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The Road to Identifying the Earliest Radio-Powerful AGN with the SKA
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A solar energy research paper on The Road to Identifying the Earliest Radio-Powerful AGN with the SKA.
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The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is one of the most pivotal frontiers in modern astrophysics, marking the emergence of the first galaxies, stars, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Despite insights from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array and the James Webb Space Telescope, we still struggle to explain how $\sim10^{9}$ M$_\odot$ SMBHs powering luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) already exist by $z\sim7$. The recent discovery of powerful radio emission from some of these early AGN is notable, offering new constraints on early black-hole accretion and, with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the prospect of directly probing neutral hydrogen through 21-cm absorption studies. Yet progress remains slow: only a few radio-powerful AGN are known at $z>6$, far fewer than theoretical predictions suggest, raising questions about whether this reflects intrinsic properties or selection biases and incomplete spectral information. In this chapter we synthesise predictions from state-of-the-art hydrodynamical and semi-analytic simulations with observational constraints from SKAO pathfinder facilities. These models suggest the existence of a substantial, still-undetected population of radio-powerful AGN in the EoR, but show that present surveys are limited by selection biases and incomplete radio spectral information. We discuss a physically motivated strategy for identifying high-redshift radio AGN, based on broadband radio spectral energy distributions, spectral curvature, dynamical jet evolution, and radio-only redshift estimation, offering a transformative alternative to traditional empirical approaches. Finally, we justify how the sensitivity and spectral coverage of the SKAO will allow fine-frequency sampling across the 50 MHz - 15 GHz range, revolutionising our ability to identify the earliest radio-powerful AGN and probe the earliest SMBHs.
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