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LRDW J142004.15+525248.5

candidate tableSILVERmain classBH* channelEGS (DD 2750 parallel)
RA 14:20:04.152 215.0173004°
Dec +52:52:48.59 52.8801641°

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
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, F410M.

Spectral energy distribution

11.523451310301003001000150020003000400050006000Balmer limitrest frame (Å) at z = 5.704, spectroscopicobserved wavelength (µm)flux density (nJy)
  • NIRCam wide
  • 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 = 5.704.

At a glance

Tier
SILVER main class
Found by
BH* channel
Redshift
5.704 DJA grade 3, PRISM
Spectral shape
inconclusive de Graaff+25 criteria
F444W
23.87 AB S/N 370, 0.16″ aperture
F277W − F444W
not in the colour lane
BH* share
0.86 bhs_bb4200_b4; Δχ² galaxy 8.1, dwarf 85.8
Compactness
growth ratio 1.962 stars 2.392
Balmer break
10.96 ± 0.80 F356W/F200W, red:Hb+OIII
Image vetting
half-stack pass; no flags raised
Literature
no published match within 1″

Vetting

  • Image vettingpassed
  • Half-stack testpass
  • Artifact risknone
  • Neighbournone
  • Extendedno
  • BH* channelevidence dchi2_gal=8.1 dchi2_bd=85.8

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 35.7036capers-egs65-v4_prism-clear_6368_27615.spec.fits
z_vetAdopted by vetting5.7036zspec:dja_specz_grade3.csv:27615
z_photPhotometric (P(z) peak)—not fitted
z_bhsBH* channel fit6.111bhs_bb4200_b4
z_agnColour-lane fit——

Spectral checks

V-shape (spectrum)
inconclusive
Star (spectrum)
no
V-shape (photometry)
not measurable βUV not measured, βopt 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.

BandInstrumentPivot (µm)f (nJy)σ (nJy)AB magS/NAp. corr.
F115WNIRCam wide1.1545.392.3829.572.31.45
F150WNIRCam wide1.5018.262.1729.113.81.35–1.38
F200WNIRCam wide1.98926.201.9027.8513.81.41
F277WNIRCam wide2.762105.661.5326.3469.11.55
F356WNIRCam wide3.568287.161.3225.25218.41.53–1.59
F444WNIRCam wide4.4041027.312.7823.87370.01.63–1.64

Provenance

Field
EGS (DD 2750 parallel) (msa)
Programmes
02279, 02750, 04287, 06434, 08410 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
F115Wjw02750-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f115w_i2d.fits0.031″1.00
F150Wjw02750-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f150w_i2d.fits0.031″1.00
F200Wjw02750-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f200w_i2d.fits0.031″1.00
F277Wjw02750-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f277w_i2d.fits0.063″1.00
F356Wjw02750-o002_t002_nircam_clear-f356w_i2d.fits0.063″1.00
F444Wjw02750-o002_t002_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 J142004.15+525248.5.

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.