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The birth of seeds of massive black holes (BHs) and nascent galaxies at cosmic dawn takes place in dense gaseous environments, which play a crucial role in shaping their coevolution and radiation spectra. We investigate gas accretion during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Kohei Inayoshi , Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama

We present the HST ACS G800L grism spectroscopy observation of the faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates in the COSMOS field at redshift of 6 selected by the point-source morphology and the photometry drop-off at 8000\AA. Among the…

At low Eddington ratio (mdot), two effects make it harder to detect AGN given some selection criteria. First, even with fixed accretion physics, AGN are diluted/less luminous relative to their hosts; the magnitude of this depends on host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Ryan Hickox , Eliot Quataert , Lars Hernquist

We present a spectroscopic search for broad H$\alpha$ emitters at z$\approx$3.7-6.5 in the GOODS-N field, utilizing JWST/NIRCam slitless spectroscopy from FRESCO and CONGRESS, complemented by JADES imaging. We identify 19 broad H$\alpha$…

The nature of "Little Red Dots" and their relation to other forms of accreting supermassive black holes remain an open question. Here we report the discovery of a Little Red Dot at $z=7.3$. It is attenuated by moderate amounts of dust, $A_V…

Low mass stars (< 2-2.5 M_sun) exhibit, at all the stages of their evolution, signatures of processes that require challenging modeling beyond the standard stellar theory. In this paper we focus on their peculiarities while they climb the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Corinne Charbonnel , Ana Palacios

A significant fraction of little red dots (LRDs) exhibit nearby extended emission of unknown origin. If physically associated with the LRD, this component may trace stellar emission from an off-centered host galaxy, neighboring companions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Chang-Hao Chen , Luis C. Ho , Ruancun Li , Kohei Inayoshi

We address the origin of the Little Red Dots (LRDs) seen by JWST at cosmic morning ($z \!=\! 4 \!-\! 8$) as compact stellar systems with over-massive black holes (BHs). We propose that LRDs form naturally after feedback-free starbursts…

We present an analysis of X-ray variability in a flux limited sample of QSOs. Selected from our deep ROSAT survey, these QSOs span a wide range in redshift ($0.1<z<3.2$) and are typically very faint, so we have developed a method to…

The majority of Little Red Dots (LRDs) hosting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibits broad H$\alpha$ emission, which recent studies propose originates from scattering off free electrons within an ionized and dense medium embedding the Broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Matilde Brazzini , Francesco D'Eugenio , Roberto Maiolino , Ignas Juodžbalis , Xihan Ji , Jan Scholtz

The detection of strong Balmer breaks and absorption features in Little Red Dots (LRDs) suggests they host AGN embedded within dense gas envelopes, potentially powered by super-Eddington accretion. We present GLIMPSE-17775, a luminous…

We investigate the host galaxy properties of eight little red dots (LRDs) selected from the JWST UNCOVER survey, applying a new technique ({\tt\string GalfitS}) to simultaneously fit the morphology and spectral energy distribution using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-14 Chang-Hao Chen , Luis C. Ho , Ruancun Li , Ming-Yang Zhuang

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGNs) exhibit drastic variations in broad emission lines (BELs), the mechanism of which remains unclear. Expanding the sample of CL AGNs is helpful to reveal the mechanism. This study aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Qian Dong , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Yong-Gang Zheng

We examine the near-infrared (NIR) emission from low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). Our galaxy sample includes 15 objects with detected 2-10 keV X-ray emission, dynamical black hole mass estimates from the literature, and available Gemini/NIFS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Antoine Dumont , Anil Seth , Jay Strader , Jenny E. Greene , Leonard Burtscher , Nadine Neumayer

We report the discovery of a little red dot (LRD), dubbed BiRD ('big red dot'), at $z=2.33$ in the field around the $z=6.3$ quasar SDSSJ1030+0524. Using NIRCam images, we identified it as a bright outlier in the $F200W-F356W$ color vs…

I present details of the variations of several hundred red giant stars on time scales of a few hours to a few days from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of a low-extinction galactic bulge sample from an intensive seven day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ronald L. Gilliland

We present an analysis of the nuclear variability of $\sim28,000$ nearby ($z<0.15$) galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopy in Stripe 82. We construct light curves using difference imaging of SDSS g-band images, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Vivienne F. Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

As a class, LINERs and Low-Luminosity AGN tend to show little or no significant short-term variability (i.e., with time-scales less than a day). This is a marked break for the trend of increased variability in Seyfert 1 galaxies with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ptak , T. Yaqoob , R. Mushotzky , P. Serlemitsos , R. Griffiths