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most citedH0LiCOW XIII. A 2.4% measurement of from lensed quasars: tension between early and late-Universe probes

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

Clumps as multiscale structures in cosmic noon galaxies

Boris S Kalita, Tomoko L Suzuki, Daichi Kashino +31

Star-forming clumps have been found to significantly influence the star formation of gas-rich galaxies. Using public data from JWST/NIRCam (COSMOS-Web) and ALMA (FMOS-COSMOS)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

A multi-wavelength investigation of spiral structures in galaxies with JWST

Boris S. Kalita, Si-Yue Yu, John D. Silverman +18

Recent JWST observations have revealed the prevalence of spiral structures at . Unlike in the local Universe, the origin and the consequence of spirals at this epoch remain…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Hidden in Pixels. I. Discovery of dual "little red dots" indicates excess clustering on kilo-parsec scales

Takumi S. Tanaka, John D. Silverman, Kazuhiro Shimasaku +56

``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) are an abundant high-redshift population newly discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and considered to be an early growth phase of supermas…

astro-ph.GA2024

Crimson Behemoth: a Massive Clumpy Structure Hosting a Dusty AGN at

Takumi S. Tanaka, John D. Silverman, Yurina Nakazato +40

The current paradigm for the co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes postulates that dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a transitional phase…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

A Post-Starburst Pathway for the Formation of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at z>6

Masafusa Onoue, Xuheng Ding, John D. Silverman +45

Understanding the rapid formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe requires insight into stellar mass growth in host galaxies. Here, we present NIRSpec res…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

COSMOS-Web: The over-abundance and physical nature of "little red dots"--Implications for early galaxy and SMBH assembly

Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey, Erini Lambrides +38

JWST has revealed a population of compact and extremely red galaxies at , which likely host active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present a sample of 434 ``little red dots'' (LRDs)…

astro-ph.IM2024

A forward-modelling approach to overcome PSF smearing and fit flexible models to the chemical structure of galaxies

Benjamin Metha, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu +3

Historically, metallicity profiles of galaxies have been modelled using a radially symmetric, two-parameter linear model, which reveals that most galaxies are more metal-rich in th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

Near-IR clumps and their properties in high-z galaxies with JWST/NIRCam

Boris S. Kalita, John D. Silverman, Emanuele Daddi +3

Resolved stellar morphology of galaxies was inaccessible before JWST. This limitation, due to the impact of dust on rest-frame UV light, had withheld major observational conc…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The relation up to through decomposition of COSMOS-Web NIRCam images

Takumi S. Tanaka, John D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding +25

Our knowledge of relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at is still limited, even though being actively sought out to . Here, we use…

astro-ph.GA2023

Galaxy mergers in Subaru HSC-SSP: a deep representation learning approach for identification and the role of environment on merger incidence

Kiyoaki Christopher Omori, Connor Bottrell, Mike Walmsley +7

We take a deep learning-based approach for galaxy merger identification in Subaru HSC-SSP, specifically through the use of deep representation learning and fine-tuning, with the ai…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

A rest-frame near-IR study of clumps in galaxies at 1 < z < 2 using JWST/NIRCam: connection to galaxy bulges

Boris S. Kalita, John D. Silverman, Emanuele Daddi +4

A key question in galaxy evolution has been the importance of the apparent `clumpiness' of high redshift galaxies. Until now, this property has been primarily investigated in rest-…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

COSMOS-Web: Intrinsically Luminous z10 Galaxy Candidates Test Early Stellar Mass Assembly

Caitlin M. Casey, Hollis B. Akins, Marko Shuntov +39

We report the discovery of 15 exceptionally luminous candidate galaxies discovered in the first 0.28 deg of JWST/NIRCam imaging from the COSMOS-Web Sur…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 55 cited

IllustrisTNG in the HSC-SSP: image data release and the major role of mini mergers as drivers of asymmetry and star formation

Connor Bottrell, Hassen M. Yesuf, Gergö Popping +13

At fixed galaxy stellar mass, there is a clear observational connection between structural asymmetry and offset from the star forming main sequence, SFMS. Herein, we use the TNG…

stat.AP2023

A Robust Bayesian Meta-Analysis for Estimating the Hubble Constant via Time Delay Cosmography

Hyungsuk Tak, Xuheng Ding

We propose a Bayesian meta-analysis to infer the current expansion rate of the Universe, called the Hubble constant (), via time delay cosmography. Inputs of the meta-analysis…

astro-ph.GA2023

Uncovering a Massive z~7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-Loud QSO Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Erini Lambrides, Marco Chiaberge, Arianna Long +47

In this letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud AGN candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, sub-mm, and radio imaging in th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Unveiling the distant Universe: Characterizing Galaxies in the first epoch of COSMOS-Web

Maximilien Franco, Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey +47

We report the identification of 15 galaxy candidates at using the initial COSMOS-Web JWST observations over 77 arcmin through four NIRCam filters (F115W, F150W, F277W,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Resolving galactic-scale obscuration of X-ray AGN at with COSMOS-Web

John D. Silverman, Vincenzo Mainieri, Xuheng Ding +25

A large fraction of the accreting supermassive black hole population is shrouded by copious amounts of gas and dust, particularly in the distant () Universe. While much…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Strong gravitational lensing by AGNs as a probe of the quasar-host relations in the distant Universe

Martin Millon, Frédéric Courbin, Aymeric Galan +4

The tight correlations found between masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the luminosities, total stellar masses, and velocity dispersions of their host galaxies are ofte…

astro-ph.GA2023

Morphological asymmetries of quasar host galaxies with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Shenli Tang, John D. Silverman, Hassen M. Yesuf +7

How does the host galaxy morphology influence a central quasar or vice versa? We address this question by measuring the asymmetries of 2424 SDSS quasar hosts at using b…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI). IX. Discovery of Strongly Lensed Quasar Candidates

James H. H. Chan, Kenneth C. Wong, Xuheng Ding +7

We report the discovery of new lensed quasar candidates in the imaging data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) DR4, covering of the sk…

astro-ph.GA2023

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Host-galaxy Demographics of X-ray AGNs with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Junyao Li, John D. Silverman, Andrea Merloni +12

We investigate the physical properties, such as star-forming activity, disk vs. bulge nature, galaxy size, and obscuration of 3796 X-ray selected AGNs at in the eFEDS f…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

Hidden Little Monsters: Spectroscopic Identification of Low-Mass, Broad-Line AGN at with CEERS

Dale D. Kocevski, Masafusa Onoue, Kohei Inayoshi +34

We report on the discovery of two low-luminosity, broad-line AGN at identified using JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy from the CEERS Survey. We detect broad H emission from both…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 127 cited

Detection of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at redshifts above 6

Xuheng Ding, Masafusa Onoue, John D. Silverman +41

The detection of starlight from the host galaxies of quasars during the reionization epoch () has been elusive, even with deep HST observations. The current highest redshift q…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

COSMOS-Web: An Overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

Caitlin M. Casey, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Nicole E. Drakos +82

We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hour treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of observations…