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A Dust-free Hierarchically Nested Supermassive-star Model for James Webb Space Telescope Little Red Dots

  • Authors: Pau Amaro Seoane

Pau Amaro Seoane 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Left panel: the mass–radius phase space of the primary supermassive host computed via the modified Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equations. The dashed blue line traces a standard radiation-dominated polytrope. The solid red curve incorporates the random transverse magnetic field formalism, demonstrating that magnetic pressure inflates the photospheric radius by a factor of 1700 at fixed mass. Right panel: the synthetic spectral energy distribution generated by this nested geometry. The inflated 3100 K envelope produces a rising optical continuum. Concurrently, the unshielded cluster stars plunging through the optically thin outer layers emit a blue continuum. The composite spectrum captures qualitative features of the photometry without dust attenuation.

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