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| author | Zhang, Yiyang Ding, Xuheng Yang, Lilan Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis Battisti, Andrew J. Casey, Caitlin M. Chen, Chang-hao Cox, Isa Faisst, Andreas Franco, Maximilien Haghjoo, Aryana Ho, Luis C. Inayoshi, Kohei Jin, Shuowen Karmen, Mitchell Koekemoer, Anton M. Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Liao, Kai Gozaliasl, Ghassem Onoue, Masafusa Kokorev, Vasily Roy, Namrata Rich, R. Michael Silverman, John D. Tanaka, Takumi S. You, Bei Yesuf, Hassen M. Zavala, Jorge A. |
| author_facet | Zhang, Yiyang Ding, Xuheng Yang, Lilan Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis Battisti, Andrew J. Casey, Caitlin M. Chen, Chang-hao Cox, Isa Faisst, Andreas Franco, Maximilien Haghjoo, Aryana Ho, Luis C. Inayoshi, Kohei Jin, Shuowen Karmen, Mitchell Koekemoer, Anton M. Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Liao, Kai Gozaliasl, Ghassem Onoue, Masafusa Kokorev, Vasily Roy, Namrata Rich, R. Michael Silverman, John D. Tanaka, Takumi S. You, Bei Yesuf, Hassen M. Zavala, Jorge A. |
| contents | Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift objects called 'Little Red Dots'(LRD), whose host components have remained largely unconstrained, possibly due to their extreme compactness. Current morphological studies have been limited by small samples, as well as by insufficient imaging depth, which may not allow reliable separation between point-like and extended components, leaving the existence and properties of extended components in LRD largely unconstrained. Here, we perform the image stacking analysis of 217 LRDs in four NIRCam bands, representing the largest and homogeneous sample observed from COSMOS-Web survey to date. Our results reveal an unambiguous detection of faint extended emission in the F444W band, with a typical size of ~200 parsecs and magnitude of ~27.7 AB at z~6.5. We perform four-band photometric SED fitting based on galaxy templates and derive a stellar mass of 8.91+-~0.1 logM_sun. Given this stellar mass, the host galaxy is compact, i.e., ~2.5 times smaller than star-forming populations at similar mass, and the typical black hole mass of LRDs is elevated by ~1.5 dex above the local MBH-M* relation. This work provides direct observational evidence for the existence of LRD host galaxies and offers crucial insights into the growth of the host galaxy and the co-evolution of galaxies and their black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang. |
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| spellingShingle | Unveiling Extended Components of 'Little Red Dots' in Rest-Frame Optical Zhang, Yiyang Ding, Xuheng Yang, Lilan Lambrides, Erini Akins, Hollis Battisti, Andrew J. Casey, Caitlin M. Chen, Chang-hao Cox, Isa Faisst, Andreas Franco, Maximilien Haghjoo, Aryana Ho, Luis C. Inayoshi, Kohei Jin, Shuowen Karmen, Mitchell Koekemoer, Anton M. Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Liao, Kai Gozaliasl, Ghassem Onoue, Masafusa Kokorev, Vasily Roy, Namrata Rich, R. Michael Silverman, John D. Tanaka, Takumi S. You, Bei Yesuf, Hassen M. Zavala, Jorge A. Astrophysics of Galaxies Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift objects called 'Little Red Dots'(LRD), whose host components have remained largely unconstrained, possibly due to their extreme compactness. Current morphological studies have been limited by small samples, as well as by insufficient imaging depth, which may not allow reliable separation between point-like and extended components, leaving the existence and properties of extended components in LRD largely unconstrained. Here, we perform the image stacking analysis of 217 LRDs in four NIRCam bands, representing the largest and homogeneous sample observed from COSMOS-Web survey to date. Our results reveal an unambiguous detection of faint extended emission in the F444W band, with a typical size of ~200 parsecs and magnitude of ~27.7 AB at z~6.5. We perform four-band photometric SED fitting based on galaxy templates and derive a stellar mass of 8.91+-~0.1 logM_sun. Given this stellar mass, the host galaxy is compact, i.e., ~2.5 times smaller than star-forming populations at similar mass, and the typical black hole mass of LRDs is elevated by ~1.5 dex above the local MBH-M* relation. This work provides direct observational evidence for the existence of LRD host galaxies and offers crucial insights into the growth of the host galaxy and the co-evolution of galaxies and their black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang. |
| title | Unveiling Extended Components of 'Little Red Dots' in Rest-Frame Optical |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25830 |