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There are strong suggestions that the disk-like accretion flow onto massive black hole in AGN is disrupted in its innermost part (10-100 Rg), possibly due to the radiation pressure instability. It may form a hot optically thin quasi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Czerny , A. Abrassart , S. Collin-Souffrin , A. -M. Dumont

We use the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 Survey (Pan-STARRS1, PS1) data to extend the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 quasar light curves. Combining PS1 and SDSS light curves provides a 15 yr baseline for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Krzysztof Suberlak , Željko Ivezić , Chelsea MacLeod

As an application of the classically decayable correlation in a quantum chaos system maintained over an extremely long time-scale (Matsui et al, Europhys.Lett. 113(2016),40008), we propose a minimal model of quantum damper composed of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-20 Fumihiro Matsui , Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

Over the next ten years, the Vera C.\ Rubin Observatory (VRO) will observe $\sim$10 million active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a regular and high cadence. During this time, the intensities of most of these AGN will fluctuate stochastically.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-20 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski , Bei Zhou

Longitudinal intensity oscillations along coronal loops that are interpreted as signatures of magneto-acoustic waves are observed frequently in different coronal structures. The aim of this paper is to estimate the physical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 A. Abedini

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…

The dependence of the long-term optical/UV variability on the spectral and the fundamental physical parameters for radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is investigated. The multi-epoch repeated photometric scanning data in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. L. Ai , W. Yuan , H. Y. Zhou , T. G. Wang , X. -B. Dong , J. G. Wang , H. L. Lu

Non-KAM (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) systems, when perturbed by weak time-dependent fields, offer a fast route to classical chaos through an abrupt breaking of invariant phase space tori. In this work, we employ out-of-time-order correlators…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-10 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Abinash Sahu , Arul Lakshminarayan , Vaibhav Madhok

Variability is a striking features of quasars, observed at all timescales wavelengths. Studying its properties and the correlations with the physical parameters (e.g. black hole mass and accretion rate) provides significant insights into…

The origin of the variability in accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still unknown, but its behavior can be characterized by modeling the time series of optical wavelength fluxes coming from the accretion disks with damped…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Felipe Elorrieta , Wilfredo Palma , Susana Eyheramendy , Franz E. Bauer , Ernesto Camacho

We investigate axial gravitational perturbations and quasinormal modes of regular black holes supported by an Einasto distribution of matter. Halo matter not only removes the central singularity but also modifies the quasinormal spectrum.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu , Javlon Rayimbaev , Sardor Murodov , Mardon Abdullaev , Munisbek Akhmedov

In this manuscript, an oversimplified model is proposed to test the effects of intrinsic AGN variability on expected optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) related to sub-pc binary black hole systems (BBHs) in broad line AGN. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Zhang XueGuang

We investigate the feasibility of using the velocity acoustic oscillations (VAO) features on the Cosmic Dawn 21 cm power spectrum to probe small-scale density fluctuations. In the standard cold dark matter (CDM) model, Pop III stars form in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xin Zhang , Hengjie Lin , Meng Zhang , Bin Yue , Yan Gong , Yidong Xu , Xuelei Chen

We systematically analyze X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the 7~Ms \textit{Chandra} Deep Field-South survey. On the longest timescale ($\approx~17$ years), we find only weak (if any) dependence of X-ray variability…

The variability mechanisms from jetted AGNs are still under debate. Here the damped random walk (DRW) model, implemented through Gaussian Processe (GPs), is used to fit the $ZTF$ long-term optical light curves of 1684 $\gamma$-ray emission…

We consider position-dependent mass (PDM) Lagrangians/Hamiltonians in their standard textbook form, where the long-standing \emph{gain-loss balance} between the kinetic and potential energies is kept intact to allow conservation of total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Omar Mustafa

We present a phenomenological forward Monte Carlo model for forecasting the population of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in dwarf galaxies observable via their optical variability. Our model accounts for expected changes in the spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Colin J. Burke , Yue Shen , Xin Liu , Priyamvada Natarajan , Neven Caplar , Jillian M. Bellovary , Z. Franklin Wang

Future dark energy experiments will require better and more accurate theoretical predictions for the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Here, we use large N-body simulations of the…

Context: Quasar variability can potentially unlock crucial insights into the accretion process. Understanding how this variability is influenced by wavelength is crucial for validating and refining quasar variability models. Aims: This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 P. Patel , P. Lira , P. Arévalo , Mouyuan Sun , S. Bernal , M. L. Martínez-Aldama

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs) show large changes in luminosity and optical spectral state on time-scales of a few years, and provide a valuable probe of time-dependent accretion in the disc-BLR-torus system. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 Yu Tao , Jie Tang , Xuan Wei