Anomalous Broad-Line Region Responses to Continuum Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei. I. H$\beta$ Variability

C. Martin Gaskell, Kayla Bartel, Julia N. Deffner +1

In the standard AGN reverberation-mapping model, variations in broad-line region (BLR) fluxes are predicted from optical continuum variability (taken as a proxy for the ionizing co…