The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

A CEERS discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: identifying a progenitor of massive z> 6 quasars

RL Larson, SL Finkelstein, DD Kocevski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of an accreting supermassive black hole at z= 8.679. This galaxy,
denoted here as CEERS_1019, was previously discovered as a Lyα-break galaxy by …

A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z= 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH∼ 106–108 M⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties

Y Harikane, Y Zhang, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z> 4 identified by
JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec= 3.8–8.9 confirmed …

A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre …

Y Harikane, M Ouchi, M Oguri, Y Ono… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a comprehensive study on dropout galaxy candidates at z∼ 9–16 using the first
90 arcmin 2 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Camera images taken by …

UNCOVER: The Growth of the First Massive Black Holes from JWST/NIRSpec—Spectroscopic Redshift Confirmation of an X-Ray Luminous AGN at z= 10.1

AD Goulding, JE Greene, DJ Setton… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope is now detecting early black holes (BHs) as
they transition from" seeds" to supermassive BHs. Recently, Bogdan et al. reported the …

Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar

Á Bogdán, AD Goulding, P Natarajan, OE Kovács… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place
less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery …

JADES-The diverse population of infant black holes at 4< z< 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty

R Maiolino, J Scholtz, E Curtis-Lake, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope has opened the possibility of
identifying moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe, at and …

A luminous quasar at redshift 7.642

F Wang, J Yang, X Fan, JF Hennawi… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Distant quasars are unique tracers to study the formation of the earliest supermassive black
holes (SMBHs) and the history of cosmic reionization. Despite extensive efforts, only two …