A tidal disruption event in a quasar at redshift 7.19

arXiv:2609.30441 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/gbrammer/grizli

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

Terminology

• AGN — 21× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Correction — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Little Red Dots — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Environments — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Damped Random Walk — 2× in this paper
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Astronomical Observation Request — 1× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• General Observer — 1× in this paper
• Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey — 1× in this paper
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Process — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• A close look at the black hole masses and hot dusty toruses of the first quasars with MIRI-MRS
• A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13
• A GLIMPSE of Intermediate Mass Black holes in the epoch of reionization: Witnessing the Descendants of Direct Collapse?
• Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at $z=7.2$
• The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions
• The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey (MEOW): A Population of Hidden AGN at z 5 Revealed by JWST/MIRI Imaging
• Inefficient Circularization, Delayed Stream-Disk Interaction and Reprocessing: A Five-Stage Model for the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Tidal Disruption Event EP240222a

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