A dusty compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn

S Fujimoto, GB Brammer, D Watson, GE Magdis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding how super-massive black holes form and grow in the early Universe has
become a major challenge, since it was discovered that luminous quasars existed only 700 …

An overdensity of Lyman break galaxies around the hot dust-obscured galaxy WISE J224607. 56− 052634.9

D Zewdie, RJ Assef, C Mazzucchelli… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the identification of Lyman break galaxy (LBG) candidates around the most
luminous hot dust-Obscured galaxy (Hot DOG) known, WISE J224607. 56− 052634.9 …

Rapid Black Hole Spin-down by Thick Magnetically Arrested Disks

B Lowell, J Jacquemin-Ide… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Black hole (BH) spin can play an important role in galaxy evolution by controlling the amount
of energy and momentum ejected from near the BH into the surroundings. We focus on …

Kinematics and star formation of high-redshift hot dust-obscured quasars as seen by ALMA

T Díaz-Santos, RJ Assef, PRM Eisenhardt… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Hot, dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a population of hyper-luminous obscured
quasars identified by WISE. We present ALMA observations of the [C II] 158 μm fine …

Fast outflows in hot dust-obscured galaxies detected with Keck/NIRES

L Finnerty, K Larson, BT Soifer, L Armus… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present rest-frame optical spectroscopic observations of 24 Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies
(Hot DOGs) at redshifts 1.7–4.6 with KECK/NIRES. Our targets are selected, based on their …

A benchmark for extreme conditions of the multiphase interstellar medium in the most luminous hot dust-obscured galaxy at z= 4.6

RF Aranda, TD Santos, E Hatziminaoglou… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
WISE J224607. 6–052634.9 (W2246–0526) is a hot dust-obscured galaxy at z= 4.601, and
the most luminous obscured quasar known to date. W2246–0526 harbors a heavily …

Black hole–galaxy scaling relations in FIRE: the importance of black hole location and mergers

O Çatmabacak, R Feldmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The concurrent growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies
remains to be fully explored, especially at high redshift. While often understood as a …

X-ray observations of luminous dusty quasars at z > 2

GB Lansbury, M Banerji, AC Fabian… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present new X-ray observations of luminous heavily dust-reddened quasars (HRQs)
selected from infrared (IR) sky surveys. HRQs appear to be a dominant population at high …

Physical Properties of Hyperluminous, Dust-obscured Quasars at z∼ 3: Multiwavelength Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis and Cold Gas Content Revealed by …

W Sun, L Fan, Y Han, KK Knudsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a UV to millimeter spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis of 16
hyperluminous, dust-obscured quasars at z∼ 3, selected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey …

Discovery of a Low-redshift Hot Dust-obscured Galaxy

G Li, CW Tsai, D Stern, J Wu, RJ Assef… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of the hyperluminous, highly obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN)
WISE J190445. 04+ 485308.9 (W1904+ 4853, hereafter, L bol∼ 1.1× 10 13 L⊙) at z= 0.415 …