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Widespread Detection of Aromatic and Aliphatic Emission in the Dual Quasar J0749+2255 at Cosmic Noon

  • Authors: C. E. Mentzer, Aigen Li, X. J. Yang

C. E. Mentzer et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

(a) JWST/MIRI rest-frame spectra extracted for the inner band surrounding the brightest center of J0749+2255 (see Figure 2(a)). Each circle represents an aperture of 6.6 kpc. Similar to Figure 3, the observed spectra are decomposed with PAHFIT into two Drude profiles (magenta lines) and an underlying continuum (blue line), and in some cases, secondary subfeatures at ∼3.49–3.51 μm are also included. For comparison, we also overlay the JWST/NIRSpec spectrum of the 30 Doradus star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud (orange line; E. Sturm et al. 2000) to that of #10, after normalizing to the 3.3 μm peak of #10. (b) But for the intermediate band. (c) But for the outermost band.

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