Search Results - "RUAN, John J"
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The Analogous Structure of Accretion Flows in Supermassive and Stellar Mass Black Holes: New Insights from Faded Changing-look Quasars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2019)“…Despite their factor of ∼108 difference in black hole mass, several lines of evidence suggest possible similarities between black hole accretion flows in…”
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Changing-look Quasar Candidates: First Results from Follow-up Spectroscopy of Highly Optically Variable Quasars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2019)“…Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that show strong rest-frame optical/UV variability in their blue continuum and broad line emission are classified as…”
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KilonovAE: Exploring Kilonova Spectral Features with Autoencoders
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2024)“…Abstract Kilonovae are likely a key site of heavy r -process element production in the Universe, and their optical/infrared spectra contain insights into both…”
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Signatures of Massive Black Hole Merger Host Galaxies from Cosmological Simulations. I. Unique Galaxy Morphologies in Imaging
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2024)“…Abstract Low-frequency gravitational-wave experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and pulsar timing arrays are expected to detect individual…”
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Spectroscopic r-process Abundance Retrieval for Kilonovae. II. Lanthanides in the Inferred Abundance Patterns of Multicomponent Ejecta from the GW170817 Kilonova
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2024)“…Abstract In kilonovae, freshly synthesized r -process elements imprint features on optical spectra, as observed in AT2017gfo, the counterpart to the GW170817…”
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Spectroscopic r-Process Abundance Retrieval for Kilonovae. I. The Inferred Abundance Pattern of Early Emission from GW170817
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract Freshly synthesized r -process elements in kilonovae ejecta imprint absorption features on optical spectra, as observed in the GW170817 binary neutron…”
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A Deep CFHT Optical Search for a Counterpart to the Possible Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger GW190814
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2020)“…We present a wide-field optical imaging search for electromagnetic counterparts to the likely neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) merger GW190814/S190814bv. This…”
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SEARCHING FOR BINARY SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES VIA VARIABLE BROAD EMISSION LINE SHIFTS: LOW BINARY FRACTION
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2017)“…ABSTRACT Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHs) are expected to result from galaxy mergers, and thus are natural byproducts (and probes) of hierarchical…”
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Probing the Origin of Changing-look Quasar Transitions with Chandra
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2023)“…Abstract Extremely variable quasars can also show strong changes in broad-line emission strength and are known as changing-look quasars (CLQs). To study the…”
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Detection of Time Lags between Quasar Continuum Emission Bands Based On Pan-STARRS Light Curves
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2017)“…We study the time lags between the continuum emission of quasars at different wavelengths, based on more than four years of multi-band (g, r, i, z) light…”
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Gemini Imaging of the Host Galaxies of Changing-look Quasars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2019)“…Changing-look (CL) quasars are a newly discovered class of luminous active galactic nuclei that undergo rapid ( 10 yr) transitions between Type 1 and Type…”
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Are blazars above the blazar sequence a significant source of IceCube neutrinos?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2022)“…ABSTRACT The recent association of two flaring blazars (TXS 0506+056 and 3HSP J095507.9+355101) with IceCube neutrinos strongly suggests that blazars are at…”
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EVIDENCE FOR LARGE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS IN QUASAR ACCRETION DISKS FROM SPECTRAL VARIABILITY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2014)“…The well-known bluer-when-brighter trend observed in quasar variability is a signature of the complex processes in the accretion disk and can be a probe of the…”
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DETECTION OF QUASAR FEEDBACK FROM THE THERMAL SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN PLANCK
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2015)“…ABSTRACT Poorly understood feedback processes associated with highly luminous black hole accretion in quasars may dramatically affect the properties of their…”
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A Mote in Andromeda's Disk: A Misidentified Periodic AGN behind M31
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-11-2017)“…We identify an object previously thought to be a star in the disk of M31, J0045+41, as a background active galactic nucleus (AGN) seen through a low-absorption…”
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Now you see it, now you don't: the disappearing central engine of the quasar J1011+5442
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2016)“…We report the discovery of a new ‘changing-look' quasar, SDSS J101152.98+544206.4, through repeat spectroscopy from the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey. This…”
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TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF CHANGING-LOOK QUASARS: AN ARCHIVAL SPECTROSCOPIC SEARCH IN SDSS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2016)“…ABSTRACT The uncertain origin of the recently discovered "changing-look" quasar phenomenon-in which a luminous quasar dims significantly to a quiescent state…”
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The Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Changing-look Quasar Candidates from Multi-epoch Spectroscopy in SDSS-IV
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2022)“…Abstract Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can vary significantly in their rest-frame optical/UV continuum emission, and with strong associated changes in broad…”
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The SDSS–2MASS–WISE 10-dimensional stellar colour locus
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2014)“…We present the fiducial main-sequence stellar locus traced by 10 photometric colours observed by Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Two Micron All Sky Survey…”
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