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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),…
Little red dots as embryos of active galactic nuclei
Jian-Min Wang, Yi-Lin Wang, Yong-Jie Chen +7
As an unprecedented large population in the early universe, the JWST-discovered little red dots (LRDs) have garnered much attention for formation of massive black holes and galaxie…
Detection of unexpected leading delays in broad Hβ line reverberations in the quasar PHL 1092
Jian-Min Wang, Chen Hu, Yong-Jie Chen +12
Delayed reverberations of broad emission lines in response to optical continuum variations have been widely observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). They serve as a powerful tool…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XIV. Long-Duration High-Cadence Reverberation Mapping Results for 11 PG Quasars
Chen Hu, Zhu-Heng Yao, Yong-Jie Chen +20
We report the results of a long-duration high-cadence reverberation mapping campaign of a second batch of 11 PG quasars using the 2.2m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory. This…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XII. Reverberation Mapping Results for 15 PG Quasars from a Long-Duration High-Cadence Campaign
Chen Hu, Sha-Sha Li, Sen Yang +15
We present the first results from long-term high-cadence spectroscopic monitoring of 15 PG quasars with relatively strong Fe II emission as a part of a broader reverberation mappin…
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…
Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Measuring Geometric Distances and Black Hole Masses of Four Nearby Quasars
Yan-Rong Li, Jinyi Shangguan, Jian-Min Wang +35
The geometric distances of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are challenging to measure because of their exceptionally compact structure yet vast cosmic distances. A combination of spe…
B2 1308+326: a changing-look blazar or not?
Ashwani Pandey, Chen Hu, Jian-Min Wang +6
In our previous study, we identified a shift in the synchrotron peak frequency of the blazar B2 1308326 from 10 Hz to 10 Hz during a flare, suggesting it could…
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…
Broad-line Region of the Quasar PG 2130+099. II. Doubling the Size Over Four Years?
Zhu-Heng Yao, Sen Yang, Wei-Jian Guo +16
Over the past three decades, multiple reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns conducted for the quasar PG 2130+099 have exhibited inconsistent findings with time delays ranging from $…
Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping (SARM) of Active Galactic Nuclei. I. The H Broad-line Region Structure and Black Hole Mass of Five Quasars
Yan-Rong Li, Chen Hu, Zhu-Heng Yao +18
We conduct a reverberation mapping (RM) campaign to spectroscopically monitor a sample of selected bright active galactic nuclei with large anticipated broad-line region (BLR) size…
Bayesian synthesis of astrometric wobble and total light curves in close binary supermassive black holes
Andjelka B. Kovacevic, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang +1
We test the potential of Bayesian synthesis of upcoming multi-instrument data to extract orbital parameters and individual light curves of close binary supermassive black holes (CB…
Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. IV. First Reverberation Mapping Results of 14 AGNs
T. E. Zastrocky, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +41
We report first-time reverberation mapping results for 14 AGNs from the ongoing Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry campaign (MAHA). These results utilize optical spectra obtained…
Star Formation in Self-gravitating Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei. III. Efficient Production of Iron and Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions
J. -M. Wang, S., Zhai +7
Strong iron lines are a common feature of the optical spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars from to the local Universe, and [Fe/Mg] ratios do not show co…
Accretion-modified Stars in Accretion Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei: the Low-luminosity Cases and an Application to Sgr A
J. -M. Wang, J. -R. Liu, Y. -R. Li +3
In this paper, we investigate the astrophysical processes of stellar-mass black holes (sMBHs) embedded in advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) of supermassive black holes (S…
Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. XIII. Ultraviolet Time Lag of H Emission in Mrk 142
V. C. Khatu, S. C. Gallagher, K. Horne +17
We performed a rigorous reverberation-mapping analysis of the broad-line region (BLR) in a highly accreting () active galactic nucleus, Markarian 142 (…
Revisiting Emission-Line Measurement Methods for Narrow-Line Active Galactic Nuclei
Viraja C. Khatu, Sarah C. Gallagher, Keith Horne +16
Measuring broad emission-line widths in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is not straightforward owing to the complex nature of flux variability in these systems. Line-width measurement…
Differential Interferometric Signatures of Close Binaries of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei: II. Merged Broad Line Regions
Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang
Pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at different stages are natural results of galaxy mergers in the hierarchical framework of galaxy formation and evolution. However, identi…
Final stage of merging binaries of supermassive black holes: observational signatures
Jian-Min Wang, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Yan-Rong Li +1
There are increasing interests in binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs), but merging binaries with separations smaller than ~1 light days (~10^2 gravitational radii for 10^8 Msun…
Spiral Arms in Broad-line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Reverberation and Differential Interferometric Signals of Tightly Wound Cases
J. -M. Wang, P. Du, Y. -Y. Songsheng +1
As a major feature in spectra of active galactic nuclei, broad emission lines deliver information of kinematics and spatial distributions of ionized gas surrounding the central sup…
Monitoring AGNs with H Asymmetry. III. Long-term Reverberation Mapping Results of 15 Palomar-Green Quasars
Dong-Wei Bao, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du +42
In this third paper of the series reporting on the reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of active galactic nuclei with asymmetric H emission-line profiles, we present results for…
Searching for quasar candidates with periodic variations from the Zwicky Transient Facility: results and implications
Yong-Jie Chen, Shuo Zhai, Jun-Rong Liu +7
We conduct a systematic search for quasars with periodic variations from the archival photometric data of the Zwicky Transient Facility by cross-matching with the quasar catalogs o…
Detection of eccentric close-binary supermassive black holes with incomplete interferometric data
Andjelka Kovacevic, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang +1
Recent studies have proposed that GRAVITY+ instrument is able to trace the circular orbit of the subparsec close-binary supermassive black holes (CB-SMBHs) by measuring the photoce…
Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies
Elcio Abdalla, Guillermo Franco Abellán, Amin Aboubrahim +200
In this paper we will list a few important goals that need to be addressed in the next decade, also taking into account the current discordances between the different cosmological…