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pith:ROZP66W5

pith:2026:ROZP66W55YNO6TD4VDCKDU4NWU

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A quasi-star is born: formation and evolution of accreting quasi-stars as a pathway to Little Red Dots at non-zero metallicity

C. Charbonnel, D. Schaerer, E. Cenci, J. Roman-Garza, M. Xiao, P. Oesch, R. Marques-Chaves, T. Fragos

arxiv:2603.21714 v2 · 2026-03-23 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of $\eta$ Carinae

Non-LTE atmosphere models of very luminous sources and their applicability to Little Red Dots, quasi-stars, and similar objects

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First computed	2026-08-03T01:14:51.422932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bb2ff7addee1aef4c7ca8c4a1d38db527958dc3e9f12790395506de9641be73

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.21714 · arxiv_version: 2603.21714v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.21714 · pith_short_12: ROZP66W55YNO · pith_short_16: ROZP66W55YNO6TD4 · pith_short_8: ROZP66W5

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ROZP66W55YNO6TD4VDCKDU4NWU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8bb2ff7addee1aef4c7ca8c4a1d38db527958dc3e9f12790395506de9641be73

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-23T08:57:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d74e905fa4bcfbd1573a852633ce29141749429c36144f36fc739c79af338d16"
  },
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  }
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