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A GLIMPSE of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in the Epoch of Reionization: Witnessing the Descendants of Direct Collapse?

  • Authors: Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm, Hakim Atek, Gabriel Brammer, Yoshihisa Asada, Danielle A. Berg, Volker Bromm, Lukas J. Furtak, Jenny E. Greene, Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Junehyoung Jeon, Vasily Kokorev, Jorryt Matthee, Priyamvada Natarajan, Richard Pan, Johan Richard, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Marta Volonteri, Adi Zitrin

Qinyue Fei et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

BHMF derived from this study. Left: the measured BHMF and the empirical relation. Our sources are shown as red hexagons, where filled hexagons denote the analysis applying the completeness correction and open hexagons do not. Previous studies are shown as blue circles and yellow squares (J. Matthee et al. 2024; A. J. Taylor et al. 2025), where open symbols denote the data points with high incompleteness in their analysis. The gray triangles represent the BHs' number density calculated from quasars at z ∼ 4 from HSC observations (W. He et al. 2024). Our fitting using the Schechter function is shown as the red-dashed line. Right: comparison between our measurement and a recent theoretical prediction including heavy seeds. The blue- and red-shaded regions denote the BHMF from SAM predictions for the heavy seeds model, while the green shaded region represents the BHMF from the light seeds model (J. Jeon et al. 2025).

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