activity
20152022
most citedAn ultra-luminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

757 citations · 1.2k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.GA202242 cited

A Transient "Changing-look'' Active Galactic Nucleus Resolved on Month Timescales from First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Data

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +32

We report the discovery of a new ``changing-look'' active galactic nucleus (CLAGN) event, in the quasar SDSS J162829.17+432948.5 at z=0.2603, identified through repeat spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2021162 cited

A characteristic optical variability timescale in astrophysical accretion disks

Colin J. Burke, Yue Shen, Omer Blaes +8

Accretion disks around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei produce continuum radiation at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. Physical processes in the accretion fl…

astro-ph.GA202134 cited

Finding Quasars behind the Galactic Plane. I. Candidate Selections with Transfer Learning

Yuming Fu, Xue-Bing Wu, Qian Yang +4

Quasars behind the Galactic plane (GPQs) are important astrometric references and useful probes of Milky Way gas. However, the search for GPQs is difficult due to large extinctions…

astro-ph.GA202046 cited

Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars from Optical and Mid-Infrared Imaging Surveys

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Xin Liu +47

The size of the dust torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their high-luminosity counterparts, quasars, can be inferred from the time delay between UV/optical accretion disk co…

astro-ph.GA202029 cited

Optical Variability of the Dwarf AGN NGC 4395 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Colin J. Burke, Yue Shen, Yu-Ching Chen +4

We present optical light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) for the archetypical dwarf active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the nearby galaxy NGC 4395 hosting…

astro-ph.GA202016 cited

Characterization of Optical Light Curves of Extreme Variability Quasars Over a ~16-yr Baseline

Yuanze Luo, Yue Shen, Qian Yang

We study the optical light curves - primarily probing the variable emission from the accretion disk - of ~ 900 extreme variability quasars (EVQs, with maximum flux variations more…