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20242026
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8 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Host Galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei with Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements

Vardha N. Bennert, Nico Winkel, Tommaso Treu +13

Reverberation mapping (RM) determines the mass of black holes (BH) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by resolving the BH gravitational sphere of influence in the time domain. Recent…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGN STORM 2. XI. Spectroscopic reverberation mapping of the hot dust in Mrk 817

Hermine Landt, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Michael S. Brotherton +41

The AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping 2 (STORM 2) campaign targeted Mrk 817 with intensive multi-wavelength monitoring and found its soft X-ray emission to be s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spatially Resolved [O III] Emission Line Kinematics of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

Raymond P. Remigio, Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth +8

We present optical integral-field spectroscopic data of ten nearby () Seyfert 1 galaxies taken with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI). We map the spatially re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Departures from Standard Disk Predictions in Intensive Ground-Based Monitoring of Three AGN

Diego Gonzalez-Buitrago, Aaron J. Barth, Rick Edelson +42

We present ground-based, multi-band light curves of the AGN Mrk~509, NGC\,4151, and NGC\,4593 obtained contemporaneously with \sw\, monitoring. We measure cross-correlation lags re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Echo mapping of the black hole accretion flow in NGC 7469

Raj Prince, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne +20

Reverberation mapping (RM) can measure black hole accretion disc sizes and radial structure through observed time lags that should increase with wavelength as .…

astro-ph.HE2025

Testing X-ray Reprocessing and Mapping the Soft Excess of NGC 7469 with NICER

Ethan R. Partington, Edward M. Cackett, Rick Edelson +5

We present an X-ray/UV reverberation analysis of NGC 7469 across 210 days, using daily NICER observations with contemporaneous monitoring by Swift UVOT+XRT. We model the X-ray spec…