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Optical and Ultraviolet Emission from the Gas Photoionized by Gaia BH3: Archival Constraints and Predictions for the 2029 Periastron
Nico Cappelluti, Fabio Pacucci
Gaia BH3, a black hole (BH) on an 11.6-yr, orbit around a metal-poor giant at pc, accretes from its wind. Neither its mass-loss rate $\dot M_{…
The Dance of the Little Red Dots: Spectroscopy of Two Blue Companions at z = 3.9 and 5.5 Reveals Young, Metal-Poor Starbursts Merging with Their LRDs within a Few Hundred Myr
Fabio Pacucci, Pierluigi Rinaldi
The Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, red sources, abundant at and likely powered by massive black holes. Photometric studies have found blue companions…
The lifetimes and properties of Little Red Dots in the AMBRA simulation
Patrick LaChance, Yihao Zhou, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick +6
We identify and analyze the little red dots (LRDs) in the AMBRA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, by producing mock observations of the galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN…
Unified modelling of broad and narrow optical-UV emission lines from massive black holes: interpreting high-redshift JWST observations
Adele Plat, Michaela Hirschmann, Emma Curtis-Lake +10
JWST is uncovering a large population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshift, motivating the extension of models calibrated on local sources to a broader range of physica…
AGN-DB: A Unified Multi-Wavelength Database of Active Galactic Nuclei
Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, C. Megan Urry +29
We present the Active Galactic Nuclei Database (AGN-DB), a comprehensive, multi-wavelength catalog compiled from more than 100 publicly available AGN catalogs and samples released…
Skyfire: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots and Broad-Line AGN in the CEERS Field
Dale D. Kocevski, Anthony J. Taylor, Masafusa Onoue +24
We present the Skyfire program, a 21-hour Cycle 3 JWST/NIRSpec survey with the G395M medium-resolution grating covering five pointings in the Extended Groth Strip. The survey is de…
Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group: Final Report
Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group, Simon R. Bandler, Laura W. Brenneman +51
The Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group (SAG) was convened to reassess the scientific goals and technical drivers of the Lynx mission concept amid a rapidly evolving astrophysics lands…
More Numerous and Bluer: Companions of the Brightest Little Red Dots Differ from Control Galaxies at , Hinting at Synchronized Black Hole Seed Formation
Fabio Pacucci, C. Megan Urry
The Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, red sources at , likely powered by accreting massive black holes. Multiple studies have detected blue companions in…
How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars
Alessandra Venditti, Daniel Schaerer, Erik Zackrisson +26
Finding the first (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the fundamental quests of astronomy, aiming to deliver the missing link in how stars form at early cosmic times. Yet t…
The emergence of X-ray emission lines during relativistic radio-jet formation in the changing-look active galactic nucleus 1ES 1927+654
Dev R. Sadaula, Sibasish Laha, Eileen T. Meyer +27
We present results from a comprehensive multi-wavelength monitoring campaign of the changing-look active galactic nucleus 1ES 1927+654 during the onset and evolution of a relativis…
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…
Hunting Wandering 3<z<8 Black Holes: Spatial Offsets in Ionization Ratio and Continuum Emission
Urvi Thakurdesai, Anthony J. Taylor, Steven L. Finkelstein +14
The early growth and assembly of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain key topics of interest in galaxy evolution. One of the scenarios predicted by theoretical models is that fr…
The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW): A Population of Hidden AGN at Revealed by JWST/MIRI Imaging
Gene C. K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers, Ryan Endsley +25
We present the MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW), a JWST/MIRI imaging survey designed to detect dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) across cosmic time, with a parti…
Exploring the Relationship Between Bars, Star Formation Activity, and Host Galaxy Properties from to
Eden Wise, Shardha Jogee, Yuchen Guo +20
We present the most comprehensive study to date of the relationship between bars, star formation, and galaxy properties from 0 to 2. We use a mass-complete sample…
A Rapid Evolution in the Observed Mbh/M* Relation at z > 3 Revealed via Spectro-photometric SED-Modeling
Ansh R. Gupta, Anthony Taylor, Emma Curtis-Lake +33
Spectroscopic observations from JWST have uncovered a plethora of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z > 4 with black hole (BH) mass (Mbh) to stellar mass (M*) ratios significantly ab…
Prevailing thermally-pulsing-asymptotic-giant branch stars in the near-infrared rest-frame spectra of distant quiescent galaxies: towards robust galaxy ages and masses
Shiying Lu, Emanuele Daddi, Claudia Maraston +12
We recently reported the discovery of prominent features from the thermally pulsing asymptotic-giant-branch (TP-AGB) phase in the rest-frame near-infrared of a massive quiescent ga…
JWST Reveals Two Overmassive Black Hole Candidates in Dwarf Galaxies at z 0.7: Pushing Black Hole Searches into the Dwarf-Galaxy Regime
E. Iani, P. Rinaldi, A. Torralba +35
We report the discovery and characterization of two compact galaxies, Pelias and Neleus, at z ~ 0.71 and z ~ 0.75, identified in MACS J0416.1-2403 and GOODS-North. Both exhibit unu…
Revisiting the Claim for a Direct-Collapse Black Hole in UHZ1 at
Fan Zou, Elena Gallo, Zihao Zuo +8
We reassess the direct collapse black hole (DCBH) interpretation of UHZ1 (UNCOVER-26185), a gravitationally lensed galaxy at . That interpretation rests on…
MEOW: The increase in the obscured AGN fraction in mid-infrared from 0 < z < 6 with JWST MIRI
Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Gene C. K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers +16
Obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to explain the rapid emergence of young quasars at high redshift and are crucial for building a complete census of AGN activ…
Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in CEERS Are Powered by Star Formation, not AGN
Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump +28
We present a spectroscopic study of photometrically identified extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with observed-frame equivalent widths (EWs) >5000 A of either H alpha or H bet…
A Morphology Catalog of Galaxies in CEERS: Evolution in the Size and Color Gradients of Galaxies Since Cosmic Dawn
Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro +42
We present measurements of morphological parameters from fitting 53,885 galaxies detected to a magnitude limit of F356W in the CEERS NIRCam imaging with galfit in six broad…
A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen +93
A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to…
Dynamical Evidence for a Billion Solar Mass Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 4061 from ALMA CO(2-1) Kinematics
Dieu D. Nguyen, Long Q. T. Nguyen, Elena Gallo +6
We present the first robust dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass in the massive early-type galaxy NGC 4061 using high-spatial-resolution ALMA observatio…
The Little Red Dots Are Direct Collapse Black Holes
Fabio Pacucci, Andrea Ferrara, Dale D. Kocevski
The discovery by JWST of a substantial population of compact "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) presents a major puzzle: their observed spectra defy standard astrophysical interpretations. H…