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Calcium Triplet Absorption is Common around Little Red Dots
Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu, Raphael E. Hviding +29
We present new evidence for an optically thick atmosphere surrounding Little Red Dots (LRDs) in the form of Ca absorption at rest-frame 8500A, the calcium triplet (CaT). Building o…
Balmer Absorption Series and Broad Metal Lines in Two Luminous Little Red Dots
Bingjie Wang, Jenny E. Greene, Hanpu Liu +21
Balmer absorption is common among little red dots (LRDs), but absorbers at or redward of systemic are rare, occurring in only \% of H absorbers. In this paper, we stu…
OutThere Survey: Addressing and with a population of average galaxies at z2
Ravi Jaiswar, Anshu Gupta, Elisabete da Cunha +24
Constraining the major contributors to the ionisation of the early universe is an ongoing endeavour of high-redshift galaxy research. We measure the ionising photon production effi…
A cosmic collision in the making: JWST/NIRISS reveals a merging and maturing protocluster core at z~3 around a red quasar
C. Bertemes, D. Wylezalek, G. Noirot +10
We report the discovery of ``The Step'', a dense protocluster at z=3 revealed by JWST/NIRISS Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) of the field around the luminous quasar and sta…
Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of Carinae
Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Anna de Graaff +20
JWST's Little Red Dots (LRDs) display a unique constellation of features that do not occur simultaneously in any other class of galaxies or AGN. Here we observe that many of these…
Black Hole Stars Across the Universe: Identifying Central Engine Dominated Little Red Dots at
Andrea Weibel, Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch +16
Photometric selections of Little Red Dots (LRDs) largely rely on identifying their ``V-shaped'' spectral energy distribution (SED). Recent work suggests this V-shape stems from a c…
A Population of Little Red Dot-like Quasars in SDSS
Quinn O. Casey, Ryan C. Hickox, Nikko J. Cleri +6
Compact and red sources in the high redshift () Universe, known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), are among JWST's most intriguing discoveries. These sources have broad Balmer e…
A PANORAMIC of UV-optical morphologies of "Little Red Dots": Two groups of LRDs distinguished by UV half-light radius
Aidan P. Cloonan, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sinclaire M. Manning +13
Among the most remarkable results from JWST is the discovery of abundant, compact, and very red sources in the early Universe known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs). The relative degree…
The Engine and its Flows: Little Red Dot spectra are shaped by the column densities of their gas envelopes
Jorryt Matthee, Alberto Torralba, Gabriele Pezzulli +23
JWST data have enabled the abundant identification of compact broad Balmer line sources nicknamed the Little Red Dots. While they share broad lines with active galactic nuclei, the…
16 new quasars at the end of the reionization unveiled by self-supervised learning
L. N. Martínez-Ramírez, Julien Wolf, Silvia Belladitta +8
Luminous quasars at are key probes of early supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth, massive galaxy evolution, and intergalactic medium properties during cosmic reionization.…
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…
The X-Ray Dot: Exotic Dust or a Late-Stage Little Red Dot?
Raphael E. Hviding, Anna de Graaff, Hanpu Liu +15
JWST's "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) are increasingly interpreted as active galactic nuclei (AGN) obscured by dense thermalized gas rather than dust as evidenced by their X-ray weakness…
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…
Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy
Anna de Graaff, Raphael E. Hviding, Rohan P. Naidu +34
We use the DAWN JWST Archive to construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0<z<9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from NIR…
What you see is what you get: empirically measured bolometric luminosities of Little Red Dots
Jenny E. Greene, David J. Setton, Lukas J. Furtak +27
New populations of red active galactic nuclei (known as ``Little Red Dots'') discovered by JWST exhibit remarkable spectral energy distributions. Leveraging X-ray through far-infra…
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…
RUBIES: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots; All V-Shaped Point Sources Have Broad Lines
Raphael E. Hviding, Anna de Graaff, Tim B. Miller +16
The physical nature of Little Red Dots (LRDs) - a population of compact, red galaxies revealed by JWST - remains unclear. Photometric samples are constructed from varying selection…
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at Confirmed with JWST
Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer +43
JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, , where few such sources were expected. Here we present the most distant example of t…
A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots
Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz +48
The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios…
A remarkable Ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a Little Red Dot at
Anna de Graaff, Hans-Walter Rix, Rohan P. Naidu +25
The origin of the rest-optical emission of compact, red, high-redshift sources known as `little red dots' (LRDs) poses a major puzzle. If interpreted as starlight, it would imply t…
Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data
Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46
Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…
RUBIES: JWST/NIRSpec resolves evolutionary phases of dusty star-forming galaxies at
Olivia R. Cooper, Gabriel Brammer, Kasper E. Heintz +24
The dearth of high quality spectroscopy of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) -- the main drivers of the assembly of dust and stellar mass at the peak of activity in the Universe…
What is the Role of Large Language Models in the Evolution of Astronomy Research?
Morgan Fouesneau, Ivelina G. Momcheva, Urmila Chadayammuri +10
ChatGPT and other state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming multiple fields, offering powerful tools for a wide range of applications. These models, co…
Improved Empirical Backgrounds for JWST NIRISS Image/WFSS Data Reduction
Raphael E. Hviding, Ivelina G. Momcheva, Leonardo Clarke
The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a versatile instrument for collecting imaging and wide-field slitless spectr…