Mapping the Inner Structure of Quasars with Time-Domain Spectroscopy
by Yue Shen, Scott Anderson, Edo Berger, W.N. Brandt, Gisella De Rosa, Xiaohui Fan, Laura Ferrarese, Suvi Gezari, Matthew Graham, Jenny Greene, Catherine J. Grier, Josh Grindlay, Daryl Haggard, Patrick B. Hall, Luis Ho, Hector Ibarra Medel, Dragana Ilic, Zeljko Ivezic, Jacob Jencson, Linhua Jiang, Stéphanie Juneau, Mansi Kasliwal, Juna Kollmeier, Alexander Kutyrev, Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Guilin Liu, Xin Liu, Chelsea MacLeod, Gary Melnick, Brian Metzger, Adam D. Myers, Christopher O'Dea, Andreea Petric, Luka C. Popović, Abhishek Prakash, Bill Purcell, Gordon T. Richards, George Rieke, Nial Tanvir, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Wood-Vasey, Yongquan Xue, and Qian Yang
Published onMay 31, 2019
Mapping the Inner Structure of Quasars with Time-Domain Spectroscopy
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Abstract
This White Paper discusses the needs to understand the accretion processes of quasars and to measure their fundamental physical properties using time-domain spectroscopy, and opportunities from future surveys and facilities in the upcoming landscape of time-domain astrophysics.
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