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most citedThe FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. II. 60 Nights and 1200 Spectra Later

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astro-ph.GA2026

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Low-Redshift Palomar-Green Quasars and Composite Spectra

Amy Cavanaugh, Michael Brotherton, Jacob McLane +1

The Palomar-Green (PG) Quasars have been used extensively to establish the spectral properties of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at low redshifts in many wavebands, but not…

astro-ph.GA2025

Detection of unexpected leading delays in broad Hβ line reverberations in the quasar PHL 1092

Jian-Min Wang, Chen Hu, Yong-Jie Chen +12

Delayed reverberations of broad emission lines in response to optical continuum variations have been widely observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). They serve as a powerful tool…

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

Spectroscopic Reverberation Mapping for SARM: The Case of Mrk 1048 and Mrk 618

Shivangi Pandey, Suvendu Rakshit, S. Muneer +14

Robust extragalactic distance measurements are crucial for resolving the persistent discrepancy in the value of the Hubble constant (H)). Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), through…

astro-ph.GA2025

Gemini Near Infrared SpectrographDistant Quasar Survey: the Chandra View

Andrea Marlar, Ohad Shemmer, Michael S. Brotherton +5

We present Chandra observations of 63 sources from the Gemini Near Infrared SpectrographDistant Quasar Survey (GNIRS-DQS) of which 54 were targeted by snapshot observations in C…

astro-ph.GA2025

Continuum Reverberation Mapping of Accretion Disks Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Observational Signatures

Yi-Xin Fu, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang +9

It has remained challenging to reliably identify sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), despite them being expected to be ubiquitous. We propose a new method using m…