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Nāpōwawā‘enakaulua: A Close Quasar Pair at Cosmic Dawn in the Aether Survey

  • Authors: Silvia Onorato, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Roberto Decarli, Klaudia Protušová, Elia Pizzati, Debora Pelliccia, Devin S. Chu, Larry Lindsey Kimura, Leinani Lozi, Emily Peavy, Fabrizio Arrigoni–Battaia, Eduardo Bañados, Aaron J. Barth, Silvia Belladitta, Manuela Bischetti, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Hyunseop Choi, Tiago Costa, Anna-Christina Eilers, Xiaohui Fan, Simona Gallerani, Thomas R. Geballe, Anniek J. Gloudemans, Eunchong Kim, Brian C. Lemaux, Weizhe Liu, 伟哲 刘, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Atsuko Nitta, Jan-Torge Schindler, Andrew W. Stephens, Hyewon Suh, Fabian Walter, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang

Silvia Onorato et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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(a0) JWST/NIRSpec IFU FoV (white light image), with the two quasars indicated by “A” and “B”, marked by yellow stars, and a candidate foreground galaxy (“f/g”) for which we do not identify any clear emission line. (a) Combined Gemini/GNIRS and JWST/NIRSpec spectrum of Nāpōwawā‘enakaulua “A” (black) and associated error (gray). The light orange band highlights the gap between the spectra ([25241, 28697] Å). The light gray bands indicate the regions affected by telluric absorption ([13500, 14150] and [18200, 19300] Å). We include archival YJHK magnitudes (colored dots; N. P. Ross & N. J. G. Cross 2020) and label the main emission lines (red dashed lines). (a1) Zoom-in on the Hβ + [O III] emission line complex for “A”. Best-fit profiles are overlaid, and residuals are shown in the bottom panel. (a2) Same as (a1), but focusing on the Hα emission line. (b, b1, b2) Same as in (a), but for the combined GMOS+GNIRS and NIRSpec spectrum of “B”. The synthetic K-band magnitude is marked by a red square and derived from the original GNIRS spectrum.

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