JADES-The diverse population of infant black holes at 4< z< 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty

R Maiolino, J Scholtz, E Curtis-Lake, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope has opened the possibility of
identifying moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe, at and …

First Detection of an Overmassive Black Hole Galaxy UHZ1: Evidence for Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation from Direct Collapse

P Natarajan, F Pacucci, A Ricarte… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z≈ 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that
accreting supermassive black holes were already in place 470 million years after the Big …

Little Red Dots or Brown Dwarfs? NIRSpec Discovery of Three Distant Brown Dwarfs Masquerading as NIRCam-selected Highly Reddened Active Galactic Nuclei

D Langeroodi, J Hjorth - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Cold, substellar objects such as brown dwarfs have long been recognized as contaminants
in color-selected samples of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In particular, their near-to mid …

Star formation and AGN activity 500 Myr after the Big Bang: Insights from JWST

JCJ D'Silva, SP Driver, CDP Lagos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the effect of including an active galactic nuclei (AGN) component when fitting
spectral energy distributions of 109 spectroscopically confirmed z≈ 3.5–12.5 galaxies with …

The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at z ≃ 3–5 with JWST PRIMER

RG Varadaraj, RAA Bowler, MJ Jarvis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We use data from the JWST Public Release IMaging for Extragalactic Research survey to
measure the size scaling relations of 1668 rest-frame UV-bright Lyman-break galaxies …

Galaxy quenching at the high redshift frontier: A fundamental test of cosmological models in the early universe with JWST-CEERS

AFL Bluck, CJ Conselice, K Ormerod… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of the quenching of star formation in massive galaxies (M*> 10 9.5
M⊙) within the first 0.5–3 Gyr of the Universe's history utilizing JWST-CEERS data. We …

Helium reionization from empirical quasar luminosity functions before and after JWST

A Basu, E Garaldi, B Ciardi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recently, models of the quasar luminosity function (QLF) rooted on large observational
compilations have been produced that, unlike their predecessors, feature a smooth …

Ionizing properties of galaxies in JADES for a stellar mass complete sample: resolving the cosmic ionizing photon budget crisis at the Epoch of Reionization

C Simmonds, S Tacchella, K Hainline… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We use NIRCam imaging from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) to
study the ionizing properties of a sample of 14 652 galaxies at, 90 per cent complete in …

EPOCHS Paper–VIII. An insight into MIRI-selected galaxies in SMACS-0723 and the benefits of deep MIRI photometry in revealing AGN and the dusty universe

Q Li, CJ Conselice, N Adams… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present the analysis of the stellar population and star formation history of 181 MIRI
selected galaxies at z= 0− 3.5 in the massive galaxy cluster field SMACS J0723. 3–7327 …

Unveiling Luminous Lyα Emitters at z≈ 6 through JWST/NIRCam Imaging in the COSMOS Field

Y Ning, Z Cai, X Lin, ZY Zheng, X Feng… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Lyα emitters (LAEs) in the late era of
reionization (at redshift z≈ 6) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging data set. These LAEs …