A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field

Nabizadeh, A., et al.

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Autores: Nabizadeh, Armin, Diego, José María, Gim, Hansung B.
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Palavra-chave:Stars: black holes
Stars: Population II
Stars: Population III
Quasars: supermassive black holes
Early Universe
Infrared: general
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
title A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
spellingShingle A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
Nabizadeh, Armin
Stars: black holes
Stars: Population II
Stars: Population III
Quasars: supermassive black holes
Early Universe
Infrared: general
title_short A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
title_full A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
title_fullStr A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
title_full_unstemmed A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
title_sort A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole field
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Nabizadeh, Armin
Diego, José María
Gim, Hansung B.
author Nabizadeh, Armin
author_facet Nabizadeh, Armin
Diego, José María
Gim, Hansung B.
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author2 Diego, José María
Gim, Hansung B.
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European Commission
European Research Council
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Ministry of Science and Technology (Israel)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Stars: black holes
Stars: Population II
Stars: Population III
Quasars: supermassive black holes
Early Universe
Infrared: general
topic Stars: black holes
Stars: Population II
Stars: Population III
Quasars: supermassive black holes
Early Universe
Infrared: general
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spelling A search for high-redshift direct-collapse black hole candidates in the PEARLS north ecliptic pole fieldNabizadeh, ArminDiego, José MaríaGim, Hansung B.Stars: black holesStars: Population IIStars: Population IIIQuasars: supermassive black holesEarly UniverseInfrared: generalNabizadeh, A., et al.Direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) of mass ∼104 − 105 M⊙ that form in HI-cooling halos in the early Universe are promising progenitors of the ≳109 M⊙ supermassive black holes that fuel observed z ≳ 7 quasars. Efficient accretion of the surrounding gas onto such DCBH seeds may render them sufficiently bright for detection with the JWST up to z ≈ 20. Additionally, the very steep and red spectral slope predicted across the ≈1 − 5 μm wavelength range of the JWST/NIRSpec instrument during their initial growth phase should make them photometrically identifiable up to very high redshifts. In this work, we present a search for such DCBH candidates across the 34 arcmin2 in the first two spokes of the JWST cycle-1 PEARLS survey of the north ecliptic pole time-domain field covering eight NIRCam filters down to a maximum depth of ∼29 AB mag. We identify two objects with spectral energy distributions consistent with theoretical DCBH models. However, we also note that even with data in eight NIRCam filters, objects of this type remain degenerate with dusty galaxies and obscured active galactic nuclei over a wide range of redshifts. Follow-up spectroscopy would be required to pin down the nature of these objects. Based on our sample of DCBH candidates and assumptions on the typical duration of the DCBH steep-slope state, we set a conservative upper limit of ≲5 × 10−4 comoving Mpc−3 (cMpc−3) on the comoving density of host halos capable of hosting DCBHs with spectral energy distributions similar to the theoretical models at z ≈ 6 − 14.A.N. and E.Z. acknowledge funding from Olle Engkvists Stiftelse. E.Z. also acknowledges grant 2022-03804 from the Swedish Research Council, funding from the Swedish National Space Agency and has benefited from a sabbatical at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. W.P.M. acknowledges that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided support for this work through Chandra Award Numbers GO8-19119X, GO9-20123X, GO0-21126X, and GO1-22134X issued by the Chandra X-ray Center, which the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory operates for and on behalf of the National Aeronautics Space Administration under contract NAS8-03060. F.P. acknowledges support from a Clay Fellowship administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. This work was also supported by the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, which is funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This work is also based on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with JWST programs 1176 and 2738. R.A.W., S.H.C., and R.A.J. acknowledge support from NASA JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist grants NAG5-12460, NNX14AN10G, and 80NSSC18K0200 from GSFC. Work by C.J.C. and N.J.A. acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant EPOCHS (788113). B.L.F. thanks the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics for their hospitality during the writing of this paper. M.A.M. acknowledges the support of a National Research Council of Canada Plaskett Fellowship, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE17010001. C.N.A.W. acknowledges funding from the JWST/NIRCam contract NASS-0215 to the University of Arizona. A.Z. acknowledges support by Grant No. 2020750 from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and Grant No. 2109066 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), and by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel.Peer reviewedEDP SciencesNASAEuropean CommissionEuropean Research CouncilUnited States-Israel Binational Science FoundationMinistry of Science and Technology (Israel)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/358517reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/788113https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347724Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3585172026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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