6 papers
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…
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…
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 .…
Flares in the Changing Look AGN Mrk 590. II: Deep X-ray observations reveal a Comptonizing inner accretion flow
Daniel Lawther, Marianne Vestergaard, Sandra Raimundo +2
Mrk 590 is a Changing Look AGN currently in an unusual repeat X-ray and UV flaring state. Here, we report on deep X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and NICER, obtained at…
Estimating Masses of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei from the Halpha Emission Line
E. Dalla BontÃ, B. M. Peterson, C. J. Grier +19
The goal of this project is to construct an estimator for the masses of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the broad Halpha emission line. We make u…
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Nearby Type 1 Quasars. I. Characterisation of the Extended [O III] 5007Ã Emission
Anna Trindade Falcão, S. B. Kraemer, T. C. Fischer +13
We use the Hubble Space Telescope to analyse the extended [O III] 5007A emission in seven bright radio-quiet type 1 quasars (QSO1s), focusing on the morphology and physical conditi…