Uncovering a Massive z∼7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Erini Lambrides; Marco Chiaberge; Arianna S. Long; Daizhong Liu; Hollis B. Akins; Andrew F. Ptak; Irham Taufik Andika; Alessandro Capetti; Caitlin M. Casey; Jaclyn B. Champagne; Katherine Chworowsky; Tracy E. Clarke; Olivia R. Cooper; Xuheng Ding; Dillon Z. Dong; Andreas L. Faisst; Jordan Y. Forman; Maximilien Franco; Steven Gillman; Ghassem Gozaliasl; Kirsten R. Hall; Santosh Harish; Christopher C. Hayward; Michaela Hirschmann; Taylor A. Hutchison; Knud Jahnke; Shuowen Jin; Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe; Emma T. Kleiner; Anton M. Koekemoer; Vasily Kokorev; Sinclaire M. Manning; Crystal L. Martin; Jed McKinney; Colin Norman; Kristina Nyland; Masafusa Onoue; Brant E. Robertson; Marko Shuntov; John D. Silverman; Massimo Stiavelli; Benny Trakhtenbrot; Eleni Vardoulaki; Jorge A. Zavala; Natalie Allen; Olivier Ilbert; Henry Joy McCracken; Louise Paquereau; Jason Rhodes; Sune Toft

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ad11ee

Uncovering a Massive z∼7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Erini Lambrides
, Marco Chiaberge
, Arianna S. Long
, Daizhong Liu
, Hollis B. Akins
, Andrew F. Ptak
, Irham Taufik Andika
, Alessandro Capetti
, Caitlin M. Casey
, Jaclyn B. Champagne
, Katherine Chworowsky
, Tracy E. Clarke
, Olivia R. Cooper
, Xuheng Ding
, Dillon Z. Dong
, Andreas L. Faisst
, Jordan Y. Forman
, Maximilien Franco
, Steven Gillman
, Ghassem Gozaliasl

Kirsten R. Hall, Santosh Harish, Christopher C. Hayward, Michaela Hirschmann, Taylor A. Hutchison, Knud Jahnke, Shuowen Jin, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Emma T. Kleiner, Anton M. Koekemoer, Vasily Kokorev, Sinclaire M. Manning, Crystal L. Martin, Jed McKinney, Colin Norman, Kristina Nyland, Masafusa Onoue, Brant E. Robertson, Marko Shuntov, John D. Silverman, Massimo Stiavelli, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Eleni Vardoulaki, Jorge A. Zavala, Natalie Allen, Olivier Ilbert, Henry Joy McCracken, Louise Paquereau, Jason Rhodes, Sune Toft

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Cosmic Dawn Center
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University of Massachusetts
University of California, Santa Barbara
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In this Letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud (RL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, submillimeter, and radio imaging in the COSMOS-Web field. Using multifrequency radio observations and mid-IR photometry, we identify a powerful, RL, growing supermassive black hole with significant spectral steepening of the radio spectral energy distribution (f_{1.28 GHz} ∼ 2 mJy, q_{24 μm} = −1.1, α_{1.28−3 GHz} = − 1.2, Δα = − 0.4). In conjunction with ALMA, deep ground-based observations, ancillary space-based data, and the unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of JWST, we find no evidence of AGN contribution to the UV/optical/near-infrared (NIR) data and thus infer heavy amounts of obscuration (N_H > 10²³ cm⁻²). Using the wealth of deep UV to submillimeter photometric data, we report a singular solution photo-z of z_phot = 7.7_-⁺_0.3^0.4 and estimate an extremely massive host galaxy (log M_* = 11.92 0.5M) hosting a powerful, growing supermassive black hole (L_Bol = 4−12x × 10⁴⁶ erg s⁻¹). This source represents the farthest known obscured RL AGN candidate, and its level of obscuration aligns with the most representative but observationally scarce population of AGN at these epochs.

Original language	English
Article number	L25
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	961
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad11ee
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2024
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

We thank the anonymous referees for their thoughtful insight and important contributions to this work. E.L.L. and T.A.H. are supported by appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities under contract with NASA. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. Basic research in radio astronomy at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory is supported by 6.1 Base funding. Construction and installation of VLITE was supported by the NRL Sustainment Restoration and Maintenance fund. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. Support for this work was provided by NASA through grant JWST-GO-01727 and HST-AR-15802 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via doi: 10.17909/ym93-d513 .

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Active galactic nuclei (16)
High-redshift galaxies (734)
Radio loud quasars (1349)
Reionization (1383)
Supermassive black holes (1663)
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Quasars (1319)

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Lambrides, E., Chiaberge, M., Long, A. S., Liu, D., Akins, H. B., Ptak, A. F., Andika, I. T., Capetti, A., Casey, C. M., Champagne, J. B., Chworowsky, K., Clarke, T. E., Cooper, O. R., Ding, X., Dong, D. Z., Faisst, A. L., Forman, J. Y., Franco, M., Gillman, S., ... Toft, S. (2024). Uncovering a Massive z∼7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 961(1), 1-9. Article L25. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad11ee

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Uncovering a Massive z∼7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web

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