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AGN optical ASAS-SN and TESS light curves

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Variability is a ubiquitous feature of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and the characterisation of the variability is crucial to constrain its physical mechanism and proper applications in AGN studies.

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The advent of all-sky and high-cadence optical surveys allows more accurate measurements of AGNs variability down to short timescales and direct comparisons with X-ray variability from the same sample of sources. We aim to analyse the optical power spectral density (PSDs) of AGNs with measured X-ray PSDs.

We use light curves from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and use the Lomb-Scargle periodogram to obtain PSDs. The joint optical PSD is measured over up to six orders of magnitude in frequency space from timescales of minutes to a decade. We fit either a damped random walk (DRW) or a broken power law (BPL) model to constrain the PSD model and break frequency.

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We find a set of break frequencies (<10^-2^day^-1^) from DRW and BPL fits that generally confirm previously reported correlations between break frequencies and the black hole mass. In addition, we find a second set of break frequencies at higher frequencies (>10^-2^day^-1^). We observe a potential weak correlation between the high-frequency breaks with the X-ray break frequencies and black hole mass.

We further explore the dependence of the correlations on other AGN parameters, finding that adding either X-ray, optical, or bolometric luminosity as the third correlation parameter can substantially improve the correlation significances. The newly identified high-frequency optical breaks can constrain different aspects of the physics of AGNs.

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