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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…
Euclid: Discovery of 31 new quasars at
D. Yang, J. F. Hennawi, F. Guarneri +211
We report the discovery of 31 new high- quasars in the redshift range . These quasars were selected from approximately 3000 deg of sky covered during the firs…
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…
Unveiling the Cosmic Dawn with SHARP: Probing extended Lyman- nebulae in a Universe less than 600 Myr old
Susanna Bisogni, Giustina Vietri, Enrico Piconcelli +5
The existence of luminous quasars just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang challenges our understanding of both black hole growth and galaxy formation and evolution. The…
A big step forward with SHARP: spatially resolved stellar population properties in passive galaxies at z > 1.5
A. Gargiulo, C. Mancini, F. R. Ditrani +6
Understanding when and how massive quiescent galaxies (log(M*/Msun) > 10.5) assembled their stellar mass and quenched remains a central challenge in galaxy evolution. Spatially res…
SUNRISE-3D: Sharp UNveiling of AGN feedback Regulation and its Impact on Star-formation at the cosmic noon Epoch
G. Vietri, S. Bisogni, E. Piconcelli +4
To better understand the role of AGN-driven outflows as a mechanism for heating or sweeping up gas over distances comparable to the size of the galaxy in its evolution, and to expl…
A SHARP Look at Quenching and Bulge-Disk Growth in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
Chiara Mancini, Adriana Gargiulo, Alvio Renzini +11
The physical mechanisms that quench star formation in massive galaxies remain poorly understood. At cosmic noon (1<z<3), when star formation and AGN activity peak, galaxies rapidly…
SHARP -- A spectrograph proposal to fully exploit ELT capabilities and look beyond JWST
P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +47
The Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), with their large apertures and cutting-edge Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, promise to deliver data that is both sharper and…
Connecting disc-corona physics and ionised outflows in AGN in the 2040s
Susanna Bisogni, Giustina Vietri, Andrea Travascio +3
We outline a science case for next-generation wide-field spectroscopic surveys aimed at connecting the physics of the accretion disc and X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN…
The evolution of obscured AGN across cosmic time -- A large quasar survey for the 2040s
Tanya Urrutia, Darshan Kakkad, Paula Sánchez-Sáez +21
We propose a large quasar demographic optical multi-object spectroscopic (MOS) survey targeting over 50 million AGN candidates up to the highest redshifts possible in the optical (…
SHARP: Beyond JWST -- Revealing the galaxy birth and growth with the resolution of the ELT
P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +37
A deep understanding of the life-cycle of galaxies, particularly those of high mass, requires clarifying the mechanisms that regulate star formation (SF) and its abrupt shutdown (q…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 1. Identification and redshift determination of 3500 bright quasars
Euclid Collaboration, Y. Fu, R. Bouwens +354
The slitless spectroscopy mode of the NISP onboard Euclid has enabled efficient spectroscopy of objects within a large FoV. We present a large and homogeneous sample of bright quas…
Puzzling radial gradients of K-band absorption features in the giant elliptical galaxy M87
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, A. Pasquali +8
We present new K-band spectroscopy for the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo cluster, taken with the LUCI spectrograph at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). The new data a…
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…
High- radio Quasars in RACS I: Selection, identification, and multi-wavelength properties
L. Ighina, A. Caccianiga, A. Moretti +21
Radio-bright, jetted quasars at serve as unique laboratories for studying supermassive black hole activity in the early Universe. In this work, we present a sample of high-$z…
Multi-wavelength observations of a jet launch in real time from the post-changing-look Active Galaxy 1ES 1927+654
Sibasish Laha, Eileen T. Meyer, Dev R. Sadaula +34
We present results from a high cadence multi-wavelength observational campaign of the enigmatic changing look AGN 1ES 1927+654 from May 2022- April 2024, coincident with an unprece…
SHARP -- A near-IR multi-mode spectrograph conceived for MORFEO@ELT
P. Saracco, P. Conconi, C. Arcidiacono +50
The Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), thanks to their large apertures and cutting-edge Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) systems, promise to deliver sharper and deeper data e…
Multi-wavelength properties of three new radio-powerful quasi-stellar objects discovered from RACS
L. Ighina, A. Caccianiga, A. Moretti +12
We present a multi-wavelength study of three new quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) identified from dedicated spectroscopic observations. The three sources were selected as hi…
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper
Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…
The relation between X-ray and UV emission in quasars
Susanna Bisogni
The correlation between the X-ray and UV luminosities observed in quasars, spanning a wide redshift range and holding true for several decades in both spectral bands, suggests the…
Spectroscopy of the Supernova H0pe Host Galaxy at Redshift 1.78
M. Polletta, M. Nonino, B. Frye +42
Supernova (SN) H0pe was discovered as a new transient in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam images of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 taken as part of the "Prime Extragal…
The most luminous blue quasars at 3.0<z<3.3 -- III. LBT spectra and accretion parameters
Bartolomeo Trefoloni, Elisabeta Lusso, Emanuele Nardini +13
We present the analysis of the rest frame ultraviolet and optical spectra of 30 bright blue quasars at , selected to examine the suitability of AGN as cosmological probes.…
Quasars as high-redshift standard candles
Guido Risaliti, Elisabeta Lusso, Emanuele Nardini +5
In the past few years, we built a Hubble diagram of quasars up to redshift z7, based on the nonlinear relation between quasars' x-ray and UV luminosities. Such a Hubble diagr…
LBT-MODS spectroscopy of high-redshift candidates in the Chandra J1030 field. A newly discovered z2.8 large scale structure
Stefano Marchesi, Marco Mignoli, Roberto Gilli +13
We present the results of a spectroscopic campaign with the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph (MODS) instrument mounted on the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), aimed at obtaining a…