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The variability of submillimeter emission provides a useful tool to probe the accretion physics in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. We accumulate four years of observations using Submillimeter Array for Centaurus A, NGC 4374, NGC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Bo-Yan Chen , Geoffrey C. Bower , Jason Dexter , Sera Markoff , Anthony Ridenour , Mark A. Gurwell , Ramprasad Rao , Sofia H. J. Wallström

We compile and analyse long term (~10 year) submillimetre (1.3, 0.87, 0.43 mm, submm) wavelength light curves of the Galactic centre black hole, Sagittarius A*. The 0.87 and 0.43 mm data are taken from the literature, while the majority of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jason Dexter , Brandon Kelly , Geoffrey C. Bower , Daniel P. Marrone , Jordan Stone , Richard Plambeck , Sheperd S. Doeleman

We conducted millimeter continuum observations for samples of nearby early-type galaxies (21 sources) and nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; 16 sources) at 100 GHz (3 mm) using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Akihiro Doi , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Hiroshi Nagai , Kotaro Kohno , Seiji Kameno

We used the data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to characterise the {\gamma}-ray flux variability of blazars on month-like time scales. Our sample consists of 1120 blazars of which 481 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Bhoomika Rajput , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit variability in their luminosities with timescales that correlate with the mass of the black hole at the centre of the AGN. Presently, the empirical correlation lacks sufficient precision to confidently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Adrien Hélias , Sarah C. Gallagher , Pauline Barmby

We present multi-epoch observations from the Submillimeter Array (SMA) for a sample of 171 bright blazars, 43 of which were detected by Fermi during the first three months of observations. We explore the correlation between their gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 Allison L. Strom , Aneta Siemiginowska , Mark A. Gurwell , Brandon C. Kelly

Proposed scaling relations of a characteristic timescale in the X-ray power spectral density of galactic and supermassive black holes have been used to argue that the accretion process is the same for small and large black holes. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meyer , T. Do , A. Ghez , M. R. Morris , S. Yelda , R. Schoedel , A. Eckart

We investigate the relationship between AGN optical variability timescales, amplitudes, and supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses using homogeneous light curves from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). We fit a damped…

We performed the observation of the flux densities of SgrA* at 90 and 102GHz in order to detect the time lag between these frequencies using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array, which was previously reported at lower frequencies. We detected a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Atsushi Miyazaki , Masato Tsuboi , Takahiro Tsutsumi

We carried out a systematic analysis of time lags between X-ray energy bands in a large sample (32 sources) of unabsorbed, radio quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed by XMM-Newton. The analysis of X-ray lags (up to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 B. De Marco , G. Ponti , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , P. Uttley , E. M. Cackett , A. C. Fabian , G. Miniutti

The exact location of the gamma-ray emitting region in blazars is still controversial. In order to attack this problem we present first results of a cross-correlation analysis between radio (11 cm to 0.8 mm wavelength, F-GAMMA program) and…

We present a study of variability time scales in a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei at several frequencies between 4.8 and 230 GHz. We investigate the differences of various AGN types and frequencies and correlate the measured time…

We report on a year-long effort to monitor the central supermassive black hole in M81 in the X-ray and radio bands. Using Chandra and the VLA, we obtained quasi-simultaneous observations of M81* on seven occasions during 2006. The X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. Miller , M. Nowak , S. Markoff , M. Rupen , D. Maitra

We present the results of the analysis of a sample of 17 low-luminosity (L_x < 1e42 erg/s), radio loud AGNs in massive galaxies. The sample is extracted from the SDSS database and it spans uniformly a wide range in optical [OIII] emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. de Gasperin , A. Merloni , P. Sell , P. Best , S. Heinz , G. Kauffmann

In order to investigate the dependence of quasar variability on fundamental physical parameters like black hole mass, we have matched quasars from the QUEST1 Variability Survey with broad-lined objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Wold , M. S. Brotherton , Z. Shang

Long time scale radio-X-ray correlations in black holes during the hard state have been found in many sources and there seems to emerge a universal underlying relationship which quantitatively describes this behavior. Although it would…

Several investigations of the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the normalised excess variance (${\sigma^2_{\rm NXS}}$) parameter have shown that variability has a strong anti-correlation with black hole mass ($M_{\rm…

We model the time variability of ~9,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars in SDSS Stripe 82 as a damped random walk. Using 2.7 million photometric measurements collected over 10 years, we confirm the results of Kelly et al. (2009) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-07 C. L. MacLeod , Ž. Ivezić , C. S. Kochanek , S. Kozłowski , B. C. Kelly , E. Bullock , A. Kimball , B. Sesar , D. Westman , K. Brooks , R. Gibson , A. C. Becker , W. H. de Vries

The compact radio source at the center of our Galaxy, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the subject of intensive study as it provides a close-up view of an accreting supermassive black hole. Sgr A* provides us with a prototype of a low-luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-29 Christiaan Brinkerink , Heino Falcke , Andreas Brunthaler , Casey Law

We present our observations of the optical intra-day variability (IDV) in $\gamma$-ray BL Lac object Mrk 501. The observations were run with the 1.02 m and 2.4 m optical telescopes at Yunnan Observatories from 2005 April to 2012 May. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-04 Hai-Cheng Feng , H. T. Liu , X. L. Fan , Yinghe Zhao , J. M. Bai , Fang Wang , D. R. Xiong , S. K. Li
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