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We present the results of our search for highly variable active galactic nuclei (AGNs) the X-ray flux from which changed by more than an order of magnitude during the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. Using the eROSITA data obtained in the period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavel Medvedev , Marat Gilfanov , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev , Georgii Khorunzhev

Variability in the X-rays is a key ingredient in understanding and unveiling active galactic nuclei (AGN) properties. In this band flux variations occur on short time scales (hours) as well as on larger times scales. While short time scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 R. Middei , F. Vagnetti , S. Bianchi , F. La Franca , M. Paolillo , F. Ursini

The analysis of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at different wavelengths and the study of possible correlations among different spectral windows are nowadays a major field of inquiry. Optical variability has been largely…

The variability of the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) usually includes a change of the spectral slope. This has been investigated for a small sample of local AGNs by Sobolewska and Papadakis, who found that slope variations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Roberto Serafinelli , Fausto Vagnetti , Riccardo Middei

Radio-loud sources with blazar-like properties, but having a jet that does not directly point in the direction of the observer are among the most interesting classes of gamma-ray emitters. These sources are known as Misaligned Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-30 G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Dominguez , S. Bisogni

A key feature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is their variability across all wavelengths. Typically, AGN vary by a few tenths of a magnitude or more over periods lasting from hours to years. By contrast, extreme variability of AGN -- large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Summer A. J. McLaughlin , James R. Mullaney , Stuart P. Littlefair

A long-standing question is whether active galactic nuclei (AGN) vary like Galactic black hole systems when appropriately scaled up by mass (refs 1-3). If so, we can then determine how AGN should behave on cosmological timescales by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 I M McHardy , E Koerding , C Knigge , P Uttley , R P Fender

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

The evolution of extragalactic radio sources has been a fundamental problem in the study of active galactic nuclei for many years. A standard evolutionary model has been created based on observations of a wide range of radio sources. In the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-04 Aleksandra Wołowska , Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska , Kunal Mooley , Gregg Hallinan

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) exhibit spectroscopic and photometric changes on timescales of months to years, making them powerful laboratories for studying accretion variability onto supermassive black holes. Motivated by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Mariangella Camus , Swayamtrupta Panda

The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 2863 objects located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10{\deg}).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 LAT collaboration

A majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe are classified as low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN), having bolometric luminosities $\lesssim 10^{42} \ \mathrm{erg \ s^{-1}}$. Although high-energy gamma-ray emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Chris Karwin , Nikita Khatiya , Margot Boughelilba , Xiurui Zhao , Anita Reimer , Marco Ajello

Most extragalactic jets in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei are bright and variable gamma-ray sources, which are continuously monitored with Fermi/LAT. We present the gamma-ray properties of the MOJAVE and TANAMI AGN samples of radio-loud…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-15 M. Boeck , M. Kadler , G. Tosti , T. H. Burnett , C. Mueller , R. Ojha , J. Wilms

Multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often reveal various time scales of variability. Among these phenomena, "changing-look AGNs" are extreme cases where broad emission lines become faint/bright or even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Keiichi Wada , Yuki Kudoh , Tohru Nagao

The recent detection of gamma-ray emission from four radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies suggests that the engine driving the AGN activity of these objects share some similarities with that of blazars, namely the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Calderone , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , M. Colpi , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , R. Decarli , G. Tagliaferri

Most of the variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are based on ensemble analyses. Nevertheless, it is interesting to provide estimates of the individual variability properties of each AGN, in order to relate them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-17 M. Laurenti , F. Vagnetti , R. Middei , M. Paolillo

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy

We present an analysis of the nuclear variability of $\sim28,000$ nearby ($z<0.15$) galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopy in Stripe 82. We construct light curves using difference imaging of SDSS g-band images, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Vivienne F. Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

We present the results of a 2-epoch variability survey in the Hubble Deep Field with the goal of investigating the population of AGN to z=1. The primary data sets analyzed for galactic variability are the original HDF observations obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicki L. Sarajedini , Ronald L. Gilliland , Christina Kasm