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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 2.

Same as Figure 1, but showing residual images from the GALFIT modeling after subtracting the red component. The fits are performed in F200W and then applied to the other bands with fixed structural parameters and free magnitudes. To highlight faint UV emission, the images are displayed with a more aggressive scaling and contrast than in Figure 1. Symbols indicate the companion classification: a check mark (✓) denotes a robust companion, while a question mark (?) indicates a tentative candidate, identified either through a dropout consistency or the presence of faint residual emission not robustly isolated as an independent source (see Section 5.2 for details). The generally low residuals demonstrate that the F200W-based model provides a good representation of the source morphology across bands.

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