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Accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been proposed as promising sites for producing both (stellar-mass) compact object mergers and extreme mass ratio inspirals. Along with the disk-assisted migration/evolution process,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

We investigate the effect of active galactic nucleus (AGN) variability on the observed connection between star formation and black hole accretion in extragalactic surveys. Recent studies have reported relatively weak correlations between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ryan C. Hickox , James R. Mullaney , David M. Alexander , Chien-Ting J. Chen , Francesca M. Civano , Andy D. Goulding , Kevin N. Hainline

We investigate the role of host galaxy classification and black hole mass in a heterogeneous sample of 276 mostly nearby (z<0.1) X-ray and IR selected AGN. Around 90% of Seyfert 1 AGN in bulge-dominated host galaxies (without disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Barry McKernan , K. E. Saavik Ford , Chris Reynolds

Apart from viewing-dependent obscuration, intrinsic broad-line emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) follows an evolutionary sequence: Type $1 \to 1.2/1.5 \to 1.8/1.9 \to 2$ as the accretion rate onto the central black hole is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Moshe Elitzur , Luis C. Ho , Jonathan R. Trump

X-ray spectroscopy offers an opportunity to study the complex mixture of emitting and absorbing components in the circumnuclear regions of active galactic nuclei, and to learn about the accretion process that fuels AGN and the feedback of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Turner , L. Miller

Observation of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy RE J1034+396 is believed to demonstrate a drift of the central period of the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) linearly correlated with the temporary X-ray luminosity. We show, using a specific…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Tapas Kumar Das , Bozena Czerny

Among the most extreme objects in the Universe, active galactic nuclei (AGN) are luminous centers of galaxies where a black hole feeds on surrounding matter. The variability patterns of the light emitted by an AGN contain information about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-22 Ji Won Park , Ashley Villar , Yin Li , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shirley Ho , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Philip J. Marshall , Aaron Roodman

We calculate the radiation spectrum and its time variability of the black hole accretion disk-corona system based on the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. In explaining the spectral properties of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Norita Kawanaka , Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige

We study the optical variability characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) AGN catalogue by utilising approximately five years of optical light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Vivek Kumar Jha , Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Hum Chand

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng

We study the properties of the host galaxies of Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGNs) with the aim of understanding the conditions responsible for triggering CL activity. We find that CL AGN hosts primarily reside in the so-called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Sierra A. Dodd , Jamie A. P. Law-Smith , Katie Auchettl , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Ryan J. Foley

The origin of the optical flux variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is largely unknown. Previous studies have correlated features of the variability structure function (SF) with AGN properties, though they mostly involved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashley Hai Tung Tan , Christian Wolf , Neelesh Amrutha , Christopher A. Onken , John L. Tonry , Rachel Webster

The morphology of a galaxy reflects the mix of physical processes occurring within and around it, offering indirect clues to its formation and evolution. We apply both visual classification and computer vision to test the suspected…

After the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) discovered a significant brightening of the inner region of NGC 2617, we began a ~70 day photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaign from the X-ray through near-infrared…

We show that it is possible to explain the physical origin of jet precession in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) through the misalignment between the rotation axes of the accretion disk and of the Kerr black hole. We apply this scenario to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 Anderson Caproni , Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Zulema Abraham

A major amendment in recent models of hierarchical galaxy formation is the inclusion of so-called AGN feedback. The energy input from an active central massive black hole is invoked to suppress star formation in early-type galaxies at later…

We present a model for the short timescale spectral variability of accreting black holes. It describes well the time-averaged spectra as well as temporal characteristics such as power-density spectrum, time/phase lags, and coherence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Juri Poutanen , Andrew C. Fabian

We argue that the changing-look event in the active galactic nucleus 1ES 1927+654, followed by a dip of 3 orders of magnitude in the X-ray luminosity, is controlled by a change in the accretion rate and an inversion of magnetic flux in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman , Jason Dexter

The correlation observed between monochromatic X-ray and UV luminosities in radiatively-efficient active galactic nuclei (AGN) lacks a clear theoretical explanation despite being used for many applications. Such a correlation, with its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Riccardo Arcodia , Andrea Merloni , Kirpal Nandra , Gabriele Ponti

This paper aims to investigate/map the effects that perturbations applied to an accretion disk might produce on the registered Light Curves (LC). The case of accretion disks around supermassive active black holes (AGNs) is studied with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Gabriela Mocanu , Norbert Magyar , Anabele Pardi , Alexandru Marcu