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Compact Core, Extended Reach: A Bipolar Kiloparsec-scale Elongation in a Little Red Dot at z ≈ 5.5

  • Authors: Zhiyuan Ji, Yang Sun, Mauro Giavalisco, Yongda Zhu, George H. Rieke, Christina C. Williams, Michael V. Maseda, Jianwei Lyu, Marcia Rieke, Sandro Tacchella

Zhiyuan Ji et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Left: MUSE spectrum (black) of the Lyα region with the Bicone_X_Slab_Out best-fit model (orange) overlaid. The cyan, red, and pink bands mark the disjoint windows used to build the blue-component, red-core, and red-wing narrowband maps (see Section 3.3). The lower subpanel shows the fit residuals with ±1σ (gray band) and ±3σ (dashed) reference levels. The full posterior is shown in Appendix B. Right: MUSE spectrum around N V λ1238, with the raw flux (light gray) overlaid by a 1.5-pixel (i.e., ≈1.8 Å) Gaussian-smoothed version (black) and its propagated ±1σ band. The arrow marks the tentative 2.1σ N V λ1238 detection.

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