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Uncovering a Massive z ∼ 7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web
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Lambrides, Erini; Chiaberge, Marco; Long, Arianna S; Liu, Daizhong; Akins, Hollis B; Ptak, Andrew F; Andika, Irham Taufik; Capetti, Alessandro; Casey, Caitlin M; Champagne, Jaclyn B; Chworowsky, Katherine; Clarke, Tracy E; Cooper, Olivia R; Ding, Xuheng; Dong, Dillon Z; Faisst, Andreas L; Forman, Jordan Y; Franco, Maximilien; Gillman, Steven; Gozaliasl, Ghassem; Hall, Kirsten R; Harish, Santosh; Hayward, Christopher C; Hirschmann, Michaela; Hutchison, Taylor A; Jahnke, Knud; Jin, Shuowen; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S; Kleiner, Emma T; Koekemoer, Anton M; Kokorev, Vasily; Manning, Sinclaire M; Martin, Crystal L; McKinney, Jed; Norman, Colin; Nyland, Kristina; Onoue, Masafusa; Robertson, Brant E; Shuntov, Marko; Silverman, John D; Stiavelli, Massimo; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Vardoulaki, Eleni; Zavala, Jorge A; Allen, Natalie; Ilbert, Olivier; McCracken, Henry Joy; Paquereau, Louise; Rhodes, Jason; Toft, Sune
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 961(1)
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Abstract: In this Letter, we report the discovery of the highest redshift, heavily obscured, radio-loud (RL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidate selected using JWST NIRCam/MIRI, mid-IR, submillimeter, and radio imaging in the COSMOS-Web field. Using multifrequency radio observations and mid-IR photometry, we identify a powerful, RL, growing supermassive black hole with significant spectral steepening of the radio spectral energy distribution (f 1.28 GHz ∼ 2 mJy, q 24 μm = −1.1, α 1.28−3 GHz = − 1.2, Δα = − 0.4). In conjunction with ALMA, deep ground-based observations, ancillary space-based data, and the unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of JWST, we find no evidence of AGN contribution to the UV/optical/near-infrared (NIR) data and thus infer heavy amounts of obscuration (N H > 1023 cm−2). Using the wealth of deep UV to submillimeter photometric data, we report a singular solution photo-z of z phot = 7.7 − 0.3 + 0.4 and estimate an extremely massive host galaxy ( log M ⋆ = 11.92 ± 0.5 M ⊙ ) hosting a powerful, growing supermassive black hole (L Bol = 4−12x × 1046 erg s−1). This source represents the farthest known obscured RL AGN candidate, and its level of obscuration aligns with the most representative but observationally scarce population of AGN at these epochs.