LRD Watch DR1 · catalog object

LRDW J141955.93+525721.5

catalogTENTATIVEBH* channelEGS (CEERS pointing 1)

RA 14:19:55.931 214.9830464°

Dec +52:57:21.60 52.9559995°

SIMBAD within 2″ · ESASky

Images

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. No coverage in F090W.

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 = 6.989.

At a glance

Tier: TENTATIVE
Found by: BH* channel
Redshift: 6.989 DJA grade 3, PRISM
Spectral shape: V-shaped de Graaff+25 criteria
F444W: 24.51 AB S/N 180, 0.16″ aperture
F277W − F444W: not in the colour lane
BH* share: 0.71 mom_naidu25; Δχ² galaxy 20.6, dwarf 89.0
Compactness: growth ratio 1.757 stars 2.320
Balmer break: 4.02 ± 0.15 F360M/F200W, blue:far-uv
Image vetting: half-stack pass; 1 flag(s)
Literature: 5 catalogue(s), 5 AGN paper(s) within 0.031″

Vetting

Image vettingnot applicable
Half-stack testpass
Artifact risknone
Neighbourflagged
Extendedno

BH* channelBH* share 0.71 below 0.8 (composite)
BH* channelneighbor-contam footprint-overlap id 6386 at 1.37" (npix=1298, r_eq=1.28")

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	6.9886	rubies-egs61-v4_prism-clear_4233_55604.spec.fits
`z_vet`	Adopted by vetting	6.9886	zspec:dja:rubies-egs61-v4_prism-clear_4233_55604.spec.fits (pipeline z_vet 6.982 from zspec:vizier_J_A+A_691_A240_ceersp.csv:73166)
`z_phot`	Photometric (P(z) peak)	7.584	68%: 7.402–7.984
`z_bhs`	BH* channel fit	7.185	mom_naidu25
`z_agn`	Colour-lane fit	—	—

Spectral checks

V-shape (spectrum): V-shaped
Star (spectrum): no
V-shape (photometry): not measurable β_UV not measured, β_opt not measured at z_agn
Line in F410M: Hb, OIII 3 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.

Barro et al. (2025)
de Graaff et al. (2025)
Kocevski et al. (2024)
Kokorev et al. (2024)
Matthee et al. (2026)
Baccus+2026 (DJA census) broad-line AGN
Hviding+2025 broad-line AGN
Jones+2025 broad-line AGN
Wang+2024 (RUBIES z~7-8) broad-line AGN
Yanagisawa+2026 (ATLAS I) 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.

Band	Instrument	Pivot (µm)	f (nJy)	σ (nJy)	AB mag	S/N	Ap. corr.
F115W	NIRCam wide	1.154	38.53	3.28	27.43	11.7	1.42
F150W	NIRCam wide	1.501	69.08	3.58	26.80	19.3	1.41
F162M	NIRCam medium	1.627	71.16	4.68	26.77	15.2	1.40
F200W	NIRCam wide	1.989	81.44	2.81	26.62	29.0	1.41
F277W	NIRCam wide	2.762	122.33	2.41	26.18	50.7	1.54
F300M	NIRCam medium	2.990	134.79	4.74	26.08	28.4	1.57
F356W	NIRCam wide	3.568	377.15	2.71	24.96	139.3	1.58
F360M	NIRCam medium	3.624	327.09	4.41	25.11	74.2	1.62
F410M	NIRCam medium	4.082	657.54	5.22	24.36	125.8	1.63
F430M	NIRCam medium	4.281	446.28	7.30	24.78	61.2	1.63
F444W	NIRCam wide	4.404	568.53	3.15	24.51	180.2	1.65
F460M	NIRCam medium	4.630	523.27	9.95	24.60	52.6	1.68

Provenance

Field: EGS (CEERS pointing 1) (miri1)
Programmes: 01345, 07814, 08559 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	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F150W	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f150w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F200W	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f200w_i2d.fits`	0.031″	1.00
F277W	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f277w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F356W	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F410M	`jw01345-o001_t021_nircam_clear-f410m_i2d.fits`	0.063″	1.00
F444W	`jw01345-o001_t021_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 J141955.93+525721.5.

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.