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The analysis of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at different wavelengths and the study of possible correlations among different spectral windows are nowadays a major field of inquiry. Optical variability has been largely…

A key feature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is their variability across all wavelengths. Typically, AGN vary by a few tenths of a magnitude or more over periods lasting from hours to years. By contrast, extreme variability of AGN -- large…

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Long-term gamma-ray variability of a non-blazar Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) PKS 0521-36 is investigated by using Fermi-LAT pass 8 data covering from 2008 August to 2021 March. The results show that the histogram of the gamma-ray fluxes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Pengfei Zhang , Shenbang Yang , Li Zhang

Multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often reveal various time scales of variability. Among these phenomena, "changing-look AGNs" are extreme cases where broad emission lines become faint/bright or even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Keiichi Wada , Yuki Kudoh , Tohru Nagao

We analyze the wavelength-dependent variability of a sample of spectroscopically confirmed active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from near-UV ($NUV$) variable sources in the GALEX Time Domain Survey that have a large amplitude of optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 T. Hung , S. Gezari , D. O. Jones , R. P. Kirshner , R. Chornock , E. Berger , A. Rest , M. Huber , G. Narayan , D. Scolnic , C. Waters , R. Wainscoat , D. C. Martin , K. Forster , J. D. Neill

The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long held the promise of shedding light on their detailed structure, and possibly other astrophysical phenonema. Different emission mechanisms lead to different patterns of variability in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. S. Hawkins

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

A wide-frequency radio study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is crucial to evaluate the intervening radiative mechanisms responsible for the observed emission and relate them with the underlying accretion physics. We present wide frequency…

Over three quarters in 2010-2011, Kepler monitored optical emission from four active galactic nuclei (AGN) with ~30 min sampling, >90% duty cycle, and <~0.1% repeatability. These data determined the AGN optical fluctuation power spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Richard F. Mushotzky , Rick Edelson , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Poshak Gandhi

Accretion disks in AGN should be subject to the same type of instability as in cataclysmic variables (CVs) or in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), which leads to dwarf nova and soft X-ray transient outbursts. It has been suggested that this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Marie Hameury , Maxime Viallet , Jean-Pierre Lasota

Six low-luminosity active galactic nuclei have been imaged at multiple frequencies from 1.7--43 GHz (2.3--15 GHz for three of the galaxies) using the Very Long Baseline Array. In spite of dynamic ranges of about 100 in several frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Anderson , James S. Ulvestad , Luis C. Ho

We have performed a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of local (z < 0.05) ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) using KVN, KaVA, and VLBA. We first…

We study variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by using the deep optical multiband photometry data obtained from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC SSP) survey in the COSMOS field. The images analyzed here were taken…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Yuki Kimura , Toru Yamada , Mitsuru Kokubo , Naoki Yasuda , Tomoki Morokuma , Tohru Nagao , Yoshiki Matsuoka

The X-ray variability of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has been most often investigated with studies of individual, nearby, sources, and only a few ensemble analyses have been applied to large samples in wide ranges of luminosity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-21 F. Vagnetti , S. Turriziani , D. Trevese

A common feature of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is their random variations in brightness across the whole emission spectrum, from radio to $\gamma$-rays. Studying the nature and origin of these fluctuations is critical to characterising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Mehdy Lefkir , Simon Vaughan , Daniela Huppenkothen , Phil Uttley , Vysakh Anilkumar

Double-peaked \oiii~profiles could potentially indicate kiloparsec-scale dual AGNs. We analyze long-term optical light curves of 35 type 1 AGNs with such features from our recent catalog in Zheng et al. (2025). These light curves are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-04 Qi Zheng , Xingyv Zhu , Xueguang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

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

Using stacking of images obtained at different epochs, we studied the variability properties of linear polarization of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets on parsec-scales. Our sample is drawn from the MOJAVE programme, and consists of 436…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-16 D. I. Zobnina , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , I. N. Pashchenko , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be powered by accretion of matter onto a supermassive black hole. A fundamental ingredient in shaping our understanding of AGN is their variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Maurizio Paolillo , Iossif Papadakis

From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using a redshift-selected subset (0.35 < z < 0.45) of 54 CL-AGNs…

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