A Census of Photometrically Selected Little Red Dots at 4 < z < 9 in JWST Blank Fields

Autor: Kokorev, Vasily, Caputi, Karina I., Greene, Jenny E., Dayal, Pratika, Trebitsch, Maxime, Cutler, Sam E., Fujimoto, Seiji, Labbé, Ivo, Miller, Tim B., Iani, Edoardo, Navarro-Carrera, Rafael, Rinaldi, Pierluigi
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered numerous faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at $z\sim5$ and beyond. These objects are key to our understanding of the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), their co-evolution with host galaxies, as well as the role of AGN in cosmic reionization. Using photometric colors and size measurements, we perform a search for compact red objects in an array of blank deep JWST/NIRCam fields totaling $\sim640$ arcmin$^{2}$. Our careful selection yields 260 reddened AGN candidates at $4Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. ApJ Accepted. Full source table here: https://github.com/VasilyKokorev/lrd_phot
Databáze: arXiv