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Connecting the Dots: UV-bright Companions of Little Red Dots as Lyman–Werner Sources Enabling Direct-collapse Black Hole Formation

  • Authors: Josephine F. W. Baggen, Matthew T. Scoggins, Pieter van Dokkum, Zoltán Haiman, Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee

Josephine F. W. Baggen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

RGB composites of the full LRD sample. All images are 1﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩5 × 1﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩5, constructed from the available JWST/NIRCam filters for each object, selected as a function of redshift to approximately sample rest-frame UV emission (blue), wavelengths near the Balmer/4000 Å break (green), and redder rest-frame optical emission (red), depending on filter availability. For the three strongly lensed LRDs, the lensing magnifications are indicated in the lower left corner. The images are shown for illustrative purposes; all quantitative measurements are derived from the structural modeling described in Section 3.

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