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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Conditional Neural Process for non-parametric modeling of AGN light curve
Iva Cvorovic-Hajdinjak, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Dragana Ilic +6
The consequences of complex disturbed environments in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole are not well represented by standard statistical models of optical variability in ac…
A random forest-based selection of optically variable AGN in the VST-COSMOS field
D. De Cicco, F. E. Bauer, M. Paolillo +6
The survey of the COSMOS field by the VLT Survey Telescope is an appealing testing ground for variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). With 54 r-band visits over 3.3 yr…
The QUEST-La Silla AGN Variability Survey: selection of AGN candidates through optical variability
P. Sánchez-Sáez, P. Lira, R. Cartier +6
We used data from the QUEST-La Silla Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability survey to construct light curves for 208,583 sources over deg, with a a limiting magnitu…
The QUEST-La Silla AGN variability survey: connection between AGN variability and black hole physical properties
P. Sánchez-Sáez, P. Lira, J. Mejía-Restrepo +5
We present our statistical analysis of the connection between active galactic nuclei (AGN) variability and physical properties of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). We con…
Reverberation Mapping of Luminous Quasars at High-z
Paulina Lira, Shai Kaspi, Hagai Netzer +6
We present Reverberation Mapping (RM) results for 17 high-redshift, high-luminosity quasars with good quality R-band and emission line light curves. We are able to measure statisti…