Known changing-look AGN located within Rubin Deep Drilling Fields
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| author | Camus, Mariangella Panda, Swayamtrupta |
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| contents | Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) exhibit spectroscopic and photometric changes on timescales of months to years, making them powerful laboratories for studying accretion variability onto supermassive black holes. Motivated by the growing relevance of large spectro-photometric time-domain surveys, especially the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we compiled a master catalog of known CL-AGN from the literature and evaluated its spatial overlap with the Rubin survey footprint. Using a geometric cross-match based on sky coordinates, we identify 79 sources located in high-cadence regions of the main survey footprint (Wide-Fast-Deep, or WFD), including 5 particularly favorable targets lying within the Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) of COSMOS and XMM-LSS. These sources represent especially promising candidates for future variability studies in the Rubin era. This Research Note presents a first proof of concept for connecting known CL-AGN with Rubin observing fields, while the full catalog and a more comprehensive analysis will be presented in a forthcoming paper. |
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| spellingShingle | Known changing-look AGN located within Rubin Deep Drilling Fields Camus, Mariangella Panda, Swayamtrupta Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) exhibit spectroscopic and photometric changes on timescales of months to years, making them powerful laboratories for studying accretion variability onto supermassive black holes. Motivated by the growing relevance of large spectro-photometric time-domain surveys, especially the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we compiled a master catalog of known CL-AGN from the literature and evaluated its spatial overlap with the Rubin survey footprint. Using a geometric cross-match based on sky coordinates, we identify 79 sources located in high-cadence regions of the main survey footprint (Wide-Fast-Deep, or WFD), including 5 particularly favorable targets lying within the Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) of COSMOS and XMM-LSS. These sources represent especially promising candidates for future variability studies in the Rubin era. This Research Note presents a first proof of concept for connecting known CL-AGN with Rubin observing fields, while the full catalog and a more comprehensive analysis will be presented in a forthcoming paper. |
| title | Known changing-look AGN located within Rubin Deep Drilling Fields |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18255 |