3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Hidden in Pixels I: Discovery of dual "little red dots" indicates excess clustering on kilo-parsec scales
Takumi S. Tanaka, John D. Silverman, Kazuhiro Shimasaku +56
``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) are an abundant high-redshift population newly discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and considered to be an early growth phase of supermas…
astro-ph.GA2025
Discovery of a Little Red Dot candidate at in COSMOS-Web based on MIRI-NIRCam selection
Takumi S. Tanaka, Hollis B. Akins, Yuichi Harikane +64
JWST has revealed a new high-redshift population called little red dots (LRDs). Since LRDs may be in the early phase of black hole growth, identifying them in the early universe is…
astro-ph.GA2025
No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function
Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Marta Volonteri +14
One of the most surprising results of early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations is the discovery of an abundance of red, compact, broad-line objects dubbed "little red d…