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Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Disks Powered by Stellar Objects: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots

  • Authors: Yi-Xian Chen, Hanpu Liu, Ruancun Li, Bingjie Wang, Yilun Ma, Yan-Fei Jiang, Jenny E. Greene, Eliot Quataert, Jeremy Goodman

Yi-Xian Chen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Parameter space of the SMBH accretion disk in the ﹩(\dot{M}/\alpha ,{M}_{\bullet })﹩ plane. Red indicates a regime of dynamical starburst where luminous mass >M is needed to support Ldisk (Equation (12)), while the gray region marks the transition to a non-self-gravitating AGN disk (Equation (14)). These regimes may reflect sequential stages of SMBH disk evolution, transitioning from LRD-like systems to standard AGN disks.

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