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| author | Karmen, Mitchell Gezari, Suvi Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis B. Norman, Colin Casey, Caitlin M. Pierel, Justin Coulter, David Rest, Armin Fox, Ori Ajay, Yukta Allen, Natalie Drakos, Nicole E. Fujimoto, Seiji Gomez, Sebastian Gozaliasl, Ghassem Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Lane, Zachary G. McCracken, Henry Joy Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Robertson, Brant E. Shuntov, Marko Siebert, Matthew R. Toft, Sune Wevers, Thomas Zenati, Yossef |
| author_facet | Karmen, Mitchell Gezari, Suvi Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis B. Norman, Colin Casey, Caitlin M. Pierel, Justin Coulter, David Rest, Armin Fox, Ori Ajay, Yukta Allen, Natalie Drakos, Nicole E. Fujimoto, Seiji Gomez, Sebastian Gozaliasl, Ghassem Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Lane, Zachary G. McCracken, Henry Joy Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Robertson, Brant E. Shuntov, Marko Siebert, Matthew R. Toft, Sune Wevers, Thomas Zenati, Yossef |
| contents | The rates and properties of tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide valuable insights into their host galaxy central stellar densities and the demographics of their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs). TDEs have been observed only at low redshifts ($z \lesssim 1$), due to the difficulty in conducting deep time-domain surveys. In this work, we present the discovery of a high-redshift TDE candidate, HZTDE-1, in the COSMOS-Web survey with JWST's NIRCam, using a novel selection technique based on color and morphology. We first outline a methodology for identifying high-z TDEs in deep infrared imaging surveys, leveraging their unique spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and morphologies of these transients. We apply this technique to COSMOS-Web in filters F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W, and identify HZTDE-1, a transient point source relative to archival UltraVISTA infrared observations. If we assume it is a TDE, we estimate its photometric redshift to be $z=5.02^{+1.32}_{-1.11}$. HZTDE-1 cannot be explained by reasonable supernova or AGN models. However, we cannot rule out a superluminous supernova at $z\gtrsim3$. If confirmed with follow-up observations, HZTDE-1 would represent the highest-redshift TDE discovery to date, and would suggest an enhancement of the TDE rate in the high-redshift universe. Our method, which can be applied to future deep surveys with JWST and Roman, offers a pathway to identify TDEs at $z>4$ and probe black hole demographics at early cosmic times. |
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| spellingShingle | JWST Discovery of a High-Redshift Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in COSMOS-Web Karmen, Mitchell Gezari, Suvi Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis B. Norman, Colin Casey, Caitlin M. Pierel, Justin Coulter, David Rest, Armin Fox, Ori Ajay, Yukta Allen, Natalie Drakos, Nicole E. Fujimoto, Seiji Gomez, Sebastian Gozaliasl, Ghassem Ilbert, Olivier Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Koekemoer, Anton M. Lane, Zachary G. McCracken, Henry Joy Paquereau, Louise Rhodes, Jason Robertson, Brant E. Shuntov, Marko Siebert, Matthew R. Toft, Sune Wevers, Thomas Zenati, Yossef High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies The rates and properties of tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide valuable insights into their host galaxy central stellar densities and the demographics of their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs). TDEs have been observed only at low redshifts ($z \lesssim 1$), due to the difficulty in conducting deep time-domain surveys. In this work, we present the discovery of a high-redshift TDE candidate, HZTDE-1, in the COSMOS-Web survey with JWST's NIRCam, using a novel selection technique based on color and morphology. We first outline a methodology for identifying high-z TDEs in deep infrared imaging surveys, leveraging their unique spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and morphologies of these transients. We apply this technique to COSMOS-Web in filters F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W, and identify HZTDE-1, a transient point source relative to archival UltraVISTA infrared observations. If we assume it is a TDE, we estimate its photometric redshift to be $z=5.02^{+1.32}_{-1.11}$. HZTDE-1 cannot be explained by reasonable supernova or AGN models. However, we cannot rule out a superluminous supernova at $z\gtrsim3$. If confirmed with follow-up observations, HZTDE-1 would represent the highest-redshift TDE discovery to date, and would suggest an enhancement of the TDE rate in the high-redshift universe. Our method, which can be applied to future deep surveys with JWST and Roman, offers a pathway to identify TDEs at $z>4$ and probe black hole demographics at early cosmic times. |
| title | JWST Discovery of a High-Redshift Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in COSMOS-Web |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13248 |