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Beyond the Dot: An LRD-like Nucleus at the Heart of an IR-bright Galaxy and its Implications for High-redshift LRDs

  • Authors: Pierluigi Rinaldi, George H. Rieke, Zihao Wu, Carys J. E. Gilbert, Fabio Pacucci, Luigi Barchiesi, Stacey Alberts, Stefano Carniani, Andrew J. Bunker, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Francesco D'Eugenio, Zhiyuan Ji, Benjamin D. Johnson, Kevin Hainline, Vasily Kokorev, Nimisha Kumari, Edoardo Iani, Jianwei Lyu, Roberto Maiolino, Eleonora Parlanti, Brant E. Robertson, Yang Sun, Cristian Vignali, Christina C. Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Yongda Zhu

Pierluigi Rinaldi et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Left: radial profile of the stacked image of 99 photometrically selected LRDs from P. Rinaldi et al. (2025a) in the rest-frame UV (1500–2000 Å). Right: same as on the left, but with the background artificially elevated to the highest level that does not cause the surrounding region to become strongly negative. To emphasize the extended nature of the stacked UV profile of the LRDs, we note that our simulated stacked PSF was constructed using a spatial offset of 1 pixel (≈30 mas for the NIRCam short-wavelength channel), which is significantly larger (≈6×) than the typical internal astrometric scatter in the JADES images, thus representing an upper limit on the observed stacked PSF size. Altogether, this experiment reveals that the radial profile of the stacked LRDs declines less steeply than expected, suggesting that an extended structure may lie hidden beneath the observational noise.

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