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 …

Direct T e-based metallicities of z= 2–9 galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec: empirical metallicity calibrations applicable from reionization to cosmic noon

RL Sanders, AE Shapley, MW Topping… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report detections of the [O iii] λ4364 auroral emission line for 16 galaxies at z= 2.1–8.7,
measured from JWST/NIRSpec observations obtained as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early …

[HTML][HTML] Which came first: supermassive black holes or galaxies? Insights from JWST

J Silk, MC Begelman, C Norman… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Insights from JWST observations suggest that active galactic nuclei feedback evolved from a
short-lived, high-redshift phase in which radiatively cooled turbulence and/or momentum …

JWST Identification of Extremely Low C/N Galaxies with [N/O]≳ 0.5 at z∼ 6–10 Evidencing the Early CNO-cycle Enrichment and a Connection with Globular Cluster …

Y Isobe, M Ouchi, N Tominaga… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present chemical abundance ratios of 70 star-forming galaxies at z∼ 4–10 observed by
the JWST/NIRSpec Early Release Observations, GLASS, and CEERS programs. Among the …

Extreme N-emitters at high redshift: Possible signatures of supermassive stars and globular cluster or black hole formation in action

R Marques-Chaves, D Schaerer… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spectroscopic observations of the
z= 10.6 galaxy GN-z11 have revealed a very peculiar UV spectrum exhibiting intense …

JADES: Carbon enrichment 350 Myr after the Big Bang

F d'Eugenio, R Maiolino, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Finding the emergence of the first metals in the early Universe and identifying their origin are
some of the most important goals of modern astrophysics. We present deep JWST/NIRSpec …

Nitrogen enrichment and clustered star formation at the dawn of the Galaxy

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Anomalously high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratios [N/O] are observed in globular
clusters (GCs), among the field stars of the Milky Way (MW), and even in the gas in az≈ 11 …

Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

MW Topping, DP Stark, P Senchyna… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nearly a decade ago, we began to see indications that reionization-era galaxies power hard
radiation fields rarely seen at lower redshift. Most striking were detections of nebular C iv …

EMPRESS. XIII. Chemical Enrichment of Young Galaxies Near and Far at z∼ 0 and 4–10: Fe/O, Ar/O, S/O, and N/O Measurements with a Comparison of Chemical …

K Watanabe, M Ouchi, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present gas-phase elemental abundance ratios of thirteen local extremely metal-poor
galaxies (EMPGs), including our new Keck/LRIS spectroscopy determinations together with …

The Puzzling Properties of the MACS1149-JD1 Galaxy at z= 9.11

M Stiavelli, T Morishita, M Chiaberge… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze new JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec data on the redshift 9.11 galaxy MACS1149-
JD1 (hereafter JD1). Our NIRCam imaging data reveal that JD1 comprises three spatially …