TY - JOUR
T1 - First Results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D
T2 - Turbulent Times in the Life of a z ∼ 3 Extremely Red Quasar Revealed by NIRSpec IFU
AU - Wylezalek, Dominika
AU - Vayner, Andrey
AU - Rupke, David S.N.
AU - Zakamska, Nadia L.
AU - Veilleux, Sylvain
AU - Ishikawa, Yuzo
AU - Bertemes, Caroline
AU - Liu, Weizhe
AU - Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge K.
AU - Chen, Hsiao Wen
AU - Goulding, Andy D.
AU - Greene, Jenny E.
AU - Hainline, Kevin N.
AU - Hamann, Fred
AU - Heckman, Timothy
AU - Johnson, Sean D.
AU - Lutz, Dieter
AU - Lützgendorf, Nora
AU - Mainieri, Vincenzo
AU - Maiolino, Roberto
AU - Nesvadba, Nicole P.H.
AU - Ogle, Patrick
AU - Sturm, Eckhard
N1 - Funding Information:
This research made use of Montage. It is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant No. ACI-1440620 and was previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under cooperative agreement No. NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology.
Funding Information:
D.W. and C.B. acknowledge support through an Emmy Noether Grant of the German Research Foundation, a stipend by the Daimler and Benz Foundation, and a Verbundforschung grant by the German Space Agency. A.V., D.S.N.R., N.L.Z., and S.V. are supported by NASA through STScI grant JWST-ERS-01335. N.L.Z. further acknowledges support by the Institute for Advanced Study through a J. Robert Oppenheimer Visiting Professorship and the Bershadsky Fund. J.B.-B. acknowledges support from grant IA-101522 (DGAPA-PAPIIT, UNAM) and funding from CONACYT grant CF19-39578.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - Extremely red quasars, with bolometric luminosities exceeding 1047 erg s−1, are a fascinating high-redshift population that is absent in the local universe. They are the best candidates for supermassive black holes accreting at rates at or above the Eddington limit, and they are associated with the most rapid and powerful outflows of ionized gas known to date. They are also hosted by massive galaxies. Here we present the first integral field unit observations of a high-redshift quasar obtained by the Near Infrared Spectrograph on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which targeted SDSS J165202.64+172852.3, an extremely red quasar at z = 2.94. The JWST observations reveal extended ionized gas—as traced by [O iii] λ5007 Å—in the host galaxy of the quasar, its outflow, and the circumgalactic medium. The complex morphology and kinematics imply that the quasar resides in a very dense environment with several interacting companion galaxies within projected distances of 10-15 kpc. The high density of the environment and the large velocities of the companion galaxies suggest that this system may represent the core of a forming cluster of galaxies. The system is a good candidate for a merger of two or more dark matter halos, each with a mass of a few 1013 M ⊙, and potentially traces one of the densest knots at z ∼ 3.
AB - Extremely red quasars, with bolometric luminosities exceeding 1047 erg s−1, are a fascinating high-redshift population that is absent in the local universe. They are the best candidates for supermassive black holes accreting at rates at or above the Eddington limit, and they are associated with the most rapid and powerful outflows of ionized gas known to date. They are also hosted by massive galaxies. Here we present the first integral field unit observations of a high-redshift quasar obtained by the Near Infrared Spectrograph on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which targeted SDSS J165202.64+172852.3, an extremely red quasar at z = 2.94. The JWST observations reveal extended ionized gas—as traced by [O iii] λ5007 Å—in the host galaxy of the quasar, its outflow, and the circumgalactic medium. The complex morphology and kinematics imply that the quasar resides in a very dense environment with several interacting companion galaxies within projected distances of 10-15 kpc. The high density of the environment and the large velocities of the companion galaxies suggest that this system may represent the core of a forming cluster of galaxies. The system is a good candidate for a merger of two or more dark matter halos, each with a mass of a few 1013 M ⊙, and potentially traces one of the densest knots at z ∼ 3.
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U2 - 10.3847/2041-8213/ac98c3
DO - 10.3847/2041-8213/ac98c3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142445338
SN - 2041-8205
VL - 940
JO - Astrophysical Journal Letters
JF - Astrophysical Journal Letters
IS - 1
M1 - L7
ER -