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JWST Reveals a Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binary at z = 4.3 in the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxy in COSMOS-Web

  • Authors: Jed McKinney, Ansh Gupta, Julian B. Muñoz, John Chisholm, Caitlin M. Casey, Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, Olivia Cooper, Erini Lambrides, Hollis Akins, Maximilien Franco, Archana Aravindan, Seiji Fujimoto, Kohei Inayoshi, Andreas L. Faisst, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Jed McKinney et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

BPT diagrams showing AzTEC-1’s narrow-emission-line ratios (red circle) compared to z < 0.4 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies (gray) and photoionization models. We show the BPT space covered by a super-solar metallicity (﹩\mathrm{log}Z/{Z}_{\odot }=2﹩) shock from MAPPINGS V (R. Sutherland et al. 2018) with vs ∈ [200, 1000] km s−1 and magnetic field strength B ∈ [10−4, 10] μG, including a photoionized precursor with a preshock density of n = 1 cm−3. In black we show the dust-depleted AGN NLR models from P. Zhu et al. (2023) with ﹩\mathrm{log}U\in [-3.4,-2]﹩ and Z/Z⊙ ∈ [0.5, 2.5]. AzTEC-1 is within the general AGN BPT domain (L. J. Kewley et al. 2001; G. Kauffmann et al. 2003), exhibiting some overlap with both the high-velocity shock and the dust-depleted NLR models.

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