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author Tanaka, Takumi S.
Silverman, John D.
Nakazato, Yurina
Onoue, Masafusa
Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
Fudamoto, Yoshinobu
Fujimoto, Seiji
Ding, Xuheng
Faisst, Andreas L.
Valentino, Francesco
Jin, Shuowen
Hayward, Christopher C.
Kokorev, Vasily
Ceverino, Daniel
Kalita, Boris S.
Casey, Caitlin M.
Liu, Zhaoxuan
Kaminsky, Aidan
Fei, Qinyue
Andika, Irham T.
Lambrides, Erini
Akins, Hollis B.
Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
Koekemoer, Anton M.
McCracken, Henry Joy
Rhodes, Jason
Robertson, Brant E.
Franco, Maximilien
Liu, Daizhong
Chartab, Nima
Gillman, Steven
Gozaliasl, Ghassem
Hirschmann, Michaela
Huertas-Company, Marc
Massey, Richard
Roy, Namrata
Sattari, Zahra
Shuntov, Marko
Sterling, Joseph
Toft, Sune
Trakhtenbrot, Benny
Yoshida, Naoki
Zavala, Jorge A.
author_facet Tanaka, Takumi S.
Silverman, John D.
Nakazato, Yurina
Onoue, Masafusa
Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
Fudamoto, Yoshinobu
Fujimoto, Seiji
Ding, Xuheng
Faisst, Andreas L.
Valentino, Francesco
Jin, Shuowen
Hayward, Christopher C.
Kokorev, Vasily
Ceverino, Daniel
Kalita, Boris S.
Casey, Caitlin M.
Liu, Zhaoxuan
Kaminsky, Aidan
Fei, Qinyue
Andika, Irham T.
Lambrides, Erini
Akins, Hollis B.
Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
Koekemoer, Anton M.
McCracken, Henry Joy
Rhodes, Jason
Robertson, Brant E.
Franco, Maximilien
Liu, Daizhong
Chartab, Nima
Gillman, Steven
Gozaliasl, Ghassem
Hirschmann, Michaela
Huertas-Company, Marc
Massey, Richard
Roy, Namrata
Sattari, Zahra
Shuntov, Marko
Sterling, Joseph
Toft, Sune
Trakhtenbrot, Benny
Yoshida, Naoki
Zavala, Jorge A.
contents The current paradigm for the co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes postulates that dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a transitional phase towards a more luminous and unobscured state. However, our understanding of dusty AGNs and their host galaxies at early cosmic times is inadequate due to observational limitations. Here, we present JWST observations of CID-931, an X-ray-detected AGN at a spectroscopic redshift of $z_{\rm spec}=4.91$. Multiband NIRCam imaging from the COSMOS-Web program reveals an unresolved red core, similar to JWST-discovered dusty AGNs. Strikingly, the red core is surrounded by at least eight massive star-forming clumps spread over $1.\!\!^{\prime\prime}6 \approx 10~{\rm kpc}$, each of which has a stellar mass of $10^9-10^{10}M_\odot$ and $\sim0.1-1~{\rm kpc}$ in radius. The whole system amounts to $10^{11}M_\odot$ in stellar mass, higher than typical star-forming galaxies at the same epoch. In this system, gas inflows and/or complex merger events may trigger clump formation and AGN activity thus leading to the rapid formation of a massive galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole. Future follow-up observations will provide new insights into the evolution of the galaxy-black hole relationship during such transitional phases in the early universe.
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spellingShingle Crimson Behemoth: a Massive Clumpy Structure Hosting a Dusty AGN at $z=4.91$
Tanaka, Takumi S.
Silverman, John D.
Nakazato, Yurina
Onoue, Masafusa
Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
Fudamoto, Yoshinobu
Fujimoto, Seiji
Ding, Xuheng
Faisst, Andreas L.
Valentino, Francesco
Jin, Shuowen
Hayward, Christopher C.
Kokorev, Vasily
Ceverino, Daniel
Kalita, Boris S.
Casey, Caitlin M.
Liu, Zhaoxuan
Kaminsky, Aidan
Fei, Qinyue
Andika, Irham T.
Lambrides, Erini
Akins, Hollis B.
Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
Koekemoer, Anton M.
McCracken, Henry Joy
Rhodes, Jason
Robertson, Brant E.
Franco, Maximilien
Liu, Daizhong
Chartab, Nima
Gillman, Steven
Gozaliasl, Ghassem
Hirschmann, Michaela
Huertas-Company, Marc
Massey, Richard
Roy, Namrata
Sattari, Zahra
Shuntov, Marko
Sterling, Joseph
Toft, Sune
Trakhtenbrot, Benny
Yoshida, Naoki
Zavala, Jorge A.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
The current paradigm for the co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes postulates that dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a transitional phase towards a more luminous and unobscured state. However, our understanding of dusty AGNs and their host galaxies at early cosmic times is inadequate due to observational limitations. Here, we present JWST observations of CID-931, an X-ray-detected AGN at a spectroscopic redshift of $z_{\rm spec}=4.91$. Multiband NIRCam imaging from the COSMOS-Web program reveals an unresolved red core, similar to JWST-discovered dusty AGNs. Strikingly, the red core is surrounded by at least eight massive star-forming clumps spread over $1.\!\!^{\prime\prime}6 \approx 10~{\rm kpc}$, each of which has a stellar mass of $10^9-10^{10}M_\odot$ and $\sim0.1-1~{\rm kpc}$ in radius. The whole system amounts to $10^{11}M_\odot$ in stellar mass, higher than typical star-forming galaxies at the same epoch. In this system, gas inflows and/or complex merger events may trigger clump formation and AGN activity thus leading to the rapid formation of a massive galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole. Future follow-up observations will provide new insights into the evolution of the galaxy-black hole relationship during such transitional phases in the early universe.
title Crimson Behemoth: a Massive Clumpy Structure Hosting a Dusty AGN at $z=4.91$
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00104