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20192026
most citedBAL and non-BAL quasars: continuum, emission and absorption properties establish a common parent sample

102 citations · 421 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

LOFAR radio properties of quasars hosting Extremely High Velocity Outflows

Amy L. Rankine, Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo

Quasar winds are a potential contributor to the radio emission observed in the so-called 'radio-quiet' quasars. Extremely High Velocity Outflows (EHVOs), with bulk velocities >0.1c…

astro-ph.SR2026

SRG/eROSITA X-ray selected cataclysmic variable candidates observed in SDSS-V DR20

J. Brink, A. D. Schwope, K. G. Pradeep +35

We report on the spectroscopic observations obtained during SDSS-V DR20 of accreting compact binaries (ACB), specifically the cataclysmic variables (CVs), that were identified as l…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectroscopic Analysis of Fermi-detected Blazars using SDSS-V

Mohammed Iddrisu Nlowie, James Aird, Eli Kasai +17

The automated spectroscopic pipeline of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) systematically assigns Galactic star, galaxy, or typical quasar classifications to jet-dominated blazars…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

A New Member of the Fast and Furious Family: A Relativistic and Time-Variable UV Outflow in a Luminous Quasar

Lucas M. Seaton, Patrick B. Hall, Liliana Flores +20

We report the fastest quasar outflow first detected in the ultraviolet, via variable C IV and Si IV absorption at outflow velocities km s to at least km…

astro-ph.GA2026

SDSS-V: Revealing a weak accretion state in X-ray selected red quasars

Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Amy L. Rankine +17

Red quasars (rQSOs) have been recognized as a short-lived, early stage in the evolutionary cycle of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), with fundamental differences in their intrinsic pr…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Robust AGN and host-galaxy decomposition in optical spectral fitting

C. Aydar, A. Merloni, G. Zeltyn +24

Unraveling the growth of supermassive black holes and their connection to host galaxies requires disentangling the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission from that of the stellar po…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

CIV wind properties of the SDSS-V X-ray selected quasars: strong optical-to-UV emission is key regardless of X-ray strength

Amy L. Rankine, David Homan, James Aird +25

We present an investigation of the rest-frame optical/UV and X-ray properties for a sample of 3027 X-ray selected quasars between detected in the deepest Spec…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The X-ray properties of the most luminous quasars with strong emission-line outflows

Anastasia Shlentsova, Bartolomeo Trefoloni, Matilde Signorini +7

Strong outflows from active galactic nuclei are frequently observed in objects with lower coronal X-ray luminosity. This intrinsic X-ray weakness is considered a requirement for th…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Spatially resolved star-formation histories of local post-starburst galaxies: Starburst and quenching spatial patterns consistent with recent mergers

Ho-Hin Leung, Vivienne Wild, Michail Papathomas +6

Post-starburst (PSB) galaxies, having recently experienced a starburst followed by rapid quenching, are excellent laboratories to probe physical mechanisms that drive starbursts an…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Revisiting the X-ray-to-UV relation of Quasars in the era of all-sky surveys

Maria Chira, Antonis Georgakakis, Angel Ruiz +8

The X-ray--to--UV relation of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), commonly parametrized via the monochromatic luminosities at and , reflects the energetic i…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Exploring the quasar disc-wind-jet connection with LoTSS and SDSS

Charlotte L. Jackson, James H. Matthews, Imogen H. Whittam +4

We investigate the relationship between disc winds, radio jets, accretion rates and black hole masses of a sample of 100k quasars at z 2. Combining spectra from the…

astro-ph.GA2025

An Extremely-High Velocity Outflow in SMSS J2157-3602, the most luminous quasar in the first 1.3 Gyr

Giustina Vietri, Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo, Amy Rankine +16

We report the discovery of an extremely high-velocity outflow (EHVO) in the most luminous ( 2.29 10 erg/s) QSO, SMSS J2157-3602, at z=4.692. Comb…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

X-ray selected broad absorption line quasars in SDSS-V: BALs and non-BALs span the same range of X-ray properties

Pranavi Hiremath, Amy L. Rankine, James Aird +10

Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are often considered X-ray weak relative to their optical/UV luminosity, whether intrinsically (i.e., the coronal emission is fainter) or due to…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evidence for universal gas depletion in a sample of 41 luminous Type 1 quasars at z 2

S. J. Molyneux, M. Banerji, M. J. Temple +9

We present ALMA CO observations of the molecular gas in a sample of 41 luminous unobscured quasars at z 2 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. 32 targets comprise the main sam…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

X-ray AGN in Boötes: The lack of growth of the most massive black holes since z=4

Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Antonis Georgakakis +5

Supermassive Black Holes (BHs) are known to efficiently grow through gas accretion, but even sustained and intense mass build-up through this mechanism struggles to explain the ass…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

[OIII] emission in z=2 quasars with and without Broad Absorption Lines

Matthew J. Temple, Amy L. Rankine, Manda Banerji +6

Understanding the links between different phases of outflows from active galactic nuclei is a key goal in extragalactic astrophysics. Here we compare [OIII] 4960,5008 outflow s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

How does the radio enhancement of broad absorption line quasars relate to colour and accretion rate?

J. W. Petley, L. K. Morabito, A. L. Rankine +8

The origin of radio emission in different populations of radio-quiet quasars is relatively unknown, but recent work has uncovered various drivers of increased radio-detection fract…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

A disc wind model for blueshifts in quasar broad emission lines

James H. Matthews, Jago Strong-Wright, Christian Knigge +7

Blueshifts - or, more accurately, blue asymmetries - in broad emission lines such as CIV 1550 are common in luminous quasars and correlate with fundamental properties such as Ed…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

No redshift evolution in the rest-frame UV emission line properties of quasars from z=1.5 to z=4.0

Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett +4

We analyse the rest-frame UV spectra of 2,531 high-redshift (3.5<z<4.0) quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR16Q catalogue. In combination with previous work, we study the r…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

The intrinsic X-ray luminosity distribution of an optically-selected SDSS quasar population

Amy L. Rankine, James Aird, Angel Ruiz +1

In active galactic nuclei, the relationship between UV and X-ray luminosity is well studied (often characterised by ) but often with heterogeneous samples. We have par…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 49 cited

Testing AGN outflow and accretion models with CIV and HeII emission line demographics in z=2 quasars

Matthew J. Temple, James H. Matthews, Paul C. Hewett +6

Using 190,000 spectra from the seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the ultraviolet emission line properties in z=2 quasars. Specifically, we qu…