NEXUS: Discovery of a Luminous Young Transient at z=5

arXiv:2609.38373 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/mingyangzhuang/jwst

Terminology

• Metallicity — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at z=5.13 Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?
• A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13
• NEXUS: the North ecliptic pole EXtragalactic Unified Survey
• NEXUS: Transient Searches and First Results from Year One Observations
• NEXUS: Quick Release Notes

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