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The power spectral density (PSD) represents a key property quantifying the stochastic or random noise type fluctuations in variable sources like Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In recent years, estimates of the PSD have been refined by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-05 Nachiketa Chakraborty , Frank M. Rieger

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are intertwined with galaxy evolution, injecting energy into the interstellar medium (ISM) that could regulate star formation as a galaxy evolves. However, the phenomena through which we observe AGN are…

We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since emission lines are often contaminated by…

The advent of new time domain surveys and the imminent increase in astronomical data expose the shortcomings in traditional time series analysis (such as power spectra analysis) in characterising the abundantly varied, complex and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 R. A. Phillipson , P. T. Boyd , A. P. Smale , M. S. Vogeley

We have analyzed the parsec-scale jet kinematics of 447 bright radio-loud AGN, based on 15 GHz VLBA data obtained between 1994 August 31 and 2019 August 4. We present new total intensity and linear polarization maps obtained between 2017…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 M. L. Lister , D. C. Homan , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , E. Ros , T. Savolainen

Precision geodesy relies on the stability of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), yet its reference sources, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), exhibit changes in source structure that can manifest as apparent shifts in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Jeffrey A. Hodgson , Hana Krasna , Aletha de Witt , Pfesesani van Zyl , Janeth Valverde

Changing-look transitions challenge our understanding of active galactic nuclei (AGN), exhibiting dramatic changes in broad-line emission and continuum flux on timescales of months to years. We present a detailed study of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Joel Carpenter , Sandra Raimundo , Charlotte Angus , Katie Auchettl

This paper investigates a new methodology to search for periods in light-curves of high-energy gamma-ray sources such as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). High-energy light curves have significant stochastic components, making period detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Héctor Rueda , Jean-François Glicenstein , François Brun

With the advancement of technology, machine learning-based analytical methods have pervaded nearly every discipline in modern studies. Particularly, a number of methods have been employed to estimate the redshift of gamma-ray loud active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Sarvesh Gharat , Abhimanyu Borthakur , Gopal Bhatta

We investigate the relationship between AGN optical variability timescales, amplitudes, and supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses using homogeneous light curves from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). We fit a damped…

Simulations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets have thus far been performed almost exclusively using grid-based codes. We present the first results from hydrodynamical tests of AGN jets, and their interaction with the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey

It is widely believed that stellar-mass black holes (sMBHs) exist within the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN), forming a distinct population termed ``accretion-modified star" (AMS). Gas from the dense disk accretes onto these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Jun-Rong Liu , Jian-Min Wang , Hua Feng

Warped accretion discs in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exert a torque on the black hole that tends to align the rotation axis with the angular momentum of the outer disc. We compute the magnitude of this torque by solving numerically for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Priyamvada Natarajan , Philip J. Armitage

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are generally considered as the scaled-up counterparts of X-ray binaries (XRBs). It is known that the power spectral density (PSD) of the X-ray emission of XRBs shows significant evolution with spectral states.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Haonan Yang , Chichuan Jin , Weimin Yuan

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) vary in their brightness across all wavelengths. Moreover, longer wavelength ultraviolet - optical continuum light curves appear to be delayed with respect to shorter wavelength light curves. A simple way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 David Starkey , Keith Horne , Carolin Villforth

We present an estimate of the space density of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at z=3. Combining deep X-ray data with Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) colour-selection in the rest-frame UV makes for highly efficient identification of AGN in a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nandra , E. S. Laird , C. C. Steidel

We present an analysis of the long-term optical variability for $\sim50,000$ nearby (z<0.055) galaxies from the NASA-Sloan Atlas, $35,000$ of which are low-mass ($M_{\ast}<10^{10}~M_{\odot}$). We use difference imaging of Palomar Transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Vivienne F. Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

Variability is one of the classic features of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The normalized structure function was applied to distinguish variability samples from OVRO, ASAS-SN and Fermi. A power-law function model was selected to fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Xuan Wei , Jie Tang , Yu Tao

X-ray spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei (AGN) offers the opportunity to directly probe the inner regions of the accretion disk. We present the results of our analysis of average AGN XMM-Newton X-ray spectra in the Chandra Deep Field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-12 S. Falocco , F. J. Carrera , A. Corral , X. Barcons , A. Comastri , R. Gilli , P. Ranalli , C. Vignali , K. Iwasawa , N. Cappelluti , E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , M. Brusa , F. Vito

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Spectral variability has been…