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20182026
most citedA characteristic optical variability timescale in astrophysical accretion disks

162 citations · 738 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Scientific Overview and Sample Characteristics

Hengxiao Guo, Jiancheng Wu, Wenwen Zuo +38

Recent discoveries with the James Webb Space Telescope of massive black holes at high redshift have highlighted fundamental questions about black hole seed formation and the coevol…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Tracing black hole and galaxy growth across environments since cosmic noon

Emma Jane Weller, Priyamvada Natarajan, Colin J. Burke +1

The distribution of systems in the black hole (BH) mass-stellar mass () plane encodes both the integrated growth of galaxies and their central black holes, a…

astro-ph.GA2026

The black hole occupation fraction as a fossil record of seeding, dynamics, and galaxy assembly

Emma Jane Weller, Priyamvada Natarajan, Colin J. Burke

The black hole occupation fraction (BHOF) is a powerful but intrinsically layered diagnostic of massive black hole (BH) seeding and subsequent galaxy assembly. We measure the total…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

Variability as a new discovery channel for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Time Domain Era

Colin J. Burke, Priyamvada Natarajan

Between the groundbreaking detections of stellar-mass black holes by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA and JWST's revelation of a surprisingly abundant population of supermassive black holes, one c…

astro-ph.GA2025

Too Quiet for Comfort: Local Little Red Dots Lack Variability over Decades

Colin J. Burke, Zachary Stone, Yue Shen +1

Several local () metal-poor dwarf AGNs have remarkably similar properties to those of high-redshift Little Red Dots (LRDs), and are recently proposed to be local ana…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dwarf Active Galactic Nuclei from Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Properties of Variability-Selected AGNs in the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields

Yichen Liu, Colin J. Burke, Diego Miura +4

We study the black hole mass host galaxy stellar mass relation, , for a sample of 706 and optically-variable active galac…