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The repeating changing-look active galactic nuclei (RCL AGNs) exhibit multiple appearances and disappearances of broad emission lines (BELs), whose underlying mechanism remains a puzzle. Expanding the sample of RCL AGNs is valuable for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Qian Dong , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Wei-Jian Guo , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jun-Xian Wang , Yong-Gang Zheng

Although more than 1000 optical changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) have been reported to date, their physical origin remains unclear, and repeating CLAGNs (RCLAGNs) are still rare. Expanding the CLAGN sample, especially RCLAGNs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Guohai Chen , Wenxin Yang , Xuhong Ye , Zhiqiang Chen , Zhiyuan Pei , Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGNs) exhibit drastic variations in broad emission lines (BELs), the mechanism of which remains unclear. Expanding the sample of CL AGNs is helpful to reveal the mechanism. This study aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Qian Dong , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Yong-Gang Zheng

Changing-look (CL) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), characterized by appearance/disappearance of broad emission lines in the span of a few years, present a challenge for the AGN unified model, whereby the Type 1 vs. Type 2 dichotomy results…

Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CLAGN) are characterised by extreme variations in line emission over short timescales, mostly affecting broad H$\beta$ lines. While a few hundred CLAGN are known, a complete sample of turn-on CLAGN is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-31 Neelesh Amrutha , Christian Wolf , Christopher A. Onken , Wei Jeat Hon , Samuel Lai , John L. Tonry , Rachel Webster

The changing-look active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN), an extraordinary subpopulation of supermassive black holes, has attracted growing attention for understanding its nature. We present an analysis of the spectral properties of 203…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Yu-Heng Shen , Kai-Xing Lu , Wei-Jian Guo , Sha-Sha Li , Hai-Cheng Feng , Zhang Yue , Wen-Zhe Xi , Jian-Guo Wang , Jin-Ming Bai

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) show the appearance and disappearance of broad emission lines in their UV/optical spectra on timescales of months to decades. Here, we investigate how CL transitions depend on several AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-08 A. Jana , C. Ricci , M. J. Temple , H. -K. Chang , E. Shablovinskaya , B. Trakhtenbrot , Y. Diaz , D. Ilic , P. Nandi , M. Koss

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CLAGN) are AGN that change type as their broad emission lines appear or disappear, which is usually accompanied by strong flux changes inn their blue featureless continuum. We search for Turn-On CLAGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-11 Wei Jeat Hon , Christian Wolf , Christopher Onken , Rachel Webster , Katie Auchettl

We report the finding of four changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGN). We selected these sources due to their potential as interesting targets when considering their relatively-large optical flux variations and related mid-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-17 Litao Zhu , Jie Li , Zhongxiang Wang , Jujia Zhang

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…

Changing look active-galatic-nuclei (CL AGNs) can yield considerable insight into accretion physics as well as the co-evolution of black holes and their host galaxies. A large sample of these CL AGNs is essential to achieve the latter goal.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Zhenfeng Sheng , Tinggui Wang , Ning Jiang , Jiani Ding , Zheng Cai , Hengxiao Guo , Luming Sun , Liming Dou , Chenwei Yang

Changing-Look (CL) is a rare phenomenon of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) that exhibit emerging or disappearing broad lines accompanied by continuum variations on astrophysically short timescales ($\lesssim$ 1 yr to a few decades). While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-12 Hengxiao Guo , Mouyuan Sun , Xin Liu , Tinggui Wang , Minzhi Kong , Shu Wang , Zhenfeng Sheng , Zhicheng He

The nature of the so-called ``changing-look'' (CL) active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is characterized by spectral-type transitions within $\sim10$~yr, remains an open question. As the first in our series of studies, we here attempt to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 J. Wang , W. K. Zheng , T. G. Brink , D. W. Xu , A. V. Filippenko , C. Gao , C. H. Xie , J. Y. Wei

Determining the frequency and duration of changing--look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) phenomena, where the optical broad emission lines appear or disappear, is crucial to understand the evolution of the accretion flow around…

We report the discovery of eight new recurrent changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including seven re-brightening turn-off AGNs and one fading turn-on AGN. These systems are valuable for placing constraints on the duration of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-22 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Elena Gallo , Donghoon Son , Qian Yang , Junjie Jin , Hengxiao Guo , Minzhi Kong

The phenomenon of changing-look (CL) behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is characterized by dramatic changes in luminosity and/or emission line profiles over relatively short periods, ranging from months to years. The origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 Yihan Wang , Matthew J. Graham , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Taeho Ryu , Daniel Stern

The discovery of changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs), with appearance and disappearance of broad emission lines and/or with strong variation of line-of-sight column density within a few years, challenges the AGN unification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-10 Hao liu , Qingwen Wu , Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan

Context. Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) challenge the unified model of AGNs and offer key insights into the physics of the accretion processes of super-massive black holes. While systematic spectroscopic comparisons have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Litao Zhu , Zhongxiang Wang , Alok C. Gupta , P. U. Devanand , Ruoheng Yang , Qiangmeng Huang , Man Lang , Jiawen Li
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