Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity
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Submitted: 2026-02-23
Updated: 2026-09-01
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Stacks available through https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18679061
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
Sources
- The AGN nature of strong CIII emitters in the Early Universe with JWST
- Connecting the Dots: UV-Bright Companions of Little Red Dots as Lyman-Werner Sources Enabling Direct Collapse Black Hole Formation
- From "The Cliff" to "Virgil": Mapping the Spectral Diversity of Little Red Dots with JWST/NIRSpec
- A Fleeting GLIMPSE of N/O Enrichment at Cosmic Dawn: Evidence for Wolf Rayet N Stars in a z = 6.1 Galaxy
- The Little Blue and Red Dots Rosetta Stones: Non-Gaussian broad lines, hot dust, and X-ray weakness
- Beyond the Monsters: A More Complete Census of Black Hole Activity at Cosmic Dawn
- Investigating ionising sources and the complex interstellar medium of GHZ2 at $z=12.3$
- Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Disks Powered by Stellar Objects: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots
- Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation
- Emission-line Diagnostics at $z\gtrsim 2$: A Probe of the Ionizing Spectrum and $\alpha$ Enhancement Beyond Cosmic Noon
- Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy
- Irony at z=6.68: a bright AGN with forbidden Fe emission and multi-component Balmer absorption
- Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
- Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at $z=7.2$
- The 2013 Release of Cloudy
- Ionizing Photon Production Efficiencies and Chemical Abundances at Cosmic Dawn Revealed by Ultra-Deep Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy of JADES-GS-z14-0
- SAPPHIRES: Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxy Candidates with $12+{\rm log(O/H)}<7.0$ at $z\sim5-7$ from Deep JWST/NIRCam Grism Observations
- The X-Ray Dot: Exotic Dust or a Late-Stage Little Red Dot?
- A Critical Evaluation of the Physical Nature of the Little Red Dots
- The $M_{\rm BH}-M_{*}$ Relationship at $3<z<7$: Big Black Holes in Little Red Dots
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