2025ApJS..276...51L


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2025ApJS..276...51L - Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 276, 51 (2025/February-0)

A Short-lived Rejuvenation during the Decades-long Changing-look Transition in the Nucleus of Mrk 1018.

LU K.-X., LI Y.-R., WU Q., HO L.C., ZHANG Z.-X., FENG H.-C., LI S.-S., CHEN Y.-J., SUN M., SHU X., GUO W.-J., CHENG C., WANG J.-G., KIM D., WANG J.-M. and BAI J.-M.

Abstract (from CDS):

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs), characterized by the emergence or disappearance of broad lines accompanied by extreme continuum flux variability, have drawn much attention for their potential to reveal physical processes underlying AGN evolution. We perform seven-season spectroscopic monitoring on Mrk1018, one of the earliest identified CL-AGN. Around 2020, we detect a full-cycle changing-look transition of Mrk 1018 within one year, associated with a nucleus outburst, which likely arose from the disk instability in the transition region between the outer standard rotation-dominated disk and inner advection-dominated accretion flow. Over the past 45 years, the accretion rate of Mrk 1018 changed 1000 times and the maximum Eddington ratio reached 0.02. By investigating the relation between the broad-line properties and the Eddington ratio (Lbol/LEdd), we find strong evidence that the full-cycle-type transition is regulated by accretion. There exists a turnover point in the Balmer decrement, which is observed for the first time. The broad Balmer lines change from a single peak in Types 1.0-1.2 to double peaks in Types 1.5-1.8, and the double-peak separation decreases with increasing accretion rate. We also find that the FWHM of the broad Balmer lines obeys FWHM $\propto \,{({L}_{{\rm{bol}}}/{L}_{{\rm{Edd}}})}^{-0.27}$, as expected for a virialized broad-line region (BLR). The velocity dispersion σline follows a similar trend in Types 1.5-1.8 but displays a sharp increase in Types 1.0-1.2, resulting in a dramatic drop in FWHM/σline. These findings suggest that a virialized BLR together with accretion-dependent turbulent motions might be responsible for the diversity of BLR phenomena across the AGN population.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Active galactic nuclei - Supermassive black holes - Accretion - Time domain astronomy - Reverberation mapping

Status at CDS : Associated data (images, light curves, etc...) being ingested in VizieR.

Simbad objects: 12

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Number of rows : 12
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 Z 502-82 Sy2 01 25 31.4551524072 +32 08 10.473856512   15.01 13.96     ~ 237 0
2 Z 387-34 Sy1 02 06 15.9896281128 -00 17 29.221733688   15.90 15.50 10.3   ~ 405 0
3 NGC 863 Sy2 02 14 33.5604714720 -00 46 00.181845336   14.48 13.81 17.9   ~ 770 0
4 NGC 1566 Sy1 04 20 00.3968473248 -54 56 16.624708764 10.29 10.19 9.73 9.21 10.1 ~ 1051 2
5 NGC 2617 Sy2 08 35 38.7981089496 -04 05 17.901104280   13.6   12.63 13.2 ~ 226 0
6 [DDM2009] CSS100217 J102913+404220 SN* 10 29 13.0 +40 42 20           SNIIn 39 0
7 NGC 4151 Sy1 12 10 32.5759813872 +39 24 21.063527532   12.18 11.48     ~ 3938 2
8 2MASS J12580928+3519435 Sy1 12 58 09.3138230856 +35 19 43.015139616   19.16 18.83     ~ 36 0
9 NGC 5548 Sy1 14 17 59.5400291832 +25 08 12.603122268   14.35 13.73     ~ 2895 0
10 QSO J1536+0441 QSO 15 36 36.2230215960 +04 41 27.067415352   17.75 17.41     ~ 81 1
11 Z 138-23 Sy2 16 29 52.87032 +24 26 38.0976   15.40 14.43     ~ 130 0
12 RX J1927.3+6533 Sy2 19 27 19.5393064368 +65 33 54.335877408     15.4     ~ 147 0

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