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In this manuscript, an interesting blue Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) SDSS J154751.94+025550 (=SDSS J1547) is reported with very different line profiles of broad Balmer emission lines: double-peaked broad H$\beta$ but single-peaked broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 XueGuang Zhang

Optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are the most preferred signs of sub-pc binary black hole (BBH) systems in AGN. In this manuscript, robust optical QPOs are reported in quasar SDSS J1609+1756 at $z=0.347$. In order to detect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-18 XueGuang Zhang

The binary emission-line system, particularly the binary broad-line emission system, is considered the most effective indicator of the black hole binary. A plausible example of such a system, SDSS J153636.22+044127.0, was reported as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-24 Shaohua Zhang , Hongyan Zhou , Xiheng Shi , Tuo Ji , Peng Jiang , Xiang Pan , Zhenfeng Sheng , Luming Sun , Zhihao Zhong

We identify SDSS J153636.22+044127.0, a QSO discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as a promising candidate for a binary black hole system. This QSO has two broad-line emission systems separated by 3500 km/sec. The redder system at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Todd A. Boroson , Tod R. Lauer

Some Type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are showing extremely asymmetric Balmer lines with the broad peak redshifted or blueshifted by thousands of km/s. These AGNs may be good candidates for supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Đ. Savić , F. Marin , L. Č. Popović

In this manuscript, a 6.4yr optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) is detected in the quasar SDSS J075217.84+193542.2 (=\obj) at a redshift 0.117, of which 13.6yr-long light curve from CSS and ASAS-SN directly described by a sinusoidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 XueGuang Zhang

In this manuscript, optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with 550 day periodicity related to a candidate of sub-pc binary black hole (BBH) system are reported in the reverberation mapped broad line quasar PG 1411+442 but with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-23 XueGuang Zhang

This manuscript investigates the possible existence of a binary supermassive black holes (BSMBH) system in the blue quasar SDSS J100438.8+151056 (=SDSS J1004+1510) at z=0.219 based on the detection of robust optical QPOs. We determine QPOs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-12 GuiLin Liao , XingQian Chen , Qi Zheng , YiLin Liu , XueGuang Zhang

We analyze the optical spectrum of type 1 QSO SDSS J1425+3231. This ob- ject is interesting since its narrow emission lines such as [O III]{\lambda}{\lambda}4959, 5007 are double- peaked, and the line structure can be modeled well by three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zhixin Peng , Yanmei Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Chen Hu

In the manuscript, the composite galaxy SDSS J103911-000057 (=SDSS J1039) is reported as a better candidate of true Type-2 AGN without hidden BLRs. None broad but only narrow emission lines detected in SDSS J1039 can be well confirmed both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-25 XueGuang Zhang , YingFei Zhang , PeiZhen Cheng , BaoHan Wang , YiLi Lv , HaiChao Yu

One of the proposed explanations for the broad, double-peaked Balmer emission lines observed in the spectra of some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is that they are associated with sub-parsec supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Jia Liu , Michael Eracleous , Jules P. Halpern

In this paper we study the object SDSS J1130+0058 which is the only AGN known to have both double-peaked low-ionization broad emission lines, and also X-shaped radio structures. Emission from an accretion disk can reproduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xue-Guang Zhang , Dultzin-Hacyan D. , Ting-Gui Wang

Velocity offsets in the broad Balmer lines of quasars and their temporal variations serve as indirect evidence for bound supermassive black hole binaries (SBHBs) at sub-parsec separations. In this work, we test the SBHB hypothesis for 14…

In this letter, motivated by double-peaked broad Balmer emission lines probably related to tidal disruption events (TDEs), a potential TDE candidate is reported in SDSS J160536+134838 (=SDSS J1605) at $z\sim0.44$ having quasar-like spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-08 XueGuang Zhang

A small fraction of quasars have long been known to show bulk velocity offsets in the broad Balmer lines with respect to the systemic redshift of the host galaxy. Models to explain these offsets usually invoke broad-line region gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Fuyan Bian , Abraham Loeb , Scott Tremaine

We report a triple black hole candidate with a close binary black hole (BBH) in the blue quasar SDSS J153231.80+420342.7 (=SDSS J1532) at a redshift of 0.209. It shows double-peaked profiles in all narrow emission lines, which can be a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Qi Zheng , YiWen Jiang , Xue-Guang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

The broad emission spectral lines emitted from AGNs are our main probe of the geometry and physics of the broad line region (BLR) close to the SMBH. There is a group of AGNs that emits very broad and complex line profiles, showing two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Luka C. Popovic

Most massive galaxies contain a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their center. When galaxies merge, their SMBHs sink to the center of the new galaxy where they are thought to eventually merge. During this process an SMBH binary is formed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Jacco H. Terwel , Peter G. Jonker

SDSS J092712.65+294344.0 has been proposed as a candidate for a supermassive black hole (~10^8.8 solar masses) ejected at high speed from the host galactic nucleus by gravitational radiation recoil, or alternatively for a supermassive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. A. Shields , E. W. Bonning , S. Salviander

Optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with periodicity around hundreds to thousands of days have been accepted as an efficient indicator for sub-pc binary black hole systems (BBHs) in broad line active galactic nuclei (BLAGN). However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Zhang XueGuang
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