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We present a high-quality, homogeneous sample of 157 H$\beta$ reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei (RM AGNs) spanning redshifts $0.00308 \leq z \leq 0.8429$, which is approximately 3.8 times larger than the previously available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Shulei Cao , Amit Kumar Mandal , Michal Zajaček , Bharat Ratra

The high-ionization lines of the broad-line region (BLR) of thermal active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show blueshifts of a few hundred km/s to several thousand km/sec with respect to the low-ionization lines. This has long been thought to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 C. Martin Gaskell , Rene W. Goosmann

This is the third in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation-mapping campaign aimed to study the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with high accretion rates. We present new results on the variability of the optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Chen Hu , Pu Du , Kai-Xing Lu , Yan-Rong Li , Fang Wang , Jie Qiu , Jin-Ming Bai , Shai Kaspi , Luis C. Ho , Hagai Netzer , Jian-Min Wang

Double-peaked (DP) broad emission line profiles in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are often interpreted as signatures of rotating disk-like structures in the broad-line region (BLR) and are commonly observed in low-luminosity AGNs using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Kelly F. Heckler , Rogemar A. Riffel , Daniel Marsango , Tiago V. Ricci , Angela C. Krabbe , Oli L. Dors

Broad emission line regions (BLRs) lying into central accretion disks has been widely accepted to explain the unique double-peaked broad emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (double-peaked BLAGNs). Here, accepted the accretion disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-09 Zhang XueGuang

Multiwavelength variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be used to probe their inner regions which are not directly resolvable. Dust reverberation mapping (DRM) estimates the size of the dust emitting region by measuring the…

Resolving the accretion disks and broad line regions (BLRs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can probe the physics behind supermassive black holes (SMBHs) fueling and weigh SMBHs. With time-domain observations, the reverberation mapping…

Surveys of faint galaxies at high redshifts often result in a "pencil-beam" geometry that is much longer along the line-of-sight than across the sky. We explore the effects of this geometry on the abundance and clustering of Lyman-break…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph A. Muñoz , Hy Trac , Abraham Loeb

We calculate the time- and energy-dependent opacity of high-energy gamma-rays attenuated by pair production interaction with accretion-flare photons that are scattered by gas and dust surrounding thenuclei of active galaxies. We show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Böttcher , C. D. Dermer

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

In the manuscript, the simple but interesting results are reported on the upper limits of NLRs sizes of a small sample of 38 low redshift ($z<0.1$) AGN with double-peaked broad emission lines (double-peaked BLAGN), in order to check whether…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 XueGuang Zhang

The peculiar nebular emission displayed by galaxies in the early Universe presents a unique opportunity to gain insight into the regulation of star formation in extreme environments. We investigate 500 (109) galaxies with deep NIRSpec/PRISM…

Black Hole Mass (M_BH) estimation in quasars, especially at high redshift, involves use of single epoch spectra with s/n and resolution that permit accurate measurement of the width of a broad line assumed to be a reliable virial estimator.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Alenka Negrete , Deborah Dultzin , Paola Marziani , Jack w. Sulentic

Infrared and nebular lines provide some of our best probes of the physics regulating the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at high-redshift. However, interpreting the physical conditions of high-redshift galaxies directly from…

Type-2 Low-ionization Narrow Emission-line Regions (LINERs) have been optically classified with the Palomar data as not presenting a broad component in the Balmer emission lines associated to the Broad Line Region (BLR) of the Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-27 L. Hermosa-Muñoz , S. Cazzoli , I. Márquez , J. Masegosa

The broad line region (BLR) of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a prominent observational signature of the accretion flow around supermassive black holes, which can be used to measure their masses (M_BH) over cosmic history. Due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan Stern , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jörg-Uwe Pott

So far the masses of about 50 active galactic nuclei have been measured through the reverberation mapping technique (RM). Most measurements have been performed for objects of moderate luminosity and redshift, based on H$\beta$, which is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Trevese , M. Perna , F. Vagnetti , F. G. Saturni , M. Dadina

We derive a theoretical relation between $R_{BLR}$, the size of the broad-emission-line region of active galactic nuclei, and the observed soft X-ray luminosity and spectrum. We show that in addition to the well known $R_{BLR}\sim L^{1/2}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel

Most results of the reverberation monitoring of active galaxies showed a universal scaling of the time delay of the Hbeta emission region with the monochromatic flux at 5100 A, with very small dipersion. Such a scaling favored the…

We present dynamical modeling of the broad-line region (BLR) for the highly variable AGN SDSS J141041.25+531849.0 ($z = 0.359$) using photometric and spectroscopic monitoring data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping…