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 Letters1005.
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Caption: Figure 8.
Cutout of PAN-BH*-1 in the VLT/HAWK-I Ks band. We model PAN-BH*-1 as a point source, and the companion with a Sérsic profile, in order to measure clean fluxes.