Skyfire: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots and Broad-Line AGN in the CEERS Field

arXiv:2609.00112 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/dalekocevski/Kocevski26

Project page: https://dawn-cph.github.io/dja

Terminology

• AGN — 39× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Little Red Dots — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science — 2× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Information Criterion — 1× in this paper
• Hubble Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• MIRI EGS Galaxy and Active Galactic Nucleus — 1× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Origins of the UV continuum and Balmer emission lines in Little Red Dots: observational validation of dense gas envelope models enshrouding the AGN
• CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results
• Do little red dots really form a distinct class of astronomical objects?
• A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging
• Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Extending the quest for little red dots to z<4
• The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ~ 8.5-14.5
• The Little Blue and Red Dots Rosetta Stones: Non-Gaussian broad lines, hot dust, and X-ray weakness
• OCEANS of Absorption: High-resolution NIRSpec Spectroscopy Reveals Diverse Balmer-line Absorption in Little Red Dots
• Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy
• CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
• THRILS -- The High-(Redshift+Ionization) Line Search: Program Description & Redshift Catalog
• RUBIES: A Spectroscopic Census of Little Red Dots; All V-Shaped Point Sources Have Broad Lines
• The $M_{\rm BH}-M_{*}$ Relationship at $3<z<7$: Big Black Holes in Little Red Dots
• A direct black hole mass measurement in a Little Red Dot at the Epoch of Reionization
• CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics
• A Census of Photometrically Selected Little Red Dots at 4 < z < 9 in JWST Blank Fields
• UNCOVER: Candidate Red Active Galactic Nuclei at 3<z<7 with JWST and ALMA
• Counting Little Red Dots at $z<4$ with Ground-based Surveys and Spectroscopic Follow-up
• Little Red Dots as Obscured Little Blue Dots: A Super-Eddington Unification Model
• Little Red Dots: an abundant population of faint AGN at z~5 revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST surveys

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