Local Analogs of Little Red Dots: Optical Variability and Evidence for an Active Galactic Nucleus Origin
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@article{2026ApJ..1005..150L,
author = {{Lin}, Ruqiu and {Zheng}, Zhen-Ya and {Wang}, Junxian and {Ho}, Luis C. and {Zavala}, Jorge A. and {Zhang}, Zijian and {Jiang}, Chunyan and {Lin}, Jiaqi and {Yuan}, Fang-Ting and {Jiang}, Linhua and {Wang}, Tinggui and {Zhang}, Xiaer},
title = {{Local Analogs of Little Red Dots: Optical Variability and Evidence for an Active Galactic Nucleus Origin}},
journal = {\apj},
keywords = {Active galaxies, Compact dwarf galaxies, Supermassive black holes, Active galactic nuclei, 17, 281, 1663, 16},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
volume = {1005},
number = {2},
eid = {150},
pages = {150},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ae74c6},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ..1005..150L},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
dimensions = {true},
lrdkeys = {agn-dominated, local counterpart, non-jwst, simulation, variability},
eprint = {2603.01473},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
month_numeric = {7}
}
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