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We analyze the wavelength-dependent variability of a sample of spectroscopically confirmed active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from near-UV ($NUV$) variable sources in the GALEX Time Domain Survey that have a large amplitude of optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 T. Hung , S. Gezari , D. O. Jones , R. P. Kirshner , R. Chornock , E. Berger , A. Rest , M. Huber , G. Narayan , D. Scolnic , C. Waters , R. Wainscoat , D. C. Martin , K. Forster , J. D. Neill

We present a catalog of emission-line galaxies selected solely by their emission-line fluxes using a wide-field integral field spectrograph. This work is partially motivated as a pilot survey for the upcoming Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark…

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

The emission line luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is measured from about 3000 AGN included in the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within a redshift range of $0<z<0.15$. The $\Ha$ and [OIII]$\lambda…

We present a Bayesian approach to the redshift classification of emission-line galaxies when only a single emission line is detected spectroscopically. We consider the case of surveys for high-redshift Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies (LAEs),…

We measure the Eddington ratio distribution of local optical narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of host galaxy properties, as a potential test of galaxy formation theories of AGN feedback. We extract central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-11 Michael R. Blanton , Arjun Suresh , Kyle B. Westfall , Dou Liu , John Moustakas

The existence of an anti-correlation between the Equivalent Width (EW) of the neutral narrow core of the iron Kalpha emission line and the 2-10 keV luminosity (the so-called `X-ray Baldwin' or `Iwasawa-Taniguchi' effect) has been debated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Bianchi , Matteo Guainazzi , Giorgio Matt , Nuria Fonseca Bonilla

We present the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) catalog from the fourth data release (HDR4) of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX). HETDEX is an untargeted spectroscopic survey. HDR4 contains 345,874 Integral Field…

In a sample of 60 quasars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with at least six-epoch spectroscopy, we investigate the variability of emission lines and continuum luminosity at various aspects. A strong anti-correlation between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hengxiao Guo , Minfeng Gu

We analyze UV spectra for a large sample of 578 Type 1 AGNs and derive Eddington ratios, L/Ledd, from the bolometric luminosities and emission line widths for each object in the sample. The sample spans 5 orders of magnitude in supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Craig Warner , Fred Hamann , Matthias Dietrich

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted ~540 deg^2 spectroscopic survey of Ly{\alpha} emission in the 1.9 < z < 3.5 Universe. In surface brightness, this survey reaches 1{\sigma} Ly{\alpha} sensitivities of…

We selected 27244 nearby, red, giant early-type galaxies (RGEs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In a large fraction (53%) of their spectra the [O III] emission line is detected, with an equivalent width (EW) distribution strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Capetti , Ranieri D. Baldi

It is known that the blazar jet emissions are dominated by non-thermal radiation while the accretion disk jets are normally dominated by thermal emission. In this work, our aim is to study the connection between the two types of emission by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan , Zhihao Ouyang , Liangjun Hu , Guohai Chen , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang

We investigate the relationship between the rest-frame equivalent width (EW) of the C IV \lambda1549 broad-emission line, monochromatic luminosity at rest-frame 5100 A, and the Hbeta-based Eddington ratio in a sample of 99 ordinary quasars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Ohad Shemmer , Sara Lieber

We analysed 337 multi-epoch optical spectra of 38 Herbig Ae/Be (HAeBe) stars to gain insights into the variability behaviour of the circumstellar (CS) atomic gas. Equivalent widths (EWs) and line fluxes of the Halpha, [OI]6300, HeI5876 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-29 I. Mendigutía , C. Eiroa , B. Montesinos , A. Mora , R. D. Oudmaijer , B. Merín , G. Meeus

We suggest that the Baldwin Effect is a result of the spectral dependence of the line-driving ionizing continuum on the black hole mass. We derive a relationship between the mass of the central black hole and the broad emission line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amri Wandel

From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using a redshift-selected subset (0.35 < z < 0.45) of 54 CL-AGNs…

The dependence of the long-term optical/UV variability on the spectral and the fundamental physical parameters for radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is investigated. The multi-epoch repeated photometric scanning data in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. L. Ai , W. Yuan , H. Y. Zhou , T. G. Wang , X. -B. Dong , J. G. Wang , H. L. Lu

The existence of an anti-correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of the narrow core of the iron Kalpha line and the luminosity of the continuum (i.e. the X-ray Baldwin effect) in type-I active galactic nuclei has been confirmed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Claudio Ricci , Stephane Paltani , Hisamitsu Awaki , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Murray Brightman

Understanding the composition and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important for answering many outstanding questions in supermassive black hole evolution, galaxy evolution, and ionization of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joshua Moloney , J. Michael Shull