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astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Yue Shen, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne +44

We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping program. This…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph -- Distant Quasar Survey: Augmented Spectroscopic Catalog and a Prescription for Correcting UV-Based Quasar Redshifts

Brandon M. Matthews, Cooper Dix, Ohad Shemmer +13

Quasars at most often have redshifts measured from rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines. One of the most common such lines, C IV , shows blueshifts up to ${…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Shedding New Light on Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the C-H Parameter Space

Trung Ha, Cooper Dix, Brandon M. Matthews +20

Weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) are a subset of Type 1 quasars that exhibit extremely weak LyN V 1240 and/or C IV 1549 emission lines. We investigate the relationship b…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph - Distant Quasar Survey: Prescriptions for Calibrating UV-Based Estimates of Supermassive Black Hole Masses in High-Redshift Quasars

Cooper Dix, Brandon Matthews, Ohad Shemmer +10

The most reliable single-epoch supermassive black hole mass () estimates in quasars are obtained by using the velocity widths of low-ionization emission lines, typicall…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

The spatial clustering of ROSAT all-sky survey Active Galactic Nuclei: V. The evolution of broad-line AGN clustering properties in the last 6 Gyr

M. Krumpe, T. Miyaji, A. Georgakakis +12

This is the fifth paper in a series of investigations of the clustering properties of luminous, broad-emission-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Sur…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

The Stellar Mass - Black Hole Mass Relation at Down to Determined by HETDEX

Yechi Zhang, Masami Ouchi, Karl Gebhardt +14

We investigate the stellar mass - black hole mass () relation with type 1 AGN down to , corresponding t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei at from the HETDEX Survey Using Machine Learning

Valentina Tardugno Poleo, Steven Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung +9

We used data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) to study the incidence of AGN in continuum-selected galaxies at . From optical and infrared ima…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Unusual Broad-Line Variability in a Luminous Quasar

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Megan C. Davis +30

We present a high-cadence multi-epoch analysis of dramatic variability of three broad emission lines (MgII, H, and H) in the spectra of the luminous quasar ((5100Å) = $…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: The Black Hole MassStellar Mass Relations at

Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Yue Shen, Luis C. Ho +7

We measure the correlation between black-hole mass and host stellar mass for a sample of 38 broad-line quasars at (median redshift $z…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 50 cited

HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220K Sources Including Over 50K Lyman Alpha Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis +43

We present the first publicly released catalog of sources obtained from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). HETDEX is an integral field spectroscopic survey…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 282 cited

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Cosmological-Scale Lyman-alpha Forest Absorption Around Galaxies and AGN Probed with the HETDEX and SDSS Spectroscopic Data

Dongsheng Sun, Ken Mawatari, Masami Ouchi +12

We present cosmological-scale 3-dimensional (3D) neutral hydrogen ({\sc Hi}) tomographic maps at over a total of 837 deg in two blank fields that are developed with Ly$…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 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.GA2022★ 4 cited

The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) III. A red quasar with extremely high equivalent widths showing powerful outflows

Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Wolfram Kollatschny +12

We report an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) with extremely high equivalent width (EW), EW(LyA+NV,rest)>921 AA in the rest-frame, at z~2.24 in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) II. Luminosity Function

Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +13

We present the LyA emission line luminosity function (LF) of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the first release of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETD…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

Lyα Halos around [O III]-Selected Galaxies in HETDEX

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, William P. Bowman, Robin Ciardullo +13

We present extended Lyman-α (Lyα) emission out to 800 kpc of 1034 [O III]-selected galaxies at redshifts 1.9<z<2.35 using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

The Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) I. Sample selection

Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper +16

We present the first Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) catalog in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) observed between January 2017 and June 2020. HETDEX i…

astro-ph.GA2022

A quasar shedding its dust cocoon at redshift 2

Weimin Yi, W. N. Brandt, Q. Ni +12

We present the first near-IR spectroscopy and joint analyses of multi-wavelength observations for SDSS J082747.14+425241.1, a dust-reddened, weak broad emission-line quasar (WLQ) u…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

Surface Brightness Profile of Lyman- Halos out to 320 kpc in HETDEX

Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Eiichiro Komatsu, Chris Byrohl +18

We present the median-stacked Lyman- surface brightness profile of 968 spectroscopically selected Lyman- emitting galaxies (LAEs) at redshifts in the early data o…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Connecting Low- and High-Redshift Weak Emission-Line Quasars via HST Spectroscopy of Ly Emission

Jeremiah D. Paul, Richard M. Plotkin, Ohad Shemmer +10

We present ultraviolet spectroscopy covering the Ly + N V complex of six candidate low-redshift () weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) based on observations with th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

The Energetics of the Central Engine in the Powerful Quasar, 3C298

Brian Punsly, Christian Groeneveld, Gary J. Hill +3

The compact steep spectrum radio source, 3C 298, (redshift of 1.44) has the largest 178 MHz luminosity in the 3CR (revised Third Cambridge Catalogue) catalog; its radio lobes are a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

The MaNGA FIREFLY Value-Added-Catalogue: resolved stellar populations of 10,010 nearby galaxies

Justus Neumann, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +14

We present the MaNGA FIREFLY Value-Added-Catalogue (VAC) - a catalogue of ~3.7 million spatially resolved stellar population properties across 10,010 nearby galaxies from the final…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

Ionised Gas Kinematics in MaNGA AGN. Extents of the Narrow Line and Kinematically Disturbed regions

A. Deconto-Machado, R. A. Riffel, G. S. Ilha +11

We analyse the kinematics of 170 AGN host galaxies as compared to those of a matched control sample of non-active galaxies from the MaNGA survey in order to characterise and estima…