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Caption: Figure 2.
Spectroscopic sample of LRDs by redshift and Balmer break strength. We plot the redshift and Balmer break strength of PAN-BH*-1, and the JWST sample from A. de Graaff et al. (2025b) (purple diamonds), and three local LRDs in X. Lin et al. (2026), for comparison. We also highlight three sources with a particularly strong Balmer break: The Cliff (A. de Graaff et al. 2025a), MoM-BH* (R. P. Naidu et al. 2025), and CAPERS-LRDz9 (A. J. Taylor et al. 2025). The Balmer break strength of the JWST spectroscopic sample is computed as fν,4000–4100/fν,3620–3720, whereas the value for PAN-BH*-1 is directly obtained from the F115W/F814W photometry.
© 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.