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most citedSDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

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astro-ph.CO2022★ 31 cited

The improved Amati correlations from Gaussian copula

Yang Liu, Fuyong Chen, Nan Liang +3

In this paper, we obtain two improved Amati correlations of the Gamma-Ray burst (GRB) data via a powerful statistical tool called copula. After calibrating, with the low-redshift G…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 43 cited

Deep Learning for Strong Lensing Search: Tests of the Convolutional Neural Networks and New Candidates from KiDS DR3

Zizhao He, Xinzhong Er, Qian Long +6

Convolutional Neutral Networks have been successfully applied in searching for strong lensing systems, leading to discoveries of new candidates from large surveys. On the other han…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 14 cited

SNe Ia as a cosmological probe

Xiangcun Meng, Yan Gao, Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae luminosities can be corrected to render them useful as standard candles able to probe the expansion history of the universe. This technique was successful applie…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 238 cited

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei: I. First results from a new reverberation mapping campaign

P. Du, C. Hu, K. -X. Lu +7

We report first results from a large project to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Such objects may be different from other AGNs in…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 102 cited

A Bayesian Approach to Estimate the Size and Structure of the Broad-line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei Using Reverberation Mapping Data

Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, Luis C. Ho +2

This is the first paper in a series devoted to systematic study of the size and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 38 cited

Anomalously Steep Reddening Law in Quasars: An Exceptional Example Observed in IRAS14026+4341

Peng Jiang, Hongyan Zhou, Tuo Ji +7

A fraction of the heavily reddened quasars require a reddening curve which is even steeper than that of the Small Magellanic Cloud. In this paper, we thoroughly characterize the an…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

The radio structure of 3C 316, a galaxy with double-peaked narrow optical emission lines

T. An, Z. Paragi, S. Frey +6

The galaxy 3C\,316 is the brightest in the radio band among the optically-selected candidates exhibiting double-peaked narrow optical emission lines. Observations with the Very Lar…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 40 cited

A comparative study of optical/ultraviolet variability of narrow-line Seyfert 1 and broad-line Seyfert 1 active galactic nuclei

Y. L. Ai, W. Yuan, H. Zhou +4

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 S…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 107 cited

Double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Sample and basic properties

Jun-Qiang Ge, Chen Hu, Jian-Min Wang +2

Recently, much attention has been given to double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies, some of which are suggested to be related with merging galaxies. We make a systematic search…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 22 cited

The Evolution and Star Formation History of M33

Xiaoyu Kang, Ruixiang Chang, Jun Yin +4

We construct a parameterized model to explore the main properties of the star formation history of M33. We assume that the disk originates and grows by the primordial gas infall an…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 3 cited

Discovery of six high-redshift quasars with the Lijiang 2.4m telescope and the Multiple Mirror Telescope

Xue-Bing Wu, Wen-Wen Zuo, Qian Yang +6

Quasars with redshifts greater than 4 are rare, and can be used to probe the structure and evolution of the early universe. Here we report the discovery of six new quasars with …

astro-ph.CO2012★ 38 cited

Decoding spectral energy distributions of dust-obscured starburst-AGN

Yunkun Han, Zhanwen Han

We present BayeSED, a general purpose tool for doing Bayesian analysis of SEDs by using whatever pre-existing model SED libraries or their linear combinations. The artificial neura…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 76 cited

VLBI observations of 10 CSO candidates: expansion velocities of hot spots

Tao An, Fang Wu, Jun Yang +11

Observations of ten Compact Symmetric Objects ({\rm CSO}) candidates have been made with the Very Long Baseline Array at 8.4 GHz in 2005 and with a combined Chinese and European VL…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 29 cited

On the Evolution of the Cores of Radio Sources and Their Extended Radio Emission

Zunli Yuan, Jiancheng Wang

The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 17 cited

The optical variability of steep-spectrum radio quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82 region

Minfeng Gu, Y. L. Ai

While there are a lot of investigations on the optical variability of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), not much work has been done on the optical variability of steep-spectrum…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 9 cited

Constraining broad-line regions from time lags of broad emission lines relative to radio emission

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, J. M. Wang +1

In this paper, a new method is proposed to estimate the broad-line region sizes of UV lines . It is applied to 3C 273. First, we derive the time lags of rad…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 56 cited

Coexistence of Gravitationally Bound and Radiation Driven CIV Emission Line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei

Huiyuan Wang, Tinggui Wang, Hongyan Zhou +4

There are mutually contradictory views in the literature of the kinematics and structure of high-ionization line (e.g. CIV) emitting regions in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Two k…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 49 cited

Implications on the blazar sequence and inverse Compton models from Fermi bright blazars

Liang Chen, J. M. Bai

In this paper, we use the quasi-simultaneous spectra of Fermi bright blazars and Fermi detected narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) to study the blazar sequence and inverse Compton (IC) m…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 5 cited

Stellar kinematics and populations out to 1.5 effective radius in the elliptical galaxy NGC4636

S. B. Pu, Z. Han

We present high quality long slit spectra along the major and minor axes out to 1.5 effective radius () of the massive galaxy NGC4636 taken by Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). Us…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 50 cited

A Consistent Test of the Distance-Duality Relation with Galaxy Clusters and Type Ia Supernave

Nan Liang, Zhengxiang Li, Puxun Wu +3

We propose a new consistent method to test of the distance-duality (DD) relation which related angular diameter distances (DA) to the luminosity distances (DL) in a cosmology-indep…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 12 cited

Locating positions of γ-ray--emitting regions in blazars

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, J. M. Wang

We propose a new method to locate the gamma-ray--emitting positions R_g from the measured time lags T_ob of gamma-ray emission relative to broad emission lines. The method is also…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 4 cited

The spectral variability of FSRQs

Minfeng Gu, Y. L. Ai

The optical variability of 29 flat spectrum radio quasars in SDSS Stripe 82 region are investigated by using DR7 released multi-epoch data. All FSRQs show variations with overall a…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 47 cited

The optical variability of flat-spectrum radio quasars in the SDSS stripe 82 region

Minfeng Gu, Y. L. Ai

Context. Although a bluer-when-brighter trend is commonly observed in blazars, the opposite trend of redder-when-brighter has also been found in some blazars. Aims. We investigate…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 1 cited

Is Low-Frequency-Peaked BL Lac Object OJ 287 a TeV Emitter?

Chen Liang, Bai Jin-Ming

It is well known that there are only two low-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects (LBLs: BL Lacertae and S5 0716+714) and one flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ: 3C 279) among more than 3…