LRD Watch DR1 · catalog object

LRDW J021753.07-051125.5

catalogTENTATIVEBH* channelcolour laneUDS (PRIMER UDS-2)

RA 02:17:53.072 34.4711323°

Dec −05:11:25.58 -5.1904399°

SIMBAD within 2″ · ESASky

Images

F090W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F090W0.03″ px

F115W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F115W0.03″ px

F150W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F150W0.03″ px

F200W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F200W0.03″ px

F277W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F277W0.06″ px

F356W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F356W0.06″ px

F410M image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F410M0.06″ px

F444W image, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — F444W0.06″ px

Colour composite: F444W red, F356W green, F277W blue, 3.2 arcsec across, north up — compositebar 1″

3.2″ 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.

Spectral energy distribution

NIRCam wide
NIRCam medium
2σ upper limit (S/N < 2)

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 = 5.516.

At a glance

Tier: TENTATIVE
Found by: BH* channel + colour lane
Redshift: 5.516 DJA grade 3, PRISM
Spectral shape: V-shaped de Graaff+25 criteria
F444W: 24.58 AB S/N 94, 0.16″ aperture
F277W − F444W: 1.74 mag strict redness
BH* share: 0.91 bhs_bb4200_b4; Δχ² galaxy 21.4, dwarf 42.5
Compactness: growth ratio 1.712 stars 2.271
Balmer break: 2.36 ± 0.36 F277W/F200W, clean
Image vetting: half-stack pass; 1 flag(s)
Literature: 5 catalogue(s), 0 AGN paper(s) within 0.025″

Vetting

Image vettingnot applicable
Half-stack testpass
Artifact riskflagged
Neighbournone
Extendedno

colour laneartifact-risk low-coverage n_exp=2 < 3 (F444W)
BH* channelartifact-risk low-coverage n_exp=2 < 3 (F444W)

Redshifts

Each 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).

Column	What it is	z	Source
`z_spec`	Spectroscopic, DJA grade 3	5.5160	capers-udsp1-v4_prism-clear_6368_23419.spec.fits
`z_vet`	Adopted by vetting	5.5160	zspec:dja_specz_grade3.csv:23419
`z_phot`	Photometric (P(z) peak)	5.488	68%: 4.052–5.580
`z_bhs`	BH* channel fit	5.420	bhs_bb4200_b4
`z_agn`	Colour-lane fit	5.36	AGN-inclusive templates

Spectral checks

V-shape (spectrum): V-shaped
Star (spectrum): no
V-shape (photometry): passes β_UV −2.17, β_opt 2.89 at z_agn
Line in F410M: Ha 1 line-free optical band(s)
Line-ambiguous: yes
Settling verdict: not evaluated

Literature

Published objects within 1″ of this position. A match is a positional recovery, not an adopted classification.

Barro et al. (2025)
de Graaff et al. (2025)
Kocevski et al. (2024)
Kokorev et al. (2024)
Weibel et al. (2026), BH*-dominated sample

Photometry

Circular 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.

Band	Instrument	Pivot (µm)	f (nJy)	σ (nJy)	AB mag	S/N	Ap. corr.
F090W	NIRCam wide	0.902	39.09	10.94	27.42	3.6	1.15
F115W	NIRCam wide	1.154	54.34	10.43	27.06	5.2	1.12
F150W	NIRCam wide	1.501	36.16	8.14	27.50	4.4	1.11
F200W	NIRCam wide	1.989	45.72	6.75	27.25	6.8	1.09
F277W	NIRCam wide	2.762	107.64	3.99	26.32	27.0	1.20
F356W	NIRCam wide	3.568	252.32	4.49	25.39	56.2	1.23
F410M	NIRCam medium	4.082	757.61	9.79	24.20	77.4	1.26
F444W	NIRCam wide	4.404	533.46	5.69	24.58	93.8	1.27

Provenance

Field: UDS (PRIMER UDS-2) (primeruds2)
Programmes: 01837, 07814 behind every mosaic the field measured
Pipeline rows merged: 3 all at one position
Detection pass: original
Release build: 33af9933d1cc 2026-10-17T14:29:44Z

Image sources

Band	Mosaic	Native pixel	Coverage
F090W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f090w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F115W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F150W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f150w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F200W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f200w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F277W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f277w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F356W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F410M	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f410m_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F444W	`jw01837-c1001_t000_nircam_clear-f444w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00

Cite

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 Object LRDW J021753.07-051125.5.

CC 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.