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 …

Unification of the fundamental plane and super massive black hole masses

RCE van den Bosch - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
According to the virial theorem, all gravitational systems in equilibrium sit on a plane in the
three-dimensional parameter space defined by their mass, size, and second moment of 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 map** (RM) observations has been widely used as a single-epoch black …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Map** 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 map** of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) reveals a
relationship between AGN luminosity and the size of the broad-line region, and that use of …

GOALS-JWST: Tracing AGN feedback on the star-forming interstellar medium in NGC 7469

TSY Lai, G De Rosa, BM Peterson, J Ely, GA Kriss… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the first results from a six-month long reverberation-map** experiment in the
ultraviolet based on 171 observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 with the Cosmic …

BASS XXXII: Studying the Nuclear Millimeter-wave Continuum Emission of AGNs with ALMA at Scales≲ 100–200 pc

T Kawamuro, C Ricci, M Imanishi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To understand the origin of nuclear (≲ 100 pc) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum
emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we systematically analyzed subarcsecond …