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Little red dots (LRDs) are a newly identified class of broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a distinctive v-shape spectrum characterized by red optical and blue UV continuum emission. Their high abundance at redshifts of $z\sim6-8$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Kohei Inayoshi , Jinyi Shangguan , Xian Chen , Luis C. Ho , Zoltan Haiman

Little red dots (LRDs), a population of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) recently identified by JWST, are characterized by their compact morphology and red optical continuum emission, which is often interpreted as evidence for significant dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Kejian Chen , Zhengrong Li , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho

The James Webb Space telescope has discovered an abundant population of broad line emitters, typical signposts for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Many of these sources have red colors and a compact appearance that has led to naming them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 M. Volonteri , M. Trebitsch , J. E. Greene , Y. Dubois , C. -A. Dong-Paez , M. Habouzit , A. Lupi , Y. Ma , R. S. Beckmann , P. Dayal , R. Schneider

Context. One of the most important discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the unexpected existence in the Early Universe (z > 4) of very large quantities of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), compact luminous red galaxies of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 L. F. Rodriguez , I. F. Mirabel

We analyze the Near Infrared ($\sim0.8-1\mu$m) rest-frame morphologies of galaxies with $\log M_*/M_\odot>9$ in the redshift range $0<z<6$, compare with previous HST-based results and release the first JWST-based morphological catalog of…

Little red dots (LRDs) are compact high-redshift objects, newly discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope. Although LRDs exhibit broad Balmer emission lines suggestive of the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN), their spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Tomoya Suzuguchi , Kohei Inayoshi

We examine the ability for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to constrain Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) dark matter through a combined analysis of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We examine the Lightest Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-04 R. C. Cotta , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Murgia , E. D. Bloom , J. L. Hewett , T. G. Rizzo

Visual inspections of the first optical rest-frame images from JWST have indicated a surprisingly high fraction of disk galaxies at high redshifts. Here, we alternatively apply self-supervised machine learning to explore the morphological…

The discovery by JWST of a substantial population of compact "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) presents a major puzzle: their observed spectra defy standard astrophysical interpretations. Here, we show that LRD spectra are naturally reproduced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Fabio Pacucci , Andrea Ferrara , Dale D. Kocevski

We present an analysis of medium/high-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectra for 11 LRDs at $z \sim 4$. By decomposing the broad and narrow components of the Balmer emission lines, we investigate the connection between line emission and UV/optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-18 Yuxuan Pang , Xin Wang , Cheng Cheng , Shengzhe Wang , Hang Zhou , Qianqiao Zhou , Xue-Bing Wu , Karl Glazebrook

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-infrared observations of two of the most luminous known Little…

We present a rest-frame optical morphological analysis of galaxies observed with the NIRCam imager on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the GLASS-JWST Early Release Science program. We select 388 sources at redshifts \(0.8 <…

Recent photometric surveys with JWST have revealed a significant population of mysterious objects with red colours, compact morphologies, frequent signs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, and negligible X-ray emission. These 'Little…

Cold, substellar objects such as brown dwarfs have long been recognized as contaminants in color-selected samples of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In particular, their near- to mid-infrared colors (1-5 $\mu$m) can closely resemble the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-13 Danial Langeroodi , Jens Hjorth

We demonstrate a new multi-wavelength technique for two-dimensional parametric modelling of galaxy surface-brightness profiles, which we have incorporated into the widely used software GALFIT. Our new method, named GALFITM, extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marina Vika , Steven P. Bamford , Boris Haeussler , Alex L. Rojas , Andrea Borch , Robert C. Nichol

We study the morphology of convergence maps by perturbatively reconstructing their Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We present a systematics study using a set of three generalised skew-spectra as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

We present a study of Pseudo-LRD-NOM (Pseudo little red dot with no metal lines), a highly magnified low-mass galaxy behind the lensing cluster Abell 370 at z=5.96. We classify this object as a pseudo-LRD because its red rest-frame optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Karina I. Caputi , Ryan A. Cooper , Pierluigi Rinaldi , Rafael Navarro-Carrera , Edoardo Iani

We present the analysis of three intermediate-mass quiescent galaxies (QGs) with stellar masses of $\sim10^{10}M_{\rm \odot}$ at redshifts $z\sim 3 - 4$ using NIRSpec low-resolution spectroscopy. Utilising the SED fitting code BAGPIPES, we…

Little red dots (LRDs) are a puzzling population of extragalactic sources whose origin is highly debated. In this {work}, we performed a comprehensive stacking analysis of NIRCam, MIRI, and ALMA images of a large and homogeneously selected…