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We present geometric and dynamical modeling of the broad line region for the multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign focused on NGC 5548 in 2014. The dataset includes photometric and spectroscopic monitoring in the optical and…

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The broad emission lines (BELs) emitted by Active Galactic Nuclei respond to variations in the ionizing continuum emission from the accretion disk surrounding the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). This reverberation response provides…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Sara Rosborough , Andrew Robinson , Triana Almeyda , Daniel Humphrey , Madison Noll

AGN reverberate when the broad emission lines respond to changes of the ionizing thermal continuum emission. Reverberation measurements have been commonly used to estimate the size of the broad-line region (BLR) and the mass of the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-04 J. León-Tavares , V. Chavushyan , A. Lobanov , E. Valtaoja , T. G. Arshakian

(Abridged) We investigate the observational characteristics of BLR geometries in which the BLR clouds bridge the gap, both in distance and scale height, between the outer accretion disc and the hot dust, forming an effective surface of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. R. Goad , K. T. Korista , A. J. Ruff

The continuum reverberation mapping is widely used in studying accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGN). While some indirect evidence and simulations indicated that the diffuse continuum, especially the strong Balmer continuum from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-22 Yuanzhe Jiang , Xue-Bing Wu , Qinchun Ma , Huapeng Gu , Yuhan Wen

We present an investigation of the structure of the emission line region in a sample of 12 single-peaked Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Using the high resolution H-beta and H-alpha line profiles observed with the Isaac Newton Telescope (La…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. C. Popovic , E. Mediavilla , E. Bon , D. Ilic

New reverberation mapping (RM) measurements, combined with accurate luminosities and line ratios, provide strong constraints on the location of the line emitting gas in the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Hagai Netzer

The origin, geometry and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) gas in quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are uncertain. We demonstrate that clumpy biconical disc winds illuminated by an AGN continuum can produce BLR-like spectra.…

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy, NGC 3227, confirms previous reports that the broad H-alpha emission line flux is time variable, decreasing by a modest ~ 11% between 1999 and 2000 in response to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nick Devereux

The spectra of active galactic nuclei exhibit broad-emission lines that presumably originate in the Broad-Line Region (BLR) with gaseous-dusty clouds in a predominantly Keplerian motion around the central black hole. Signatures of both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Ana Laura Müller , Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Michal Zajaček , Bożena Czerny , Anabella Araudo , Vladimír Karas

The broad emission lines (BELs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) respond to ionizing continuum variations. The time and velocity dependence of their response depends on the structure of the broad-line region: its geometry, kinematics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 S. W. Mangham , C. Knigge , J. H. Matthews , K. S. Long , S. A. Sim , N. Higginbottom

Understanding the geometry and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important to estimate black hole masses in AGN and study the accretion process. The technique of reverberation mapping (RM) has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Amit Kumar Mandal , Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , R. G. Petrov , Blesson Mathew , Ram Sagar

We present dynamical modeling of the broad line region (BLR) for a sample of five Seyfert 1 galaxies using reverberation mapping data taken by the Lick AGN Monitoring Project in 2008. By modeling the AGN continuum light curve and H$\beta$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Pancoast , Brendon J. Brewer , Tommaso Treu , Daeseong Park , Aaron J. Barth , Misty C. Bentz , Jong-Hak Woo

Photoionization modeling of active galactic nuclei (AGN) predicts that diffuse continuum (DC) emission from the broad-line region makes a substantial contribution to the total continuum emission from ultraviolet through near-infrared…

WPVS 48 is a nearby narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy without previous analysis of the broad-line region (BLR) by means of optical spectroscopic reverberation mapping. By studying the continuum and emission line variability of WPVS 48, we aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 M. A. Probst , W. Kollatschny , M. W. Ochmann , C. Sobrino Figaredo , D. Chelouche , M. Haas , S. Kaspi , L. Meerwart , T. -O. Husser

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) powers active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and drives feedback that shapes galaxy evolution. Constraining AGN accretion disk structure is therefore essential for understanding black hole growth and…

We conducted an analysis of gamma-ray variability in a large sample of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by utilizing archival Fermi-LAT light curves and applying damped random walk modeling to obtain variability amplitude. Our primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding

We measure the broad emission line region (BLR) size of a luminous, L~1E47 erg/s, high-z quasar using broadband photometric reverberation mapping. To this end, we analyze ~7.5 years of photometric data for MACHO 13.6805.324 (z~1.72) in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Doron Chelouche , Eliran Daniel , Shai Kaspi

Current reverberation mapping (RM) studies primarily focus on single emission lines, particularly the \hb\ line, which may not fully reveal the geometry and kinematic properties of the broad-line region (BLR). To overcome this limitation,…