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JADES: The diverse population of infant black holes at 4 < z < 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347640 Bibcode: 2024A&A...691A.145M

Charlot, Stéphane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano +25 more

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 beyond the epoch of re-ionisation, complementing previous surveys of much more luminous (and much rarer) quasars. We present 12 new AGNs at 4 < z < 7 in the JADES survey (i…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 349
The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347165 Bibcode: 2024A&A...682A..34M

Zhang, X.; Haberl, F.; Burwitz, V. +142 more

The eROSITA telescope array aboard the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite began surveying the sky in December 2019, with the aim of producing all-sky X-ray source lists and sky maps of an unprecedented depth. Here we present catalogues of both point-like and extended sources using the data acquired in the first six months of survey operations…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia XMM-Newton 197
JADES NIRSpec initial data release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Redshifts and line fluxes of distant galaxies from the deepest JWST Cycle 1 NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347094 Bibcode: 2024A&A...690A.288B

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Parlanti, Eleonora +63 more

We describe the NIRSpec component of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), and provide deep spectroscopy of 253 sources targeted with the NIRSpec micro-shutter assembly in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and surrounding GOODS-South. The multi-object spectra presented here are the deepest so far obtained with JWST, amounting to up to 28 hours in …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST JWST 187
JADES: Insights into the low-mass end of the mass-metallicity-SFR relation at 3 < z < 10 from deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346698 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..75C

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Carniani, Stefano +37 more

We analysed the gas-phase metallicity properties of a sample of low-stellar-mass (log M/M ≲ 9) galaxies at 3 < z < 10 observed with JWST/NIRSpec as part of the JADES programme in its deep GOODS-S tier. By combining this sample with more massive galaxies at similar redshifts from other programmes, we study the scaling …

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 180
Ionised gas kinematics and dynamical masses of z ≳ 6 galaxies from JADES/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347755 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..87D

Charlot, Stéphane; Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V. +28 more

We explore the kinematic gas properties of six 5.5 < z < 7.4 galaxies in the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), using high-resolution JWST/NIRSpec multi-object spectroscopy of the rest-frame optical emission lines [OIII] and Hα. The objects are small and of low stellar mass (∼1 kpc; M* ∼ 107 − 9 M

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 102
JADES: The production and escape of ionizing photons from faint Lyman-alpha emitters in the epoch of reionization
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347132 Bibcode: 2024A&A...684A..84S

Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano; Arribas, Santiago +32 more

We present the properties of 17 faint Lyman-α emitting galaxies (LAEs) at z > 5.8 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) spectroscopic data in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field/GOODS-S. These LAEs span a redshift range z ≈ 5.8 − 8.0 and a UV magnitude range MUV ≈ −17 to −20.6, with the Lyα equivalent width (EW) in the ran…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 87
Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449763 Bibcode: 2024A&A...686L...2G

Valtchanov, I.; Prusti, T.; Mazeh, T. +413 more

Context. Gravitational waves from black-hole (BH) merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected based on most stellar evolution models - and also higher than known stellar-origin black holes in our Galaxy. It has been proposed that those high-mass BHs are…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 86
A parsec-scale Galactic 3D dust map out to 1.25 kpc from the Sun
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347628 Bibcode: 2024A&A...685A..82E

Speagle, Joshua S.; Zucker, Catherine; Finkbeiner, Douglas +4 more

Context. High-resolution 3D maps of interstellar dust are critical for probing the underlying physics shaping the structure of the interstellar medium, and for foreground correction of astrophysical observations affected by dust.
Aims: We aim to construct a new 3D map of the spatial distribution of interstellar dust extinction out to a distan…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia 82
JADES: Detecting [OIII]λ4363 emitters and testing strong line calibrations in the high-z Universe with ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy up to z ∼ 9.5
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347133 Bibcode: 2024A&A...681A..70L

Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Carniani, Stefano +32 more

We present ten novel [OIII]λ4363 auroral line detections up to z ∼ 9.5 measured from ultra-deep JWST/NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). We leverage the deepest spectroscopic observations taken thus far with NIRSpec to determine electron temperatures and oxygen abundances using the direct Te

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 70
JADES: Carbon enrichment 350 Myr after the Big Bang
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348636 Bibcode: 2024A&A...689A.152D

Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano; Übler, Hannah +27 more

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 spectroscopy of GS-z12, a galaxy at z = 12.5, in which we report the detection of the C III]λλ1907,1909 nebular emission line. This represents the most distant detect…

2024 Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST 69