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Uncovering a Massive z ∼ 7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Lambrides, Erini
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Chiaberge, Marco
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Long, Arianna S.
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January 1, 2024
The Astrophysical Journal Letters

In this Letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud (RL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, submillimeter, and radio imaging in the COSMOS-Web field. Using multifrequency radio observations and mid-IR photometry, we identify a powerful, RL, growing supermassive black hole with significant spectral steepening of the radio spectral energy distribution (f (1.28 GHz) similar to 2 mJy, q (24 mu m) = -1.1, alpha (1.28-3) (GHz) = - 1.2, Delta alpha = - 0.4). In conjunction with ALMA, deep ground-based observations, ancillary space-based data, and the unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of JWST, we find no evidence of AGN contribution to the UV/optical/near-infrared (NIR) data and thus infer heavy amounts of obscuration (N- H > 10(23) cm(-2)). Using the wealth of deep UV to submillimeter photometric data, we report a singular solution photo-z of z (phot) = 7.7(-0.3)(+0.4) and estimate an extremely massive host galaxy (log M-star=11.92 +/- 0.5M(circle dot)) hosting a powerful, growing supermassive black hole (L (Bol) = 4-12x x 10(46) erg s(-1)). This source represents the farthest known obscured RL AGN candidate, and its level of obscuration aligns with the most representative but observationally scarce population of AGN at these epochs.

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research article
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/ad11ee
Web of Science ID

WOS:001145881800001

Author(s)
Lambrides, Erini
Chiaberge, Marco
Long, Arianna S.
Liu, Daizhong
Akins, Hollis B.
Ptak, Andrew F.
Andika, Irham Taufik
Capetti, Alessandro
Casey, Caitlin M.
Champagne, Jaclyn B.
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Date Issued

2024-01-01

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume

961

Issue

1

Start page

L25

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Luminous Quasar

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Legacy Survey

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Black-Holes

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Redshift

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Field

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Discovery

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Universe

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Sky

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Agn

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Confirmation

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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GALSPEC  
FunderGrant Number

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)https://doi.org/10.13039/100006225

NRL Sustainment Restoration and Maintenance fund

NAS 5-26555

NASA

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February 23, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/205316
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