The Small Sizes and High Implied Densities of “Little Red Dots” with Balmer Breaks Could Explain Their Broad Emission Lines without an Active Galactic Nucleus

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@article{2024ApJ...977L..13B,
  author = {{Baggen}, Josephine F. W. and {van Dokkum}, Pieter and {Brammer}, Gabriel and {de Graaff}, Anna and {Franx}, Marijn and {Greene}, Jenny and {Labb{\'e}}, Ivo and {Leja}, Joel and {Maseda}, Michael V. and {Nelson}, Erica J. and {Rix}, Hans-Walter and {Wang}, Bingjie and {Weibel}, Andrea},
  title = {{The Small Sizes and High Implied Densities of ``Little Red Dots'' with Balmer Breaks Could Explain Their Broad Emission Lines without an Active Galactic Nucleus}},
  journal = {\apjl},
  keywords = {Galaxies, High-redshift galaxies, Compact galaxies, Galaxy spectroscopy, Active galaxies, Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, 573, 734, 285, 2171, 17, 563, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
  year = {2024},
  month = dec,
  volume = {977},
  number = {1},
  eid = {L13},
  pages = {L13},
  doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ad90b8},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2408.07745},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...977L..13B},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  altmetric = {173236030},
  lrdkeys = {emission lines, jwst, kinematics, morphology, non-agn},
  month_numeric = {12}
}

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