14 papers
Extreme Variability Reveals How the Eddington Ratio Regulates Coronal Power in Active Galactic Nuclei
Arghajit Jana, Claudio Ricci, Franz E. Bauer +13
The bolometric luminosity () of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a key tracer of accretion physics, but its direct determination is often hindered by limited spectral…
Using VLTI/GRAVITY+ to determine the identity of a third planet candidate in the PDS 70 system
David Trevascus, Wolfgang Brandner, Olga Balsalobre-Ruza +75
Detections of protoplanets are rare and protoplanetary disk features mischaracterized as planets are common. PDS 70 is one of only two stars known to host multiple confirmed protop…
The Extreme Rarity and Physical Properties of Low-redshift AGNs with Balmer Absorption
Jinyi Shangguan, Chang-Hao Chen, Luis C. Ho +6
Balmer absorption lines are increasingly observed in the little red dots (LRDs) discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, potentially tracing dense circumnuclear gas around rap…
ABCD: The Nuclear Structure of the Little Red Dots Revealted through Absorption, Break, Continuum, and Decrement
Chang-Hao Chen, Jinyi Shangguan, Luis C. Ho +3
We present a spectroscopic analysis of 14 little red dots (LRDs) at redshifts using NIRSpec/MSA prism and medium-resolution grating observations, aiming to constrai…
Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Disks Powered by Stellar Objects: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots
Yi-Xian Chen, Hanpu Liu, Ruancun Li +6
We revisit the spectral appearance of extended self-gravitating accretion disks surrounding compact central objects such as supermassive black holes. Using dust-poor opacities, we…
COSMOS-3D: Dense Circumnuclear Gas across Black Hole Growth Phases at z ~ 3
Zi-Jian Li, Siwei Zou, Jianwei Lyu +25
We report the discovery of two broad-line X-ray AGNs (cid_414 and cid_947) at z ~ 3 identified in the JWST Cycle 3 COSMOS-3D program using NIRCam F444W grism spectroscopy. Both exh…