3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Water absorption confirms cool atmospheres in two little red dots
Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Ivo Labbe +35
Little red dots (LRDs) are an abundant population of compact high-redshift sources with red rest-frame optical continua, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Their…
astro-ph.HE2025
Pulsational Instability of Quasi-Stars: Interpreting the Variability of Little Red Dots
Matteo Cantiello, Jake B. Hassan, Rosalba Perna +5
The JWST discovery of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) has revealed a population of compact, red sources at that likely host supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Recent observat…
astro-ph.GA2025
Do Little Red Dots Vary?
Amy Secunda, Rachel S. Somerville, Yan-Fei Jiang +3
Little red dots (LRDs), high-redshift, compact, red objects with V-shaped spectra, are one of the most exciting and perplexing discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope (J…