Extreme Variability and Changing-Look Quasars in SDSS and Pan-STARRS
Date Submitted
2015-04-14 10:25:25
Chelsea MacLeod
Nic Ross (IfA), Alastair Bruce (IfA), Andy Lawrence (IfA)
Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh
We present four new changing-look quasars from
SDSS found serendipitously by two methods: (1)
targeting objects with large-amplitude brightening in
Pan-STARRS, and (2) mining Stripe 82 for
extremely variable quasars with repeat SDSS
+BOSS spectroscopy. Changing-look AGN may
provide a unique probe into the physics of accretion
and BLR structure.
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13:30 - 15:00
14:20
Abstract
Extreme Variability and Changing-Look Quasars in SDSS and Pan-STARRS