in the Aether survey
Silvia Onorato, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli +32
We present the discovery and first characterization of : the most compact known quasar pair candidate in the Epoch of Reionization, with a projected se…
Extreme Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Three FeII-Strong Quasars at z > 6 from the JWST Aether survey
Anniek J. Gloudemans, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli +22
We present three outliers on the quasar main sequence at z>6, as revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations from the Aether survey, a program targeting ~200 quasars at cosmic dawn.…
To be lensed or not to be lensed: on the nature of the alleged high-z lensed quasars J0109-5424 and P170+20
Aurora Mata-Sanchez, Emanuele P. Farina, Anniek J. Gloudemans +17
We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis of two gravitationally lensed z>6 quasar candidates: J0109-5424 and P170+20. Using JWST/NIRSpec near-infrared data from the Aether s…
Quasar Impostors: Two Extremely UV-Bright () Reionisation-Epoch Galaxies Powered by Very Massive Stars
Daming Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sarah E. I. Bosman +20
The extreme bright end of the galaxy UV luminosity function during reionisation remains poorly constrained, particularly where the galaxy and quasar luminosity functions overlap an…
Euclid: A UV-faint quasar in a highly luminous star-forming host galaxy at
S. Belladitta, R. Decarli, E. Bañados +180
Constraining the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang is essential for understanding the formation of the…
SKAVLBI view of AGN jets in the early Universe
C. Spingola, M. Mezcua, Y. Liu +33
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are among the brightest sources in the Universe, and those that are also jetted are uniquely valuable at the earliest epochs, because their relativisti…
Aether-SHELLQs: JWST integral-field spectroscopy of candidate obscured quasars at z ~ 6
Yoshiki Matsuoka, Roberto Decarli, Emanuele Paolo Farina +12
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) observations of six galaxies at , obtained as part of the Aether project (General Observers…
A New Member of the Fast and Furious Family: A Relativistic and Time-Variable UV Outflow in a Luminous Quasar
Lucas M. Seaton, Patrick B. Hall, Liliana Flores +20
We report the fastest quasar outflow first detected in the ultraviolet, via variable C IV and Si IV absorption at outflow velocities km s to at least km…
A 6.2 Quasar on the Local M- Relation Quenching Its Host Galaxy from the Aether Survey
Weizhe Liu, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Xiaohui Fan +19
We report JWST/NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) observations of the quasar J15124422 at from the Aether survey. At 900 Myr after the Big Bang, this object al…
First-star imprints in a metal-poor galaxy overdensity near the end of reionization
Zihao Li, Koki Kakiichi, Lise Christensen +24
The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), formed from primordial gas consisting solely of hydrogen and helium and is believed to have emerged only a few hun…
CO(7-6) and [C I](2-1) survey in z > 6 quasars
Fuxiang Xu, Roberto Decarli, Ran Wang +13
High-redshift () quasars trace the earliest supermassive black holes and intense star formation, offering key laboratories for black hole-galaxy evolution at cosmic dawn…
Detection of an Extended Ly Halo around a Broad Absorption Line Quasar with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
Raymond P. Remigio, Aaron J. Barth, Feige Wang +6
We present the first results from a program searching for extended Ly halos around high redshift () quasars using the red channel of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (…
Clustering of z~6.6 Quasars and [O III] Emitters Constrains Host Halo Masses and Duty Cycles in 25 ASPIRE Fields
Jiamu Huang, Joseph Hennawi, Elia Pizzati +21
We use data from the JWST ASPIRE Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) program to measure the auto-correlation function of [O,{\sc iii}] emitters at 5.37.0 and the quasar--[…
ASPIRE: The Environments and Dark Matter Halos of Luminous Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization
Feige Wang, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Jiamu Huang +42
We present a systematic study of the environments of 25 luminous quasars at from the ASPIRE program. Using JWST/NIRCam WFSS data, we identified 487 galaxies at $5.3 \less…
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…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Hunting for luminous z > 6 galaxies in the Euclid Deep Fields -- forecasts and first bright detections
Euclid Collaboration, N. Allen, P. A. Oesch +309
The evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) is a powerful probe of early star formation and stellar mass build-up. At z > 6, its bright end (MUV < -21)…
Euclid: Discovery of bright Lyman-break galaxies in UltraVISTA and Euclid COSMOS
R. G. Varadaraj, R. A. A. Bowler, M. J. Jarvis +163
We present a search for Lyman-break galaxies using the near-infrared UltraVISTA survey in the COSMOS field, reaching depths in of 26.2. W…
Extreme Galaxy-scale Outflows Are Frequent among Luminous Early Quasars
Weizhe Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Huan Li +23
The existence of abundant post-starburst/quiescent galaxies just 1-2 Gyrs after the Big Bang challenges our current paradigm of galaxy evolution. Cosmological simulations sug…
Accretion disc reverberation mapping in a high-redshift quasar
F. Pozo Nuñez, E. Bañados, S. Panda +1
Powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, quasars are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, serving as important probes of cosmic history and galaxy evolutio…
Beneath the Surface: >85% of z>5.9 QSOs in Massive Host Galaxies are UV-Faint
R. J. Bouwens, E. Banados, R. Decarli +20
We use [CII] observations of a large quasi-stellar object (QSO) sample to segregate sources by host galaxy mass, aiming to identify those in the most massive hosts. [CII] luminosit…
The Identification of Two JWST/NIRCam-Dark Starburst Galaxies at with ALMA
Fengwu Sun, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +20
We analyze two dusty star-forming galaxies at . These galaxies are selected from the ASPIRE survey, a JWST Cycle-1 medium and ALMA Cycle-9 large program targeting 25 quasars…
Euclid: The potential of slitless infrared spectroscopy: A z=5.4 quasar and new ultracool dwarfs
E. Bañados, V. Le Brun, S. Belladitta +226
We demonstrate the potential of Euclid's slitless spectroscopy to discover high-redshift (z>5) quasars and their main photometric contaminant, ultracool dwarfs. Sensitive infrared…