LRD Watch DR1

Using the release

Two tables. The catalog holds the 448 objects that the literature or a V-shaped spectrum supports. The other 857 are candidates: the pipeline selected them and vetting passed them, but nothing outside the pipeline supports them yet. Of the candidates' main-class SILVER with a conclusive DJA PRISM spectrum, 0 of 6 are V-shaped. Treat a candidate as a pipeline selection, not as a little red dot.

Tiers. SILVER objects passed selection with no artifact risk, no neighbour contamination and no extended morphology (a colour-lane half-stack failure alone does not demote). Tentative objects are literature recoveries that an image check flagged or, for a black-hole-star pick, whose template-fit evidence was weaker; their notes are on their pages. SILVER is the highest tier in DR1; 181 objects have a DJA grade-3 spectroscopic redshift.

Line ambiguity. 298 main-class SILVER objects have a strong emission line inside F410M and too few line-free bands to tell a little red dot from an emission-line galaxy by photometry.

Photometry. Fluxes are aperture fluxes (radius 0.16″), not totals; a per-field aperture correction is given for point sources.

Cite and download

Anderson, 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

The catalogue, photometry, aperture corrections, data dictionary, methods document and checksums are deposited at doi:10.5281/zenodo.23062632.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Designations (LRDW JHHMMSS.ss±DDMMSS.s) are permanent and never reused.