GOALS-JWST: Hidden Star Formation and Extended PAH Emission in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy VV 114 by A. S. Evans, D. T. Frayer, Vassilis Charmandaris, Lee Armus, Hanae Inami, Jason Surace, Sean Linden, B. T. Soifer, Tanio Diaz-Santos, Kirsten L. Larson, Jeffrey A. Rich, Yiqing Song, Loreto Barcos-Munoz, Joseph M. Mazzarella, George C. Privon, Vivian U, Anne M. Medling, Torsten Böker, Susanne Aalto, Kazushi Iwasawa, Justin H. Howell, Paul van der Werf, Philip Appleton, Thomas Bohn, Michael J. I. Brown, Christopher C. Hayward, Shunshi Hoshioka, Francisca Kemper, Thomas Lai, David Law, Matthew A. Malkan, Jason Marshall, Eric J. Murphy, David Sanders, Sabrina Stierwalt

“…The NE core, previously speculated to have an active galactic nucleus (AGN), has starburst-like mid-IR colors. …”
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JWST UNCOVER: Extremely Red and Compact Object at z phot ≃ 7.6 Triply Imaged by A2744 by Lukas J. Furtak, Adi Zitrin, Adèle Plat, Seiji Fujimoto, Bingjie Wang, Erica J. Nelson, Ivo Labbé, Rachel Bezanson, Gabriel B. Brammer, Pieter van Dokkum, Ryan Endsley, Karl Glazebrook, Jenny E. Greene, Joel Leja, Sedona H. Price, Renske Smit, Daniel P. Stark, John R. Weaver, Katherine E. Whitaker, Hakim Atek, Jacopo Chevallard, Emma Curtis-Lake, Pratika Dayal, Anna Feltre, Marijn Franx, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Danilo Marchesini, Lamiya A. Mowla, Richard Pan, Katherine A. Suess, Alba Vidal-García, Christina C. Williams

“…Based on its compact, point-like appearance, its position in color–color space, and the SED analysis, we tentatively conclude that this object is a UV-faint dust-obscured quasar-like object, i.e., an active galactic nucleus at high redshift. We also discuss other alternative origins for the object’s emission features, including a massive star cluster, Population III, supermassive, or dark stars, or a direct-collapse black hole. …”
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UNCOVER: A NIRSpec Identification of a Broad-line AGN at z = 8.50 by Vasily Kokorev, Seiji Fujimoto, Ivo Labbe, Jenny E. Greene, Rachel Bezanson, Pratika Dayal, Erica J. Nelson, Hakim Atek, Gabriel Brammer, Karina I. Caputi, Iryna Chemerynska, Sam E. Cutler, Robert Feldmann, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Lukas J. Furtak, Andy D. Goulding, Anna de Graaff, Joel Leja, Danilo Marchesini, Tim B. Miller, Themiya Nanayakkara, Pascal A. Oesch, Richard Pan, Sedona H. Price, David J. Setton, Renske Smit, Mauro Stefanon, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams, Adi Zitrin

“…In this work, we present a JWST/NIRSpec spectrum from the JWST Cycle 1 UNCOVER Treasury survey of a massive accreting black hole at z = 8.50 displaying a clear broad-line component as inferred from the H β line with FWHM = 3439 ± 413 km s ^−1 , typical of the broad-line region of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). The AGN nature of this object is further supported by high ionization, as inferred from emission lines, and a point-source morphology. …”
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GOALS-JWST: Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-forming Interstellar Medium in NGC 7469 by Thomas S.-Y. Lai, Lee Armus, Vivian U, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Kirsten L. Larson, Aaron Evans, Matthew A. Malkan, Philip Appleton, Jeff Rich, Francisco Müller-Sánchez, Hanae Inami, Thomas Bohn, Jed McKinney, Luke Finnerty, David R. Law, Sean T. Linden, Anne M. Medling, George C. Privon, Yiqing Song, Sabrina Stierwalt, Paul P. van der Werf, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, J. D. T. Smith, Aditya Togi, Susanne Aalto, Torsten Böker, Vassilis Charmandaris, Justin Howell, Kazushi Iwasawa, Francisca Kemper, Joseph M. Mazzarella, Eric J. Murphy, Michael J. I. Brown, Christopher C. Hayward, Jason Marshall, David Sanders, Jason Surace

“…This galaxy hosts a Seyfert type-1.5 nucleus, a highly ionized outflow, and a bright, circumnuclear star-forming ring, making it an ideal target to study active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the local universe. …”
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GOALS-JWST: Gas Dynamics and Excitation in NGC 7469 Revealed by NIRSpec by Marina Bianchin, Vivian U, Yiqing Song, Thomas S.-Y. Lai, Raymond P. Remigio, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Lee Armus, Hanae Inami, Kirsten L. Larson, Aaron S. Evans, Torsten Böker, Justin A. Kader, Sean T. Linden, Vassilis Charmandaris, Matthew A. Malkan, Jeff Rich, Thomas Bohn, Anne M. Medling, Sabrina Stierwalt, Joseph M. Mazzarella, David R. Law, George C. Privon, Susanne Aalto, Philip Appleton, Michael J. I. Brown, Victorine A. Buiten, Luke Finnerty, Christopher C. Hayward, Justin Howell, Kazushi Iwasawa, Francisca Kemper, Jason Marshall, Jed McKinney, Francisco Müller-Sánchez, Eric J. Murphy, Paul P. van der Werf, David B. Sanders, Jason Surace

“…Our analysis focuses on the [Fe ii ], H _2 , and hydrogen recombination lines that trace the radiation/shocked-excited molecular and ionized interstellar medium around the active galactic nucleus (AGN). We investigate gas excitation through H _2 /Br γ and [Fe ii ]/Pa β emission line ratios and find that photoionization by the AGN dominates within the central 300 pc of the galaxy except in a small region that shows signatures of shock-heated gas; these shock-heated regions are likely associated with a compact radio jet. …”
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PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Microjansky Radio Sources in the Time Domain Field by S. P. Willner, Hansung B. Gim, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Seth H. Cohen, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Xiurui Zhao, Jordan C. J. D’Silva, Rolf A. Jansen, Anton M. Koekemoer, Jake Summers, Rogier A. Windhorst, Dan Coe, Christopher J. Conselice, Simon P. Driver, Brenda Frye, Norman A. Grogin, Madeline A. Marshall, Mario Nonino, Rafael Ortiz III, Nor Pirzkal, Aaron Robotham, Michael J. Rutkowski, Russell E. Ryan Jr., Scott Tompkins, Haojing Yan, Heidi B. Hammel, Stefanie N. Milam, Nathan J. Adams, John F. Beacom, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Cheng Cheng, F. Civano, W. Cotton, Minhee Hyun, Satoshi Kikuta, K. E. Nyland, W. M. Peters, Andreea Petric, Huub J. A. Röttgering, T. Shimwell, Min S. Yun

“…The radio emission arises primarily from star formation in ∼2/3 of the sample and from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) in ∼1/3, but just over half the sample shows evidence for an AGN either in the spectral energy distribution or by radio excess. …”
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GOALS-JWST: Resolving the Circumnuclear Gas Dynamics in NGC 7469 in the Mid-infrared by Vivian U, Thomas Lai, Marina Bianchin, Raymond P. Remigio, Lee Armus, Kirsten L. Larson, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Aaron Evans, Sabrina Stierwalt, David R. Law, Matthew A. Malkan, Sean Linden, Yiqing Song, Paul P. van der Werf, Tianmu Gao, George C. Privon, Anne M. Medling, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Christopher C. Hayward, Hanae Inami, Jeff Rich, Susanne Aalto, Philip Appleton, Thomas Bohn, Torsten Böker, Michael J. I. Brown, Vassilis Charmandaris, Luke Finnerty, Justin Howell, Kazushi Iwasawa, Francisca Kemper, Jason Marshall, Joseph M. Mazzarella, Jed McKinney, Francisco Muller-Sanchez, Eric J. Murphy, David Sanders, Jason Surace

“…The nearby, luminous infrared galaxy NGC 7469 hosts a Seyfert nucleus with a circumnuclear star-forming ring and is thus the ideal local laboratory for investigating the starburst–AGN (active galactic nucleus) connection in detail. We present integral-field observations of the central 1.3 kpc region in NGC 7469 obtained with the JWST Mid-InfraRed Instrument. …”
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A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars by Rebecca L. Larson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Dale D. Kocevski, Taylor A. Hutchison, Jonathan R. Trump, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Volker Bromm, Nikko J. Cleri, Mark Dickinson, Seiji Fujimoto, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Casey Papovich, Nor Pirzkal, Sandro Tacchella, Jorge A. Zavala, Micaela Bagley, Peter Behroozi, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Justin W. Cole, Intae Jung, Alexa M. Morales, Guang Yang, Haowen Zhang, Adi Zitrin, Ricardo O. Amorín, Denis Burgarella, Caitlin M. Casey, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Isabella G. Cox, Katherine Chworowsky, Adriano Fontana, Eric Gawiser, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Santosh Harish, Nimish P. Hathi, Michaela Hirschmann, Benne W. Holwerda, Stéphanie Juneau, Gene C. K. Leung, Ray A. Lucas, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Jane R. Rigby, Lise-Marie Seillé, Raymond C. Simons, Alexander de la Vega, Benjamin J. Weiner, Stephen M. Wilkins, L. Y. Aaron Yung, and The CEERS Team

“…We conclude this originates in the broadline region of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). This is supported by the presence of weak high-ionization lines (N V, N IV], and C III]), as well as a spatial point-source component. …”
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JADES Imaging of GN-z11: Revealing the Morphology and Environment of a Luminous Galaxy 430 Myr after the Big Bang by Sandro Tacchella, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kevin Hainline, Benjamin D. Johnson, William M. Baker, Jakob M. Helton, Brant Robertson, Katherine A. Suess, Zuyi Chen, Erica Nelson, Dávid Puskás, Fengwu Sun, Stacey Alberts, Eiichi Egami, Ryan Hausen, George Rieke, Marcia Rieke, Irene Shivaei, Christina C. Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Andrew Bunker, Alex J. Cameron, Stefano Carniani, Stephane Charlot, Mirko Curti, Emma Curtis-Lake, Tobias J. Looser, Roberto Maiolino, Michael V. Maseda, Tim Rawle, Hans-Walter Rix, Renske Smit, Hannah Übler, Chris Willott, Joris Witstok, Stefi Baum, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Kristan Boyett, A. Lola Danhaive, Anna de Graaff, Ryan Endsley, Zhiyuan Ji, Jianwei Lyu, Lester Sandles, Aayush Saxena, Jan Scholtz, Michael W. Topping, Lily Whitler

“…From population-synthesis modeling, here assuming no light from an active galactic nucleus, we reproduce the SED of GN-z11, finding a stellar mass of ∼10 ^9 M _⊙ , a star formation rate of ∼20 M _⊙ yr ^−1 , and a young stellar age of ∼20 Myr. …”
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The Art of Measuring Physical Parameters in Galaxies: A Critical Assessment of Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting Techniques by Camilla Pacifici, Kartheik G. Iyer, Bahram Mobasher, Elisabete da Cunha, Viviana Acquaviva, Denis Burgarella, Gabriela Calistro Rivera, Adam C. Carnall, Yu-Yen Chang, Nima Chartab, Kevin C. Cooke, Ciaran Fairhurst, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Joel Leja, Katarzyna Małek, Brett Salmon, Marianna Torelli, Alba Vidal-García, Médéric Boquien, Gabriel G. Brammer, Michael J. I. Brown, Peter L. Capak, Jacopo Chevallard, Chiara Circosta, Darren Croton, Iary Davidzon, Mark Dickinson, Kenneth J. Duncan, Sandra M. Faber, Harry C. Ferguson, Adriano Fontana, Yicheng Guo, Boris Haeussler, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Marziye Jafariyazani, Susan A. Kassin, Rebecca L. Larson, Bomee Lee, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Francesca Marchi, Hooshang Nayyeri, Jeffrey A. Newman, Viraj Pandya, Janine Pforr, Naveen Reddy, Ryan Sanders, Ekta Shah, Abtin Shahidi, Matthew L. Stevans, Dian Puspita Triani, Krystal D. Tyler, Brittany N. Vanderhoof, Alexander de la Vega, Weichen Wang, Madalyn E. Weston

“…To explore the differences and biases among the codes, we explore the impact of the various modeling assumptions as they are set in the codes (e.g., star formation histories, nebular, dust and active galactic nucleus models) on the derived stellar masses, SFRs, and A _V values. …”
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Two Massive, Compact, and Dust-obscured Candidate z ≃ 8 Galaxies Discovered by JWST by Hollis B. Akins, Caitlin M. Casey, Natalie Allen, Micaela B. Bagley, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Maximilien Franco, Santosh Harish, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Olivier Ilbert, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Daizhong Liu, Arianna S. Long, Henry Joy McCracken, Louise Paquereau, Casey Papovich, Nor Pirzkal, Jason Rhodes, Brant E. Robertson, Marko Shuntov, Sune Toft, Guang Yang, Guillermo Barro, Laura Bisigello, Véronique Buat, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Olivia Cooper, Luca Costantin, Alexander de la Vega, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas Faisst, Adriano Fontana, Seiji Fujimoto, Steven Gillman, Carlos Gómez-Guijarro, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Nimish P. Hathi, Christopher C. Hayward, Michaela Hirschmann, Benne W. Holwerda, Shuowen Jin, Dale D. Kocevski, Vasily Kokorev, Erini Lambrides, Ray A. Lucas, Georgios E. Magdis, Benjamin Magnelli, Jed McKinney, Bahram Mobasher, Pablo G. Pérez-González, R. Michael Rich, Lise-Marie Seillé, Margherita Talia, C. Megan Urry, Francesco Valentino, Katherine E. Whitaker, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Jorge Zavala, the COSMOS-Web and CEERS teams

“…We estimate stellar masses of ∼10 ^10 M _⊙ for both sources; by virtue of detection in MIRI at 7.7 μ m, these measurements are robust to the inclusion of bright emission lines, for example, from an active galactic nucleus. We identify a marginal (2.9 σ ) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detection at 2 mm within 0.″5 of COS-z8M1, which, if real, would suggest a remarkably high IR luminosity of ∼10 ^12 L _⊙ . …”
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AGN STORM 2. II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk 817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope by Y. Homayouni, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha, Gerard A. Kriss, Aaron J. Barth, Edward M. Cackett, Keith Horne, Erin A. Kara, Hermine Landt, Nahum Arav, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Misty C. Bentz, Thomas G. Brink, Michael S. Brotherton, Doron Chelouche, Elena Dalla Bontà, Maryam Dehghanian, Pu Du, Gary J. Ferland, Laura Ferrarese, Carina Fian, Alexei V. Filippenko, Travis Fischer, Ryan J. Foley, Jonathan Gelbord, Michael R. Goad, Diego H. González Buitrago, Varoujan Gorjian, Catherine J. Grier, Patrick B. Hall, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Chen Hu, Dragana Ilić, Michael D. Joner, Jelle Kaastra, Shai Kaspi, Christopher S. Kochanek, Kirk T. Korista, Andjelka B. Kovačević, Daniel Kynoch, Yan-Rong Li, Ian M. McHardy, Jacob N. McLane, Missagh Mehdipour, Jake A. Miller, Jake Mitchell, John Montano, Hagai Netzer, Christos Panagiotou, Ethan Partington, Richard W. Pogge, Luka Č. Popović, Daniel Proga, Daniele Rogantini, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, David Sanmartim, Matthew R. Siebert, Tommaso Treu, Marianne Vestergaard, Jian-Min Wang, Martin J. Ward, Tim Waters, Peter R. Williams, Fatima Zaidouni, Ying Zu

“…We present reverberation mapping measurements for the prominent ultraviolet broad emission lines of the active galactic nucleus Mrk 817 using 165 spectra obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. …”
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JWST PEARLS. Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results by Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen, Jake Summers, Scott Tompkins, Christopher J. Conselice, Simon P. Driver, Haojing Yan, Dan Coe, Brenda Frye, Norman Grogin, Anton Koekemoer, Madeline A. Marshall, Rosalia O’Brien, Nor Pirzkal, Aaron Robotham, Russell E. Ryan Jr., Christopher N. A. Willmer, Timothy Carleton, Jose M. Diego, William C. Keel, Paolo Porto, Caleb Redshaw, Sydney Scheller, Stephen M. Wilkins, S. P. Willner, Adi Zitrin, Nathan J. Adams, Duncan Austin, Richard G. Arendt, John F. Beacom, Rachana A. Bhatawdekar, Larry D. Bradley, Tom Broadhurst, Cheng Cheng, Francesca Civano, Liang Dai, Hervé Dole, Jordan C. J. D’Silva, Kenneth J. Duncan, Giovanni G. Fazio, Giovanni Ferrami, Leonardo Ferreira, Steven L. Finkelstein, Lukas J. Furtak, Hansung B. Gim, Alex Griffiths, Heidi B. Hammel, Kevin C. Harrington, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Rachel Honor, Jia-Sheng Huang, Minhee Hyun, Myungshin Im, Bhavin A. Joshi, Patrick S. Kamieneski, Patrick Kelly, Rebecca L. Larson, Juno Li, Jeremy Lim, Zhiyuan Ma, Peter Maksym, Giorgio Manzoni, Ashish Kumar Meena, Stefanie N. Milam, Mario Nonino, Massimo Pascale, Andreea Petric, Justin D. R. Pierel, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Michael J. Rutkowski, Ian Smail, Amber N. Straughn, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Andi Swirbul, James A. A. Trussler, Lifan Wang, Brian Welch, J. Stuart B. Wyithe, Min Yun, Erik Zackrisson, Jiashuo Zhang, Xiurui Zhao

“…The main goal of PEARLS is to study the epoch of galaxy assembly, active galactic nucleus (AGN) growth, and First Light. Five fields—the JWST NEP Time-Domain Field (TDF), IRAC Dark Field, and three lensing clusters—will be observed in up to four epochs over a year. …”
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