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Origins of the UV Continuum and Balmer Emission Lines in Little Red Dots: Observational Validation of Dense Gas Envelope Models Enshrouding the Active Galactic Nucleus

  • Authors: Yoshihisa Asada, Kohei Inayoshi, Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Chris J. Willott

Yoshihisa Asada et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Rest UV versus Hα line luminosity in LRDs (top) and LBDs (bottom). Broad and narrow components are displayed on the left and right, respectively. Plots are color-coded by the Balmer break strength, defined as fν,4230/fν,3560. As a reference, the UV-to-Hα luminosity ratios for young starburst galaxies (black dotted line) and typical type 1 AGNs (red solid line) are also shown. The gray shaded band shows the range of the luminosity ratio when the stellar age and gas density are varied for young SFGs.

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