Pulsational Instability of Quasi-stars: Interpreting the Variability of Little Red Dots
BibTeX Entry
@article{2026ApJ..1000L...4C,
author = {{Cantiello}, Matteo and {Hassan}, Jake B. and {Perna}, Rosalba and {Armitage}, Philip J. and {Begelman}, Mitchell C. and {Jiang}, Yan-Fei and {Ryu}, Taeho and {Townsend}, Richard H. D.},
title = {{Pulsational Instability of Quasi-stars: Interpreting the Variability of Little Red Dots}},
journal = {\apjl},
keywords = {Supermassive black holes, Stellar physics, Stellar pulsations, Stellar evolution, High-redshift galaxies, 1663, 1621, 1625, 1599, 734},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
volume = {1000},
number = {1},
eid = {L4},
pages = {L4},
doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ae4729},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ..1000L...4C},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
dimensions = {true},
lrdkeys = {early universe, exotic physics, jwst, theory, variability},
eprint = {2512.17997},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
primaryclass = {astro-ph.HE},
month_numeric = {3}
}
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