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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: H and H Reverberation Measurements From First-year Spectroscopy and Photometry

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39 papers

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

AGN STORM 2. XII. Ground-Based Optical Photometry and Lag Measurements of Mrk 817

John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne +40

We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM\,2. Observations were carried out over 1.…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGN STORM 2. XI. Spectroscopic reverberation mapping of the hot dust in Mrk 817

Hermine Landt, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Michael S. Brotherton +41

The AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping 2 (STORM 2) campaign targeted Mrk 817 with intensive multi-wavelength monitoring and found its soft X-ray emission to be s…

astro-ph.GA2025

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Light Echoes of the Coronal Line Region in a Luminous Quasar

Theodore B. Smith, Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump +19

We present a reverberation mapping analysis of the coronal line [Ne V]3427 emitting region of the quasar COS168 (SDSS J095910.30+020732.2). [Ne V]3427 is known as one of the…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Insights on Maximizing Efficiency in Lag Measurements and Black-Hole Masses

Y. Homayouni, Yuanzhe Jiang, W. N. Brandt +8

Multi-year observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project have significantly increased the number of quasars with reliable reverberation-map…

astro-ph.GA2024

AGN STORM 2: X. The origin of the interband continuum delays in Mrk 817

Hagai Netzer, Michael R. Goad, Aaron J. Barth +26

The local (z=0.0315) AGN Mrk 817, was monitored over more than 500 days with space-borne and ground-based instruments as part of a large international campaign AGN STORM 2. Here, w…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: A Kinematically Variable Broad-Line Region and Consequences for Masses of Luminous Quasars

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Keith Horne +27

We present a velocity-resolved reverberation mapping analysis of the hypervariable quasar RM160 (SDSS J141041.25+531849.0) at z = 0.359 with 153 spectroscopic epochs of data repres…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

AGN STORM 2. VII. A Frequency-resolved Map of the Accretion Disk in Mrk 817: Simultaneous X-ray Reverberation and UVOIR Disk Reprocessing Time Lags

Collin Lewin, Erin Kara, Aaron J. Barth +35

X-ray reverberation mapping is a powerful technique for probing the innermost accretion disk, whereas continuum reverberation mapping in the UV, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) revea…

astro-ph.GA2024

AGN STORM 2: VIII. Investigating the Narrow Absorption Lines in Mrk 817 Using HST-COS Observations

Maryam Dehghanian, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss +39

We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 during an intensive multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign for 16 months. Here, we examine the behavior of narrow UV absorption lin…

astro-ph.GA2024

Understanding the Broad-line Region of Active Galactic Nuclei with Photoionization. I. the Moderate-Accretion Regime

Qiaoya Wu, Yue Shen, Hengxiao Guo +9

Over three decades of reverberation mapping (RM) studies on local broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have measured reliable black-hole (BH) masses for AGNs. These RM…

astro-ph.HE2024

AGN STORM 2: IX. Studying the Dynamics of the Ionized Obscurer in Mrk 817 with High-resolution X-ray Spectroscopy

Fatima Zaidouni, Erin Kara, Peter Kosec +45

We present the results of the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations taken as part of the ongoing, intensive multi-wavelength monitoring program of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817 by the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: CIV BAL Acceleration in the Quasar SBS 1408+544

Robert Wheatley, Catherine J. Grier, Patrick B. Hall +20

We present the results of an investigation of a highly variable CIV broad absorption-line feature in the quasar SBS 1408+544 (z=2.337) that shows a significant shift in velocity ov…

astro-ph.HE2023

AGN STORM 2. VI. Mapping Temperature Fluctuations in the Accretion Disk of Mrk 817

Jack M. M. Neustadt, Christopher S. Kochanek, John Montano +49

We fit the UV/optical lightcurves of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817 to produce maps of the accretion disk temperature fluctuations resolved in time and radius. The maps are…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Investigation of Continuum Lag Dependence on Broad-Line Contamination and Quasar Properties

Hugh W. Sharp, Y. Homayouni, Jonathan R. Trump +16

This work studies the relationship between accretion-disk size and quasar properties, using a sample of 95 quasars from the SDSS-RM project with measured lags between the and $…

astro-ph.GA2023

AGN STORM 2: V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817

Y. Homayouni, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa +49

An intensive reverberation mapping campaign on the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed significant vari…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Reprocessing Models for the Optical Light Curves of Hypervariable Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project

Tatsuya Akiba, Jason Dexter, William Brandt +5

We explore reprocessing models for a sample of 17 hypervariable quasars, taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, which all show coordinated…

astro-ph.HE2023

AGN STORM 2. IV. Swift X-ray and ultraviolet/optical monitoring of Mrk 817

Edward M. Cackett, Jonathan Gelbord, Aaron J. Barth +48

The AGN STORM 2 campaign is a large, multiwavelength reverberation mapping project designed to trace out the structure of Mrk 817 from the inner accretion disk to the broad emissio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Yue Shen, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne +44

We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping program. This…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Detection of Dust in High-Velocity Cloud Complex C -- Enriched Gas Accreting onto the Milky Way

Andrew J. Fox, Frances H. Cashman, Gerard A. Kriss +4

We present the detection of dust depletion in Complex C, a massive, infalling, low-metallicity high-velocity cloud in the northern Galactic hemisphere that traces the ongoing accre…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

AGN STORM 2. III. A NICER view of the variable X-ray obscurer in Mrk 817

Ethan R. Partington, Edward M. Cackett, Erin Kara +44

The AGN STORM 2 collaboration targeted the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817 for a year-long multiwavelength, coordinated reverberation mapping campaign including HST, Swift, XMM-Newton, NI…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

AGN STORM 2: II. Ultraviolet Observations of Mrk817 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope

Y. Homayouni, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha +62

We present reverberation mapping measurements for the prominent ultraviolet broad emission lines of the active galactic nucleus Mrk817 using 165 spectra obtained with the Cosmic Or…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Unusual Broad-Line Variability in a Luminous Quasar

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Megan C. Davis +30

We present a high-cadence multi-epoch analysis of dramatic variability of three broad emission lines (MgII, H, and H) in the spectra of the luminous quasar ((5100Å) = $…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: The Black Hole MassStellar Mass Relations at

Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Yue Shen, Luis C. Ho +7

We measure the correlation between black-hole mass and host stellar mass for a sample of 38 broad-line quasars at (median redshift $z…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 29 cited

The LSST era of supermassive black holes accretion-disk reverberation mapping

Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Viktor Radovic, Dragana Ilic +22

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will detect an unprecedentedly large sample of actively accreting supermassive black holes with typical accreti…