Table · dataset · 2026
CL-AGNs with repeated sp. of SDSS-V first year
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"Changing-look" active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) challenge our basic ideas about the physics of accretion flows and circumnuclear gas around supermassive black holes.
Description
Using first-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) repeated spectroscopy of nearly 29,000 previously known active galactic nuclei (AGNs), combined with dedicated follow-up spectroscopy, and publicly available optical light curves, we have identified 116 CL-AGNs where (at least) one broad emission line has essentially (dis-)appeared, as well as 88 other extremely variable systems.
Our CL-AGN sample, with 107 newly identified cases, is the largest reported to date, and includes ~0.4% of the AGNs reobserved in first-year SDSS-V operations. Among our CL-AGNs, 67% exhibit dimming while 33% exhibit brightening. Our sample probes extreme AGN spectral variability on months to decades timescales, including some cases of recurring transitions on surprisingly short timescales (<~2 months in the rest frame).
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We find that CL events are preferentially found in lower-Eddington-ratio (fEdd) systems: Our CL-AGNs have a fEdd distribution that significantly differs from that of a carefully constructed, redshift- and luminosity-matched control sample (Anderson-Darling test yielding p_AD_~6x10^-5^; median fEdd~0.025 versus 0.043). This preference for low fEdd strengthens previous findings of higher CL-AGN incidence at lower fEdd, found in smaller samples.
Finally, we show that the broad MgII emission line in our CL-AGN sample tends to vary significantly less than the broad H{beta} emission line. Our large CL-AGN sample demonstrates the advantages and challenges in using multi-epoch spectroscopy from large surveys to study extreme AGN variability and physics.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/966/85 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2024ApJ...966...85Z ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...966...85Z ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/966/85 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/966/85 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
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