Mass-gap mergers in active galactic nuclei

H Tagawa, B Kocsis, Z Haiman, I Bartos… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently discovered gravitational wave sources GW190521 and GW190814 have
shown evidence of BH mergers with masses and spins outside of the range expected from …

The radius–luminosity relationship depends on optical spectra in active galactic nuclei

P Du, JM Wang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The radius–luminosity () relationship of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) established by the
reverberation mapping (RM) observations has been widely used as a single-epoch black …

Metal enrichment due to embedded stars in AGN discs

J Huang, DNC Lin, G Shields - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We separately assess elemental abundances in active galactic nuclei's (AGNs) broad and
narrow emission line regions (BLR and NLR), based on a critical assessment of published …

Possible mechanism for multiple changing-look phenomena in active galactic nuclei

M Sniegowska, B Czerny, E Bon, N Bon - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The changing-look phenomenon observed in a growing number of active galaxies
challenges our understanding of the accretion process close to a black hole. Aims. We …

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission III: Active Galactic Nuclei and nuclear transients

M Zajaček, B Czerny, VK Jaiswal, M Štolc… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
In this review, the third one in the series focused on a small two-band UV-photometry
mission, we assess possibilities for a small UV two-band photometry mission in studying …

The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. III. Hβ Lag Measurements of 32 Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei and the High-luminosity End of the Size …

J Woo, S Wang, S Rakshit, H Cho, D Son… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the main results from a long-term reverberation mapping campaign carried out
for the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP). High-quality data were …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: The Hβ Radius–Luminosity Relation

GF Alvarez, JR Trump, Y Homayouni… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Results from a few decades of reverberation mapping (RM) studies have revealed a
correlation between the radius of the broad-line emitting region (BLR) and the continuum …

Relativistic jets in gamma-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

F D'Ammando - Galaxies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite only two classes of
active galactic nuclei (AGN) were known to generate relativistic jets and thus to emit up to …

Can reverberation-measured quasars be used for cosmology?

ML Martínez-Aldama, B Czerny, D Kawka… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasars have been proposed as a new class of standard candles analogous to supernovae,
since their large redshift range and high luminosities make them excellent candidates. The …

Reverberation Mapping Measurements of Black Hole Masses and Broad-line Region Kinematics in Mrk 817 and NGC 7469

KX Lu, JG Wang, ZX Zhang, YK Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results from a spectroscopic monitoring campaign to obtain reverberation
mapping measurements and investigate the broad-line region (BLR) kinematics for active …