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The Small Sizes and High Implied Densities of “Little Red Dots” with Balmer Breaks Could Explain Their Broad Emission Lines without an Active Galactic Nucleus

  • Authors: Josephine F. W. Baggen, Pieter van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Anna de Graaff, Marijn Franx, Jenny Greene, Ivo Labbé, Joel Leja, Michael V. Maseda, Erica J. Nelson, Hans-Walter Rix, Bingjie Wang, 冰洁 王, Andrea Weibel

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 977 .

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The size measured in F200W, plotted against the UV magnitude, measured from the spectrum at λrest = 150 nm. We also show size–luminosity derived for local spiral galaxies from R. S. de Jong & C. Lacey (2000) for which we use a magnitude correction MUVMI = 1.0, and LBGs at z ∼ 8 (T. Shibuya et al. 2015; R. Kawamata et al. 2018; R. J. Bouwens et al. 2022) and z ∼ 9–12 (L. Yang et al. 2022). In addition we show star-forming complexes (Z. Chen et al. 2023) with zphot ∼ 6–8. Finally, we show extremely compact sources, recently detected through lensing with JWST, reported in L. J. Furtak et al. (2024; Re < 35 pc, z = 7.0), M. W. Topping et al. (2024; Re < 22 pc, z = 6.1), and H. Williams et al. (2023; Re = 16 pc, z = 9.5). Finally we show the upper limit of ≲100 pc reported for the brightest LRDs (H. B. Akins et al. 2024; see the text).

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