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A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer Break, Photospheric Continuum, and Broad Absorption by Thick Winds in a Little Red Dot at z = 1.7

  • Authors: Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Andrea Weibel, Rohan P. Naidu, Yilun Ma, Aidan P. Cloonan, Aayush Desai, Anna de Graaff, Jenny E. Greene, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Ivan G. Kramarenko, Sara Mascia, Pascal A. Oesch, Wendy Q. Sun, Christina C. Williams

Alberto Torralba et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Cutouts of the Spitzer IRAC and MIPS bands with coverage of PAN-BH*-1. The source is clearly detected in the IRAC bands 1 and 3, and undetected in the MIPS 24 μm channel. For reference, we show a 6″ diameter aperture with a white circle, as used to estimate the 24 μm upper limit.

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