Tracing Obscured AGN Contribution and Number Fraction Across 0 < z < 6 with JWST

arXiv:2607.25696 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Angel Rodriguez Barbosa, Tomotsugu Goto, Daryl Joe D. Santos, Chih-Teng Ling, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Ece Kilerci, Priyanka Jalan, Terry Long Phan, Deriyan Senjaya, Vignesh V. V. Rao, Bahareh S. Salmasi

Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University · Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University · Department of Physics, De La Salle University · Department of Astronomical Science SOKENDAI · Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University · Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Istanbul University · Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University · Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University · Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University · Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University · Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University

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Submitted: 2026-07-28

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Terminology

• AGN — 193× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science — 2× in this paper
• JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dust Attenuation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• JWST Systematic Mid-infrared Instrument Legacy Extragalactic Survey — 1× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MEOW: The increase in the obscured AGN fraction in mid-infrared from 0 < z < 6 with JWST MIRI
• JADES Data Release 3 -- NIRSpec/MSA spectroscopy for 4,000 galaxies in the GOODS fields
• Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)

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