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The 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) and other deep X-ray surveys have been highly effective at selecting active galactic nuclei (AGN). However, cosmologically distant low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) have remained a challenge to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Young , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , M. Paolillo , D. M. Alexander , F. E. Bauer , B. D. Lehmer , B. Luo , O. Shemmer , D. P. Schneider , C. Vignali

We describe a model-independent method of assessing the uncertainties in cross-correlation lags determined from AGN light curves, and use this method to investigate the reality of lags between UV and optical continuum variations in…

The UV/optical light curves of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are commonly described by the Damped Random Walk (DRW) model. However, the physical interpretation of the damping timescale, a key parameter in the DRW model, remains unclear.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Shuying Zhou , Mouyuan Sun , Zhen-Yi Cai , Guowei Ren , Jun-Xian Wang , Yongquan Xue

The cross-correlation function (CCF) is commonly employed in the study of AGN, where it is used to probe the structure of the broad line region by line reverberation, to study the continuum emission mechanism by correlating multi-waveband…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 Tal Alexander

We present a detailed analysis of the X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC454E, belonging to the interacting system NGC454. Observations performed with Suzaku, XMM-Newton and Swift allowed us to detect a dramatic change in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Elena Marchese , Valentina Braito , Roberto Della Ceca , Alessandro Caccianiga , Paola Severgnini

We propose that changing-look AGN transitions arise from variations in the size of the inner ADAF disk. The AGN accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner thick ADAF component, whose size is intrinsically unstable and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Chun Xu

We present the variability study of the lowest-luminosity Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4395 based on the photometric monitoring campaigns in 2017 and 2018. Using 22 ground-based and space telescopes, we monitored NGC 4395 with a $\sim$5 minute…

In a previous paper, we studied two statistical methods used to analyse the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs): the C and F statistics. Applying them to observed differential light-curves of 39 AGNs, we found that, even though the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 L. Zibecchi , I. Andruchow , S. A. Cellone , D. D. Carpintero

We present preliminary results on the variability properties of AGN above 20 keV in order to show the potential of the INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI and Swift/BAT instruments for hard X-ray timing analysis of AGN. The 15-50 keV light curves of 36 AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 S. Soldi , G. Ponti , V. Beckmann , P. Lubinski

In deep X-ray surveys, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a broad range of luminosities have been identified. However, cosmologically distant low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN, $L_{\mathrm{X}} \lesssim 10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$) identification still…

Optical changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are a class of sources that change type within a short timescale of years or decades. This change is characterised by the appearance or disappearance of broad emission lines, often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 S. I. Raimundo , M. Vestergaard , J. Y. Koay , D. Lawther , V. Casasola , B. M. Peterson

We report the detection of a long-timescale negative lag, where the blue bands lag the red bands, in the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy Fairall 9. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) light curves show variability over a wide range of timescales. By…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Philippe Z. Yao , Amy Secunda , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jenny E. Greene , Ashley Villar

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the most luminous objects in the universe, making them valuable probes for studying galaxy evolution. However, understanding how AGN properties evolve over cosmic time remains a fundamental challenge.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Shreya Sareen , Swayamtrupta Panda

We report the discovery of 14 Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs) at z~0.3, existing at least 4-7 billion years later in the Universe than all other LABs known. Their optical diameters are 20-70 kpc, and GALEX data imply Ly-alpha luminosities of…

Variability across the electromagnetic spectrum is a property of AGN that can help constraining the physical properties of these galaxies. This is the third of a serie of papers with the aim of studying the X-ray variability of different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-08 L. Hernández-García , J. Masegosa , O. González-Martín , I. Márquez

We study the properties of the host galaxies of Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGNs) with the aim of understanding the conditions responsible for triggering CL activity. We find that CL AGN hosts primarily reside in the so-called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Sierra A. Dodd , Jamie A. P. Law-Smith , Katie Auchettl , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Ryan J. Foley

We present the multi-wavelength and environmental properties of 37 variability-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including 30 low luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs), using a high cadence time-domain survey (ASAS-SN) from a spectroscopic sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai , Marko Mićić

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) vary in their brightness across all wavelengths. Moreover, longer wavelength ultraviolet - optical continuum light curves appear to be delayed with respect to shorter wavelength light curves. A simple way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 David Starkey , Keith Horne , Carolin Villforth

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…

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