Conference Summary: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Abstract

The ``AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey'' conference was held at Princeton University in July 2003 to bring together groups working inside and outside of the SDSS collaboration at radio through X-ray wavelengths to discuss the common goal of better understanding the physics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Although we still do not have a full understanding of AGN, much progress has been made in recent years. In this conference summary, we concentrate on those topics discussed at the meeting where we believe that there has been significant change or where there is a new standard of comparison, as well as on important new trends in AGN research.

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• Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei
• Mass Functions of the Active Black Holes in Distant Quasars from the Large Bright Quasar Survey, the Bright Quasar Survey, and the Color-Selected Sample of the SDSS Fall Equatorial Stripe
• Nuclear activity versus star formation: emission-line diagnostics at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths
• Selection, Prioritization, and Characteristics of Kepler Target Stars
• A Description of Quasar Variability Measured Using Repeated SDSS and POSS Imaging
• Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections
• Radio and Millimeter Continuum Surveys and their Astrophysical Implications
• The Black Hole Mass - Galaxy Bulge Relationship for QSOs in the SDSS DR3
• Broad-line Balmer Decrements in Blue Active Galactic Nuclei
• Cluster Heating by Viscous Dissipation of Sound Waves
• Mean Spectral Energy Distributions and Bolometric Corrections for Luminous Quasars
• Improved and Quality-assessed Emission and Absorption Line measurements in Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies
• A Unified Catalog of Radio Objects Detected by NVSS, FIRST, WENSS, GB6, and SDSS
• Blueshifted [O III] Emission: Indications of a Dynamic NLR
• Periodic Oscillations in the Intra-day Optical Light Curves of the Blazar S5 0716+714
• Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-Year Timescales in a Large Quasar Sample
• The relationship between radio luminosity and black-hole mass in optically-selected quasars
• AEGIS: The Clustering of X-ray AGN Relative to Galaxies at z~1
• A High-Velocity Narrow Absorption Line Outflow in the Quasar J212329.46-005052.9
• SBS 0846+513: a new gamma-ray emitting Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy
• Contribution of the Disk Emission to the Broad Emission Lines in AGNs: Two-component model
• Candidate Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. From Radio to X-Rays
• The Two-Component Radio Luminosity Function of QSOs: Star Formation and AGN
• Active Galactic Nuclei Emission-Line Properties Versus Eddington Ratio
• Microlensing of the Broad Emission Line Region in the Quadruple Lens SDSS J1004+4112
• On the origin of the C IV Baldwin effect in AGN
• Quantifying the Diffuse Continuum Contribution of BLR Clouds to AGN Continuum Inter-band Delays
• Disclosing the Radio Loudness Distribution Dichotomy in Quasars: An Unbiased Monte Carlo Approach Applied to the SDSS-FIRST Quasar Sample
• Extinction due to amorphous carbon grains in red quasars from the SDSS
• Line Shifts, Broad-Line Region Inflow, and the Feeding of AGNs
• The Quasar-frame Velocity Distribution of Narrow CIV Absorbers
• The Civ line width distribution for quasars and its implications for broad-line region dynamics and virial mass estimation
• Mean-flux Regulated PCA Continuum Fitting of SDSS Lyman-alpha Forest Spectra
• Near-Infrared Reverberation by Dusty Clumpy Tori in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Radio-loud flares from microquasars and radio-loudness of quasars
• Three-Dimensional Simulations of Bi-Directed Magnetohydrodynamic Jets Interacting with Cluster Environments
• The Extreme High-Velocity Outflow in Quasar PG0935+417
• A review of type Ia supernova spectra
• Accretion Disk Temperatures and Continuum Colors in QSOs
• Variability of Narrow, Associated Absorption Lines in Moderate- and Low-Redshift Quasars
• The correlations between optical/UV broad lines and X-ray emission for a large sample of quasars
• Three-fluid plasmas in star formation I. Magneto-hydrodynamic equations
• Constraints on the black hole spin in the quasar SDSS J094533.99+100950.1
• Radio spectra and polarisation properties of radio-loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars
• CosmoMHD: A Cosmological Magnetohydrodynamics Code
• The Complete Ultraviolet Spectrum of the Archetypal "Wind-Dominated" Quasar Mrk~231: Absorption and Emission from a High-Speed Dusty Nuclear Outflow
• Magnetic pressure support and accretion disk spectra
• Intra-night optical variability of core dominated radio quasars: the role of optical polarization
• Mass Outflow in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548
• The Effects of Magnetic Fields and Inhomogeneities on Accretion Disk Spectra and Polarization
• FUSE Observation of the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy RE 1034+39
• The Halo Occupation Distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei
• VLT/X-Shooter Survey of BAL Quasars: Large Distance Scale and AGN Feedback
• The Chandra View of NGC 4178: The Lowest Mass Black Hole in a Bulgeless Disk Galaxy?
• A Balmer-line Broad Absorption Line Quasar
• The Transition from "Normal" to "Broad Absorption Line Quasar" of Ton 34
• The Halo Occupation Distribution of X-ray-Bright Active Galactic Nuclei: A Comparison with Luminous Quasars
• Optical and radio properties of giant radio quasars: Central black hole characteristics
• The Probability Distribution of the Lya transmitted flux from a sample of SDSS quasars
• Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II: The C IV Line
• A compact, metal-rich, kpc-scale outflow in FBQS J0209-0438: Detailed diagnostics from HST/COS extreme UV observations
• 2QZJ215454.3-305654: a radio-quiet BL Lac object or lineless QSO?
• Spatially-Resolved Narrow Line Region Kinematics in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Spectral Evolution in High Redshift Quasars from the Final BOSS Sample
• Balmer Emission Line Profiles and the Complex Properties of Broad Line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Identifying high redshift AGNs using X-ray hardness
• Outflows Near An Accreting Black Hole: Ionization and Temperature Structure
• XMM-Newton View of the Multi-Phase Warm Absorber in Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC985
• The buried Balmer-edge signatures from quasars
• Investigating the origins of the CMB-XRB cross correlation
• Unusual high-redshift radio BAL quasar 1624+3758
• Low redshift quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82. The local environments
• Emergence of a Quasar Outflow
• Narrow absorption line variability in repeat quasar observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Evolution of [OIII]5007 emission-line profiles in narrow emission-line galaxies
• Mrk 609: resolving the circum-nuclear structure with near-infrared integral field spectroscopy
• A Study of Outflows in Luminous Quasars at Redshift $\sim 0.4-0.8$
• X-ray Intraday Variability of the TeV Blazar PKS 2155-304 with Suzaku During 2005-2014
• Seyfert galaxies that are undergoing merging but appear non-interacting
• Use of neural networks for the identification of new z>=3.6 QSOs from FIRST-SDSS DR5
• The Formation and Evolution of the First Massive Black Holes
• The environment of weak emission-line quasars
• Chandra Observations of Red Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars
• Emergences of C IV narrow absorption troughs in the quasar SDSS J095254.10+021932.8
• Stellar Disruption and the Quasar Radio Dichotomy
• GEMINI 3D spectroscopy of BAL+IR+Fe II QSOs: II. IRAS 04505-2958 an explosive QSO with hypershell and a new scenario for galaxy formation and galaxy end
• Radio-quiet objects in the 2QZ survey
• Spectroscopy along Multiple, Lensed Sightlines through Outflowing Winds in the Quasar SDSS J1029+2623
• Observational evidence for AGN fueling. I. The merging of NGC6104 with a companion
• Chandra X-Ray Observations of Two Unusual BAL Quasars
• Using the Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars to Illuminate Quasar Structure
• Radio Properties of Low Redshift Broad Line Active Galactic Nuclei Including Extended Radio Sources
• 200 Mpc Sized Structure in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
• Optical variability of radio-intermediate quasars
• Intervening BLR Clouds' Effects on Optical/UV Spectrum
• A Direct Linkage Between AGN Outflows in The Narrow-line Regions and The X-ray Emission From The Accretion disks
• Composite spectra of quasars with different UV spectral index
• Unconventional AGN from the SDSS
• Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters
• VLT-SINFONI observations of Mrk 609 - A showcase for X-ray active galaxies chosen from a sample of AGN suitable for adaptive optics observations with natural guide stars
• Grand Unification II: Hot Accretion and AGN Jets
• The nuclear radio structure of X-ray bright AGN