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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…
Baseline-Aware Dependence fitting for DAmping Timescales (BADDAT): A Nearly Unbiased Approach to Constraining Optical Variability Dependence on Physical Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei
Ruisong Xia, Zhen-Yi Cai, Yongquan Xue +7
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit stochastic optical variability, commonly characterized by a damped random walk. The damping timescale is of particular interest because it is…
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…
Could the inter-band lag of active galactic nucleus vary randomly?
Zhen-Bo Su, Zhen-Yi Cai, Jun-Xian Wang +18
The inter-band lags among the optical broad-band continua of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been intensively explored over the past decade. However, the nature of the lags rema…
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…