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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 6.

Azimuthally averaged radial surface-brightness profiles of the optical emission-line maps in LRD-204851 (Figure 5), normalized by the central-annulus value. The black dashed curve shows the radial profile of the PSF, and the gray shaded region marks the scale of the PSF’s FWHM/2. The bottom panel shows the relative difference from the PSF. The Hα+[N II] profile tracks the PSF within r ≲  0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x02033}}}﹩15, while the [O III] profile lies above the PSF, indicating a more extended light distribution than Hα+[N II].

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