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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.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…

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…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 50 cited

Opening the era of quasar host studies at high redshift with JWST

Xuheng Ding, John D. Silverman, Masafusa Onoue

We measure the host galaxy properties of five quasars with selected from SDSS and AEGIS, which fall within the JWST/HST CEERS survey area. A PSF library is constr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

A machine learning approach to assessing the presence of substructure in quasar host galaxies using the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

Chris Nagele, John D. Silverman, Tilman Hartwig +4

The conditions under which galactic nuclear regions become active are largely unknown, although it has been hypothesized that secular processes related to galaxy morphology could p…