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CLAS+: A large catalog of Changing-Look AGN candidates selected through S-PLUS narrow-band photometry
L. Nakazono, L. L. Oliveira, R. R. Valença +11
Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGN) exhibit rapid spectral transitions on timescales of months to years, challenging standard AGN unification models and providing unique i…
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…
Relativistic outflows power a quasi-periodic eruption: constraints on energetics, mass loss, and emission mechanisms
Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Wenbin Lu +17
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of X-ray radiation originating from supermassive black holes (SMBHs). They are an unprecedented type of structured, high-amplit…
The X-ray-Weak Tail of the Quasar Population: Physical Properties and Redshift Evolution of Variability-Selected AGN in eFEDS
P. Arévalo, J. Buchner, M. Salvato +10
(abridged) Aims: To characterize variability-selected AGN candidates within the eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), leveraging the synergy between optical variability an…
AGNFormer I: Reconstruction of AGN spectra using a probabilistic transformer model
Benedict L. Rouse, Franz E. Bauer, Tomasz Różański +8
We explore how an uncertainty-aware transformer-based architecture can leverage information embedded across the entire observed optical spectra of AGN, focusing on the algorithm's…
VAR-PZnn: A machine-learning framework for AGN photometric redshifts using color and variability-based features
S. Satheesh-Sheeba, P. Sánchez-Sáez, R. J. Assef +39
Photometric redshift estimation for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) remains a fundamental challenge for current and upcoming large-scale photometric surveys. Traditional spectral ene…
Seeing through the dust: Unraveling near-infrared variability in type 2 active galactic nuclei
J. Cerón-Meneses, P. Arévalo, P. Sánchez-Sáez +3
Near-infrared (NIR) variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are still limited, as long-term multiepoch monitoring in the NIR is observationally challenging. The depth,…
Spectroscopic Alerts for the Time-Domain Era
Alejandra Melo, Paula Sanchez-Saez, Valentin D. Ivanov +13
Time-domain astronomy is entering an era of unprecedented discovery driven by wide-field, high-cadence surveys such as LSST, Roman, Euclid, SKA, and PLATO. While some of these faci…
Scalable and Robust Multiband Modeling of AGN Light Curves in Rubin-LSST
Weixiang Yu, John J. Ruan, Colin J. Burke +22
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will monitor tens of millions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) for a period of 10 years with an average caden…
VAR-PZ: Constraining the Photometric Redshifts of Quasars using Variability
S. Satheesh-Sheeba, R. J. Assef, T. Anguita +33
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST is expected to discover tens of millions of new Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). The survey's exceptional cadence and sensitivity will enable UV/op…
Image-Based Multi-Survey Classification of Light Curves with a Pre-Trained Vision Transformer
Daniel Moreno-Cartagena, Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia +10
We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Tra…
Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs
Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia +10
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE…
Discovery of extreme Quasi-Periodic Eruptions in a newly accreting massive black hole
Lorena Hernández-García, Joheen Chakraborty, Paula Sánchez-Sáez +27
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are rapid, recurring X-ray bursts from supermassive black holes, believed to result from interactions between accretion disks and surrounding matter…
Rapidly varying ionization features in a Quasi-periodic Eruption: a homologous expansion model for the spectroscopic evolution
Joheen Chakraborty, Peter Kosec, Erin Kara +9
Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of soft X-ray emission from supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which a growing class of models explains via extreme mass-ratio i…
The Success of Optical Variability in Uncovering AGNs in Low-stellar Mass Galaxies
S. Bernal, P. Sánchez-Sáez, P. Arévalo +3
We used random forest algorithms to classify all objects in a large portion of the sky, using optical light curves obtained, or built from images provided, by the Zwicky Transient…
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper
Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214
The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…
Physical Properties of Type II Supernovae Inferred from ZTF and ATLAS Photometric Data
Javier Silva-Farfán, Francisco Förster, Takashi J. Moriya +6
We report an analysis of a sample of 186 spectroscopically confirmed Type II supernova (SN) light curves (LCs) obtained from a combination of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and As…
Selection of powerful radio galaxies with machine learning
R. Carvajal, I. Matute, J. Afonso +12
We developed and trained a pipeline of three machine learning (ML) models than can predict which sources are more likely to be an AGN and to be detected in specific radio surveys.…
Multi-Class Deep SVDD: Anomaly Detection Approach in Astronomy with Distinct Inlier Categories
Manuel Pérez-Carrasco, Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Lorena Hernández-García +8
With the increasing volume of astronomical data generated by modern survey telescopes, automated pipelines and machine learning techniques have become crucial for analyzing and ext…
The universal power spectrum of Quasars in optical wavelengths: Break timescale scales directly with both black hole mass and accretion rate
P. Arevalo, E. Churazov, P. Lira +5
Aims: Establish the dependence of variability properties, such as characteristic timescales and variability amplitude, on basic quasar parameters such as black hole mass and accret…
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…
DELIGHT: Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients using Multi-resolution Images
Francisco Förster, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia, Ignacio Reyes +25
We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragal…
Two years of optical and NIR observations of the superluminous supernova UID 30901 discovered by the UltraVISTA SN survey
Emilio D. Hueichapán, Carlos Contreras V., Regis Cartier +6
We present deep optical and near-infrared photometry of UID 30901, a superluminous supernova (SLSN) discovered during the UltraVISTA survey. The observations were obtained with VIR…
Photoreverberation mapping of quasars in the context of LSST observing strategies
Isidora Jankov, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Dragana Ilic +5
The upcoming photometric surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will monitor unprecedented number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a deca…