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MARTA: A "little" black hole hidden in a clumpy, metal-poor galaxy at z~3.8

Mirko Curti, Bianca Moreschini, Elisa Cataldi +20

JWST has extended the search for accreting black holes into the high-redshift, low-mass regime. We report a low-mass black hole candidate in MARTA 3887, a clumpy, metal-poor galaxy…

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OASIS III: Bursty star formation drives observed galaxy sizes at

William M. Baker, Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio +17

We employ JWST/NIRSpec MSA PRISM spectroscopy together with NIRCam imaging to investigate the impact of star-formation variability on galaxy sizes for a representative sample of 51…

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OASIS II: The Ionized Gas Traces Feedback-Driven Declines into the Quiet Side of Bursty Star Formation at z > 4

Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio, William M. Baker +19

Models of bursty star formation in low-mass (10^8-10^9.5 Msun) galaxies at z>4 differ most in the suppressed phases: what drives the decline, how fast star formation falls, and how…

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OASIS I: Spectroscopy of Mini-Quenched and Lulling Galaxies Constrains the Quiet Side of Bursty Star Formation at z > 4

Tobias J. Looser, Francesco D'Eugenio, William M. Baker +19

JWST has revealed that star formation in early galaxies is bursty, including episodes of violent suppression, so-called mini-quenching. But these were largely serendipitous discove…

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PRISMS GHZ8: Evidence for a Young Burst and Potential Merger Activity at z=10.23

Ruqiu Lin, Jorge Zavala, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +26

UV-bright galaxies in the early Universe provide important constraints on the rapid build-up of stellar mass and the sources responsible for cosmic reionization. However, the physi…

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Dual and lensed AGN at sub-arcsecond separations uncovered by ERIS

M. V. Zanchettin, F. Mannucci, Q. D'Amato +62

We present the first results of the ongoing INAF GTO program focused on the search of sub-arcsecond dual AGN, carried out with the near-infrared integral-field unit SPIFFIER of the…

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GA-NIFS view of LAP1: Assembly of Pop~III stellar clusters during EoR

J. Scholtz, R. Maiolino, S. Carniani +28

Lensed and Pristine 1 (LAP1) is one of the most promising candidates for the detection of so-called Pop~III stars at . In this work, we present new high-spectral-resoluti…

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Exploring the observed properties of JWST Little Red Dots with cosmological simulations and dust radiative transfer

Saksham Chandna, Fabio Di Mascia, Simona Gallerani +6

JWST has uncovered compact high-redshift (z>=4) sources, dubbed Little Red Dots (LRDs), characterised by a distinct V-shaped continuum. Their nature remains debated since broad-lin…

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Balmer Break Measurements Trace Departures from the Star-Forming Main Sequence at with JWST/NIRSpec

Suprabhas Narisetty, Yongda Zhu, Eiichi Egami +4

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of galaxies at to study the relation between Balmer-break strength () and recent star formation. Using NIRSpec sp…

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The WISSH quasars project XIII. A multi-epoch study of ultra-fast broad absorption line outflows at cosmic noon

A. Deconto-Machado, G. Vietri, E. Piconcelli +22

Ultra-fast broad absorption line outflows (uBAL, ~0.1-0.2c) represent some of the most extreme manifestations of quasar-driven winds. We aim to investigate the variability of uBALs…

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PRISMS. GHZ1. A standard tale of galaxy evolution with atypical ionizing conditions at

Borja Pérez-Díaz, Marco Castellano, Javier Álvarez-Márquez +33

[Abridged] The first operating years of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a surprising number of UV-bright objects, many of them characterized by t…

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A Dusty Quenching-candidate AGN host at z=5.7: massive quiescent galaxies may quench already during the dust-obscured phase

Francesco D'Eugenio, Matilde Brazzini, Roberto Maiolino +12

We present a spectro-photometric analysis of RUBIES-EGS-9809, a broad-line AGN host at z=5.7 with a Balmer break and a dominant point source. The source is dust reddened (3 m…

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Super-Eddington Accretion and Early-Stage Feedback in Ton S180

Pierpaolo Condò, Giacomo Venturi, Eleonora Parlanti +15

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies are key laboratories for studying rapid supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback at high accretion ra…

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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…

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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 redshifts by JWST, and their physical nature and selection function remain a topic of debate. Here, we investigat…

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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_{…

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BlackTHUNDER Reveals a Massive Filament around a Compact AGN at

Giulia Tozzi, Hannah Übler, Eleonora Parlanti +27

Despite the growing number of compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) at discovered by JWST, their formation and evolution remain poorly understood. This paper investigates the…

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Little Red and Blue Dots: AGN-excited narrow lines, Lyman- emission, and resemblance to standard quasars

Sophia Geris, Roberto Maiolino, Xihan Ji +35

We present an analysis of a sample of 36 Little Red and Blue Dots (LRDs and LBDs) at , identified by JWST in the GOODS fields. While both categories are selected to ha…

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GA-NIFS: The interplay between feedback and star formation at 3 < z < 9 probed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU

L. Ulivi, M. Perna, S. Arribas +24

The study of starburst- and AGN-driven feedback is fundamental for understanding the processes that shape galaxy growth, quench star formation, and drive the co-evolution of galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

JADES: the mass-metallicity relation at . New calibrations, extremely metal-poor galaxies, and chemical diversity

Yuki Isobe, Mirko Curti, Roberto Maiolino +28

We present gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies at -10 with deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the JADES full data release, Dark Horse, and OASIS programmes. We stack…

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No Blue without Red: Evolutionary Properties of Super-Early Galaxies

A. Ferrara, G. Rodighiero, S. Carniani +3

The discovery of numerous luminous, super-early galaxies at by JWST has revealed a striking diversity in their ultraviolet (UV) properties, ranging from extremely blue, dust…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5: stellar population catalogue for galaxies in GOODS-N and GOODS-S

Qiao Duan, Sandro Tacchella, Benjamin D. Johnson +37

We present the galaxy stellar population catalogue from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) Data Release 5 (DR5), providing homogeneous Bayesian inference of physic…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

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…

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A Census of Na D-traced neutral ISM and outflows at

Yang Sun, Zhiyuan Ji, Francesco D'Eugenio +11

We present a statistical census of the Na D-traced neutral interstellar medium (ISM) and outflows in 309 galaxies at using JWST/NIRSpec medium-resolution spectroscopy fro…