Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity

arXiv (Cornell University) 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, S. Carniani, Francesco D'Eugenio, George H. Rieke, Roberta Tripodi, Andrew J. Bunker, Xihan Ji, R. Marques-Chaves, Daniel Schaerer, Giacomo Venturi, Flor Arévalo-González
+52 more Santiago Arribas, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino, Joris Witstok, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Leindert Boogaard, Stephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Luca Costantin, Mirko Curti, Emma Curtis-Lake, Emanuele Daddi, Kelcey Davis, Mark Dickinson, Callum T. Donnan, Fergus R. Donnan, James S. Dunlop, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Henry C. Ferguson, Román Fernández Aranda, Steven L. Finkelstein, Seiji Fujimoto, Giovanni Gandolfi, Mauro Giavalisco, Norman A. Grogin, Mahmoud Hamed, Michaela Hirschmann, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Dale D. Kocevski, Gene C. K. Leung, Cristina M. Lofaro, Ray A. Lucas, Derek J. McLeod, Jens Melinder, Göran Östlin, Casey Papovich, L. Pentericci, Borja Pérez-Díaz, Marcia Rieke, Jan Scholtz, Rachel S. Somerville, Thomas M. Stanton, Struan Stevenson, Irene Shivaei, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Hannah Übler, Xin Eric Wang, Christina C. Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Yongda Zhu
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.20247
Cited by: 1

Abstract

We compile JWST/NIRSpec prism and MIRI data for 249 Little Red Dots (LRDs) at 2.3

Fields of Study & Subjects

Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Galaxies: Formation Evolution Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
23 February 2026
Document type
Preprint