19 papers
Migration Traps as Variability Attractors: Optical/UV Signatures of Embedded Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks
Jing-Tong Xing, Tong Liu, Mouyuan Sun +5
We investigate whether embedded stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks can leave observable optical/UV variability signatures through migration-trap…
Little Red Dots as Supermassive Analogs of SS 433
Shuying Zhou, Mouyuan Sun, Xihan Ji +11
High-redshift little red dots (LRDs) are compact sources characterized by V-shaped spectral energy distributions (SEDs), broad emission lines, and often prominent Balmer breaks. Th…
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…
The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: Stable Optical Continuum Lags of an IMBH in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC 4395 Over Years
Yu Pan, Hengxiao Guo, Chenxu Liu +15
NGC 4395 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy hosting an active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH, --). Re…
A Tidal Disruption Event from an Intermediate-mass Black Hole Revealed by Comprehensive Multi-wavelength Observations
Jialai Wang, Mengqiu Huang, Yongquan Xue +12
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star crosses the tidal radius of a black hole (BH) and is ripped apart, providing a powerful way to probe dormant BHs over a wide mass r…
The Faintest, Extremely Variable X-ray Tidal Disruption Event from a Supermassive Black Hole Binary?
Mengqiu Huang, Yongquan Xue, Shuo Li +30
Tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when stars enter the tidal radii of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and are subsequently torn apart by their tidal forces, represent in…