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most citedMonitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. III. Long-term Reverberation Mapping Results of 15 Palomar-Green Quasars

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15 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XV. Reverberation Mapping of Mg II Emission Lines

Hua-Rui Bai, Pu Du, Chen Hu +25

As the 15th paper in a series reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs),…

astro-ph.GA2025

Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XII. Reverberation Mapping Results for 15 PG Quasars from a Long-Duration High-Cadence Campaign

Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang +15

We present the first results from long-term high-cadence spectroscopic monitoring of 15 PG quasars with relatively strong Fe II emission as a part of a broader reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.GA2025

Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. V. Long-term Variation and Evolution of the Broad H Emission-Line Profiles

Feng-Na Fang, Pu Du, Michael S. Brotherton +40

The physical origins of the diverse emission-line asymmetries observed in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) remain incompletely understood. Monitoring the temporal varia…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Host Galaxy of the Hyperactive Repeating FRB 20240114A: Behind a Galaxy Cluster

Xiang-Lei Chen, Chao-Wei Tsai, Di Li +16

We report on the optical spectroscopic observations of the host galaxy of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst, FRB 20240114A. The host galaxy is a dwarf galaxy at a redshift…

astro-ph.GA2024

Broad-line Region of the Quasar PG 2130+099. II. Doubling the Size Over Four Years?

Zhu-Heng Yao, Sen Yang, Wei-Jian Guo +16

Over the past three decades, multiple reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns conducted for the quasar PG 2130+099 have exhibited inconsistent findings with time delays ranging from $…

astro-ph.GA2024

Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. IV. First Reverberation Mapping Results of 14 AGNs

T. E. Zastrocky, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +41

We report first-time reverberation mapping results for 14 AGNs from the ongoing Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry campaign (MAHA). These results utilize optical spectra obtained…

astro-ph.HE2023

Gleeok's Fire-breathing: Triple Flares of AT 2021aeuk within Five Years from the Active Galaxy SDSS J161259.83+421940.3

Dong-Wei Bao, Wei-Jian Guo, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +12

We present a noteworthy transient AT 2021aeuk exhibiting three distinct optical flares between 2018 and 2023. It is hosted in a radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxy, wit…

astro-ph.HE2023

Long-term multiwavelength monitoring and reverberation mapping of NGC 2617 during a changing-look event

V. L. Oknyansky, M. S. Brotherton, S. S. Tsygankov +32

We present the results of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaigns of the changing look AGN NGC~2617 carried out from 2016 until 2022 and covering the wavelength range fr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

Broad-line region in NGC 4151 monitored by two decades of reverberation mapping campaigns. I. Evolution of structure and kinematics

Yong-Jie Chen, Dong-Wei Bao, Shuo Zhai +33

We report the results of long-term reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns of the nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) NGC 4151, spanning from 1994 to 2022, based on archived observati…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 45 cited

Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. III. Long-term Reverberation Mapping Results of 15 Palomar-Green Quasars

Dong-Wei Bao, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +42

In this third paper of the series reporting on the reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of active galactic nuclei with asymmetric H emission-line profiles, we present results for…

astro-ph.GA2021

Reverberation Mapping of Two Luminous Quasars: the Broad-line Region Structure and Black Hole Mass

Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang, Zi-Xu Yang +21

We report the results of a multi-year spectroscopic and photometric monitoring campaign of two luminous quasars, PG~0923+201 and PG~1001+291, both located at the high-luminosity en…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

AGN STORM 2: I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817

Erin Kara, Missagh Mehdipour, Gerard A. Kriss +69

We present the first results from the ongoing, intensive, multi-wavelength monitoring program of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817. While this AGN was, in part, selected for it…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 34 cited

Multi-Wavelength Monitoring and Reverberation Mapping of a Changing Look Event in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3516

V. L. Oknyansky, M. S. Brotherton, S. S. Tsygankov +26

We present the results of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaigns of the changing look AGN NGC 3516 carried out in 2018 to 2020 covering the wavelength range from the X-…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

Monitoring AGNs with Hβ Asymmetry. II. Reverberation Mapping of Three Seyfert Galaxies Historically Displaying Hβ Profiles with Changing Asymmetry: Mrk 79, NGC 3227, and Mrk 841

Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du, Ming Xiao +17

We report the results of reverberation mapping three bright Seyfert galaxies, Mrk 79, NGC 3227, and Mrk 841, from a campaign conducted from December 2016 to May 2017 with the Wyomi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 36 cited

Evidence for Two Distinct Broad-Line Regions from Reverberation Mapping of PG 0026+129

Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Wei-Jian Guo +17

We report on the results of a new spectroscopic monitoring campaign of the quasar PG 0026+129 at the Calar Alto Observatory 2.2m telescope from July 2017 to February 2020. Signific…