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A tidal disruption event in a quasar at redshift 7.19
S. Fujimoto, Q. Fei, G. B. Brammer +41
We report a long-lived nuclear transient in GNz7q, a red quasar at powered by a black hole and hosted by a compact, dusty starburst galaxy. Th…
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…
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…
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…
The Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at
Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith +16
High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) serve as powerful probes of early black-hole growth, galaxy formation, and the evolving intergalactic medium (IGM). In this work, we use…
Discovery of Quasar Variability and Early Accretion Disk Signatures at Cosmic Dawn
Gene C. K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers, Christos Panagiotou +12
In the nearby universe, quasars are well known to exhibit variability in their brightness over time, offering a powerful tool to probe the physics of accretion onto the SMBH and di…
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…
Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at
Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +24
We present a panchromatic optical-mm characterization of GNz7q, a recently identified X-ray weak, rapidly growing red quasar embedded within a dusty starburst galaxy at ,…
Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity
Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani +61
We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3<z<9.3, forming a representative spectroscopic subset of NIRCam-selected LRDs. We derive a median s…
From "The Cliff" to "Virgil": Mapping the Spectral Diversity of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec
Guillermo Barro, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Dale Kocevski +26
One of JWST's most unexpected discoveries is the emergence of "Little Red Dots'' (LRDs): compact sources at with blue rest-frame UV continua, red optical slopes, and…