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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) that show strong rest-frame optical/UV variability in their blue continuum and broad line emission are classified as "changing-look" AGN, or at higher luminosities changing look quasars (CLQs). These…

NGC 5548 has been hailed as an archetypical type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) and serves as a valuable laboratory to study the long-term variation of its broad-line region (BLR). In this work, we re-affirm our finding on the connection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Swayamtrupta Panda , Edi Bon , Paola Marziani , Nataša Bon

We present results of new ASCA observations of the low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) NGC 4579 obtained on 1998 December 18 and 28, and we report on detection of variability of an iron K emission line. The X-ray luminosities in the 2--10 keV band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Terashima , L. C. Ho , A. F. Ptak , T. Yaqoob , H. Kunieda , K. Misaki , P. J. Serlemitsos

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

Temporal analysis of X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei have shown that hard X-rays react to variation of soft ones after a time delay. The opposite trend, or soft lag, has only been seen in a few rare Quasi-periodic Oscillations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shruti Tripathi , Ranjeev Misra , Gulab Dewangan , Shantanu Rastogi

The detection of new clusters of galaxies or the study of known clusters of galaxies in X-rays can be complicated by the presence of X-ray point sources, the majority of which will be active galactic nuclei (AGN). This can be addressed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Ben J. Maughan , Thomas H. Reiprich

We here estimate the mass M of the central object in five active galactic nuclei (AGNs), using the most recent reverberation data obtained by the AGN Watch Consortium. The cross-correlation function (CCF) centroids of the broad Ly-alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael J. Fromerth , Fulvio Melia

The origin of short timescale (weeks/months) variability of AGN, whether due to intrinsic disc variations or reprocessing of X-ray emission by a surrounding accretion disc, has been a puzzle for many years. However recently a number of…

We report the discovery of eight new recurrent changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including seven re-brightening turn-off AGNs and one fading turn-on AGN. These systems are valuable for placing constraints on the duration of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-22 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Elena Gallo , Donghoon Son , Qian Yang , Junjie Jin , Hengxiao Guo , Minzhi Kong

We describe results from a new ground-based monitoring campaign on NGC 5548, the best studied reverberation-mapped AGN. We find that it was in the lowest luminosity state yet recorded during a monitoring program, namely L(5100) = 4.7 x…

We examine the continuum variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by analyzing the multi-epoch spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. To achieve this, we utilized approximately 2 million spectroscopy pairwise combinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Minjin Kim , Suyeon Son , Luis C. Ho

In the present paper a systematic study is carried out to validate the similarity or degree of relationship between daily terrestrial cosmic rays intensity and three characteristics of about evolution of solar corona, like a number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 D. Sierra-Porta

The ensemble optical/ultraviolet variability of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) type active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is investigated, based on a sample selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe-82 region with multi-epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. L. Ai , W. Yuan , H. Zhou , T. G. Wang , X. -B. Dong , J. G. Wang , H. L. Lu

We present a detailed spectral analysis of the brightest Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identified in the 7Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) survey over a time span of 16 years. Using a model of an intrinsically absorbed power-law plus…

We investigate the contribution of reprocessed continuum emission (1000A - 10,000A) originating in broad line region (BLR) gas, the diffuse continuum (DC), to the wavelength-dependent continuum delays measured in AGN disk reverberation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 K. T. Korista , M. R. Goad

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit complex variability across multiple wavelengths, reflecting diverse physical processes near their central engines. This work investigates the temporal variability of four AGNs Mrk~509, NGC~5548,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 R. A. A. Souza , E. Hatziminaoglou , A. de Pádua Santos , T. Stosic

We present a revised analysis of the photometric reverberation mapping campaign of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PKS 0558-504 carried out with the Swift Observatory during 2008--2010. Previously, Gliozzi et al.\ found using the Discrete…

Deep X-ray surveys have provided a comprehensive and largely unbiased view of active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution stretching back to $z \sim 5$. However, it has been challenging to use the survey results to connect this evolution to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 D. R. Ballantyne

NGC 5548 is the best-observed reverberation-mapped active galactic nucleus with long-term, intensive monitoring. Here we report results from a new observational campaign between January and July, 2015. We measure the centroid time lag of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai-Xing Lu , Pu Du , Chen Hu , Yan-Rong Li , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Kai Wang , Ying-Ke Huang , Shao-Lan Bi , Jin-Ming Bai , Luis C. Ho , Jian-Min Wang

The local (z=0.0315) AGN Mrk 817, was monitored over more than 500 days with space-borne and ground-based instruments as part of a large international campaign AGN STORM 2. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of the broad-band…