Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes

M Mezcua - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017 - World Scientific
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range 1 0 0–1 0 6 M⊙, are the
link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the …

A characteristic optical variability time scale in astrophysical accretion disks

CJ Burke, Y Shen, O Blaes, CF Gammie, K Horne… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Accretion disks around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei produce
continuum radiation at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. Physical processes in the …

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 …

Intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies out to redshift ∼2.4 in the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey

M Mezcua, F Civano, S Marchesi, H Suh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present a sample of 40 active galactic nucleus (AGN) in dwarf galaxies at redshifts z≲
2.4. The galaxies are drawn from the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy survey as having stellar …

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei. IX. 10 new observations of reverberation mapping and shortened Hβ lags

P Du, ZX Zhang, K Wang, YK Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
As one paper in a series reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign of super-
Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we …

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 …

Reverberation mapping of optical emission lines in five active galaxies

MM Fausnaugh, CJ Grier, MC Bentz… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from an optical reverberation mapping campaign executed in
2014 targeting the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) MCG+ 08-11-011, NGC 2617, NGC 4051 …

Systematic Study of AGN Clumpy Tori with Broadband X-Ray Spectroscopy: Updated Unified Picture of AGN Structure

S Ogawa, Y Ueda, A Tanimoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a systematic, broadband X-ray spectral analysis of nearby active
galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the X-ray clumpy torus model (XCLUMPY). By adding 16 AGNs …

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Hβ lags from the 6-yr survey

U Malik, R Sharp, A Penton, Z Yu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Reverberation mapping measurements have been used to constrain the relationship
between the size of the broad-line region and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). This …