Speaker
Description
The combination of past and new monitoring optical surveys is allowing to probe the intrinsic properties of accreting supermassive black holes through variability studies. I will present results of the Timedomes campaign to target the LSST Deep Drilling Fields in order to assemble a legacy dataset of AGN lightcurves going back more than 10 years down to magnitude limits comparable with LSST single-epoch observations. I will discuss the results in the context of recent efforts to constrain the long-term variability of AGN as a tool to provide constrains ranging from the unification model, to AGN demographics and cosmology. I will finally show how the inclusion of the first LSST Data may improve the results and allows to forecast the potential of the full survey.
| Collaborators (if any) | Michalis Polioudakis, Demetra De Cicco, Vincenzo Petrecca, MArta Fatovic, Mario Radovic, Barbara Balmaverde |
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