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X-rays offer a reliable method to identify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). However, in the high-redshift Universe X-ray AGN are poorly sampled due to their relatively low space density and the small areas covered by X-ray surveys. In addition…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are perfect laboratories to check General Relativity (GR) effects by using Broad Line Region (BLR) clouds eclipses to probe the innermost regions of the accretion disk. A new relativistic X-ray spectral model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-23 Mario Sanfrutos , Giovanni Miniutti

Variability detected in galaxies is usually attributed to their active galactic nuclei (AGNs). While all AGNs are intrinsically variable, the AGN unification model predicts that type~2 AGNs rarely vary because their engines are blocked by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Bangzheng Sun , Haojing Yan , Wei Leong Tee , Feige Wang

We analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical imaging of eight low-mass galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their photometric variability in \cite{baldassare_search_2020}. We use GALFIT to model the 2D galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-06 Erin Kimbro , Vivienne Baldassare , Guy Worthey , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

The changing-look blazars (CLBs) are the blazars that their optical spectral lines at different epochs show a significant changes and present a clear transition between the standard FSRQ and BL Lac types. The changing-look phenomena in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Shi-Ju Kang , Shan-Shan Ren , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

Recent monitoring campaigns designed to map the accretion regime in AGN show major discrepancies with models where the optical/ultraviolet (UV) is produced by X-ray-illuminated, optically thick disc material within a few hundred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Ra'ad D. Mahmoud , Chris Done

Inspired by our serendipitous discovery of six AGNs with varying broad-Halpha fluxes over years out of our searching for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we conduct a systematic investigation of changing-look (CL) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 Wen-Juan Liu , Paulina Lira , Su Yao , Dawei Xu , Jing Wang , Xiao-Bo Dong , Jorge Martínez-Palomera

The survey of the COSMOS field by the VLT Survey Telescope is an appealing testing ground for variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). With 54 r-band visits over 3.3 yr and a single-visit depth of 24.6 r-band mag, the dataset is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 D. De Cicco , F. E. Bauer , M. Paolillo , S. Cavuoti , P. Sánchez-Sáez , W. N. Brandt , G. Pignata , M. Vaccari , M. Radovich

We present a comprehensive study of five nearby active galaxies featuring large (tens of kpc) extended emission-line regions (EELRs). The study is based on large-format integral field spectroscopic observations conducted with the Multi Unit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 C. Finlez , E. Treister , F. Bauer , M. Koss , W. Keel , W. Maksym , L. Sartori , G. Venturi , C. Ricci , N. Nagar , C. Riesco , Y. Díaz , M. Parra

The Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) glossary is vast and complex. Depending on selection method, observing wavelength, and brightness, AGNs are assigned distinct labels, yet the relationship between different selection methods and the…

The advent of new time domain surveys and the imminent increase in astronomical data expose the shortcomings in traditional time series analysis (such as power spectra analysis) in characterising the abundantly varied, complex and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 R. A. Phillipson , P. T. Boyd , A. P. Smale , M. S. Vogeley

We study the optical variability of a sample of candidate low-mass (dwarf ang Seyfert) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using Zwicky Transient Facility g-band light curves. Our sample is compiled from broad-line AGNs in dwarf galaxies reported…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-11 Z. Franklin Wang , Colin J. Burke , Xin Liu , Yue Shen

We present the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) classifier as currently implemented within the Fink broker. Features were built upon summary statistics of available photometric points, as well as color estimation enabled by symbolic regression.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Etienne Russeil , Emille E. O. Ishida , Roman Le Montagner , Julien Peloton , Anais Moller

The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long held the promise of shedding light on their detailed structure, and possibly other astrophysical phenonema. Different emission mechanisms lead to different patterns of variability in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. S. Hawkins

We present a comprehensive analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of 198 newly identified active galactic nuclei (AGNs), leveraging archival data from the {\it Chandra} X-ray Observatory. All these AGNs exhibit a powerlaw spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Samrat Ghosh , Samir Mandal , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Shivam Kumaran

We report the discovery of large amplitude X-ray variability in the low luminosity AGN (LLAGN) MGC 7589, and present possible observational evidence for accretion mode transition in this source. Long-term X-ray flux variations by a factor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhu Liu , He-Yang Liu , Huaqing Cheng , Erlin Qiao , Weimin Yuan

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are the compact, energetic central regions of galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes that accrete surrounding gas and dust. Their optical spectra can be identified by strong emission-line signatures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Sruthi Suresh , Wei Jeat Hon , Rachel L Webster , Christian Wolf , Christopher A Onken

Motivated by theoretical expectations that Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) in galactic centers may provide a favorable environment for super-massive black holes to form and/or efficiently grow, we set out to measure the fraction of nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Adi Foord , Elena Gallo , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Brendan P. Miller , Vivienne F. Baldassare , Kayhan Gultekin , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We conduct an analysis of over 60,000 dwarf galaxies (7<=log(M_*/M_\odot)<=10) in search of photometric variability indicative of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Using data from the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), a time domain survey on…

Growing supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN) release energy with the potential to alter their host galaxies and larger-scale environment; a process named "AGN feedback". Feedback is a required component of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Chris M. Harrison , Cristina Ramos Almeida