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An Extremely Luminous Flare Recorded from a Supermassive Black Hole
Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford +17
Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, accreting supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) were recognized as highly variable sources, requiring an extremely…
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Joint Modeling of Quasar Variability and Accretion Disk Reprocessing using Latent Stochastic Differential Equations
Joshua Fagin, James Hung-Hsu Chan, Henry Best +5
Quasars are bright active galactic nuclei powered by the accretion of matter around supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. Their stochastic brightness variability depe…