Publications (9)
Observations of a Possible Transient Magnetically Arrested Accretion State in a Nearby Quasar: OQ208
Brian Punsly, Cormac Reynolds, Paola Marziani +12
OQ208 is a nearby, partially obscured quasar (z=0.077) that is a young, bright, parsec scale radio source. We assemble archival and new high frequency VLBA and VLA observations and…
Dark and bright sides of the Broad Line Region clouds as seen in the FeII emission of SDSS RM 102
Alberto Floris, Ashwani Pandey, Bozena Czerny +4
Contamination from singly ionized iron emission is one of the greatest obstacles to determining the intensity of emission lines in the UV and optical wavelength ranges. This study…
From sub-solar to super-solar chemical abundances along the quasar main sequence
Paola Marziani, Alberto Floris, Alice Deconto-Machado +8
The 4D Eigenvector 1 sequence has proven to be a highly effective tool for organizing observational and physical properties of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this paper, w…
EP260321a/SN 2026gzf: The Faintest Shock Breakout Associated with a Broad-Lined Supernova
Brendan O'Connor, Xander J. Hall, Malte Busmann +33
The explosion of a star is first marked by the shock wave breaking out of the stellar surface, producing a burst of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation. These events are observationall…
Composite Convolution: a Flexible Operator for Deep Learning on 3D Point Clouds
Alberto Floris, Luca Frittoli, Diego Carrera +1
Deep neural networks require specific layers to process point clouds, as the scattered and irregular location of 3D points prevents the use of conventional convolutional filters. W…
Tracking down the broadband polarimetric properties of PG 1553+113
Riccardo Middei, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher +78
We report on a nine-month monitoring campaign of the blazar PG 1553+113, relying on three observations carried out in 2025 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and su…