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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…
Jet Power, Bulk Lorentz Factor, Black Hole Spin, and Magnetic Field of Accretion Disk in Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei: A Large Gamma-Ray Emission Sample
Dingrong Xiong, Junhui Fan, Feng Yuan +14
We present a catalog of physical parameters for powerful jet-accretion disk-black hole systems in one of the largest samples of gamma-ray emitting jetted active galactic nuclei (AG…
X-ray Fourier lag-frequency spectra modulated by stochastic turbulent acceleration in the jets of high-frequency-peaked BL Lac
Guang-Cheng Xiao, Wen Hu, Da-Guo Jiang +4
X-ray interband time lags are key diagnostics of jet physics and are frequently detected in high-frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects at different epochs with various X-ray telesc…
X-ray Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Implications for the Changing Look Phenomenon
Mouyuan Sun, Shuying Zhou, Jihong Liu +12
X-ray timing of active galactic nuclei (AGN) provides a unique probe of gas accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), which trace gas dyn…
Discovery of Repeating Transitions in 16 Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei
Qian Dong, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Wei-Min Gu +5
The repeating changing-look active galactic nuclei (RCL AGNs) exhibit multiple appearances and disappearances of broad emission lines (BELs), whose underlying mechanism remains a p…
Interband Lag Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei across ZTF Data from Multiple Years
Zhen-Bo Su, Zhen-Yi Cai, Hengxiao Guo +2
Interband lags in the optical continua of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been observed over years of monitoring, yet their physical origins remain unclear. While variable interb…
A characteristic optical variability time scale in jetted active galactic nuclei: a large gamma-ray emission sample
Dingrong Xiong, Mouyuan Sun, Jun-Xian Wang +14
The variability mechanisms from jetted AGNs are still under debate. Here the damped random walk (DRW) model, implemented through Gaussian Processe (GPs), is used to fit the l…
A Sandwich Model for Changing-Look AGNs
Qian-Qi Ma, Wei-Min Gu, Zhen-Yi Cai +4
The spectral variability of changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) occurred on timescales of years to tens of years, posing a significant challenge to the standard thin dis…
Is quasar variability regulated by the close environment of accretion?
Liang Wu, Jun-Xian Wang, Wen-Ke Ren +1
UV/optical variability in quasars is a well-observed phenomenon, yet its primeval origins remain unclear. This study investigates whether the accretion disk turbulence, which is re…
The Host Galaxy Fluxes of Active Galaxy Nuclei Are Generally Overestimated by the Flux Variation Gradient Method
Minxuan Cai, Zhen Wan, Zhenyi Cai +2
In terms of the variable nature of normal active galaxy nuclei (AGN) and luminous quasars, a so-called flux variation gradient (FVG) method has been widely utilized to estimate the…
A surprising excess of radio emission in extremely stable quasars: a unique clue to jet launching?
Wen-Yong Kang, Jun-Xian Wang, Zhen-Yi Cai +6
Quasars are generally divided into jetted radio-loud and non-jetted radio-quiet ones, but why only 10% quasars are radio loud has been puzzling for decades. Other than jet-induced-…
A new timescale-mass scaling for the optical variation of active galactic nuclei across the intermediate-mass to supermassive scales
Zhen-Bo Su, Zhen-Yi Cai, Mouyuan Sun +3
Variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has long been servicing as an essential avenue of exploring the accretion physics of black hole (BH). There are two commonly used metho…
Sizes of active galactic nuclei inhomogeneous disks -- large in microlensing, small in reverberation mapping
Guowei Ren, Mouyuan Sun, Jun-Xian Wang +1
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence can drive significant temperature fluctuations in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN). As a result, the disk can be highly…
Stellar black holes can "stretch'' supermassive black hole accretion disks
Shuying Zhou, Mouyuan Sun, Tong Liu +3
Stellar black holes (sBHs) are widely believed to exist in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Previous studies often focus on the transient emission produced by…
How long will the quasar UV/optical flickering be damped?
Shuying Zhou, Mouyuan Sun, Zhen-Yi Cai +3
The UV/optical light curves of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are commonly described by the Damped Random Walk (DRW) model. However, the physical interpretation of the damping times…
How can the optical variation properties of active galactic nuclei be unbiasedly measured?
Xu-Fan Hu, Zhen-Yi Cai, Jun-Xian Wang
The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is ubiquitous but has not yet been understood. Measuring the optical variation properties of AGNs, such as variation timescale and…
A universal average spectral energy distribution for quasars from optical to extreme ultraviolet
Zhen-Yi Cai, Jun-Xian Wang
The well-known anti-correlation between the optical/ultraviolet (UV) emission line equivalent widths of active galactic nuclei and the continuum luminosity (the so-called Baldwin e…
Faint AGNs Favor Unexpectedly Long Inter-band Time Lags
Ting Li, Mouyuan Sun, Xiaoyu Xu +12
Inconsistent conclusions are obtained from recent active galactic nuclei (AGNs) accretion disk inter-band time-lag measurements. While some works show that the measured time lags a…