The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

A De Rosa, C Vignali, T Bogdanović, PR Capelo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The quest for binary and dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the dawn of the multi-
messenger era is compelling. Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (AGN)–active SMBHs at …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey reverberation map** project: Hα and Hβ reverberation measurements from first-year spectroscopy and photometry

CJ Grier, JR Trump, Y Shen, K Horne… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present reverberation map** results from the first year of combined spectroscopic and
photometric observations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Map** Project …

A systematic search for close supermassive black hole binaries in the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

MJ Graham, SG Djorgovski, D Stern… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Hierarchical assembly models predict a population of supermassive black hole (SMBH)
binaries. These are not resolvable by direct imaging but may be detectable via periodic …

Space telescope and optical reverberation map** project. III. Optical continuum emission and broadband time delays in NGC 5548

MM Fausnaugh, KD Denney, AJ Barth… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC 5548, part of an
extended multiwavelength reverberation map** campaign. The light curves have nearly …

Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

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 …

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 …

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei. IX. 10 new observations of reverberation map** 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 map** campaign of super-
Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we …

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei. IV. Hβ time lags and implications for super-Eddington accretion

P Du, C Hu, KX Lu, YK Huang, C Cheng… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We have completed two years of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of a large
number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with very high accretion rates. In this paper, we …