The emergence and ionizing feedback of Pop III.1 stars as progenitors for supermassive black holes

(2025)

Authors:

Mahsa Sanati, Jonathan C Tan, Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Matteo la Torre, Benjamin Keller, Maya A Petkova, Pierluigi Monaco, Vieri Cammelli, Jasbir Singh, Matthew Hayes

MIGHTEE: A first look at MIGHTEE quasars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91̽»¨ University Press (OUP) (2025) staf1187

Authors:

Sarah V White, Ivan Delvecchio, Nathan Adams, Ian Heywood, Imogen H Whittam, Catherine L Hale, Neo Namane, Rebecca AA Bowler, Jordan D Collier

Abstract:

Abstract In this work we study a robust, Ks-band complete, spectroscopically-confirmed sample of 104 unobscured (Type-1) quasars within the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields of the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey, at 0.60 < zspec < 3.41. The quasars are selected via gJKs colour-space and, with 1.3-GHz flux-densities reaching rms ≈ 3.0 μ Jy beam−1, we find a radio-loudness fraction of 5percnt. Thanks to the deep, multiwavelength datasets that are available over these fields, the properties of radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars can be studied in a statistically-robust way, with the emphasis of this work being on the active-galactic-nuclei (AGN)-related and star-formation-related contributions to the total radio emission. We employ multiple star-formation-rate estimates for the analysis so that our results can be compared more-easily with others in the literature, and find that the fraction of sources that have their radio emission dominated by the AGN crucially depends on the SFR estimate that is derived from the radio luminosity. When redshift dependence is not taken into account, a larger fraction of sources is classed as having their radio emission dominated by the AGN. When redshift dependence is considered, a larger fraction of our sample is tentatively classed as ‘starbursts’. We also find that the fraction of (possible) starbursts increases with redshift, and provide multiple suggestions for this trend.

Efficient Ionizers with Low H β + [O iii ] Equivalent Widths: JADES Spectroscopy of a Peculiar High-redshift Population

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 988:1 (2025) 73

Authors:

Isaac H Laseter, Michael V Maseda, Charlotte Simmonds, Ryan Endsley, Daniel Stark, Andrew J Bunker, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Kristan Boyett, Alex J Cameron, Stefano Carniani, Mirko Curti, Zhiyuan Ji, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Aayush Saxena, Sandro Tacchella, Chris Willott, Joris Witstok, Yongda Zhu

Abstract:

Early JWST photometric studies discovered a population of UV-faint ( 700 Å) exclude the most metal-poor efficient ionizers and favor (1) more chemically enriched systems with comparable extreme radiation fields and (2) older starbursting systems. In contrast, metallicity degeneracies are reduced in Hα space, enabling the identification of these metal-poor efficient ionizers by their specific star formation rate.

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-latitude Time-domain Core Community Survey

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 988:1 (2025) 65

Authors:

BM Rose, M Vincenzi, R Hounsell, H Qu, L Aldoroty, D Scolnic, R Kessler, P Macias, D Brout, M Acevedo, RC Chen, S Gomez, E Peterson, D Rubin, M Sako

Abstract:

We present a simulation of the time-domain catalog for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey. This simulation, called the Hourglass simulation, uses the most up-to-date spectral energy distribution models and rate measurements for 10 extragalactic time-domain sources. We simulate these models through the design reference Roman Space Telescope survey: four filters per tier, a five-day cadence, over 2 yr, a wide tier of 19 deg2, and a deep tier of 4.2 deg2, with ∼20% of those areas also covered with prism observations. We find that a science-independent Roman time-domain catalog, assuming a signal-to-noise ratio at a max of >5, would have approximately 21,000 Type Ia supernovae, 40,000 core-collapse supernovae, around 70 superluminous supernovae, ∼35 tidal disruption events, three kilonovae, and possibly pair-instability supernovae. In total, Hourglass has over 64,000 transient objects, 11,000,000 photometric observations, and 500,000 spectra. Additionally, Hourglass is a useful data set to train machine learning classification algorithms. We show that SCONE is able to photometrically classify Type Ia supernovae with high precision (∼95%) to a z > 2. Finally, we present the first realistic simulations of non-Type Ia supernovae spectral time series data from Roman’s prism.

Impact of cosmic ray-driven outflows on Lyman-α emission in cosmological simulations

(2025)

Authors:

Taysun Kimm, Julien Devriendt, Francesco Rodríguez Montero, Adrianne Slyz, Jérémy Blaizot, Harley Katz, Beomchan Koh, Hyunmi Song