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UNCOVER: A NIRSpec Census of Lensed Galaxies at z = 8.50–13.08 Probing a High-AGN Fraction and Ionized Bubbles in the Shadow

  • Authors: Seiji Fujimoto, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Vasily Kokorev, Hakim Atek, Rachel Bezanson, Ivo Labbe, Gabriel Brammer, Jenny E. Greene, Iryna Chemerynska, Pratika Dayal, Anna de Graaff, Lukas J. Furtak, Pascal A. Oesch, David J. Setton, Sedona H. Price, Tim B. Miller, Christina C. Williams, Katherine E. Whitaker, Adi Zitrin, Sam E. Cutler, Joel Leja, Richard Pan, Dan Coe, Pieter van Dokkum, Robert Feldmann, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Andy D. Goulding, Gourav Khullar, Danilo Marchesini, Michael Maseda, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica J. Nelson, Renske Smit, Mauro Stefanon, Andrea Weibel

Seiji Fujimoto et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 977 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Constraints on the UV LF at z ∼ 9, z ∼ 10, and z ∼ 12. The magenta pentagons represent the AGN sources from BL (ID20466) and X-ray (ID26185) detections, and the red circles present the other eight sources in our spec-z-confirmed sample in UNCOVER. The red squares denote the spec-z-confirmed nonobvious AGN sources from UNCOVER, CEERS, and JADES GOODS-S, where we do not include several sources in the z = 8.7 overdensity reported in the CEERS field (see text). The gray shaded region and gray squares show the previous photometric measurements, and the black solid curve denotes the best-fit Schechter function estimated in P. G. Pérez-González et al. (2023). The orange squares show the recent spectroscopic measurements (Y. Harikane et al. 2023b). The green squares denote the recent JWST-observed bright objects of GNz11 (R. Maiolino et al. 2024b) and CEERS1019 (R. L. Larson et al. 2023) reported as AGNs. The magenta dashed curve presents the best-fit double power-law function for z ∼ 6 AGNs (E. Giallongo et al. 2019). The open magenta pentagon remarks the two possible AGN sources at different redshifts that show uniquely high-ionization emission lines such as N IV] λ1749, C IV λ1549, and He II λ1640 (ID10646 at z = 8.51) and high [O III] λ5008/Hβ ratio of >10 (ID3686 at z = 9.33), where the excess is not caused by an overdensity but by their uniquely UV-bright properties.

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