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Accretion processes in quasars and active galactic nuclei are still poorly understood, especially as far as the connection between observed spectral properties and physical parameters is concerned. Quasars show an additional degree of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paola Marziani , Deborah Dultzin-Hacyan , Jack W. Sulentic

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) S- (2--4 GHz), C- (4--8 GHz), and X-band (8--12 GHz) continuum observations toward seven radio-loud quasars at $z>5$. This sample has previously been found to exhibit spectral peaks at…

Quasars are bright and unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) thought to be powered by the accretion of matter around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The temporal variability of a quasar's brightness contains valuable…

We present the results from a time domain study of absorption lines detected in quasar spectra with repeat observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Beginning with over 4500 unique time separation baselines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Troy L. Hacker , Robert J. Brunner , Britt F. Lundgren , Donald G. York

We present a systematic search for periodically varying quasars and supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) candidates in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey's MD09 field. From a color-selected sample of 670 quasars extracted from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 T. Liu , S. Gezari , W. Burgett , K. Chambers , P. Draper , K. Hodapp , M. Huber , R. -P. Kudritzki , E. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , J. Tonry , R. Wainscoat , C. Waters

We present MgII-based black hole mass estimates for 27,602 quasars with rest-frame UV spectra available in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Three. This estimation is possible due to the existence of an empirical correlation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alireza Rafiee , Patrick B. Hall

Based on the Seventh Data Release (DR7) quasar catalog from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the variability of optical quasars in W1, W2, W3 and W4 bands of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Near-Earth…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-28 Hongtao Wang , Yong Shi

We report the results of several programs to study the variability of high-velocity (up to 0.2c) mini-"broad absorption lines" (mini-BALs) and BALs in quasar spectra, and thus to better characterize the structural and physical properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-20 Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo , Fred Hamann , Michael Eracleous , Daniel Capellupo , Jane Charlton , Joseph Shields

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) repeat spectroscopic observations have resulted in multiple-epoch spectroscopy for roughly 2500 quasars observed more than 50 days apart. From this sample, we identify 315 quasars that have varied…

We reviewed multi-wavelength blazars variability and detection of quasi-periodic oscillations on intra-day timescales. The variability timescale from few minutes to up to less than a days is commonly known as intra-day variability. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Alok C. Gupta

Context. The steep-spectrum radio quasars (SSRQs) are powerful radio sources, with thermal emission from accretion disk and jet nonthermal emission likely both contributing in the Ultraviolet (UV)/optical luminosity, however the former may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Minfeng Gu , Shuang-Liang Li

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

Quasars emission is highly variable, and this variability gives us clues to understand the accretion process onto supermassive black holes. We can expect variability properties to correlate with the main physical properties of the accreting…

We present multi-wavelength fast timing observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 (ASASSN-18ey), taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-Millimeter Array (ALMA), Very Large…

We present a new method to measure the episodic lifetime of quasars with current and future large-scale sky surveys. Future photometric observations of large samples of confirmed quasars can provide a direct measurement (or interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Martini , Donald P. Schneider

The broadening of atomic emission lines by high-velocity motion of gas near accreting supermassive black holes is an observational hallmark of quasars. Observations of broad emission lines could potentially constrain the mechanism for…

We performed a new analysis of B and R light curves of a sample of PG quasars. We confirm the variability-redshift correlation and its explanation in terms of spectral variability, coupled with the increase of rest-frame observing frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Trevese , F. Vagnetti

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

Time-domain astronomy is entering an era of unprecedented discovery driven by wide-field, high-cadence surveys such as LSST, Roman, Euclid, SKA, and PLATO. While some of these facilities will generate enormous photometric alert streams, the…

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