A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at z = 3.5

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@article{2025A&A...701A.168D,
  author = {{de Graaff}, Anna and {Rix}, Hans-Walter and {Naidu}, Rohan P. and {Labb{\'e}}, Ivo and {Wang}, Bingjie and {Leja}, Joel and {Matthee}, Jorryt and {Katz}, Harley and {Greene}, Jenny E. and {Hviding}, Raphael E. and {Baggen}, Josephine and {Bezanson}, Rachel and {Boogaard}, Leindert A. and {Brammer}, Gabriel and {Dayal}, Pratika and {van Dokkum}, Pieter and {Goulding}, Andy D. and {Hirschmann}, Michaela and {Maseda}, Michael V. and {McConachie}, Ian and {Miller}, Tim B. and {Nelson}, Erica and {Oesch}, Pascal A. and {Setton}, David J. and {Shivaei}, Irene and {Weibel}, Andrea and {Whitaker}, Katherine E. and {Williams}, Christina C.},
  title = {{A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at z = 3.5}},
  journal = {\aap},
  keywords = {galaxies: active, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, galaxies: stellar content},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  volume = {701},
  eid = {A168},
  pages = {A168},
  doi = {10.1051/0004-6361/202554681},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A\&A...701A.168D},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  altmetric = {181353895},
  lrdkeys = {emission lines, jwst, non-agn, sed, spectroscopy},
  month_numeric = {9}
}

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