5 papers
Time-Domain Photometry and Activity Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with BHTOM
A. Fraser Gillan, Łukasz Wyrzykowski, Przemysław J. Mikołajczyk +69
Time-domain photometric monitoring is essential for characterizing cometary evolution, particularly for rare interstellar objects with limited observing opportunities. We aimed to…
A Phenomenological Study of the Accretion Disk in the Super-Eddington AGN I Zw 1
Farin Drewes, Roberta Vieliute, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban +11
The structure of the accretion disk in AGN is still an unsolved question, especially how it may change with Eddington ratio. Here we examine the accretion disk in the super-Eddingt…
Continuum Reverberation Mapping of Accretion Disks Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Observational Signatures
Yi-Xin Fu, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang +9
It has remained challenging to reliably identify sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), despite them being expected to be ubiquitous. We propose a new method using m…
PyTICS: An Iterative Method for Photometric Lightcurve Intercalibration using Comparison Stars
Roberta Vieliute, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne +1
Intensive reverberation mapping monitoring programs combine ground-based photometric observations from different telescopes, requiring intercalibration of lightcurves to reduce sys…
EDGE: The direct link between mass growth history and the extended stellar haloes of the faintest dwarf galaxies
Alex Goater, Justin I. Read, Noelia E. D. Noël +9
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are commonly found in close proximity to the Milky Way and other massive spiral galaxies. As such, their projected stellar ellipticity and extende…