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most citedSpace Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. II. Swift and HST Reverberation Mapping of the Accretion Disk of NGC 5548

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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.HE2025

XRISM/Resolve Spectroscopy of the Central Engine in the Seyfert-1 AGN Mrk 279

Jon M. Miller, Xin Xiang, Doyee Byun +9

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM gives an unprecedented view of the ``central engine'' in active galactic nuclei, providing unique insights into black hole accretion a…

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The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Light Echoes of the Coronal Line Region in a Luminous Quasar

Theodore B. Smith, Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump +19

We present a reverberation mapping analysis of the coronal line [Ne V]3427 emitting region of the quasar COS168 (SDSS J095910.30+020732.2). [Ne V]3427 is known as one of the…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Accretion Disk Size Problem in AGN Disk Reverberation Mapping is an Obscuration Effect: A Uniform AGN Sample Study with Swift

Collin Lewin, Erin Kara, Christos Panagiotou +5

In the past decade, Swift has performed several AGN high-cadence reverberation mapping campaigns, and generally found that the UV/optical interband lags are 3 times longer th…

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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…

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Continuum Reverberation Mapping of Accretion Disks Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Observational Signatures

Yi-Xin Fu, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang +9

It has remained challenging to reliably identify sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), despite them being expected to be ubiquitous. We propose a new method using m…

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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 . Ou…

astro-ph.IM2025

PyTICS: An Iterative Method for Photometric Lightcurve Intercalibration using Comparison Stars

Roberta Vieliute, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne +1

Intensive reverberation mapping monitoring programs combine ground-based photometric observations from different telescopes, requiring intercalibration of lightcurves to reduce sys…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

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…

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Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. V. Long-term Variation and Evolution of the Broad H Emission-Line Profiles

Feng-Na Fang, Pu Du, Michael S. Brotherton +40

The physical origins of the diverse emission-line asymmetries observed in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) remain incompletely understood. Monitoring the temporal varia…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Accretion disc reverberation mapping of the quasar 3C 273

James P. Thorne, Hermine Landt, Jiamu Huang +5

We present accretion disc size measurements for the well-known quasar 3C 273 using reverberation mapping (RM) performed on high-cadence light-curves in seven optical filters collec…

astro-ph.HE2025

Testing disc reprocessing models for AGN optical variability by comparison of X-ray and optical power spectra of NGC 4395

Max Beard, Ian McHardy, Keith Horne +11

It is generally thought that AGN optical variability is produced, at least in part, by reprocessing of central X-rays by a surrounding accretion disc, resulting in wavelength-depen…