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The Gaia mission has detected a large number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galaxies, but these objects must be identified among the 1000-fold more numerous stars. Extant astrometric AGN catalogs do not have the uniform sky coverage…

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A sample of Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) is presented including spectroscopically identified 380 spectra of 245 objects, of which 58 CV candidates are new discoveries. The BaggingTopPush and the Random Forest algorithms are applied to the…

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The discovery of gravitational wave (GW) events and the detection of electromagnetic counterparts from GW170817 has started the era of multimessenger GW astronomy.The field has been developing rapidly and in this paper,we discuss the…

We present the results of a multi-wavelength follow up campaign for the luminous nuclear transient Gaia16aax, which was first identified in January 2016. The transient is spatially consistent with the nucleus of an active galaxy at z=0.25,…

388 hot subdwarf stars have been identified by using the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram built from the second data release (DR2) of the Gaia mission. By analyzing their observed LAMOST spectra, we characterized 186 sdB, 73 He-sdOB, 65…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Zhenxin Lei , Jingkun Zhao , Péter Németh , Gang Zhao

Since mid 2014 Gaia mission delivers daily millions of observations of the whole sky. Among them we search for transient events, e.g., supernovae, microlensing events, cataclysmic variables, etc. In my talk I describe the near-real-time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Łukasz Wyrzykowski

Periodic variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves has been proposed as a signature of close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Recently, 181 candidate SMBH binaries were identified in Gaia DR3 based on apparently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Kareem El-Badry , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix

We present results on two different Gaia-related topics. First, we describe our efforts to calibrate the three Gaia photometric passbands G, G_BP, and G_RP. We have built a new spectrophotometric HST/STIS library and used it to derive new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 J. Maíz Apellániz , M. Pantaleoni González , D. J. Lennon , R. H. Barbá , M. Weiler

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of 22 new gravitationally lensed quasars found using $\textit{Gaia}$ data release 2. The selection was made using several techniques: multiple $\textit{Gaia}$ detections around objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Cameron A. Lemon , Matthew W. Auger , Richard G. McMahon

The discovery of variable and transient sources is an essential product of synoptic surveys. The alert stream will require filtering for personalized criteria -- a process managed by a functionality commonly described as a Broker. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephen T. Ridgway , Thomas Matheson , Kenneth J. Mighell , Knut A. Olsen , Steve B. Howell

Gaia used a large sample of photometrically selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars to remove the residual spin of its global proper motion system in order to achieve a maximally inertial reference frame. A small fraction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Valeri V. Makarov , Nathan J. Secrest

Gaia mission will offer an exceptional opportunity to perform variability studies. The data homogeneity, its optimised photometric systems, composed of 11 medium and 4-5 broad bands, the high photometric precision in G band of one milli-mag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Eyer

Using the light curve time series data for more than 11.7 million variable sources published in the Gaia Data Release 3, the average magnitudes, colors, and variability parameters have been computed for 0.836 million Gaia CRF objects, which…

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Making use of strong correlations between closely separated multiple or double sources and photometric and astrometric metadata in Gaia EDR3, we generate a catalog of candidate double and multiply imaged lensed quasars and AGNs, comprising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Valeri V. Makarov , Nathan J. Secrest

The Gaia satellite, to be launched in 2012, will offer an unprecedented survey of the whole sky down to magnitude 20. The multi-epoch nature of the mission provides a unique opportunity to study variable sources with their astrometric,…

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Hundreds of Type 2 quasars have been identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data, and there is substantial evidence that they are generally galaxies with highly obscured central engines, in accord with unified models for active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. J. Barth , A. Voevodkin , D. J. Carson , P. Woźniak

The ESA Gaia satellite scans the whole sky with a temporal sampling ranging from seconds and hours to months. Each time a source passes within the Gaia field of view, it moves over 10 CCDs in 45 s and a lightcurve with 4.5 s sampling (the…

There are some strange quasars with multiple Gaia detections or observed with abnormal astrometric characteristics, such as with large proper motions or significant astrometric noises. Those strange quasars could be potential candidates of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Xiang Ji , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Qiqi Wu , Ruqiu Lin , P. T. Rahna , Yingkang Zhang , Shuairu Zhu , Shilong Liao , Zhaoxiang Qi , Tao An

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to exhibit optical/UV variability and most of them can be well modeled by the damped random walks. Physical processes that are not related to the accretion disk, such as tidal disruption events (TDE)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-17 Zhiyuan Zheng , Yong Shi , Shuowen Jin , H. Dannerbauer , Qiusheng Gu , Xin Li , Xiaoling Yu