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The broad emission spectral lines emitted from AGNs are our main probe of the geometry and physics of the broad line region (BLR) close to the SMBH. There is a group of AGNs that emits very broad and complex line profiles, showing two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Luka C. Popovic

The innermost regions in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) were not being spatially resolved so far but spectropolarimetry can provide us insight about their hidden physics and the geometry. From spectropolarimetric observations in broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Đ. Savić , R. Goosmann , L. Č. Popović , F. Marin , V. L. Afanasiev

Optical polarization signal coming from the innermost part of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is highly sensitive on the geometry and kinematics of the central engine. Due to the compact size of the AGN central region, which is spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-01 Đorđe Savić

Variability of active galactic nuclei is not well understood. One possible explanation is existence of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBH) in their centres. It is expected that major mergers are common in the Universe. It is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-23 Marijana Smailagić , Edi Bon

One of the proposed explanations for the broad, double-peaked Balmer emission lines observed in the spectra of some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is that they are associated with sub-parsec supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Jia Liu , Michael Eracleous , Jules P. Halpern

Double-peaked broad emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may indicate the existence of a bound supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary where two distinct broad line regions (BLRs) contribute together to the line profile. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Yue Shen , Abraham Loeb

Here we consider the perspective to detect sub-pc super-massive binary black-hole (SMBBH) systems using long-term photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaigns of active galactic nuclei. This work explores the nature of long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Luka Č. Popović , Saša Simić , Anđelka Kovačević , Dragana Ilić

The mass measurement of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a very complex task. Between several methods for SMBH mass measurements, some of them use the spectral lines, which indicate the motion of the emitting/absorbing material around an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-24 Luka Č. Popović

For type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) for which the equatorial scattering is the dominant broad line polarization mechanism, it is possible to measure the supermassive black hole mass by tracing the Keplerian motion across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Đorđe Savić , Luka Č. Popović , Elena Shablovinskaya , Viktor L. Afanasiev

We discuss the polarization of broad emission lines in the type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The polarization depends on the geometry of the broad line region (BLR), and also on the polarization mechanism, or distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-12 L. C. Popović , E. Shablovinskaya , Dj. Savić

We present a new method for supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurements in Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using polarization angle across broad lines. This method gives measured masses which are in a good agreement with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 Luka C. Popovic , Victor L. Afanasiev , Djordje Savic

The structure of the broad emission line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains unclear. We test in this paper a flattened configuration model for BLR. The virial theorem, by taking into account the disc shape of BLR, allows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

Here we discuss the possibility of super-massive binary black hole (SMBBH) detection, using the shifts of the broad lines emitted from a binary system. We perform a number of simulations of shapes and shifts of $H_{\beta}$ lines emitted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Sasa Simic , Luka C. Popovic

Measuring of the masses of galactic supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an important task, since they correlate with the host galaxy properties and play an important role in evolution of galaxies. Here we present a new method for measuring…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Victor L. Afanasiev , Luka C. Popovic

We investigate the broad line profiles emitted from a system supermassive binary black hole (SMBBH) having elliptical orbits and low mass ratio of $m_2/m_1\sim 0.1$. Our model assumes a super Eddington accretion flow in the case of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-23 Saša Simić , Luka Č. Popović , Andjelka Kovačević , Dragana Ilić

Type II AGNs with polarimetric broad emission line provided strong evidence for the orientation-based unified model for AGNs. We want to investigate whether the polarimetric broad emission line in type II AGNs can be used to calculate their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shi-Yan Zhang , Wei-Hao Bian , Ke-Liang Huang

Motivated by advances in observational searches for sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SBHBs) made in the past few years we develop a semi-analytic model to describe spectral emission line signatures of these systems. The goal of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Khai Nguyen , Tamara Bogdanovic

Most massive galaxies contain a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their center. When galaxies merge, their SMBHs sink to the center of the new galaxy where they are thought to eventually merge. During this process an SMBH binary is formed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Jacco H. Terwel , Peter G. Jonker

In the manuscript, a candidate of sub-pc binary black hole (BBH) system is reported in SDSS J1257+2023 through different properties of broad Balmer emission lines. After subtractions of host galaxy contributions, Gaussian functions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 XueGuang Zhang

Supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) are the anticipated byproducts of galaxy mergers and play a pivotal role in shaping galaxy evolution, gravitational wave emissions, and accretion physics. Despite their theoretical prevalence, direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Paola Marziani , Edi Bon , Natasa Bon , Mauro D'Onofrio
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