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We present a long-term and intraday variability study on optical multiwaveband ($U\!BV\!RI$) data from the blazar AO 0235+164 collected by various telescopes for $\sim$44 years (1975--2019). The blazar was found to be significantly variable…

We have observed S5 2007+777 and 3C371 in the B and I bands for 13 and 8 nights, respectively, during various observing runs in 2001, 2002 and 2004. The observations resulted in almost evenly sampled light curves, 6-9 hours long. We do not…

The $\gamma$-ray astronomy in time domain has been by now progressed further as the variabilities of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on different timescales have been reported a lot. We study the $\gamma$-ray variabilities of 23 jetted AGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang

Violent multi-wavelength variabilities are observed in gamma-ray-selected blazars. We present an analysis of long-term light curves for eight bright blazars to explore the co-variation pattern in the gamma-ray and radio bands. We extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Hai-Ming Zhang , Zhen-Jie Wang , Jin Zhang , Ting-Feng Yi , Liang Chen , Rui-Jing Lu , En-Wei Liang

We study the long-term variability in the optical monitoring database of Ark~120, a nearby radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN) at a distance of 143 Mpc (z=0.03271). We compiled the historical archival photometric and spectroscopic…

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

Context. Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) challenge the unified model of AGNs and offer key insights into the physics of the accretion processes of super-massive black holes. While systematic spectroscopic comparisons have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Litao Zhu , Zhongxiang Wang , Alok C. Gupta , P. U. Devanand , Ruoheng Yang , Qiangmeng Huang , Man Lang , Jiawen Li

We present our statistical study of near infrared (NIR) variability of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the COSMOS field, using UltraVISTA data. This is the largest sample of AGN light curves in YJHKs bands, making possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 P. Sánchez , P. Lira , R. Cartier , V. Pérez , N. Miranda , C. Yovaniniz , P. Arévalo , B. Milvang-Jensen , J. Fynbo , J. Dunlop , P. Coppi , S. Marchesi

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are known to show flux variability over all observable timescales and across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Over the past decade, a growing number of sources have been observed to show dramatic flux and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-11 Claudio Ricci , Benny Trakhtenbrot

X-ray variability is very common in active galactic nuclei (AGN), but these variations may not occur similarly in different families of AGN. We aim to disentangle the structure of low ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Lorena Hernandez-Garcia , Josefa Masegosa , Omaira Gonzalez-Martin , Isabel Marquez , Jaime Perea

X-ray spectra of AGN are complex. X-ray absorption and emission features trace gas covering a wide range of column densities and ionization states. High resolution spectra show the absorbing gas to be outflowing, perhaps in the form of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. J. Turner , L. Miller , M. Tatum

The X-ray spectrum of GRS 1915+105 is known to have a ``broad iron spectral feature'' in the spectral hard state. Similar spectral features are often observed in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and other black-hole binaries (BHBs), and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Misaki Mizumoto , Ken Ebisawa , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hajime Inoue

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

We present the results of our monitoring program to study the long-term variability of the Halpha line in high-mass X-ray binaries. We have carried out the most complete optical spectroscopic study of the global properties of high-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 P. Reig , A. Nersesian , A. Zezas , L. Gkouvelis , M. J. Coe

The scaling relations between the black hole (BH) mass and soft lag properties for both active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and BH X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) suggest the same underlying physical mechanism at work in accreting BH systems spanning a…

Based on a new and large sample of optical and near-infrared spectra obtained at the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (Lancon & Wood 1998; Lancon & Wood, in preparation), spectrophotometric properties of cool oxygen- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Alvarez , A. Lancon , B. Plez , P. R. Wood

We investigate the link between ionised Fe X-ray line emission and continuum emission in the bright nearby AGN, Mrk 766. A new long (433 ks) XMM-Newton observation is analysed, together with archival data from 2000 and 2001. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Miller , T. J. Turner , J. N. Reeves , I. M. George , D. Porquet , K. Nandra , M. Dovciak

Well-sampled optical and radio light curves of BL Lacertae in B, V, R, I bands and 4.8, 8.0, 14.5 GHz from 1968 to 2014 were presented in this paper. A possible $1.26 \pm 0.05$ yr period in optical bands and a $7.50 \pm 0.15$ yr period in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. C. Guo , S. M. Hu , C. Xu , C. Y. Liu , X. Chen , D. F. Guo , F. Y. Meng , M. T. Xu , J. Q. Xu

Emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are crucial in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies, while little is known about their variability. Here we report the study on the optical variability of a sample of ELGs selected in the…

Significant (marginal) detections of periodic signals have been recently reported in 3 (4) Active Galactic Nuclei. Three of the detections were obtained from long EUVE light curves of moderate-luminosity Seyfert galaxies; the fourth was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karen M. Leighly
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