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Using the XMM-Newton Slew Survey, we construct a hard-band selected sample of low-luminosity Galactic X-ray sources. Two source populations are represented, namely coronally-active stars and binaries (ASBs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 R. S. Warwick

We present X-ray and multiwavelength studies of a sample of eight high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with disc-like H\beta emission-line profiles selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These sources have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , M. Eracleous , Jian Wu , P. B. Hall , A. Rafiee , D. P. Schneider , Jianfeng Wu

BL Lacs are an enigmatic class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), characterized by the non-thermal continuum typically attributed to synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. Depending on the frequency location of the maxima of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Massaro , P. Giommi , G. Tosti , A. Cassetti , R. Nesci , M. Perri , D. Burrows , N. Gerehls

Aperiodic optical variability is a common property of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), though its physical origin is still open to question. To study the origin of the optical -- ultraviolet variability in AGN, we compare light curves of two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Kawaguchi , S. Mineshige , M. Umemura , E. L. Turner

We present Version 1.0 of the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) ultraviolet variability catalog (GUVV) that contains information on 84 time-variable and transient sources gained with simultaneous near and far ultraviolet photometric…

The variability of the continuum spectral energy distribution has been analyzed for a complete magnitude-limited sample of quasars in Selected Area 57, observed at two epochs in the photographic $U$, $B_J$, $F$ and $N$ bands with the Mayall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dario Trevese , Richard G. Kron , Alessandro Bunone

The nuclear regions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) likely host clumpy clouds that occasionally obscure the central X-ray source, causing eclipse events. These events offer a unique opportunity to study the properties and origins of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Tianying Lian , Chichuan Jin , Weimin Yuan

X-ray emission arising from active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity may potentially mimic the expected emission of tidal disruption events (TDEs). Ongoing and upcoming wide-field X-ray surveys will detect thousands of TDE-like sources, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Samaresh Mondal , K. Decker French

Under the unified model for active galactic nuclei (AGNs), narrow-line (Type 2) AGNs are, in fact, broad-line (Type 1) AGNs but each with a heavily obscured accretion disk. We would therefore expect the optical continuum emission from Type…

We present a systematic X-ray and multiwavelength study of a sample of 47 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with reverberation-mapping measurements. This sample includes 21 super-Eddington accreting AGNs and 26 sub-Eddington accreting AGNs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Hezhen Liu , B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , Michael S. Brotherton , S. C. Gallagher , Q. Ni , Ohad Shemmer , J. D. Timlin

Blazars, the peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGN), are known to show flux variations across the accessible electromagnetic spectrum. Though they have been studied extensively for their flux variability characteristics across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 M. Reshma , Aditi Agarwal , C. S. Stalin , Prajwel Joseph , Akanksha Dagore , Amit Kumar Mandal , Ashish Devaraj , S. B. Gudennavar

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sources feature supermassive black holes that launch relativistic plasma jets. They are key $\gamma$-ray sources providing a unique laboratory for studying extreme particle acceleration and plasma physics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Luana Passos-Reis , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tarek Hassan , Santiago Pita , Alberto Domínguez

We analyse all the available Chandra observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its compact group, taken between 2001 and 2008, with the main aim of addressing the variability in the X-ray band for this spectacular collisional ring galaxy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Chiara Salvaggio , Anna Wolter , Andrea Belfiore , Monica Colpi

We use Chandra data to study the incidence and properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in 16 intermediate redshift ($0.5 < z < 1.1$) X-ray-selected galaxy groups in the Chandra Deep Field-South. We measure an AGN fraction of $f(L_{X,H} >…

We present a detailed analysis of the most luminous and obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) detected in the ultra-hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) by Swift/BAT. Our sample comprises 21 X-ray luminous (log $L_X/{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}>44.6$, 2-10…

We present a series of X-ray variability results from a long XMM-Newton + NuSTAR campaign on the bright, variable AGN NGC 3227. We present an analysis of the lightcurves, showing that the source displays typically softer-when-brighter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-30 A. P. Lobban , T. J. Turner , J. N. Reeves , V. Braito , L. Miller

We discuss the spectral analysis of a sample of 63 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected above a limiting flux of $S(8-24$ keV$)=7\times10^{-14}$ erg/s/cm$^2$ in the multi-tiered NuSTAR Extragalactic Survey program. The sources span a…

We analyze the photometric variability of 4,611 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82. We recover the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the variable flux as a function of wavelength. For rest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Clio Z. P. Heard , C. Martin Gaskell

We present the 0.5 - 78 keV spectral analysis of 18 broad line AGN belonging to the INTEGRAL complete sample. Using simultaneous Swift-XRT and NuSTAR observations and employing a simple phenomenological model to fit the data, we measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Manuela Molina , Angela Malizia , Loredana Bassani , Francesco Ursini , Angela Bazzano , Pietro Ubertini

A wide-frequency radio study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is crucial to evaluate the intervening radiative mechanisms responsible for the observed emission and relate them with the underlying accretion physics. We present wide frequency…

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