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20242026
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13 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Little Red Dots at z~2 in EIGER reveal a gentle decline with respect to their peak number density at z~5

Shrriya Kapoor, Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba +10

We report the discovery of a sample of little red dots (LRDs) at identified from deep JWST/NIRCam imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy over arcmin f…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer break, photospheric continuum, and broad absorption by thick winds in a Little Red Dot at z=1.7

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Andrea Weibel +12

Recent studies at high redshift have revealed an enigmatic class of Little Red Dots (LRDs) with extreme Balmer breaks, stronger than in any stellar atmosphere. However, it is uncle…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST Reveals Two Overmassive Black Hole Candidates in Dwarf Galaxies at z 0.7: Pushing Black Hole Searches into the Dwarf-Galaxy Regime

E. Iani, P. Rinaldi, A. Torralba +35

We report the discovery and characterization of two compact galaxies, Pelias and Neleus, at z ~ 0.71 and z ~ 0.75, identified in MACS J0416.1-2403 and GOODS-North. Both exhibit unu…

astro-ph.GA2026

Diversity and Evolution of Dust Attenuation Curves from Redshift z ~ 1 to 9

Irene Shivaei, Rohan P. Naidu, Francisco Rodriguez Montero +23

The UV-optical dust attenuation curve is key to interpreting the intrinsic properties of galaxies and provides insights into the nature of dust grains and their geometry relative t…

astro-ph.GA2026

FRESCO: Constraining Dust Attenuation and Star-Formation Rates of Star-Forming Galaxies with JWST Paschen and Ground-Based Balmer Emission Line Observations

Michael A. Wozniak, Naveen A. Reddy, Pascal A. Oesch +7

We present new constraints on dust attenuation and star-formation rates (SFRs) for 77 galaxies at redshifts , using Paschen emission line detections from the JWST FRES…

astro-ph.GA2026

The warm outer layer of a Little Red Dot as the source of [Fe II] and collisional Balmer lines with scattering wings

Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriele Pezzulli +22

The population of the Little Red Dots (LRDs) may represent a key phase of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. A cocoon of dense excited gas is emerging as key component to expla…