Massive Star Formation Starts in Sub-virial Dense Clumps Unless Resisted by Strong Magnetic Fields

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Ke Wang, Yueluo Wang, Fengwei Xu, , | Summary: The initial conditions are critical for understanding high-mass star formation, but are not well observed. Built on our previous characterization of a Galaxy-wide sample of 463 candidate high-mass starless clumps (HMSCs), here we investigate the dynamical state of […]


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Extremely Dense Gas around Little Red Dots and High-redshift AGNs: A Non-stellar Origin of the Balmer Break and Absorption Features

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Kohei Inayoshi, Roberto Maiolino, , , | Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at high redshifts of $zgtrsim 4-7$, powered by accreting black holes (BHs) with masses of $sim 10^{6-8}~M_odot$. These AGN populations are considered crucial for understanding early […]


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Extremely Dense Gas around Little Red Dots and High-redshift Active Galactic Nuclei: A Non-stellar Origin of the Balmer Break and Absorption Features

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Kohei Inayoshi, Roberto Maiolino, , , | Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at high redshifts of $zgtrsim 4-7$, powered by accreting black holes (BHs) with masses of $sim 10^{6-8}~M_odot$. One remarkable distinction of these JWST-identified AGNs, compared to […]


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Extremely Dense Gas around Little Red Dots and High-redshift Active Galactic Nuclei: A Non-stellar Origin of the Balmer Break and Absorption Features

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Kohei Inayoshi, Roberto Maiolino, , , | Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at high redshifts of $zgtrsim 4-7$, powered by accreting black holes (BHs) with masses of $sim 10^{6-8}~M_odot$. One remarkable distinction of these JWST-identified AGNs, compared to […]


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Low-energy critical behavior in two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals driven by fermion-fermion interactions

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Wen Liu, Wen-Hao Bian, Xiao-Zhuo Chu, Jing Wang, | Summary: Employing the renormalization group approach, we carefully investigate the critical behavior of two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals induced by the fermion-fermion interactions in the low-energy regime. After incorporating all one-loop corrections, we derive the coupled RG equations of […]


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A Post-Starburst Pathway for the Formation of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at z>6

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Masafusa Onoue, Masafusa Onoue, , , | Summary: Understanding the rapid formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe requires insight into stellar mass growth in host galaxies. Here, we present NIRSpec rest-frame optical spectra and NIRCam imaging from JWST of two galaxies at z>6, […]


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Broad-Line AGN at 3.5<z<6: The Black Hole Mass Function and a Connection with Little Red Dots

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Anthony J. Taylor, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski, Junehyoung Jeon, Volker Bromm | Summary: We present a sample of 50 H-alpha detected broad-line active galactic nuclei (BLAGN) at redshifts 3.5<z<6.8 using data from the CEERS and RUBIES surveys. We select these sources directly from JWST/NIRSpec G395M/F290LP […]


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No Redshift Evolution in the Fe II/Mg II Flux Ratios of Quasars across Cosmic Time

Kavli Affiliate: Linhua Jiang | First 5 Authors: Danyang Jiang, Masafusa Onoue, Linhua Jiang, Samuel Lai, Eduardo Banados | Summary: The Fe II/Mg II emission line flux ratio in quasar spectra serves as a proxy for the relative Fe to alpha-element abundances in the broad line regions of quasars. Due to the expected different enrichment […]


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Two Channels of Metal-Rich Compact Stellar System Formation: Starbursts Under High Ram Pressure vs. Tidal Stripping

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Yuan Bian, Min Du, Victor P. Debattista, Dylan Nelson, Mark A. Norris | Summary: Most galaxies follow well-defined scaling relations of metallicity and stellar mass; however, some outliers at the low mass end of the observed galaxy population exhibit unusually high metallicity for their mass. Understanding […]


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A novel standard candle: collapsing axion stars

Kavli Affiliate: Lijing Shao | First 5 Authors: Haoran Di, Lijing Shao, Zhu Yi, Shi-Bei Kong, | Summary: The Hubble constant, $H_0$, is a crucial parameter in cosmology. However, various cosmic observations have produced differing posterior values for $H_0$, resulting in what is referred to as the $H_0$ tension. To resolve this discrepancy, utilizing other […]


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