Quasars and the intergalactic medium at cosmic dawn

X Fan, E Bañados, RA Simcoe - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Quasars at cosmic dawn provide powerful probes of the formation and growth of the earliest
supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe, their connections to galaxy and …

XQR-30: The ultimate XSHOOTER quasar sample at the reionization epoch

V D'Odorico, E Bañados, GD Becker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The final phase of the reionization process can be probed by rest-frame UV absorption
spectra of quasars at z≳ 6, shedding light on the properties of the diffuse intergalactic …

Metal enrichment and evolution in four z> 6.5 quasar sightlines observed with JWST/NIRSpec

L Christensen, P Jakobsen, C Willott, S Arribas… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present JWST/NIRSpec R≃ 2700 spectra of four high-redshift quasars: VDES J0020–
3653 (z= 6.860), DELS J0411–0907 (z= 6.825), UHS J0439+ 1634 (z= 6.519), and ULAS …

Tracing the rise of supermassive black holes-A panchromatic search for faint, unobscured quasars at z≳ 6 with COSMOS-Web and other surveys

IT Andika, K Jahnke, M Onoue, JD Silverman… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We report the identification of 64 new candidates of compact galaxies, potentially hosting
faint quasars with bolometric luminosities of L bol= 10 43–10 46 erg s− 1, residing in the …

New radio-loud QSOs at the end of the Re-ionization epoch

L Ighina, A Caccianiga, A Moretti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the selection of high-redshift (z≳ 5.7) radio-loud (RL) quasi-stellar object (QSO)
candidates from the combination of the radio Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS; at …

Streamlined lensed quasar identification in multiband images via ensemble networks

IT Andika, SH Suyu, R Cañameras, A Melo… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Quasars experiencing strong lensing offer unique viewpoints on subjects related to the
cosmic expansion rate, the dark matter profile within the foreground deflectors, and the …

Accelerating lensed quasar discovery and modeling with physics-informed variational autoencoders

IT Andika, S Schuldt, SH Suyu, S Bag… - Astronomy & …, 2025 - aanda.org
Strongly lensed quasars provide valuable insights into the rate of cosmic expansion, the
distribution of dark matter in foreground deflectors, and the characteristics of quasar hosts …

When Spectral Modeling Meets Convolutional Networks: A Method for Discovering Reionization-era Lensed Quasars in Multiband Imaging Data

IT Andika, K Jahnke, A van der Wel… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last two decades, around 300 quasars have been discovered at z≳ 6, yet only one
has been identified as being strongly gravitationally lensed. We explore a new approach …

Direct Evidence for AGN Feedback from Fast Molecular Outflows in Reionization-Era Quasars

JS Spilker, JB Champagne, X Fan, S Fujimoto… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to
play a key role in the short-and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new …

Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at : public data release and composite spectrum

S Onorato, JF Hennawi, JT Schindler, J Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations for a sample of $45 $
quasars at $6.50< z\leq 7.64$ with absolute magnitudes at $1450 ${\AA} in the range …