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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 5.

Summary of luminosity contributions for the accretion disk around a 106M SMBH. The AGN component or its upper limit is shown in blue, and the thermal emission from the optically thick self-gravitating region is shown in orange. The Eddington luminosity is plotted for reference (black dashed). Across all models, increasing γ systematically suppresses LAGN, while Ldisk remains largely unchanged and often dominates even at γ for lower accretion rates.

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