The Large-scale Environments of Low-luminosity AGNs at 3.9 < z < 6 and Implications for Their Host Dark Matter Halos from a Complete NIRCam Grism Redshift Survey

Abstract We study the large-scale environments and clustering properties of 28 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z = 3.9–6 in the GOODS-N field. Our sample, identified from the JWST NIRCam Imaging and WFSS data in Complete NIRCam Grism Redshift Survey and First Reionization Epoch Spectroscopically Complete Observations surveys with either broad H α emission lines or V-shaped continua, are compared to 782 H α emitters (HAEs) selected from the same data. These AGNs are located in diverse large-scale environments and do not preferentially reside in denser environments compared to HAEs. Their overdensity field, δ , averaged over (15 h −1 cMpc) 3 , ranges from −0.56 to 10.56, and shows no clear…

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