Possible connections between central black-hole (BH) growth and host-galaxy compactness have been found observationally, which may provide insight into BH-galaxy coevolution: compact galaxies might have large amounts of gas in their centers due to their high mass-to-size ratios, and simulations predict that high central gas density can boost BH accretion. However, it is not yet clear if BH growth is fundamentally related to the compactness of the host galaxy, due to observational degeneracies between compactness, stellar mass ($M_\bigstar$), and star formation rate (SFR). To break these degeneracies, we carry out systematic partial-correlation studies to investigate the dependence of sample-averaged BH accretion rate ($\rm \overline{BHAR}$) on the compactness of host galaxies, represented by the surface-mass density, $Σ_\rm e$, or the projected central surface-mass density within 1 kpc, $Σ_1$. We utilize 8842 galaxies with H < 24.5 in the five CANDELS fields at z = 0.5-3. We find that $\rm \overline{BHAR}$ does not significantly depend on compactness when controlling for SFR or $M_\bigstar$ among bulge-dominated galaxies and galaxies that are not dominated by bulges, respectively. However, when testing is confined to star-forming galaxies at z = 0.5-1.5, we find that the $\rm \overline{BHAR}$-$Σ_1$ relation is not simply a secondary manifestation of a primary $\rm \overline{BHAR}$-$M_\bigstar$ relation, which may indicate a link between BH growth and the gas density within the central 1 kpc of galaxies.
Galactic Morpholography: Linking present-day galaxy compactness to assembly history and relic formation in the COLIBRE simulations
University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)（宇宙黎明中心）；European Southern Observatory（欧洲南方天文台）；INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte（意大利国家天体物理研究所卡波迪蒙特天文台）；Leiden Observatory, Leiden University（莱顿大学莱顿天文台）
The Dichotomy in the Nuclear and Host Galaxy Properties of High-redshift Quasars
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University（北京大学 Kavli天文学与天体物理研究所）；Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University（北京大学物理学院天文学系）
The metallicities of little red dot host galaxies: LRDs are metal poor, but not pristine
Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)（宇宙黎明中心）；Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen（哥本哈根大学尼尔斯·玻尔研究所）；Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva（日内瓦大学天文学系）
利用 JWST/NIRSpec 光谱数据，通过直接 Te 方法测量 24 个小红点（LRD）宿主星系的气相金属丰度，发现其平均金属丰度约为 0.08 太阳丰度，属于贫金属但非原始星系，挑战了原始气体塌缩模型。
University of Hertfordshire（赫特福德大学）；Tata Institute of Fundamental Research（塔塔基础研究所）；National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG)（国家天文与地球物理研究所）；University of Tasmania（塔斯马尼亚大学）；University of Southampton（南安普顿大学）；Indian Institute of Technology Indore（印多尔印度理工学院）
Swift coalescence of supermassive black holes in cosmological mergers of massive galaxies
超大质量黑洞（SMBH）在具有相当大质量的星系中无处不在。据推测，一对最初位于两个合并星系核中的SMBH将形成一个双星，并最终通过引力波的爆发而合并。到目前为止，理论模型和模拟已经无法直接预测的SMBH合并的时间尺度从头计算星系形成理论，只集中在有限的阶段的SMBH的轨道衰减的理想条件下的星系主机。预测的SMBH合并时间尺度很长，是Gyrs级的，这可能对未来的引力波搜索造成问题。在这里，我们提出了第一个多尺度的$Λ$ CDM宇宙学模拟，遵循轨道衰变的一对SMBH在合并的两个典型的大质量星系在$z\sim3$，所有的方式，以最终的合并驱动的引力波发射。质量为$\sim10^{8}$ M $_{\odot}$的两个SMBH迅速地沉降在合并残余物的核中。由于合并的耗散性质和高红移星系的内在致密性，残余物是三轴的，并且非常致密。这样的性质自然允许SMBH二进制的非常有效的硬化。SMBH合并发生在银河系核心合并后的$\sim10$百万年内，比哈勃时间小两个数量级。
