The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2023)
A SPectroscopic Survey of Biased Halos in the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z = 6.61 Quasar
- Feige Wang,
- Jinyi Yang,
- Joseph F. Hennawi,
- Xiaohui Fan,
- Fengwu Sun,
- Jaclyn B. Champagne,
- Tiago Costa,
- Melanie Habouzit,
- Ryan Endsley,
- Zihao Li,
- Xiaojing Lin,
- Romain A. Meyer,
- Jan–Torge Schindler,
- Yunjing Wu,
- Eduardo Bañados,
- Aaron J. Barth,
- Aklant K. Bhowmick,
- Rebekka Bieri,
- Laura Blecha,
- Sarah Bosman,
- Zheng Cai,
- Luis Colina,
- Thomas Connor,
- Frederick B. Davies,
- Roberto Decarli,
- Gisella De Rosa,
- Alyssa B. Drake,
- Eiichi Egami,
- Anna-Christina Eilers,
- Analis E. Evans,
- Emanuele Paolo Farina,
- Zoltan Haiman,
- Linhua Jiang,
- Xiangyu Jin,
- Hyunsung D. Jun,
- Koki Kakiichi,
- Yana Khusanova,
- Girish Kulkarni,
- Mingyu Li,
- Weizhe Liu,
- Federica Loiacono,
- Alessandro Lupi,
- Chiara Mazzucchelli,
- Masafusa Onoue,
- Maria A. Pudoka,
- Sofía Rojas-Ruiz,
- Yue Shen,
- Michael A. Strauss,
- Wei Leong Tee,
- Benny Trakhtenbrot,
- Maxime Trebitsch,
- Bram Venemans,
- Marta Volonteri,
- Fabian Walter,
- Zhang-Liang Xie,
- Minghao Yue,
- Haowen Zhang,
- Huanian Zhang,
- Siwei Zou
Affiliations
- Feige Wang
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Jinyi Yang
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Joseph F. Hennawi
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- Department of Physics, University of California , Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USA; Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Xiaohui Fan
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Fengwu Sun
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Jaclyn B. Champagne
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Tiago Costa
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik , Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching b. München, Germany
- Melanie Habouzit
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- Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg , ITA, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 2, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Ryan Endsley
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin , TX 78712, USA
- Zihao Li
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- Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Xiaojing Lin
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- Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Romain A. Meyer
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jan–Torge Schindler
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Yunjing Wu
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]; Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Eduardo Bañados
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Aaron J. Barth
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California , Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA
- Aklant K. Bhowmick
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Rebekka Bieri
- Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern , Gesellschaftsstrasse 6 (G6), Bern, Switzerland
- Laura Blecha
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Sarah Bosman
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Zheng Cai
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- Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Luis Colina
- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Ctra. de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, E-28850, Madrid, Spain; International Associate, Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Denmark
- Thomas Connor
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- Frederick B. Davies
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Roberto Decarli
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- INAF–Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio , via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129, Bologna, Italy
- Gisella De Rosa
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Alyssa B. Drake
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire , Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
- Eiichi Egami
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Anna-Christina Eilers
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- MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Analis E. Evans
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Emanuele Paolo Farina
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- Gemini Observatory , NSF’s NOIRLab, 670 North A’ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
- Zoltan Haiman
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- Department of Astronomy, Columbia University , New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Physics, Columbia University , New York, NY 10027, USA
- Linhua Jiang
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- Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
- Xiangyu Jin
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Hyunsung D. Jun
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- SNU Astronomy Research Center, Seoul National University , 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Koki Kakiichi
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- Department of Physics, Broida Hall, University of California , Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USA
- Yana Khusanova
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Girish Kulkarni
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
- Mingyu Li
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- Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Weizhe Liu
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Federica Loiacono
- INAF–Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio , via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129, Bologna, Italy
- Alessandro Lupi
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca , Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- Chiara Mazzucchelli
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- Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales , Avenida Ejercito Libertador 441, Santiago, Chile
- Masafusa Onoue
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- Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), The University of Tokyo , Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Maria A. Pudoka
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Sofía Rojas-Ruiz
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Yue Shen
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, IL 61801, USA; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Michael A. Strauss
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
- Wei Leong Tee
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Benny Trakhtenbrot
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Maxime Trebitsch
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- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen , P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
- Bram Venemans
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Marta Volonteri
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- Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Université , CNRS, UMR 7095, 98 bis bd Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
- Fabian Walter
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Zhang-Liang Xie
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- Max Planck Institut für Astronomie , Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Minghao Yue
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Haowen Zhang
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; [email protected]
- Huanian Zhang
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- Department of Astronomy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
- Siwei Zou
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- Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/accd6f
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 951,
no. 1
p. L4
Abstract
We present the first results from the JWST program A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE). This program represents an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 25 reionization-era quasars and their environments by utilizing the unprecedented capabilities of NIRCam Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) mode. ASPIRE will deliver the largest ( $\sim 280\,{\mathrm{arcmin}}^{2}$ ) galaxy redshift survey at 3–4 μ m among JWST Cycle 1 programs and provide extensive legacy values for studying the formation of the earliest supermassive black holes, the assembly of galaxies, early metal enrichment, and cosmic reionization. In this first ASPIRE paper, we report the discovery of a filamentary structure traced by the luminous quasar J0305–3150 and 10 [O iii ] emitters at z = 6.6. This structure has a 3D galaxy overdensity of δ _gal = 12.6 over 637 cMpc ^3 , one of the most overdense structures known in the early universe, and could eventually evolve into a massive galaxy cluster. Together with existing VLT/MUSE and ALMA observations of this field, our JWST observations reveal that J0305–3150 traces a complex environment where both UV-bright and dusty galaxies are present and indicate that the early evolution of galaxies around the quasar is not simultaneous. In addition, we discovered 31 [O iii ] emitters in this field at other redshifts, 5.3 < z < 6.7, with half of them situated at z ∼ 5.4 and 6.2. This indicates that star-forming galaxies, such as [O iii ] emitters, are generally clustered at high redshifts. These discoveries demonstrate the unparalleled redshift survey capabilities of NIRCam WFSS and the potential of the full ASPIRE survey data set.
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