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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 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

The effect of different size–luminosity relations on the BH mass estimation. The figure compares the BH mass estimations of the sample LRDs, assuming the typical RBLRL relation calibrated for the AGN accretion disk (x-axis) and assuming that BLRs are just at the photospheric radius of the blackbody envelope (y-axis). Plots are color-coded by the blackbody temperature (TBB). This demonstrates that using the typical RBLRL relation can overestimate the BH mass by ∼1 dex due to the different RBLR estimations.

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