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NGC 3227 Blinks: An Extreme Changing-Look Event in a Seyfert Galaxy
Kaiwen Zhang, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +10
We report a rapid optical changing-look event in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3227: the optical continuum faded by more than 70% and broad H-beta emission nearly disappeared within weeks…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XV. Reverberation Mapping of Mg II Emission Lines
Hua-Rui Bai, Pu Du, Chen Hu +25
As the 15th paper in a series reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs),…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XII. Reverberation Mapping Results for 15 PG Quasars from a Long-Duration High-Cadence Campaign
Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang +15
We present the first results from long-term high-cadence spectroscopic monitoring of 15 PG quasars with relatively strong Fe II emission as a part of a broader reverberation mappin…
Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. V. Long-term Variation and Evolution of the Broad H Emission-Line Profiles
Feng-Na Fang, Pu Du, Michael S. Brotherton +40
The physical origins of the diverse emission-line asymmetries observed in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) remain incompletely understood. Monitoring the temporal varia…
Broad-line Region of the Quasar PG 2130+099. II. Doubling the Size Over Four Years?
Zhu-Heng Yao, Sen Yang, Wei-Jian Guo +16
Over the past three decades, multiple reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns conducted for the quasar PG 2130+099 have exhibited inconsistent findings with time delays ranging from $…
Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping (SARM) of Active Galactic Nuclei. I. The H Broad-line Region Structure and Black Hole Mass of Five Quasars
Yan-Rong Li, Chen Hu, Zhu-Heng Yao +18
We conduct a reverberation mapping (RM) campaign to spectroscopically monitor a sample of selected bright active galactic nuclei with large anticipated broad-line region (BLR) size…
Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. IV. First Reverberation Mapping Results of 14 AGNs
T. E. Zastrocky, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +41
We report first-time reverberation mapping results for 14 AGNs from the ongoing Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry campaign (MAHA). These results utilize optical spectra obtained…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XIII. Ultraviolet Time Lag of H Emission in Mrk 142
V. C. Khatu, S. C. Gallagher, K. Horne +17
We performed a rigorous reverberation-mapping analysis of the broad-line region (BLR) in a highly accreting () active galactic nucleus, Markarian 142 (…
The JWST FRESCO Survey: Legacy NIRCam/Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging in the two GOODS Fields
P. A. Oesch, G. Brammer, R. P. Naidu +38
We present the JWST Cycle 1 53.8hr medium program FRESCO, short for "First Reionization Epoch Spectroscopically Complete Observations". FRESCO covers 62 arcmin in each of the t…
Revisiting Emission-Line Measurement Methods for Narrow-Line Active Galactic Nuclei
Viraja C. Khatu, Sarah C. Gallagher, Keith Horne +16
Measuring broad emission-line widths in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is not straightforward owing to the complex nature of flux variability in these systems. Line-width measurement…
Testing Super-Eddington Accretion onto a Supermassive Black Hole: Reverberation Mapping of PG 1119+120
Fergus R. Donnan, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne +11
We measure the black hole mass and investigate the accretion flow around the local () quasar PG 1119+120. Spectroscopic monitoring with Calar Alto provides H lags and…
Supermassive Black Hole and Broad-line Region in NGC~5548: Results from Five-season Reverberation Mapping
Kai-Xing Lu, Jin-Ming Bai, Jian-Min Wang +9
NGC 5548 is one of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected for our long-term spectroscopic monitoring with the Lijiang 2.4~m telescope, aiming at investigating the origin and evo…
Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. III. Long-term Reverberation Mapping Results of 15 Palomar-Green Quasars
Dong-Wei Bao, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +42
In this third paper of the series reporting on the reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of active galactic nuclei with asymmetric H emission-line profiles, we present results for…
Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping: the Mass and Geometric Distance of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar 3C 273
Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, Yu-Yang Songsheng +4
The quasar 3C 273 has been observed with infrared spectroastrometry (SA) on broad Pa line and optical reverberation mapping (RM) on broad H line. SA delivers information abou…
Reverberation Mapping of Two Luminous Quasars: the Broad-line Region Structure and Black Hole Mass
Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang, Zi-Xu Yang +21
We report the results of a multi-year spectroscopic and photometric monitoring campaign of two luminous quasars, PG~0923+201 and PG~1001+291, both located at the high-luminosity en…
Velocity-resolved Reverberation Mapping of Changing-look AGN NGC 2617
Hai-Cheng. Feng, H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai +6
NGC 2617 has attracted a lot of attention after the detection of the changes in spectral type, and its geometry and kinematics of broad-line region (BLR) are still ambiguous. In th…
Reverberation Mapping of Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 3516
Hai-Cheng. Feng, Chen. Hu, Sha-Sha. Li +7
The changes of broad emission lines should be a crucial issue to understanding the physical properties of changing-look active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN). Here, we present the resul…
Monitoring AGNs with Hβ Asymmetry. II. Reverberation Mapping of Three Seyfert Galaxies Historically Displaying Hβ Profiles with Changing Asymmetry: Mrk 79, NGC 3227, and Mrk 841
Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du, Ming Xiao +17
We report the results of reverberation mapping three bright Seyfert galaxies, Mrk 79, NGC 3227, and Mrk 841, from a campaign conducted from December 2016 to May 2017 with the Wyomi…
Evidence for Two Distinct Broad-Line Regions from Reverberation Mapping of PG 0026+129
Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Wei-Jian Guo +17
We report on the results of a new spectroscopic monitoring campaign of the quasar PG 0026+129 at the Calar Alto Observatory 2.2m telescope from July 2017 to February 2020. Signific…
Kinematic signatures of reverberation mapping of close binaries of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. II. Atlas of two-dimensional transfer functions
Yu-Yang Songsheng, Ming Xiao, Jian-Min Wang +1
Most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in their centers, and galaxies merge. Consequently, binary SMBHs should be common in galactic nuclei. However, close bin…
Active Galactic Nuclei with Ultra-fast Outflows Monitoring Project: The Broad-line Region of Mrk 79 as a Disk Wind
Kai-Xing Lu, Jin-Ming Bai, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +23
We developed a spectroscopic monitoring project to investigate the kinematics of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) with ultra-fast outflows (UFOs). Mrk~79…
Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei: X. Optical variability characteristics
Kai-Xing Lu, Ying-Ke Huang, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +10
We compiled a sample of 73 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with reverberation mapping (RM) observations from RM campaigns including our ongoing campaign of monitoring super-Eddington…
Kinematics of the Broad-line Region of 3C 273 from a Ten-year Reverberation Mapping Campaign
Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Pu Du, Paul S. Smith +9
Despite many decades of study, the kinematics of the broad-line region of 3C~273 are still poorly understood. We report a new, high signal-to-noise, reverberation mapping campaign…
A High-Quality velocity-delay map of the broad-line region in NGC 5548
Ming Xiao, Pu Du, Kai-Xing Lu +10
NGC 5548 has been well spectroscopically monitored for reverberation mapping of the central kinematics by 19 campaigns. Using the maximum entropy method in this Letter, we build up…