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Blackbody Quasar and Radio Source (BBQSORS): A Candidate of Transitional Little Red Dots with a T ∼ 104 K Blackbody Spectrum

  • Authors: Yuxing Zhong, 宇星 仲, Xiaoyang Chen, Kohei Ichikawa, Youwen Kong, Kentaro Aoki, Satoshi Yamada, Tohru Nagao, Daisaburo Kido, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Toru Misawa, Shoichiro Mizukoshi, Masafusa Onoue, Ayumi Takahashi, Yoshiki Toba

Yuxing Zhong et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Comparison of the SED of the blackbody quasar BBQSORS (this study; black solid line) with those of the XRD (moss-green solid line; R. E. Hviding et al. 2026), transitioning LRDs (Forge I and II; blue and cyan lines, respectively; S. Fu et al. 2025), and stacked LRDs at z ∼ 6 (brown filled circles; H. B. Akins et al. 2025). Their optical-to-IR continua are broadly reproduced by (modified) blackbody models with different temperatures and dust extinctions, shown by the dashed and dotted lines. For reference, the median spectrum of normal quasars is also overplotted (thick gray solid line; G. T. Richards et al. 2006).

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