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20242026
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30 papers

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…

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Little Red Dot Host Galaxy Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee +30

The central engines of Little Red Dots (LRDs) may be ``black hole stars" (BH*s), early stages of black hole growth characterized by dense gas envelopes. So far, the most direct evi…

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The Missing Hard Photons of Little Red Dots: Their Incident Ionizing Spectra Resemble Massive Stars

Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Harley Katz +11

The nature of Little Red Dots (LRDs) has largely been investigated through their continuum emission, with lines assumed to arise from a broad-line region. In this paper, we instead…

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

Yunchong Zhang, Zhiyuan Ji, Rachel Bezanson +17

Massive quiescent galaxies have been identified out to in early JWST data in a substantial excess ( at ) of number densities from most theoretical…

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Discovery of Ancient Globular Cluster Candidates in the Relic, a Quiescent Galaxy at

Katherine E. Whitaker, Sam E. Cutler, Rupali Chandar +31

Globular clusters (GCs) are some of the oldest bound structures in the Universe, holding clues to the earliest epochs of star formation and galaxy assembly. However, accurate age m…

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Everything Every Band All at Once I: A Global Morphology Catalog in Abell 2744 based on UNCOVER/MegaScience

Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price +31

We present spectrally-resolved structural parameter measurements of 28,274 sources from the legacy lensing field of Abell 2744, quantifying global structures from observed $0.7 μm…