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most citedMultiband Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 454.3 on Diverse Timescales

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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

Multi-band optical photometric variability of the blazar OJ 287 from 2015 to 2025

Alok C. Gupta, Karan Dogra, Mark Kidger +101

We present the most densely sampled multi-band optical photometric observations of the peculiar BL Lacertae object OJ 287 from 2015 to 2025 with a focus on its optical activity on…

astro-ph.CO2026

Comprehensive Analysis of Optical brightness and Color Variability of Blazars in the ZTF Survey DR22

Qi Yuan, Xin Wang, Meng Zhang +6

This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of brightness and color variability in blazars, utilizing over six years of quasi-simultaneous g-band and r-band data from 1149 sources…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of optical quasi-periodic oscillation in the blazar 3C 454.3

Karan Dogra, Alok C. Gupta, C. M. Raiteri +83

We analyzed 19 years of -band data of the blazar 3C 454.3 from the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) archive, along with new data from its members and from public archives suc…

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.GA2026

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…

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.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.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.HE2024★ 4 cited

Multiband Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 454.3 on Diverse Timescales

Karan Dogra, Alok C. Gupta, C. M. Raiteri +79

Due to its peculiar and highly variable nature, the blazar 3C 454.3 has been extensively monitored by the WEBT team. Here, we present for the first time these long-term optical flu…

astro-ph.HE2024

Spectral Energy Distribution Variability of the Blazar OJ 287 during 2009-2021

Wenwen Zuo, Alok C. Gupta, Minfeng Gu +11

Using nearly simultaneous radio, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet data collected since 2009, we constructed 106 spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the blazar OJ 287. Th…