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 …

Photodissociation and X-Ray-Dominated Regions

MG Wolfire, L Vallini, M Chevance - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The radiation from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) creates photodissociation regions
(PDRs) and X-ray-dominated regions (XDRs), where the chemistry or heating is dominated …

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 …

GA-NIFS: A massive black hole in a low-metallicity AGN at z∼ 5.55 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

H Übler, R Maiolino, E Curtis-Lake… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present rest-frame optical data of the compact z= 5.55 galaxy GS_3073 obtained using
the integral field spectroscopy mode of the Near-InfraRed Spectrograph on board the James …

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 …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-α optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample

SEI Bosman, FB Davies, GD Becker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The presence of excess scatter in the Ly-α forest at z∼ 5.5, together with the existence of
sporadic extended opaque Gunn-Peterson troughs, has started to provide robust evidence …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

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 …

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 …