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 …

Past, Present, and Future of the Scaling Relations of Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei

M D'Onofrio, P Marziani, C Chiosi - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We review the properties of the established Scaling Relations (SRs) of galaxies and active
galactic nuclei (AGN), focusing on their origin and expected evolution back in time, providing …

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 …

Size matters: are we witnessing super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift black holes from JWST?

A Lupi, A Trinca, M Volonteri, M Dotti… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope of the Universe at z≳ 4 have shown that
massive black holes (MBHs) appear to be extremely overmassive compared to the local …

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: velocity-resolved Hβ lags in luminous Seyfert galaxies

U Vivian, AJ Barth, HA Vogler, H Guo… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We carried out spectroscopic monitoring of 21 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies using the Kast
double spectrograph on the 3 m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory from 2016 April to …

Quasar UV/X-ray relation luminosity distances are shorter than reverberation-measured radius–luminosity relation luminosity distances

N Khadka, M Zajaček, R Prince, S Panda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use measurements of 59/58 quasars (QSOs), over a redshift range 0.0041≤ z≤ 1.686,
to do a comparative study of the radius–luminosity (R− L) and X-ray− UV luminosity (LX …

Do quasar X-ray and UV flux measurements provide a useful test of cosmological models?

N Khadka, B Ratra - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The recent compilation of quasar (QSO) X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) flux measurements
include QSOs that appear to not be standardizable via the X-ray luminosity and UV …

In Situ Star Formation in Accretion Disks and Explanation of Correlation between the Black Hole Mass and Metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei

X Fan, Q Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations show that the metallicity Z BLR of the broad-line region (BLR) in active
galactic nuclei (AGNs) is solar to supersolar, which is positively correlated with the mass of …

Time Delay of Mg ii Emission Response for the Luminous Quasar HE 0435-4312: toward Application of the High-accretor Radius–Luminosity Relation in Cosmology

M Zajaček, B Czerny… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Using six years of spectroscopic monitoring of the luminous quasar HE 0435-4312 (z=
1.2231) with the Southern African Large Telescope, in combination with photometric data …