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Extended components of little red dots in the rest-frame optical
29 affiliations
- 1School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- 2Department of Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- 3Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
- 4NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- 5Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- 6International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- 7Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 8Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) https://cosmicdawn.dk/
- 9Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- 10Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 11Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 12Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 13Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 14Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
- 15DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- 16Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 17Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 18Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- 19Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 20Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), UTIAS, Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
- 21Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- 22Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 23School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- 24Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 25Center for Data-Driven Discovery, Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 26Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 27Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 28Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- 29University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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BibTeX
@article{zhang2026extended,
title = {{Extended components of little red dots in the rest-frame optical}},
author = {Yiyang Zhang and Xuheng Ding and Lilan Yang and Erini Lambrides and Hollis B. Akins and Andrew J Battisti and Caitlin M. Casey and Chang-hao Chen and Isabella G. Cox and Andreas L. Faisst and Maximilien Franco and Aryana Haghjoo and Luis C. Ho and Kohei Inayoshi and Shuowen Jin and Mitchell Karmen and Anton M. Koekemoer and Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe and Kai Liao and G. Gozaliasl and Masafusa Onoue and Vasily Kokorev and Namrata Roy and Robert Michael Rich and John D. Silverman and Takumi S. Tanaka and Bei You and Hassen M. Yesuf and Jorge A. Zavala},
journal = {Nature Astronomy},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.1038/s41550-026-02945-z},
url = {https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7884438/v1},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Extended components of little red dots in the rest-frame optical
AU - Yiyang Zhang
AU - Xuheng Ding
AU - Lilan Yang
AU - Erini Lambrides
AU - Hollis B. Akins
AU - Andrew J Battisti
AU - Caitlin M. Casey
AU - Chang-hao Chen
AU - Isabella G. Cox
AU - Andreas L. Faisst
AU - Maximilien Franco
AU - Aryana Haghjoo
AU - Luis C. Ho
AU - Kohei Inayoshi
AU - Shuowen Jin
AU - Mitchell Karmen
AU - Anton M. Koekemoer
AU - Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe
AU - Kai Liao
AU - G. Gozaliasl
AU - Masafusa Onoue
AU - Vasily Kokorev
AU - Namrata Roy
AU - Robert Michael Rich
AU - John D. Silverman
AU - Takumi S. Tanaka
AU - Bei You
AU - Hassen M. Yesuf
AU - Jorge A. Zavala
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/24
JO - Nature Astronomy
DO - 10.1038/s41550-026-02945-z
UR - https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7884438/v1
SN - 2397-3366
ER -