LRD Watch DR1 · candidate

LRDW J123615.83+621515.5

candidate tableSILVERmain classBH* channelGOODS-N (JADES 1181 with FRESCO, CONGRESS, GO 4762 and GO 6434)

RA 12:36:15.830 189.0659588°

Dec +62:15:15.57 62.2543245°

SIMBAD within 2″ · ESASky

Images

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

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

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

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. No coverage in F090W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F410M.

Spectral energy distribution

NIRCam wide
NIRCam medium
MIRI
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 = 3.342.

At a glance

Tier: SILVER main class
Found by: BH* channel
Redshift: 3.34 BH* fit
Spectral shape: no labelled spectrum
F444W: 21.86 AB S/N 443, 0.16″ aperture
F277W − F444W: not in the colour lane
BH* share: 0.94 cliff_degraaff25; Δχ² galaxy 27.5, dwarf 134.8
Compactness: growth ratio 2.622 stars 2.357
Balmer break: 10.73 ± 0.48 F182M/F115W, blue:far-uv
Image vetting: half-stack no-coverage; no flags raised
Literature: no published match within 1″

Vetting

Image vettingpassed
Half-stack testno-coverage
Artifact risknone
Neighbournone
Extendedno

No vetting notes.

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	—	—
`z_vet`	Adopted by vetting	3.3419	bhstar:cliff_degraaff25 (zpub 2.014 noted)
`z_phot`	Photometric (P(z) peak)	—	not fitted
`z_bhs`	BH* channel fit	3.342	cliff_degraaff25
`z_agn`	Colour-lane fit	—	—

Spectral checks

V-shape (spectrum): no labelled spectrum
Star (spectrum): no spectrum
V-shape (photometry): not measurable β_UV not measured, β_opt not measured at z_agn
Line in F410M: none 1 line-free optical band(s)
Line-ambiguous: no
Settling verdict: not evaluated

Literature

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

No published JWST little red dot or broad-line AGN within 1″.

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.
F115W	NIRCam wide	1.154	97.51	4.26	26.43	22.9	1.33
F182M	NIRCam medium	1.845	1046.66	7.14	23.85	146.6	1.35–1.44
F210M	NIRCam medium	2.095	1613.84	10.47	23.38	154.1	1.37–1.46
F356W	NIRCam wide	3.568	5156.69	13.27	22.12	388.6	1.31–1.52
F444W	NIRCam wide	4.404	6524.56	14.74	21.86	442.7	1.51–1.58
F560W	MIRI	5.633	4282.68	8.89	22.32	481.6	2.51
F770W	MIRI	7.636	4148.76	6.84	22.36	606.2	2.35
F1000W	MIRI	9.947	2482.87	9.54	22.91	260.2	2.63

Provenance

Field: GOODS-N (JADES 1181 with FRESCO, CONGRESS, GO 4762 and GO 6434) (goods)
Programmes: 01181, 01895, 02674, 02926, 03577, 04762, 05407, 06434 behind every mosaic the field measured
Pipeline rows merged: 1 all at one position
Detection pass: original
Release build: 33af9933d1cc 2026-10-17T14:29:44Z

Image sources

Band	Mosaic	Native pixel	Coverage
F115W	`jw03577-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F356W	`jw03577-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F444W	`jw01895-o002_t004_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 J123615.83+621515.5.

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.