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Searching for Contact Binaries with LAMOST and TESS
Ting Wu, Jin-Zhong Liu, Senyu Qi +4
Contact binaries (CBs) serve as fundamental laboratories for studying complex stellar interactions, including mass transfer, tidal effects, and angular momentum loss. In this work,…
X-ray Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Implications for the Changing Look Phenomenon
Mouyuan Sun, Shuying Zhou, Jihong Liu +12
X-ray timing of active galactic nuclei (AGN) provides a unique probe of gas accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), which trace gas dyn…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XV. Reverberation Mapping of Mg II Emission Lines
Hua-Rui Bai, Pu Du, Chen Hu +25
As the 15th paper in a series reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs),…
Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. IV. Broad Emission Line Evolution Sequence Among Hα, Mg II, and Hβ
Wei-Jian Guo, Victoria A. Fawcett, Małgorzata Siudek +15
From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using…
Geometrical Distances of Extragalactic Binaries through Spectroastrometry
Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang, Yuan Cao +4
The growing ``Hubble tension'' has prompted the need for precise measurements of cosmological distances. This paper demonstrates a purely geometric approach for determining the dis…
A Short-lived Rejuvenation during the Decades-long Changing-look Transition in the Nucleus of Mrk 1018
Kai-Xing Lu, Yan-Rong Li, Qingwen Wu +13
Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs), characterized by emerging or disappearing of broad lines accompanied with extreme continuum flux variability, have drawn much attent…
Gleeok's Fire-breathing: Triple Flares of AT 2021aeuk within Five Years from the Active Galaxy SDSS J161259.83+421940.3
Dong-Wei Bao, Wei-Jian Guo, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +12
We present a noteworthy transient AT 2021aeuk exhibiting three distinct optical flares between 2018 and 2023. It is hosted in a radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxy, wit…
Searching for Compact Object Candidates from LAMOST Time-Domain Survey of Four K2 Plates
Senyu Qi, Wei-Min Gu, Tuan Yi +3
The time-domain (TD) surveys of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) yield high-cadence radial velocities, paving a new avenue to study binary sys…
Fast Outflowing Warm Absorbers in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy PG 1001+054 Revealed by HST/COS Spectra
Xiao-Dan Fu, Junfeng Wang, Xiaoyu Xu +1
Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxies are an important type of active galactic nucleus (AGN), generally expected to be accreting at high Eddington rate. The properties of their out…
The Nearest Neutron Star Candidate in a Binary Revealed by Optical Time-domain Surveys
Ling-Lin Zheng, Mouyuan Sun, Wei-Min Gu +19
The near-Earth (within pc) supernova explosions in the past several million years can cause the global deposition of radioactive elements (e.g., Fe) on Earth. The…
A White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binary Unveiled by Time-Domain Observations from LAMOST and TESS
Ling-Lin Zheng, Wei-Min Gu, Mouyuan Sun +16
We report a single-lined white dwarf-main sequence binary system, LAMOST J172900.17+652952.8, which is discovered by LAMOST's medium resolution time-domain surveys. The radial velo…
A long-period pre-ELM system discovered from LAMOST medium-resolution survey
Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Ling-Lin Zheng, Wei-Min Gu +16
We present LAMOST~J041920.07+072545.4 (hereafter J0419), a close binary consisting of a bloated extremely low mass pre-white dwarf (pre-ELM WD) and a compact object with an orbital…
A dynamically discovered and characterized non-accreting neutron star -- M dwarf binary candidate
Tuan Yi, Wei-Min Gu, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +26
Optical time-domain surveys can unveil and characterize exciting but less-explored non-accreting and/or non-beaming neutron stars (NS) in binaries. Here we report the discovery of…
Supermassive Black Hole and Broad-line Region in NGC~5548: Results from Five-season Reverberation Mapping
Kai-Xing Lu, Jin-Ming Bai, Jian-Min Wang +9
NGC 5548 is one of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected for our long-term spectroscopic monitoring with the Lijiang 2.4~m telescope, aiming at investigating the origin and evo…
Velocity-resolved Reverberation Mapping of Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus NGC~4151 During Outburst Stage: Evidence for Kinematics Evolution of Broad-line Region
Sha-Sha Li, Hai-Cheng Feng, H. T. Liu +6
Changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~4151, which has attracted a lot of attention, is undergoing the second dramatic outburst stage in its evolutionary history. To investigate…
Searching for compact objects in binaries with Gaia DR3
Jin-Bo Fu, Wei-Min Gu, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +4
We search for compact objects in binaries based on Gaia DR3. A sample of ten targets is derived under the conditions: radial velocity variable, low temperature ($T_{\rm eff} < 6000…
Accretion Disk Size Measurements of Active Galactic Nuclei Monitored by the Zwicky Transient Facility
Wei-Jian Guo, Yan-Rong Li, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +2
We compile a sample of 92 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z<0.75 with photometric light curves from the archival data of the Zwicky Transient Facility and measure the accret…
Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping: the Mass and Geometric Distance of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar 3C 273
Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, Yu-Yang Songsheng +4
The quasar 3C 273 has been observed with infrared spectroastrometry (SA) on broad Pa line and optical reverberation mapping (RM) on broad H line. SA delivers information abou…
Application of the space-based optical interferometer towards measuring cosmological distances of quasars
Ying-Ke Huang, Yue-Dong Fang, Kai-Xing Lu +6
Measuring the quasar distance through joint analysis of spectroastrometry (SA) and reverberation mapping (RM) observations is a new method for driving the development of cosmology.…
The Disk Veiling Effect of the Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binary A0620-00
Wan-Min Zheng, Qiaoya Wu, Jianfeng Wu +15
The optical light curves of quiescent black hole low-mass X-ray binaries often exhibit significant non-ellipsoidal variabilities, showing the photospheric radiation of the companio…
Reverberation Mapping Measurements of Black Hole Masses and Broad-Line Region Kinematics in Mrk 817 and NGC 7469
Kai-Xing Lu, Jian-Guo Wang, Zhi-Xiang Zhang +7
We present the results from a spectroscopic monitoring campaign to obtain reverberation-mapping measurements and investigate the broad-line region kinematics for active galactic nu…
Reverberation Mapping of Two Luminous Quasars: the Broad-line Region Structure and Black Hole Mass
Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang, Zi-Xu Yang +21
We report the results of a multi-year spectroscopic and photometric monitoring campaign of two luminous quasars, PG~0923+201 and PG~1001+291, both located at the high-luminosity en…
Faint AGNs Favor Unexpectedly Long Inter-band Time Lags
Ting Li, Mouyuan Sun, Xiaoyu Xu +12
Inconsistent conclusions are obtained from recent active galactic nuclei (AGNs) accretion disk inter-band time-lag measurements. While some works show that the measured time lags a…
A correction method for the telluric absorptions and application to Lijiang Observatory
Kai-Xing Lu, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Ying-Ke Huang +7
Observing a telluric standard star for correcting the telluric absorption lines of spectrum will take a significant amount of precious telescope time, especially in the long-term s…