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The Deepest GLIMPSE of a Dense Gas Cocoon Enshrouding a Little Red Dot

  • Authors: Vasily Kokorev, John Chisholm, Rohan P. Naidu, Seiji Fujimoto, Hakim Atek, Gabriel Brammer, Steven L. Finkelstein, Hollis B. Akins, Danielle A. Berg, Lukas J. Furtak, Qinyue Fei, Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, Ivo Labbé, Jorryt Matthee, Julian B. Muñoz, Pascal A. Oesch, Richard Pan, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Marta Volonteri, Adi Zitrin

Vasily Kokorev et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Lyα-pumped iron emission in GLIMPSE-17775. Left: observed Fe II flux ratios (black points), normalized to Fe IIλ9075, compared with predictions from Lyα fluorescence models of T. A. A. Sigut & A. K. Pradhan (2003, blue). The close correspondence across ∼14 lines indicates a common excitation mechanism driven by Lyα pumping in dense, partially shielded gas. Right: zoom in on the λλ9000–9400 complex, showing the remarkable agreement between the modeled continuum-subtracted Fe II spectrum (black) and the T. A. A. Sigut & A. K. Pradhan (2003) model (blue). We show air wavelengths of each Fe II line directly from T. A. A. Sigut & A. K. Pradhan (2003), including the blended features. Together, these comparisons support an origin in the dense inner regions of the cocoon surrounding the accreting black hole.

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