Extreme AGN Variability in WISE: Powerful Flares and Candidate Tidal Disruption Events in AGN

arXiv:2609.01421 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• AGN — 116× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Microlensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 3× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accretion Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• US National Science Foundation — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• Conditions for Changing-Look AGNs from Accretion Disk-Induced Tidal Disruption Events

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