Katherine E. Whitaker

A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn.42587117 · Naidu, Rohan P, Matthee, Jorryt, Katz, Harley et al.2026 · 26 citationsNature. 2026;656(8127):329-333

Outflows in the Early Universe: Neutral gas Absorption in Galaxies at z > 3 from low-resolution JWST Spectroscopy2607.20606v1 · Matteo Sapori, Sirio Belli, Letizia Bugiani et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

A Census of the 200 Most Massive Galaxies Spectroscopically Observed with JWST at zspec $\sim$3-152606.30802v1 · Mengyuan Xiao, Pascal A. Oesch, Longji Bing et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Constraints on the Gas Geometry Surrounding Little Red Dots through Narrow-Line Diagnostics2606.23778v1 · Visal Sok, Erica J. Nelson, Mitchell C. Begelman et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Discovery of a Barred-Spiral Galaxy at

z_{spec}

= 3.16 I: Bar Identification and Properties2606.23792v2 · Daniel Ivanov, Mauro Giavalisco, Yingjie Cheng et al.2026 · 0 citations2026ApJ..1007...24I

Discovery of a Barred-Spiral Galaxy at

z_{spec}

= 3.16 II. The Star Formation History2606.23793v1 · Yingjie Cheng, Mauro Giavalisco, Daniel Ivanov et al.2026 · 1 citation2026ApJ..1004..248

Extended [CII] gas emission in and around a massive quiescent galaxy at z=7.32606.21361v1 · F. Valentino, A. Pensabene, A. Weibel et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv

LEGGOS I: The JWST LEGGOS Survey -- LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures -- Unpacks the Nature of Clumpy Star Formation and Quenching in Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies beyond Cosmic Noon2606.20845v2 · Gourav Khullar, Michael Florian, Matthew B. Bayliss et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Quenching of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies2606.12156v2 · Katherine E. Whitaker, Rachel Bezanson2026 · 0 citationsAnnu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 2026, 64

Toward Unbreaking the Universe: MINERVA Measurements of Color Gradients in Massive Quiescent Galaxies Can Help Ease Too-Early Star Formation Tensions2606.02698v3 · Sam E. Cutler, Luke Robbins, Danilo Marchesini et al.2026 · 0 citationsThe Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 1008 (2026) L11

High-ionization coronal lines trace quasar-like activity in recently quenched galaxies at high redshift2605.30424v1 · F. Valentino, K. Ito, M. Farcy et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv

Resolved Maps of Gas and Dust in a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=2 from INQUEST-JWST: Evidence of Accretion and Rejuvenation2604.26195v1 · Sai Gangula, Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv

PANORAMIC: The Dawn of Massive Quiescent Galaxies I. Number Density and Cosmic Variance from 1000 arcmin

^2

NIRCam Imaging2604.05022v2 · Zhiyuan Ji, Christina C. Williams, Peter Behroozi et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Winding Back the Clock: Recent Star Formation Histories of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Are Consistent With Their Rapid Number Density Evolution Since

\mathbf{z\sim7}

2604.05024v1 · Yunchong Zhang, Zhiyuan Ji, Rachel Bezanson et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Calibrating Photometric Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rates for JWST2604.01326v2 · Stacey Alberts, George H. Rieke, Irene Shivaei et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

A PANORAMIC of UV-optical morphologies of "Little Red Dots": Two groups of LRDs distinguished by UV half-light radius2603.24700v1 · Aidan P. Cloonan, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sinclaire M. Manning et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

A Spectral Atlas for Quiescent Galaxies2603.13479v1 · Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Aliza Beverage et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Everything Every Band All at Once II: The Relationship Between Optical Size and Stellar Mass Over Eight Billion Years of Cosmic History2603.01370v1 · Tim B. Miller, Yunchong Zhang, Sedona H. Price et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv

Everything Every Band All at Once I: A Global Morphology Catalog in Abell 2744 based on UNCOVER/MegaScience2603.00380v2 · Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price et al.2026 · 0 citationsApJS, 285, 62 (2026)

3D-Herschel: Constraining Dust Emission with Panchromatic Modeling of 3D-HST Galaxies2602.22384v2 · Seamus McNulty, Mimi Song, Katherine E. Whitaker et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

There and back again? Neutral outflows in z~3.5 quiescent galaxies2602.17767v2 · Pengpei Zhu, Kei Ito, Francesco Valentino et al.2026 · 2 citationsA&A, 712, A169 (2026)

Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry2602.11418v1 · Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Water absorption confirms cool atmospheres in two little red dots2602.06024v1 · Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Ivo Labbe et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

DeepDive: Tracing the early quenching pathways of massive quiescent galaxies at

z>3

from their star-formation histories and chemical abundances2602.02485v1 · Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Katherine E. Whitaker, Francesco Valentino et al.2026 · 1 citationarXiv

UNCOVER/MegaScience Finds Uniform and Highly Bursty Star Formation at 3 < z < 9, consistent with the High-Redshift UV Luminosity Function2601.16284v1 · Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv

Dynamical properties and star formation history of a low-mass quenched galaxy at Cosmic Noon2601.01722v1 · K. Ito, F. Valentino, W.M. Baker et al.2026 · 1 citationA&A 710, A122 (2026)

Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics2512.24465v1 · Ava Polzin, Katherine E. Whitaker, C. Megan Urry et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv

Exploring Cosmic Dawn with PANORAMIC II: Cosmic Variance and Galaxy Clustering at

z\sim10

2512.14212v2 · Andrea Weibel, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Pascal A. Oesch et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv

Evolution and Mass Dependence of UV-to-near-IR Color Gradients up to z=2.5 from HST+JWST2512.02440v2 · Marco Martorano, Arjen van der Wel, Andrea Gebek et al.2025 · 6 citationsA&A 705, A236 (2026)

The Mass-Metallicity Relation and its Observational Effects at z~3-62512.03134v1 · Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Anna de Graaff et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv

Where Galaxies Go to Die: The Environments of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at

3<z<5

2510.25024v1 · Ian McConachie, Anna de Graaff, Michael V. Maseda et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv

Discovery of red galaxy candidates at z ~ 12: Early dust growth or significant nebular emission with high-temperature stars?2510.13240v1 · Ikki Mitsuhashi, Katherine A. Suess, Joel Leja et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv

ALMA reveals diverse dust-to-gas mass ratios and quenching modes in old quiescent galaxies2509.10079v1 · Giuliano Lorenzon, Darko Donevski, Allison W. S. Man et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv

What you see is what you get: empirically measured bolometric luminosities of Little Red Dots2509.05434v1 · Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton, Lukas J. Furtak et al.2025 · 29 citationsarXiv

Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS2508.20229v1 · S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini, R. Bellazzini et al.2025 · 5 citationsarXiv

RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from

\mathbf{2<z<5}

2508.08577v2 · Yunchong Zhang, Anna de Graaff, David J. Setton et al.2025 · 8 citationsApJ, 997, 252 (2026)

JWST+ALMA reveal the build up of stellar mass in the cores of dusty star-forming galaxies at Cosmic Noon2507.19472v3 · Sarah Bodansky, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ayesha Abdullah et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv

MINERVA: A NIRCam Medium Band and MIRI Imaging Survey to Unlock the Hidden Gems of the Distant Universe2507.19706v1 · Adam Muzzin, Katherine A. Suess, Danilo Marchesini et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv

Unusually High Gas-to-Dust Ratios Observed in High-Redshift Quiescent Galaxies2507.16914v2 · Justin S. Spilker, Katherine E. Whitaker, Desika Narayanan et al.2025 · 4 citationsarXiv

Exploring Cosmic Dawn with PANORAMIC I: The Bright End of the UVLF at

z\sim9 -17

2507.06292v2 · Andrea Weibel, Pascal A. Oesch, Christina C. Williams et al.2025 · 12 citationsThe Astrophysical Journal, 2026, Volume 1002, Number 2

Even redder than we knew: color and

A_{\mathrm{V}}

evolution up to

z=2.5

from JWST/NIRCam photometry2506.23669v2 · A. van der Wel, M. Martorano, D. Marchesini et al.2025 · 4 citationsA&A 701, A30 (2025)

DeepDive: A deep dive into the physics of the first massive quiescent galaxies in the Universe2506.22642v2 · K. Ito, F. Valentino, G. Brammer et al.2025 · 4 citationsarXiv

Taking a Break at Cosmic Noon: Continuum-selected Low-mass Galaxies Require Long Burst Cycles2506.16510v2 · Abby Mintz, David J. Setton, Jenny E. Greene et al.2025 · 6 citationsThe Astrophysical Journal, Volume 998, Issue 2, id.257, 20 pp. 2026

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at

z_{\rm{spec}}=14.44

Confirmed with JWST2505.11263v2 · Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer et al.2025 · 13 citationsarXiv

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