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High cadence, high quality observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) clearly show continuum variations with lags, relative to the shortest observed variable UV continuum, that increase with wavelength ("lag spectra"). These have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Hagai Netzer

Continuum reverberation mapping probes the sizescale of the optical continuum-emitting region in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Through 3 years of multiwavelength photometric monitoring in the optical with robotic observatories, we perform…

Broadband photometric reverberation mapping (RM) provides a measure of the size of the continuum-emitting region in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Previous monitoring campaigns of PG 2130+099 disagree as to whether the continuum emitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Jake A. Miller , Edward M. Cackett , Mike Goad , Kirk T. Korista

Variable continuum emission from AGN can be used to probe the structure of their accretion disks via reverberation mapping. Assuming a variable, hot inner light source irradiates the surrounding accretion disk, time delays between different…

We revisit the relation between active galactic nucleus (AGN) broad-line region (BLR) size and luminosity by conducting a uniform H$\beta$ reverberation-mapping analysis for 212 AGNs with archival light curves. Our analysis incorporates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo

The improvement of the calibration relation for determining the size of the broad-line region from the observed optical luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a necessary task to study fundamental parameters of distant AGNs such as…

Reverberation mapping (RM) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been used over the past three decades to determine AGN broad-line region (BLR) sizes and central black-hole masses, and their relations with the AGN's luminosity. Until…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-03 Shai Kaspi , W. N. Brandt , Dan Maoz , Hagai Netzer , Donald P. Schneider , Ohad Shemmer , C. J. Grier

Photometric reverberation mapping employs a wide bandpass to measure the AGN continuum variations and a suitable band, usually a narrow band (NB), to trace the echo of an emission line in the broad line region (BLR). The narrow band catches…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Haas , R. Chini , M. Ramolla , F. Pozo Nunez , C. Westhues , R. Watermann , V. Hoffmeister , M. Murphy

Reverberation mapping (RM) is an important technique in studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The key idea of RM is to measure the time lag $\tau$ between variations in the continuum emission from the accretion disc and subsequent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Brendon J. Brewer , Tom M. Elliott

Understanding the geometry and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important to estimate black hole masses in AGN and study the accretion process. The technique of reverberation mapping (RM) has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Amit Kumar Mandal , Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , R. G. Petrov , Blesson Mathew , Ram Sagar

Reverberation mapping is one of the main techniques used to study active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. Traditional continuum reverberation mapping uses short lags between variability in different wavelength AGN light curves on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-15 Amy Secunda , Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Helen Qu , Shirley Ho

Over three decades of reverberation mapping (RM) studies on local broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have measured reliable black-hole (BH) masses for $> 100$ AGNs. These RM measurements reveal a significant correlation between the…

We present a continuum lag analysis for a sample of 37 relatively high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP), utilizing the light curve data in $B$ and $V$ bands from SAMP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Amit Kumar Mandal , Jong-Hak Woo , Shu Wang

We present the results of an intensive six-month optical continuum reverberation mapping campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy PG 2130+099 at redshift z=0.063. The ground-based photometric monitoring was conducted on a daily basis with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 C. Fian , D. Chelouche , S. Kaspi , C. Sobrino Figaredo , S. Catalan , T. Lewis

Unveiling the structure of the Broad Line Region (BLR) of AGN is critical to understand the quasar phenomenon. Detail study of the geometry and kinematic of these objects can answer the basic questions about the central BH mass, accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-14 Suvendu Rakshit , Romain G. Petrov

Disk continuum reverberation mapping is one of the primary ways we learn about active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. Reverberation mapping assumes that time-varying X-rays incident on the accretion disk drive variability in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Amy Secunda , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jenny E. Greene

We report the results from a photometric reverberation mapping campaign carried out with the C18 telescope at the Wise Observatory from 2019 to 2020, targeting the active galactic nucleus (AGN) MCG 08-11-011. The monitoring was conducted on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 C. Fian , D. Chelouche , S. Kaspi , C. Sobrino Figaredo , T. Lewis , S. Catalan

A generalized approach to reverberation mapping (RM) is presented, which is applicable to broad- and narrow-band photometric data, as well as to spectroscopic observations. It is based on multivariate correlation analysis techniques and, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Doron Chelouche , Shay Zucker

Disk reverberation mapping of a handful of nearby AGN suggest accretion disk sizes which are a factor few too large for their luminosities, apparently at odds with the standard model. Here, we investigate the likely contribution to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Daniel Lawther , Michael R. Goad , Kirk T. Korista , Otho Ulrich , Marianne Vestergaard

A 7.5 years spectrophotometric monitoring program of 28 Palomar-Green quasars to determine the size of their broad emission line region (BLR) is reviewed. We find both the continuum and the emission line fluxes of all quasars to vary during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shai Kaspi
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