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Pushing Variability Searches to Extreme Dwarf Galaxies with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 2
Fan Zou, W. N. Brandt, Elena Gallo +15
Galaxies with stellar masses , hereafter referred to as extreme dwarf galaxies (EDGs), represent one of the least explored regimes in the search for accreting…
The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF)
Haojing Yan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yue Shen +127
The Roman eXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) program is one of the five General Astrophysics Survey (GAS) programs approved for observing time with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in…
Photometric redshifts for active galactic nuclei with LePHARE for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
R. Shirley, M. Salvato, J. Cohen-Tanugi +31
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a crucial role in galaxy evolution, but they are a minority of extragalactic sources with diverse Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), which depe…
An Exploratory Analysis of New Large Gaia-informed Quasar Samples in SDSS-V
Shir Aviram, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Tom Dwelly +22
Quasars are luminous objects that provide insights into the physics and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their accretion flows, galaxy evolution, and even cosmolog…
Spectroscopic Analysis of Fermi-detected Blazars using SDSS-V
Mohammed Iddrisu Nlowie, James Aird, Eli Kasai +17
The automated spectroscopic pipeline of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) systematically assigns Galactic star, galaxy, or typical quasar classifications to jet-dominated blazars…
The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…
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…
Strong X-ray Variability of I Zwicky 1: Obscuration from Clumpy Accretion-Disk Winds
Jian Huang, Bin Luo, W. N. Brandt +2
Obscuration from clumpy accretion-disk winds has been invoked to explain the extreme X-ray weakness and X-ray variability observed in a substantial fraction of super-Eddington accr…
SDSS-V: Revealing a weak accretion state in X-ray selected red quasars
Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Amy L. Rankine +17
Red quasars (rQSOs) have been recognized as a short-lived, early stage in the evolutionary cycle of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), with fundamental differences in their intrinsic pr…
Robust AGN and host-galaxy decomposition in optical spectral fitting
C. Aydar, A. Merloni, G. Zeltyn +24
Unraveling the growth of supermassive black holes and their connection to host galaxies requires disentangling the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission from that of the stellar po…
AGILE: an end-to-end Rubin-LSST simulation of AGNs, galaxies, and stars I. Software description and first data release
A. Viitanen, A. Bongiorno, I. Saccheo +37
Contemporary large-scale surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Euclid present an unprecedented discovery potential for studying A…
Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei in SDSS-V: Host-Galaxy Properties and Black-Hole Scaling Relations
Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +23
Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) exhibit dramatic spectral variability on unexpectedly short timescales, challenging standard accretion flow models. Despite growing s…
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…
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…
X-ray selected broad absorption line quasars in SDSS-V: BALs and non-BALs span the same range of X-ray properties
Pranavi Hiremath, Amy L. Rankine, James Aird +10
Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are often considered X-ray weak relative to their optical/UV luminosity, whether intrinsically (i.e., the coronal emission is fainter) or due to…
The Consequences of Rubin Observatory Time-Domain Survey Design and Host-Galaxy Contamination on the Identification of Binary Supermassive Black Holes
Megan C. Davis, Jonathan R. Trump, Maria Charisi +4
Binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are consequences of galaxy mergers and dominate the low-frequency gravitational wave background. Finding binary SMBHs in existing time-domai…
Optical Emission-Line Properties of eROSITA-selected SDSS-V Galaxies
Nadiia G. Pulatova, Evgenii Rubtsov, Igor V. Chilingarian +21
We present and discuss optical emission line properties obtained from the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra for an X-ray selected sample of 3684 galaxies (0.002 <…
The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210
Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…
The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS): SDSS spectroscopic observations of X-ray sources
Catarina Aydar, Andrea Merloni, Tom Dwelly +45
We present one of the largest uniform optical spectroscopic surveys of X-ray selected sources to date that were observed as a pilot study for the Black Hole Mapper (BHM) survey. Th…
The NuSTAR Local AGN Distribution Survey (NuLANDS) I: Towards a Truly Representative Column Density Distribution in the Local Universe
Peter G. Boorman, Poshak Gandhi, Johannes Buchner +33
Hard X-ray-selected samples of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) provide one of the cleanest views of supermassive black hole accretion, but are biased against objects obscured by Compt…
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…
The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Multi-Line Dynamical Modeling of a Highly Variable Active Galactic Nucleus with Decade-long Light Curves
Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Scott F. Anderson +15
We present dynamical modeling of the broad-line region (BLR) for the highly variable AGN SDSS J141041.25+531849.0 () using photometric and spectroscopic monitoring data…
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…