Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei: From X-ray corona to dusty torus

EM Cackett, MC Bentz, E Kara - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
The central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are powered by accreting supermassive
black holes, and while AGNs are known to play an important role in galaxy evolution, the key …

AGN STORM 2. I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817

E Kara, M Mehdipour, GA Kriss… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the ongoing, intensive, multiwavelength monitoring program
of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817. While this active galactic nucleus was, in part …

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 …

Accretion disk reverberation with Hubble space telescope observations of NGC 4593: evidence for diffuse continuum lags

EM Cackett, CY Chiang, I McHardy… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 was monitored spectroscopically with the Hubble Space
Telescope as part of a reverberation mapping campaign that also included Swift, Kepler …

Modelling the UV/optical continuum time-lags in AGN

ES Kammoun, IE Papadakis… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Thermal reverberation in accretion discs of active galactic nuclei is thought to be the reason
of the continuum UV/optical time lags seen in these sources. Recently, we studied thermal …

Quantifying the impact of variable BLR diffuse continuum contributions on measured continuum interband delays

KT Korista, MR Goad - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the contribution of reprocessed continuum emission (1000–10 000 Å)
originating in broad-line region (BLR) gas, the diffuse continuum (DC), to the wavelength …

Velocity-resolved reverberation mapping of five bright Seyfert 1 galaxies

G De Rosa, MM Fausnaugh, CJ Grier… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from a reverberation-mapping campaign undertaken during the
first half of 2012, with additional data on one active galactic nucleus (AGN)(NGC 3227) from …

Space telescope and optical reverberation mapping project. IX. velocity–delay maps for broad emission lines in NGC 5548

K Horne, G De Rosa, BM Peterson… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this contribution, we achieve the primary goal of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) STORM
campaign by recovering velocity–delay maps for the prominent broad emission lines (Lyα, C …

Corona-heated accretion-disk reprocessing: a physical model to decipher the melody of AGN UV/optical twinkling

M Sun, Y Xue, WN Brandt, WM Gu… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have long been observed to" twinkle"(ie, their brightness
varies with time) on timescales from days to years in the UV/optical bands. Such AGN …

A Wind-based Unification Model for NGC 5548: Spectral Holidays, Nondisk Emission, and Implications for Changing-look Quasars

M Dehghanian, GJ Ferland, BM Peterson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The 180 day Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping campaign on
NGC 5548 discovered an anomalous period, the broad-line region (BLR) holiday, in which …