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Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation

  • Authors: John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Anna de Graaff, Lukas J. Furtak, Vasily Kokorev, Jorryt Matthee, Julian B. Muñoz, Rohan P. Naidu, Andreas A. C. Sander

John Chisholm et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Illustration of a bright LRD A2744-45924 (light-blue line; I. Labbe et al. 2024) as a globular cluster in formation (F. Martins et al. 2020). The gold line shows a young star cluster with nebular continuum self-consistently added, while the dark-blue line shows a supermassive star model. The combined shape (red line) highlights a “V-shaped” morphology as the star cluster dominates the UV and the supermassive star dominates the optical. The supermassive star model is not tuned to match the spectrum. Cooler supermassive star models may reduce the mismatch near 3500 Å, but no such models currently exist (see Section 2.1).

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