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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 8.

Continuum SED fit to the southeastern clump. Top: The dark curve and gray band show the best-fit Prospector model and the 1σ posterior range. Only the six line-free bands (blue circles) are used in the fit; the remaining bands contain strong emission lines and are shown for comparison. Open squares show the corresponding model photometry. Bottom: residuals between the observed and model photometry. F335M, which contains [O III], shows a strong excess, corresponding to an observed [O III] flux approximately 9 times higher than the median stellar-photoionization prediction.

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