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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are ideal sources for multi-wavelength studies as their emission can cover almost 20 orders of magnitude in frequency from the radio to the gamma-ray band. After reviewing their basic properties, I will assess…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

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 investigate the discrepancy between oxygen abundance estimations for narrow-line regions (NLRs) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) type Seyfert 2 derived by using direct estimations of the electron temperature (Te-method) and those derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 O. L. Dors , R. Maiolino , M. V. Cardaci , G. F. Hagele , A. C. Krabbe , E. Perez-Montero , M. Armah

We analyze the X-ray properties for a sample of 23 high probability AGN candidates with ultraviolet variability identified in Wasleske et al. (2022). Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the XMM-Newton Observatory, we find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Erik J. Wasleske , Vivienne F. Baldassare

Here we investigate the connection of broad emission line shapes and continuum light curve variability time scales of type-1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We developed a new model to describe optical broad emission lines as an accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-21 E. Bon , P. Jovanovic , P. Marziani , N. Bon , A. Otasevic

Recent studies have reported a linear correlation between the hard X-ray and high-energy neutrino luminosities of active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggesting a possible physical connection between these two messengers. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Jian-Jun Luo , Ming-Xuan Lu , Yun-Feng Liang

We use data from a two-year intensive RXTE monitoring campaign of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 390.3 to investigate its stationarity. In order to exploit the potential information contained in a time series more efficiently, we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gliozzi , I. E. Papadakis , R. M. Sambruna , M. Eracleous

The spatial clustering of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered to be one of the important diagnostics for the understanding of the underlying processes behind their activities complementary to measurements of the luminosity function…

Optical observations cannot resolve the structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN), and a unified model for AGN was inferred mostly from indirect methods. Optical reverberation mapping allowed us to constrain the spatial dimension of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-05 P. A. Rojas Lobos , R. W. Goosmann , F. Marin , D. Savić

This article focuses on certain variability and emission characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially their radio-loud subset consisting of quasars, BL Lacs and $\gamma$-ray detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, all of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-28 Gopal-Krishna , Silke Britzen , Paul Wiita

Periodic variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves has been proposed as a signature of close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Recently, 181 candidate SMBH binaries were identified in Gaia DR3 based on apparently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Kareem El-Badry , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix

Since the discovery of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their subclasses, a unification scheme of AGN has been long sought. Orientation-based unified models predict that some of the diversity within AGN subclasses can be explained by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Suk Yee Yong , Rachel L. Webster , Anthea L. King , Nicholas F. Bate , Kathleen Labrie , Matthew J. O'Dowd

Blazars are a class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known for their very rapid variabilty in the high energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Despite this known fast variability, X-ray observations have generally not revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Pryal , Abe Falcone , Michael Stroh

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves observed with different wavebands show that the variability in longer wavelength bands lags the variability in shorter wavelength bands. Measuring these lags, or reverberation mapping, is used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Amy Secunda , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jenny E. Greene

Context.- This paper is part of a series involving the AMIGA project (Analysis of the Interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies), which identifies and studies a statistically-significant sample of the most isolated galaxies in the northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 J. Sabater , L. Verdes-Montenegro , S. Leon , P. Best , J. Sulentic

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are axisymmetric systems to first order; their observed properties are likely strong functions of inclination with respect to our line of sight, yet the specific inclinations of all but a few AGN are generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 T. C. Fischer , D. M. Crenshaw , S. B. Kraemer , H. R. Schmitt , T. J. Turner

The corona is an integral component of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) which can produce the X-ray emission. However, many of its physical properties and the mechanisms powering this emission remain a mystery. In this work, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang , Niansheng Tang

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to be variable across all wavelengths. Significant observational efforts have been invested in the last decade in studying their ultraviolet (UV) and optical variability. Long and densely sampled,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Papoutsis , I. E. Papadakis , C. Panagiotou , M. Dovčiak , E. Kammoun

Short-term variability of X-ray spectra has been reported for several Active Galactic Nuclei. Significant X-ray flux variations are observed within time scales down to 10^4 -- 10^5 seconds. We discuss short variability time scales in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. Goosmann , B. Czerny , A. -M. Dumont , M. Mouchet , A. Rozanska , V. Karas , M. Dovciak

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have long been observed to "twinkle" (i.e., their brightness varies with time) on timescales from days to years in the UV/optical bands. Such AGN UV/optical variability is essential for probing the physics of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Mouyuan Sun , Yongquan Xue , W. N. Brandt , Wei-Min Gu , Jonathan R. Trump , Zhenyi Cai , Zhicheng He , Da-bin Lin , Tong Liu , Junxian Wang