The final SDSS high-redshift quasar sample of 52 quasars at z> 5.7

L Jiang, ID McGreer, X Fan, MA Strauss… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of nine quasars at $ z\sim 6$ identified in the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) imaging data. This completes our survey of $ z\sim 6$ quasars in the SDSS …

Spectral properties of quasars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 14: The catalog

S Rakshit, CS Stalin, J Kotilainen - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of the spectral properties for a total of 526,265 quasars, out of
which 63% have a continuum signal-to-noise ratio> 3 pixel− 1, selected from the fourteenth …

Undermassive Host Galaxies of Five z∼ 6 Luminous Quasars Detected with JWST

MA Stone, J Lyu, GH Rieke, S Alberts… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure host galaxy stellar masses for a sample of five luminous quasars at z∼ 5–7.
Using JWST/NIRCam medium-band images of nearby point-spread function reference stars …

A mid-IR selected changing-look quasar and physical scenarios for abrupt AGN fading

D Stern, B McKernan, MJ Graham… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new changing-look quasar, WISE J105203. 55+ 151929.5 at z= 0.303, found by
identifying highly mid-IR-variable quasars in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer …

A catalog of narrow line seyfert 1 galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey data release 12

S Rakshit, CS Stalin, H Chand… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new catalog of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12). This was obtained by a systematic analysis …

A new physical interpretation of optical and infrared variability in quasars

NP Ross, KES Ford, M Graham… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Changing-look quasars are a recently identified class of active galaxies in which the strong
UV continuum and/or broad optical hydrogen emission lines associated with unobscured …

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. XI. The Covering Factor of Dust and Gas in Swift/BAT Active Galactic Nuclei

K Ichikawa, C Ricci, Y Ueda, FE Bauer… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We quantify the luminosity contribution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to the 12 μm, mid-
infrared (MIR; 5–38 μm), and total IR (5–1000 μm) emission in the local AGNs detected in …

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey: a new optical spectroscopic catalogue

VS Paliya, CS Stalin, A Domínguez… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies are an enigmatic class of active galactic
nuclei (AGN) that exhibit peculiar multiwavelength properties across the electromagnetic …

A quasar-galaxy merger at z∼ 6.2: Black hole mass and quasar properties from the NIRSpec spectrum

F Loiacono, R Decarli, M Mignoli, EP Farina… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field data of the quasar PJ308-21 at z= 6.2342. As
shown by previous ALMA and HST imaging, the quasar has two companion sources …

The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. IV. Hα Reverberation Mapping of Six AGNs and the Hα Size–Luminosity Relation

H Cho, JH Woo, S Wang, D Son, J Shin… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The broad-line region (BLR) size–luminosity relation has paramount importance for
estimating the mass of black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Traditionally, the size of …