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A New Class of Changing-look LINERs

A New Class of Changing-look LINERs

Abstract We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGNs) caught “turning on” during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were classified as low-ionization nuclear emission-line region galaxies (LINERs) by weak narrow forbidden line emission in their archival SDSS spectra, and …