R. Maiolino

A Steep-extinction Quasi-stellar Object at z = 4.6: JWST Evidence for Abundant Small Dust Grains

The rapid accumulation of massive dust reservoirs in the early Universe remains a major challenge in astrophysics. While core-collapse supernovae can inject large dust grains (a ≳ 0.1 μm) on short timescales, explaining the total dust budgets in the early Universe likely requires efficient grain growth in the interstel...

Mergers lighting the early Universe: modest star-formation enhancement without evidence for AGN or Lyα triggering

Galaxy mergers and interactions are often invoked to explain enhanced star formation, black hole growth, and mass build-up of galaxies at later cosmic times, but their effect is poorly understood at high redshift (z > 2). We use JADES data to analyse a mass-complete sample of 1968 galaxies at z = 3 − 9 with log(M⋆/M⊙...

JADES data release 4 – Paper I . Sample selection, observing strategy and redshifts of the complete spectroscopic sample

JADES: The Star Formation and Dust Reddening Properties of Galaxies at 3 < z < 7

We present the star formation and dust content properties for a sample of 646 galaxies at redshifts 3 < z < 7 as part of the JADES survey. Our analysis is based on measurements of the Hα/Hβ Balmer decrement using medium resolution (R ∼ 1000) spectroscopic observations with the JWST/NIRSpec microshutter assembly. Stella...