The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2023)
CEERS Key Paper. II. A First Look at the Resolved Host Properties of AGN at 3 < z < 5 with JWST
- Dale D. Kocevski,
- Guillermo Barro,
- Elizabeth J. McGrath,
- Steven L. Finkelstein,
- Micaela B. Bagley,
- Henry C. Ferguson,
- Shardha Jogee,
- Guang Yang,
- Mark Dickinson,
- Nimish P. Hathi,
- Bren E. Backhaus,
- Eric F. Bell,
- Laura Bisigello,
- Véronique Buat,
- Denis Burgarella,
- Caitlin M. Casey,
- Nikko J. Cleri,
- M. C. Cooper,
- Luca Costantin,
- Darren Croton,
- Emanuele Daddi,
- Adriano Fontana,
- Seiji Fujimoto,
- Jonathan P. Gardner,
- Eric Gawiser,
- Mauro Giavalisco,
- Andrea Grazian,
- Norman A. Grogin,
- Yuchen Guo,
- Pablo Arrabal Haro,
- Michaela Hirschmann,
- Benne W. Holwerda,
- Marc Huertas-Company,
- Taylor A. Hutchison,
- Kartheik G. Iyer,
- Brenda Jones,
- Stéphanie Juneau,
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,
- Lisa J. Kewley,
- Allison Kirkpatrick,
- Anton M. Koekemoer,
- Peter Kurczynski,
- Aurélien Le Bail,
- Arianna S. Long,
- Jennifer M. Lotz,
- Ray A. Lucas,
- Casey Papovich,
- Laura Pentericci,
- Pablo G. Pérez-González,
- Nor Pirzkal,
- Marc Rafelski,
- Swara Ravindranath,
- Rachel S. Somerville,
- Amber N. Straughn,
- Sandro Tacchella,
- Jonathan R. Trump,
- Stephen M. Wilkins,
- Stijn Wuyts,
- L. Y. Aaron Yung,
- Jorge A. Zavala
Affiliations
- Dale D. Kocevski
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy , Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, USA ; [email protected]
- Guillermo Barro
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- Department of Physics, University of the Pacific , Stockton, CA 90340, USA
- Elizabeth J. McGrath
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy , Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, USA ; [email protected]
- Steven L. Finkelstein
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Micaela B. Bagley
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Henry C. Ferguson
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD, USA
- Shardha Jogee
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Guang Yang
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- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen , P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands; SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research , Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
- Mark Dickinson
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Nimish P. Hathi
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD, USA
- Bren E. Backhaus
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- Department of Physics, University of Connecticut , 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Eric F. Bell
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
- Laura Bisigello
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G.Galilei,” Universitá di Padova , Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy; INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
- Véronique Buat
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM Marseille, France
- Denis Burgarella
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM Marseille, France
- Caitlin M. Casey
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Nikko J. Cleri
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- M. C. Cooper
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, 4129 Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Luca Costantin
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) , Ctra de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, E-28850, Madrid, Spain
- Darren Croton
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- Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia
- Emanuele Daddi
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- Université Paris-Saclay , Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Adriano Fontana
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , via di Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- Seiji Fujimoto
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) , Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Lyngbyvej 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Jonathan P. Gardner
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- Astrophysics Science Division , Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 665, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Eric Gawiser
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Mauro Giavalisco
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst , 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-9305, USA
- Andrea Grazian
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
- Norman A. Grogin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD, USA
- Yuchen Guo
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Pablo Arrabal Haro
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Michaela Hirschmann
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- Institute of Physics , Laboratory of Galaxy Evolution, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Observatoire de Sauverny, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
- Benne W. Holwerda
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- Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Louisville , Louisville, KY 40292, USA
- Marc Huertas-Company
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Universidad de la Laguna , La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Université Paris-Cité , LERMA—Observatoire de Paris, PSL, Paris, France
- Taylor A. Hutchison
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Kartheik G. Iyer
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
- Brenda Jones
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine , Orono, ME 04469-5709, USA
- Stéphanie Juneau
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- NSF’s NOIRLab , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe
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- Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology , 84 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
- Lisa J. Kewley
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Allison Kirkpatrick
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas , Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Anton M. Koekemoer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Peter Kurczynski
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- Observational Cosmology Laboratory (Code 665), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Aurélien Le Bail
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- Université Paris-Saclay , Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Arianna S. Long
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Jennifer M. Lotz
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- Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Ray A. Lucas
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Casey Papovich
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Laura Pentericci
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , via di Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
- Pablo G. Pérez-González
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Ctra. de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, E-28850, Madrid, Spain
- Nor Pirzkal
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- ESA/AURA Space Telescope Science Institute , USA
- Marc Rafelski
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Swara Ravindranath
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Rachel S. Somerville
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute , 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
- Amber N. Straughn
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Sandro Tacchella
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge , Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Jonathan R. Trump
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- Department of Physics, University of Connecticut , 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- Stephen M. Wilkins
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- Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex , Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK; Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, University of Malta , Msida MSD 2080, Malta
- Stijn Wuyts
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- Department of Physics, University of Bath , Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
- L. Y. Aaron Yung
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Jorge A. Zavala
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- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acad00
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 946,
no. 1
p. L14
Abstract
We report on the host properties of five X-ray-luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified at 3 3 is significant because a rapid feedback mechanism is required in most semianalytic models and cosmological simulations to explain the growing population of massive quiescent galaxies observed at these redshifts. Our findings show that AGN can continue to inject energy into these systems after their star formation is curtailed, potentially heating their halos and preventing renewed star formation. Additional observations will be needed to determine what role this feedback may play in helping to quench these systems and/or maintain their quiescent state.
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