No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function

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@article{2026ApJ..1008L..64M,
  author = {{Ma}, Yilun and {Greene}, Jenny E. and {Volonteri}, Marta and {Goulding}, Andy D. and {Setton}, David J. and {Annunziatella}, Marianna and {Egami}, Eiichi and {Fan}, Xiaohui and {Kokorev}, Vasily and {Labbe}, Ivo and {Lin}, Xiaojing and {Marchesini}, Danilo and {Matthee}, Jorryt and {Nanayakkara}, Themiya and {Robbins}, Luke and {Sajina}, Anna and {Sawicki}, Marcin},
  title = {{No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function}},
  journal = {\apjl},
  keywords = {Active galactic nuclei, Black holes, Galaxy formation, High-redshift galaxies, 16, 162, 595, 734},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  volume = {1008},
  number = {2},
  eid = {L64},
  pages = {L64},
  doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/aea071},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ..1008L..64M},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  eprint = {2509.02662},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  month_numeric = {9}
}
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