The growth of the gargantuan black holes powering high-redshift quasars and their impact on the formation of early galaxies and protoclusters

Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Jake S. Bennett, Debora Sijacki, Tiago Costa, Nicolas Laporte, Callum Witten | Summary: High-redshift quasars ($zgtrsim6$), powered by black holes (BHs) with large inferred masses, imply rapid BH growth in the early Universe. The most extreme examples have inferred masses of $sim ! 10^9,$M$_odot$ at $z = […]


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The growth of the gargantuan black holes powering high-redshift quasars and their impact on the formation of early galaxies and protoclusters

Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Jake S. Bennett, Debora Sijacki, Tiago Costa, Nicolas Laporte, Callum Witten | Summary: High-redshift quasars ($zgtrsim6$), powered by black holes (BHs) with large inferred masses, imply rapid BH growth in the early Universe. The most extreme examples have inferred masses of $sim ! 10^9,$M$_odot$ at $z = […]


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A non-linear solution to the $S_8$ tension II: Analysis of DES Year 3 cosmic shear

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Calvin Preston, Alexandra Amon, George Efstathiou, , | Summary: Weak galaxy lensing surveys have consistently reported low values of the $S_8$ parameter compared to the $textit{Planck} Lambdarm{CDM}$ cosmology. Amon & Efstathiou (2022) used KiDS-1000 cosmic shear measurements to propose that this tension can be reconciled if the […]


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Optimizing the Evolution of Perturbations in the $Λ$CDM Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Challinor | First 5 Authors: Nicholas Choustikov, Zvonimir Vlah, Anthony Challinor, , | Summary: Perturbation theory is a powerful tool for studying large-scale structure formation in the universe and calculating observables such as the power spectrum or bispectrum. However, beyond linear order, typically this is done by assuming a simplification in the […]


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Mini-Quenching of High-Redshift Galaxies by Bursty Star Formation

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Tibor Dome, Sandro Tacchella, Anastasia Fialkov, Avishai Dekel, Omri Ginzburg | Summary: The recent observation of a low-mass $z=5.2$ and an intermediate-mass $z=7.3$ (JADES-GS-z7-01-QU) quenched galaxy with JWST / NIRSpec is the first evidence of halted star formation above $zsim 5$. Here we show how bursty star […]


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Mini-quenching of $z=4-8$ galaxies by bursty star formation

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Tibor Dome, Sandro Tacchella, Anastasia Fialkov, Daniel Ceverino, Avishai Dekel | Summary: The recent reported discovery of a low-mass $z=5.2$ and an intermediate-mass $z=7.3$ quenched galaxy with JWST/NIRSpec is the first evidence of halted star formation above $zapprox 5$. Here we show how bursty star formation at […]


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The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, Vivien Bonvin | Summary: In late 2014, four images of Supernova (SN) "Refsdal," the first known example of a strongly lensed SN with multiple resolved images, were detected in the MACS J1149 galaxy-cluster field. Following the images’ discovery, […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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