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  "content_markdown": "[Home](https://cerinamroth.com/) › [JWST](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/) › [Little red dots](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/lrds/) › [LRD Watch DR1](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/lrds/dr1/) › LRDW J023220.27-442148.3  \n\n \n\nLRD Watch DR1 · candidate\n\n \n\n# LRDW J023220.27-442148.3\n\n \n\ncandidate tableSILVERmain classcolour laneRXC J0232.2-4420\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nRA 02:32:20.274 38.0844751°\n\n \n\nDec −44:21:48.32 -44.3634225°\n\n \n\n[SIMBAD within 2″](https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-coo?Coord=38.084475+-44.363422&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcsec) · [ESASky](https://sky.esa.int/esasky/?target=38.084475%20-44.363422&fov=0.02&sci=true)\n\n \n\n  \n\n \n\n## Images\n\n \n\n F090W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF090W0.03″ px\n\n F115W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF115W0.03″ px\n\n F150W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF150W0.03″ px\n\n F200W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF200W0.03″ px\n\n F277W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF277W0.06″ px\n\n F356W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF356W0.06″ px\n\n F410M image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF410M0.06″ px\n\n F444W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up \n\nF444W0.06″ px\n\n Colour composite: F444W red, F356W green, F277W blue, 3.2 arcsec across, north up NE\n\ncompositebar 1″\n\n \n\n3.2″ across, north up, east left, resampled from the deepest mosaic covering the object in each band; ticks mark the catalogue position. Each band is stretched on its own noise; the composite shares one flux scale, so its colour is real.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n  \n\n## Spectral energy distribution\n\n  \n- NIRCam wide\n- NIRCam medium\n- 2σ upper limit (S/N < 2)\n\n Aperture fluxes in a 0.16″-radius circle, not corrected to total; the values are in the photometry table below. The gold line marks the Balmer limit (3646 Å rest) at z = 6.610.  \n\n \n\n## At a glance\n\n \n\nTierSILVER main class\n\nFound bycolour lane\n\nRedshift6.61 colour-lane fit\n\nSpectral shapeno labelled spectrum\n\nF444W26.58 AB S/N 26, 0.16″ aperture\n\nF277W − F444W1.19 mag strict redness\n\nBH* sharenot in the BH* channel\n\nCompactnessFWHM 0.184″\n\nBalmer break0.75 ± 0.19 F300M/F210M, blue:far-uv\n\nImage vettinghalf-stack pass; no flags raised\n\nLiteratureno published match within 1″\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Vetting\n\n \n- Image vettingpassed\n- Half-stack testpass\n- Artifact risknone\n- Neighbournone\n- Extendedno\n\n \n- No vetting notes.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Redshifts\n\n \n\nEach redshift keeps its own column. Photometric redshifts of little red dots are unreliable: against spectra, about a third of AGN-template redshifts (`z_agn`; 31 of 95 in the last purity run) and about half of galaxy-template redshifts at z > 3 were catastrophic outliers (methods Section 8).\n\n \n\n | Column | What it is | z | Source\n | `z_spec` | Spectroscopic, DJA grade 3 | — | —\n | `z_vet` | Adopted by vetting | 6.6100 | z_agn\n | `z_phot` | Photometric (P(z) peak) | 7.935 | 68%: 6.896–8.128\n | `z_bhs` | BH* channel fit | — | —\n | `z_agn` | Colour-lane fit | 6.61 | AGN-inclusive templates\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Spectral checks\n\n \n\nV-shape (spectrum)no labelled spectrum\n\nStar (spectrum)no spectrum\n\nV-shape (photometry)fails βUV −1.78, βopt −1.36 at z_agn\n\nLine in F410Mnone 2 line-free optical band(s)\n\nLine-ambiguousno\n\nSettling verdictnot evaluated\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Literature\n\n \n\nPublished objects within 1″ of this position. A match is a positional recovery, not an adopted classification.\n\n \n- No published JWST little red dot or broad-line AGN within 1″.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Photometry\n\n \n\nCircular aperture of radius 0.16″ at each band's native resolution, background from a 0.40–0.65″ annulus, programmes combined by inverse variance. For a point source multiply by the field's aperture correction (r = 0.16″ → 0.70″). Grey rows are below S/N 2.\n\n \n\n | Band | Instrument | Pivot (µm) | f (nJy) | σ (nJy) | AB mag | S/N | Ap. corr.\n | F090W | NIRCam wide | 0.902 | 4.02 | 5.09 | 29.89 | 0.8 | 1.51\n | F115W | NIRCam wide | 1.154 | 24.97 | 5.91 | 27.91 | 4.2 | 1.49\n | F150W | NIRCam wide | 1.501 | 26.47 | 7.09 | 27.84 | 3.7 | 1.48\n | F200W | NIRCam wide | 1.989 | 24.39 | 5.67 | 27.93 | 4.3 | 1.47\n | F210M | NIRCam medium | 2.095 | 34.64 | 6.76 | 27.55 | 5.1 | 1.48\n | F277W | NIRCam wide | 2.762 | 28.25 | 3.44 | 27.77 | 8.2 | 1.62\n | F300M | NIRCam medium | 2.990 | 26.17 | 4.25 | 27.86 | 6.2 | 1.61\n | F356W | NIRCam wide | 3.568 | 68.37 | 3.28 | 26.81 | 20.9 | 1.67\n | F410M | NIRCam medium | 4.082 | 52.12 | 4.14 | 27.11 | 12.6 | 1.68\n | F444W | NIRCam wide | 4.404 | 84.57 | 3.25 | 26.58 | 26.1 | 1.71\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Provenance\n\n \n\n FieldRXC J0232.2-4420 (`rxcj0232`) Programmes`06882` behind every mosaic the field measured Pipeline rows merged2 all at one position Detection passoriginal Release build`33af9933d1cc` 2026-10-17T14:29:44Z \n\n \n\n## Image sources\n\n | Band | Mosaic | Native pixel | Coverage\n | F090W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f090w_i2d.fits` | 0.031″ | 1.00\n | F115W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits` | 0.031″ | 1.00\n | F150W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f150w_i2d.fits` | 0.031″ | 1.00\n | F200W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f200w_i2d.fits` | 0.031″ | 1.00\n | F277W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f277w_i2d.fits` | 0.063″ | 1.00\n | F356W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits` | 0.063″ | 1.00\n | F410M | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f410m_i2d.fits` | 0.063″ | 1.00\n | F444W | `jw06882-o010_t010_nircam_clear-f444w_i2d.fits` | 0.063″ | 1.00\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n## Cite\n\n \n\nAnderson, Jordan (2026). LRD Watch DR1: little red dot candidates from an independent search of public JWST imaging (Version DR1) [Data set]. Cerin Amroth Research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23062632 Object LRDW J023220.27-442148.3.\n\n \n\nCC BY 4.0. Please also acknowledge the JWST programmes that took the data. LRD Watch DR1 is a vetted candidate catalogue, not a complete census: it has no selection function and cannot on its own give number densities. [About the release](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/lrds/dr1/).\n\n \n\n [← LRDW J023218.29-442303.5](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/lrds/dr1/j023218.29-442303.5/)[LRDW J023222.02-442031.7 →](https://cerinamroth.com/jwst/lrds/dr1/j023222.02-442031.7/)\n",
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