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{2025arXiv250316600D,
  author = {{de Graaff}, Anna and {Rix}, Hans-Walter and {Naidu}, Rohan P. and {Labbe}, 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 = {arXiv e-prints},
  keywords = {Astrophysics of Galaxies},
  year = {2025},
  month = mar,
  eid = {arXiv:2503.16600},
  pages = {arXiv:2503.16600},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2503.16600},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2503.16600},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250316600D},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  lrdkeys = {emission lines, jwst, non-agn, sed, spectroscopy},
  month_numeric = {3}
}

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