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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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