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| author | Wang, Shu Woo, Jong-Hak Gallo, Elena Son, Donghoon Yang, Qian Jin, Junjie Guo, Hengxiao Kong, Minzhi |
| author_facet | Wang, Shu Woo, Jong-Hak Gallo, Elena Son, Donghoon Yang, Qian Jin, Junjie Guo, Hengxiao Kong, Minzhi |
| contents | We report the discovery of eight new recurrent changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including seven re-brightening turn-off AGNs and one fading turn-on AGN. These systems are valuable for placing constraints on the duration of dim and bright states, which may be linked to the AGN duty cycle or disk instability. Long-term optical light curve analysis reveals that many objects in our sample exhibit a prolonged plateau during the dim states lasting 4 to 7 years, with gradual turn-on/off process. We observe no significant difference between the turn-on and turn-off timescales, and this timescale is broadly consistent with the heating/cooling front propagation timescale. The comparison between optical and infrared variations supports that these transitions are driven by changes in accretion disk emission rather than dust obscuration. Our discovery significantly increases the previously identified recurrent CL AGN sample from eleven objects to nineteen, demonstrating that some AGNs can enter dormancy and reawaken on timescales of a few years, which provides useful information for understanding AGN episodic accretion. |
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| spellingShingle | Dormancy and Reawakening Over Years: Eight New Recurrent Changing-Look AGNs Wang, Shu Woo, Jong-Hak Gallo, Elena Son, Donghoon Yang, Qian Jin, Junjie Guo, Hengxiao Kong, Minzhi Astrophysics of Galaxies We report the discovery of eight new recurrent changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including seven re-brightening turn-off AGNs and one fading turn-on AGN. These systems are valuable for placing constraints on the duration of dim and bright states, which may be linked to the AGN duty cycle or disk instability. Long-term optical light curve analysis reveals that many objects in our sample exhibit a prolonged plateau during the dim states lasting 4 to 7 years, with gradual turn-on/off process. We observe no significant difference between the turn-on and turn-off timescales, and this timescale is broadly consistent with the heating/cooling front propagation timescale. The comparison between optical and infrared variations supports that these transitions are driven by changes in accretion disk emission rather than dust obscuration. Our discovery significantly increases the previously identified recurrent CL AGN sample from eleven objects to nineteen, demonstrating that some AGNs can enter dormancy and reawaken on timescales of a few years, which provides useful information for understanding AGN episodic accretion. |
| title | Dormancy and Reawakening Over Years: Eight New Recurrent Changing-Look AGNs |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15587 |