Interplay of Compaction, Quenching, and Black Hole Growth in the Most Massive Galaxies since z about5: Insights from JWST and Chandra Data

arXiv:2608.24124 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/gbrammer/eazy-photoz

Project page: https://dawn-cph.github.io/dja/imaging/v7

Terminology

• AGN — 95× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 50× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dust Attenuation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Akaike Information Criterion — 1× in this paper
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Information Criterion — 1× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dawn JWST Archive — 1× in this paper
• Galaxy Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The 2013 Release of Cloudy
• Back to Normal Again: Possible Destinies of JWST overmassive SMBHs and "Little Red Dots" in the View of Shin-Uchuu Simulation
• A Compact Proto-group at z about 5: A Massive Galaxy Caught in Formation

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