Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

[HTML][HTML] De re metallica: the cosmic chemical evolution of galaxies

R Maiolino, F Mannucci - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2019 - Springer
The evolution of the content of heavy elements in galaxies, the relative chemical
abundances, their spatial distribution, and how these scale with various galactic properties …

[HTML][HTML] A CEERS discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: identifying a progenitor of massive z> 6 quasars

RL Larson, SL Finkelstein, DD Kocevski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z= 8.679. This galaxy,
denoted here as CEERS_1019, was previously discovered as a Lyα-break galaxy by …

GA-NIFS: A massive black hole in a low-metallicity AGN at z∼ 5.55 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

H Übler, R Maiolino, E Curtis-Lake… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present rest-frame optical data of the compact z= 5.55 galaxy GS_3073 obtained using
the integral field spectroscopy mode of the Near-InfraRed Spectrograph on board the James …

JADES: Probing interstellar medium conditions at z∼ 5.5–9.5 with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

AJ Cameron, A Saxena, AJ Bunker… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present emission-line ratios from a sample of 27 Lyman-break galaxies from z∼ 5.5− 9.5
with− 17.0< M 1500<− 20.4, measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec multi-object …

The physical conditions of emission-line galaxies at cosmic dawn from JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy in the SMACS 0723 early release observations

JR Trump, PA Haro, RC Simons… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present rest-frame optical emission-line flux ratio measurements for five z> 5 galaxies
observed by the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) in …

[HTML][HTML] GA-NIFS: The ultra-dense, interacting environment of a dual AGN at z∼ 3.3 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

M Perna, S Arribas, M Marshall, F D'Eugenio… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. LBQS 0302− 0019 is a blue quasar (QSO) at z∼ 3.3 that hosts powerful outflows
and resides in a complex environment consisting of an obscured active galactic nucleus …

Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

First tidal disruption events discovered by SRG/eROSITA: X-ray/optical properties and X-ray luminosity function at z < 0.6

S Sazonov, M Gilfanov, P Medvedev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-
sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0°< l< …

Overview of the sdss-iv manga survey: mapping nearby galaxies at apache point observatory

K Bundy, MA Bershady, DR Law, R Yan… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA
(Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the …