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Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Katherine Suess, Tanay Agrawal, Lauranne Lanz, Yuanze Luo, Pallavi Patil, Kate Rowlands, Margaret Shepherd, Maya Skarbinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19162

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Changing-look active galactic nuclei, or CL-AGN, are AGN which appear to transition between Seyfert Type 1 and 2 over periods of months to years. Several mechanisms to trigger these transitions have been proposed, but we have yet to conclusively determine their cause. Recent studies suggest CL-AGN are hosted primarily in galaxies which are shutting down star formation (Dodd et al. 2021; Liu et al. 2021, Wang et al. 2023), which may indicate a link between galaxy quenching and changing look even…