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LRD Watch DR1 · catalog object

LRDW J123638.84+621503.8

catalogSILVERmain classBH* channelGOODS-N (JADES 1181 with FRESCO, CONGRESS, GO 4762 and GO 6434)
RA 12:36:38.842 189.1618425°
Dec +62:15:03.81 62.2510588°

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

11.523451030100300200030004000500060008000Balmer limitrest frame (Å) at z = 4.416, spectroscopicobserved wavelength (µm)flux density (nJy)
  • 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 = 4.416.

At a glance

Tier
SILVER main class
Found by
BH* channel
Redshift
4.416 DJA grade 3, PRISM
Spectral shape
V-shaped de Graaff+25 criteria
F444W
25.39 AB S/N 60, 0.16″ aperture
F277W − F444W
not in the colour lane
BH* share
0.85 bhs_bb5400_b4; Δχ² galaxy 4.8, dwarf 32.4
Compactness
growth ratio 1.823 stars 2.357
Balmer break
1.24 ± 0.16 F210M/F182M, clean
Image vetting
half-stack pass; no flags raised
Literature
0 catalogue(s), 2 AGN paper(s) within 0.018″

Vetting

  • Image vettingpassed
  • Half-stack testpass
  • Artifact risknone
  • Neighbournone
  • Extendedno
  • BH* channelevidence dchi2_gal=4.8 dchi2_bd=32.4

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).

ColumnWhat it iszSource
z_specSpectroscopic, DJA grade 34.4161diver-gdn-02-v4_prism-clear_8018_1008671.spec.fits
z_vetAdopted by vetting4.4161zspec:dja_specz_grade3.csv:1008671
z_photPhotometric (P(z) peak)—not fitted
z_bhsBH* channel fit4.738bhs_bb5400_b4
z_agnColour-lane fit——

Spectral checks

V-shape (spectrum)
V-shaped
Star (spectrum)
no
V-shape (photometry)
not measurable βUV not measured, βopt not measured at z_agn
Line in F410M
none 0 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.

  • Lin+2025 GOODS-N broad-line AGN
  • Zhang+2025 broad-line AGN

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.

BandInstrumentPivot (µm)f (nJy)σ (nJy)AB magS/NAp. corr.
F115WNIRCam wide1.15437.362.8627.4713.11.33
F182MNIRCam medium1.84546.804.2727.2210.91.35–1.44
F210MNIRCam medium2.09558.225.5826.9910.41.37–1.46
F356WNIRCam wide3.568316.762.9025.15109.11.31–1.52
F444WNIRCam wide4.404254.514.2525.3959.91.51–1.58

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

BandMosaicNative pixelCoverage
F115Wjw03577-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits0.031″1.00
F356Wjw03577-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits0.063″1.00
F444Wjw01895-o002_t004_nircam_clear-f444w_i2d.fits0.063″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 J123638.84+621503.8.

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.