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Newly Discovered Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from SDSS and LAMOST Surveys

Qian Dong, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Wei-Min Gu, Mouyuan Sun, Yong-Gang Zheng

Published 2024-08-14Version 1

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) exhibit drastic variations in broad emission lines (BELs), the mechanism of which remains unclear. Expanding the sample of CL AGN is helpful to reveal the mechanism. This study aims to identify more CL AGNs by cross-matching spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Our approach to identify CL AGN candidates is based on the automatic spectral fitting, followed by detailed visual inspections. Through this method, we present a sample of 88 CL AGNs, in which 77 sources being newly discovered. Within this sample, 59 CL AGNs primarily show the variability of the H$\beta$ line, 22 exhibit changes in both the H$\beta$ and H$\alpha$ lines, and 7 mainly display variations in the H$\alpha$ line. Our findings reveal that the sequence of appearance and disappearance of the BELs aligns with the known CL sequence. We estimate the black hole mass and Eddington ratio for these CL AGNs, which range from $2.5\times 10^6$ to $8.0\times 10^8 M_\odot$ and from 0.001 to 0.13, respectively. The Eddington ratio is lower than that of most typical AGNs, and is consistent with the results of previous studies on CL AGN. Our results support the hypothesis that the CL behavior is driven by the state transitions of the accretion disk.

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