Spider-Webb: JWST Near Infrared Camera resolved galaxy star formation and nuclear activities in the Spiderweb protocluster at z = 2.16

Shimakawa, Rhythm; Koyama, Yusei; Kodama, Tadayuki; Dannerbauer, Helmut; Pérez-Martínez, J. M.; Röttgering, Huub J. A.; Tanaka, Ichi; D'Eugenio, Chiara; Naufal, Abdurrahman; Daikuhara, Kazuki; Zhang, Yuheng
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2025
Number of authors
11
IAC number of authors
4
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4
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2
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Near-infrared (NIR) emission is less affected by dust than ultraviolet and optical emission and is therefore useful for studying the properties of dust-obscured galaxies. Although rest-frame NIR observations of high-redshift galaxies have long been made using space telescopes, their structures were unresolved due to the lack of angular resolution. This letter reports the early results from the analysis of high-resolution Pa$\beta$ imaging of the Spiderweb protocluster at $z=2.16$ with the JWST Near Infrared Camera. We investigate radial profiles of Pa$\beta$ lines and rest-frame NIR continua from luminous H $\alpha$-emitting galaxies (HAEs) in the protocluster. Particularly, we compare those of 11 HAEs (N-HAEs) on the star-forming main sequence with those of 8 HAEs (X-HAEs) with X-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Resultant composite Pa$\beta$ line images of N-HAEs indicate significant star formation in galactic discs. In contrast, X-HAEs are dominated by point source components rather than outer star formation, as inferred from our earlier work based on multiwavelength spectral energy distribution fitting. Given their higher stellar potentials suggested from their rest-frame NIR images, the different characteristics may be driven by the impact of AGN feedback.
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