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20152026
most citedNature of Intra-night Optical Variability of BL Lacertae

51 citations · 61 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraints on the Intranight Optical Variability of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates

Wenwen Zuo, Hengxiao Guo, Wanling Liu +12

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) provide a unique regime for studying accretion variability at the low-mass end of the black hole population, yet their intranight optical vari…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Empirical Near-Infrared Spectral Templates from SPHEREx: Disentangling AGN and Host-Galaxy Emission

Wenke Ren, Hengxiao Guo, Zhenya Zheng +9

SPHEREx conducts the first all-sky near-infrared spectral survey over 0.75-5.0 m, spanning the transition from host-galaxy starlight to AGN-heated torus emission and enabling sp…

astro-ph.GA2026

ASKAP discovery of a pair of large radio bubbles: on the origin of odd radio circles

Renzhi Su, Minfeng Gu, Hengxiao Guo +9

We report the serendipitous discovery of a large, low-surface-brightness radio bubble in 944 MHz continuum data from the ASKAP Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey. The st…

astro-ph.HE2026

Early Near-Infrared Excess and Rapid Disk-Corona Evolution in the Tidal Disruption Event 2024aepd

Yongxin Wu, Yanan Wang, Thomas M. Reynolds +38

We present multi-wavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) 2024aepd, spanning primarily the first 300 days after discovery. A prominent near-infrared (NIR)…

astro-ph.HE2026

Dual AGN and Multiple SMBH Systems in the Era of SKAO

Q. D'Amato, L. Cui, R. Deane +23

We present a radio-oriented review of current strategies for the detection and characterization of dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) and supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs),…

cs.AI2026

A systematic evaluation of vision-language models for observational astronomical reasoning tasks

Wenke Ren, Hengxiao Guo, Wenwen Zuo +1

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed as general-purpose tools for scientific data interpretation, yet their reliability on real astronomical observations across…

astro-ph.HE2026

Evidence for a Delayed UV Counterpart to X-ray Quasi-periodic Eruptions in Ansky

Hengxiao Guo, Zhen Yan, Ya-Ping Li +15

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) represent a novel population of extreme, repeating nuclear transients whose physical origins remain debated. A defining characteristic of QPEs…

astro-ph.HE2026

Compton hump reverberation lag in the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A with NuSTAR

Samuzal Barua, Hengxiao Guo, Minfeng Gu +1

Recent reverberation delay measurements have moved beyond the 10 keV X-ray range, providing evidence for the Compton hump (a.k.a. reflection hump) in the lag spectra. We report the…

astro-ph.IM2025

Antarctic TianMu Staring Observation Project I: Overview and Implementation of the Prototype Telescope

Dan Zhou, Jing Zhong, Jianchun Shi +31

Wide-field rapid sky surveys serve as critical observational methods for time-domain astronomical research. The Antarctic region, with several months of continuous dark nights annu…

astro-ph.HE2025

Tidal disruption events in active galactic nuclei: on orbital inclination and Schwarzschild apsidal precession

Minghao Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Hongping Deng +2

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mark a regime where traditional vacuum models fail to capture the full dynamics, especially due to interaction betwe…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing the Strong Gravity Region of Black Holes with eXTP

Qingcui Bu, Cosimo Bambi, Lijun Gou +42

We present the novel capabilities of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to study the strong gravity region around stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binary sys…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Reverberation Mapping Project: First Detection of Mid-Infrared Lags in Prototypical IMBHs in NGC 4395 and POX 52

Jingbo Sun, Hengxiao Guo, Wenwen Zuo +25

The search for robust evidence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is crucial for understanding black hole seeding process and the formation of supermassive black holes in the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

AT2021aeuk: A Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy

Jingbo Sun, Hengxiao Guo, Minfeng Gu +13

A black hole (BH) can tear apart a star that ventures within its tidal radius, producing a luminous flare as the stellar debris falls back, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE).…

astro-ph.GA2025

First Detection of Radio Emission from the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in POX 52: Deep Multi-Band Observations with ATCA and VLA

Qi Yuan, Hengxiao Guo, Minfeng Gu +14

We present the first multi-band centimeter detection of POX 52, a nearby dwarf galaxy believed to habor a robust intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). We conducted the deep observat…

astro-ph.IM2024

Tianyu: search for the second solar system and explore the dynamic universe

Fabo Feng, Yicheng Rui, Zhimao Du +32

Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, play important roles in the formation and habitability of Earth-like planets. The detection of solar system analogs that have multiple cold g…

astro-ph.HE2023

Reverberation evidence for Stream Collision and Delayed Disk Formation in Tidal Disruption Events

Hengxiao Guo, Jingbo Sun, Shuang-Liang Li +9

When a star passes through the tidal disruption radius of a massive black hole (BH), it can be torn apart by the tidal force of the BH, known as the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). S…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 9 cited

The Optical Variability of SDSS Quasars from Multi-epoch Spectroscopy. III. A Sudden UV Cutoff in Quasar SDSS J2317+0005

Hengxiao Guo, Matthew A. Malkan, Minfeng Gu +6

We have collected near-infrared to X-ray data of 20 multi-epoch heavily reddened SDSS quasars to investigate the physical mechanism of reddening. Of these, J2317+0005 is found to b…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 51 cited

Nature of Intra-night Optical Variability of BL Lacertae

Haritma Gaur, Alok C. Gupta, R. Bachev +13

We present the results of extensive multi-band intra-night optical monitoring of BL Lacertae during 2010--2012. BL Lacertae was very active in this period and showed intense variab…