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A high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in a lensed AGN in the early Universe
Charlot, Stéphane; Glazebrook, Karl; Labbé, Ivo +35 more
Early JWST observations have uncovered a population of red sources that might represent a previously overlooked phase of supermassive black hole growth1-3. One of the most intriguing examples is an extremely red, point-like object that was found to be triply imaged by the strong lensing cluster Abell 2744 (ref. 4). Here we pr…
The Cosmos in Its Infancy: JADES Galaxy Candidates at z > 8 in GOODS-S and GOODS-N
Chevallard, Jacopo; Carniani, Stefano; D'Eugenio, Francesco +43 more
We present a catalog of 717 candidate galaxies at z > 8 selected from 125 square arcmin of NIRCam imaging as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). We combine the full JADES imaging data set with data from the JWST Extragalactic Medium Survey and First Reionization Epoch Spectroscopic COmplete Survey (FRESCO) along with ex…
Most of the photons that reionized the Universe came from dwarf galaxies
Papovich, Casey; Maseda, Michael V.; Muzzin, Adam +30 more
The identification of sources driving cosmic reionization, a major phase transition from neutral hydrogen to ionized plasma around 600-800 Myr after the Big Bang1-3, has been a matter of debate4. Some models suggest that high ionizing emissivity and escape fractions (fesc) from quasars support their role in driving…
A Census of Photometrically Selected Little Red Dots at 4 < z < 9 in JWST Blank Fields
Labbé, Ivo; Fujimoto, Seiji; Trebitsch, Maxime +9 more
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered numerous faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z ∼ 5 and beyond. These objects are key to our understanding of the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), their coevolution with host galaxies, as well as the role of AGN in cosmic reionization. Using photometric colors an…
Extremely Red Galaxies at z = 5–9 with MIRI and NIRSpec: Dusty Galaxies or Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei?
Papovich, Casey; Yang, Guang; Barro, Guillermo +31 more
We study a new population of extremely red objects (EROs) recently discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) based on their NIRCam colors F277W ‑ F444W > 1.5 mag. We find 37 EROs in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) field with F444W < 28 mag and photometric redshifts between 5 < z < 7, with median $z={…
What Is the Nature of Little Red Dots and what Is Not, MIRI SMILES Edition
Barro, Guillermo; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Bunker, Andrew J. +20 more
We study 31 little red dots (LRD) detected by JADES/NIRCam and covered by the SMILES/MIRI survey, of which ∼70% are detected in the two bluest MIRI bands and 40% in redder MIRI filters. The median/quartiles redshifts are
A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang
Chevallard, Jacopo; Maseda, Michael V.; Carniani, Stefano +42 more
Local and low-redshift (z < 3) galaxies are known to broadly follow a bimodal distribution: actively star-forming galaxies with relatively stable star-formation rates and passive systems. These two populations are connected by galaxies in relatively slow transition. By contrast, theory predicts that star formation was stochastic at early cosmic…
JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy of the Remarkable Bright Galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 at Redshift 12.34
Santini, Paola; Arrabal Haro, Pablo; Calabrò, Antonello +28 more
We spectroscopically confirm the M UV = ‑20.5 mag galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 to be at redshift z = 12.34. The source was selected via NIRCam photometry in GLASS-JWST Early Release Science data, providing the first evidence of a surprising abundance of bright galaxies at z ≳ 10. The NIRSpec PRISM spectrum shows detections of N IV, C IV, He II…
The galaxy UV luminosity function at z ≃ 11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs
Cullen, F.; McLure, R. J.; Dunlop, J. S. +8 more
We present a new determination of the evolving galaxy ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function (LF) over the redshift range 9.5 < z < 12.5 based on a wide-area (>250 arcmin2) data set of JWST NIRCam near-infrared imaging assembled from 13 public JWST surveys. Our relatively large-area search allows us to uncover a sample of 61 robu…
EPOCHS. II. The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function from 7.5 < z < 13.5 Using 180 arcmin2 of Deep, Blank Fields from the PEARLS Survey and Public JWST Data
Grogin, Norman A.; Hathi, Nimish P.; Koekemoer, Anton M. +34 more
We present an analysis of the ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) and star formation rate density of distant galaxies (7.5 < z < 13.5) in the "blank" fields of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) survey combined with Early Release Science data from the CEERS, GLASS, and NGDEEP surveys/fields and th…