7 papers
AGN STORM 2. XII. Ground-Based Optical Photometry and Lag Measurements of Mrk 817
John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne +40
We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM\,2. Observations were carried out over 1.…
AGN STORM 2: X. The origin of the interband continuum delays in Mrk 817
Hagai Netzer, Michael R. Goad, Aaron J. Barth +26
The local (z=0.0315) AGN Mrk 817, was monitored over more than 500 days with space-borne and ground-based instruments as part of a large international campaign AGN STORM 2. Here, w…
The extremes of AGN variability: outbursts, deep fades, changing looks, exceptional spectral states, and semi-periodicities
S. Komossa, D. Grupe, P. Marziani +16
The extremes of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability offer valuable new insights into the drivers and physics of AGN. We discuss some of the most extreme cases of AGN variabili…
The comparison of an optical and X-ray counterpart of subparsec supermassive binary black holes
P. JovanoviÄ, S. SimiÄ, V. Borka JovanoviÄ +2
In this paper, we study and compare the optical and X-ray counterparts of subparsec supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). With that aim, we simulated the profiles of optical s…
AGN STORM 2: VIII. Investigating the Narrow Absorption Lines in Mrk 817 Using HST-COS Observations
Maryam Dehghanian, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss +39
We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 during an intensive multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign for 16 months. Here, we examine the behavior of narrow UV absorption lin…
Bayesian synthesis of astrometric wobble and total light curves in close binary supermassive black holes
Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang +1
We test the potential of Bayesian synthesis of upcoming multi-instrument data to extract orbital parameters and individual light curves of close binary supermassive black holes (CB…