High Eddington quasars as discovery tools: Current state and challenges

S Panda, P Marziani - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A landmark of accretion processes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the continuum
originating from a complex structure, ie, an accretion disk and a corona around a …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: estimating masses of black holes in quasars with single-epoch spectroscopy

E Dalla Bontà, BM Peterson, MC Bentz… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
It is well known that reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) reveals a
relationship between AGN luminosity and the size of the broad-line region, and that use of …

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 …

Improving damped random walk parameters for SDSS Stripe 82 quasars with Pan-STARRS1

KL Suberlak, Ž Ivezić, C MacLeod - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We use the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 Survey
(Pan-STARRS1, PS1) data to extend the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 quasar …

Spectral variability studies in Active Galactic Nuclei: Exploring continuum and emission line regions in the age of LSST and JWST

S Panda, P Marziani, B Czerny, A Rodríguez-Ardila… - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
The investigation of emission line regions within active galaxies (AGNs) has a rich and
extensive history, now extending to the use of AGNs and quasars as “standardizable” …

Radiation spectra of warm and optically thick coronae in AGNs

PO Petrucci, D Gronkiewicz, A Rozanska… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
A soft X-ray excess above the 2–10 keV power-law extrapolation is generally observed in
the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei. The origin of this excess is still not well …

Expectations for time-delay measurements in active galactic nuclei with the Vera Rubin Observatory

B Czerny, S Panda, R Prince, VK Jaiswal… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The Vera Rubin Observatory will provide an unprecedented set of time-dependent
observations of the sky. The planned Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), operating …

The rise and fall of the iron-strong nuclear transient PS16dtm

T Petrushevska, G Leloudas, D Ilić… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Thanks to the advent of large-scale optical surveys, a diverse set of flares from the
nuclear regions of galaxies has recently been discovered. These include the disruption of …

High metal content of highly accreting quasars

M Śniegowska, P Marziani, B Czerny… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of UV spectra of 13 quasars believed to belong to extreme
Population A (xA) quasars, aimed at the estimation of the chemical abundances of the broad …

f (T) cosmology in the regime of quasar observations

R Sandoval-Orozco, C Escamilla-Rivera, R Briffa… - Physics of the Dark …, 2024 - Elsevier
The open problems related to cosmological tensions in current times have opened new
paths to study new probes to constrain cosmological parameters in standard and extended …