Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We present a clustering-based method for inferring halo masses of high-redshift galaxies, validated using the COLIBRE simulations combined with the HOMA empirical model, which assumes star formation to be proportional to halo accretion rate and is calibrated to JWST observations. Our approach matches the two-point correlation function of galaxies in […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:One-halo galactic conformity is the tendency for satellites in halos with quenched centrals to have lower star-formation activity than those in halos with star-forming centrals at fixed halo mass. It is an important probe of the galaxy–halo connection and halo-wide quenching processes that may couple central and satellite evolution. However, […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:High-resolution UV spectroscopy serves a diversity of science cases, from small bodies to planets, stars, and galaxies, but is currently limited to the Hubble Space Telescope and bright targets. Major advances require increasing sensitivity by at least one order of magnitude. Here we present the UV science cases for PEGASUS […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We present a spectro-photometric analysis of RUBIES-EGS-9809, a broad-line AGN host at z=5.7 with a Balmer break and a dominant point source. The source is dust reddened ($A_V>$3 mag), shows hot- and cold-dust emission, and is X-ray Compton thick, with X-ray-to-bolometric ratio consistent with luminous AGN. The large $A_V$ agrees […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:Recent observations of the local Little Red Dot (LRD) analog SDSS~J1025+1402 have revealed that the optical continuum is polarized at the ~1.5% level, while broad Halpha has lower polarization (~0.7%) and a different polarization angle. We explain these properties in a scenario in which LRDs are dust-obscured Little Blue Dots […]

Kavli Affiliate: E. P. S. Shellard | Summary:Nambu-Goto cosmic string loops generically develop cusps, points where the string momentarily reaches the speed of light. These cusps produce strong gravitational wave bursts with a characteristic strain spectrum $tildeh(ω)propto (Gμ),ω^-4/3$, making them prime targets for gravitational wave searches, where $μ$ is the string mass per unit length. […]

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | Summary:Several Decadal-level questions in astrophysics, exoplanets, astrobiology, and cosmology can be addressed only at low radio frequencies inaccessible from Earth. The MegaWave Radio Surveyor would open this largely-unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a space-based interferometer to (1)~Track the space weather of other stars; (2)~Detect magnetically-generated emission from exoplanets […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:Ly-alpha emission is widely used to trace cosmic reionization, but its interpretation depends on how Ly-alpha visibility varies with galaxy environment. We use deep JWST/NIRSpec observations from Deep Insights into UV Spectroscopy at the Epoch of Reionization (DIVER) in GOODS-N to measure Ly-alpha visibility for 250 galaxies at 4.8<z<11. The […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We present JWST/NIRSpec IFU spectroscopy of the central $618times618$ pc$^2$ ($sim3”times3”$) of NGC 4696, the BCG in the Centaurus cluster. Leveraging the $sim0.1”$ ($20.6$ pc) pixel size of JWST, we resolve a compact circumnuclear rotating disk (radius of $sim120$ pc) traced by Pa$α$ and H$_2$ 1$-$0 S(1) emission, which allows […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We present JWST/NIRSpec IFU spectroscopy of the central $618times618$ pc$^2$ ($sim3”times3”$) of NGC 4696, the BCG in the Centaurus cluster. Leveraging the $sim0.1”$ ($20.6$ pc) pixel size of JWST, we resolve a compact circumnuclear rotating disk (radius of $sim120$ pc) traced by Pa$α$ and H$_2$ 1$-$0 S(1) emission, which allows […]