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Mariangella Camus

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Compiling the largest multiwavelength database of known changing-look AGN: Prospects in the Rubin era

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) provide a direct way to study accretion and spectral-state changes on timescales of months to years. Still, the known population remains scattered across heterogeneous literature samples. We present a compilation of a homogenized catalog of known CL-AGN and related candidates, designed as a traceable reference database for time-domain and multiwavelength studies. After coordinate homogenization, duplicate removal, and validation, the optical parent catalog contains 1,438 unique sources, including 987 spectroscopically confirmed CL-AGN and 451 candidate or photometrically selected systems. We augment the catalog with ancillary information from radio/mm, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray data sets using nway and survey-specific quality criteria. The resulting database includes 188 sources in the broad radio layer, 9 RFC/VLBI compact-core matches, 16 sources with ALMA archival coverage, 1,353 infrared counterparts, 918 GALEX ultraviolet matches, and 576 X-ray counterparts. We also identify 9 Fermi-LAT candidate associations. Overall, 1,385 sources have at least one non-optical counterpart, and 75 have coverage across the four main ancillary regimes: radio, infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray. As a first application, we identify 70 confirmed CL-AGN within the LSST Wide--Fast--Deep footprint and 5 within the Rubin Deep Drilling Fields, and provide the up-to-date, ~116-day ugrizy Rubin lightcurve for SDSS J095902.76+021906.3 (z=0.34579) and discuss the early data inferences. This catalog is envisioned to be community-driven and provides a dynamic, expandable resource for target selection, population comparisons, and future Rubin-era CL-AGN studies.

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Known changing-look AGN located within Rubin Deep Drilling Fields

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) exhibit spectroscopic and photometric changes on timescales of months to years, making them powerful laboratories for studying accretion variability onto supermassive black holes. Motivated by the growing relevance of large spectro-photometric time-domain surveys, especially the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), we compiled a master catalog of known CL-AGN from the literature and evaluated its spatial overlap with the Rubin survey footprint. Using a geometric cross-match based on sky coordinates, we identify 79 sources located in high-cadence regions of the main survey footprint (Wide-Fast-Deep, or WFD), including 5 particularly favorable targets lying within the Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) of COSMOS and XMM-LSS. These sources represent especially promising candidates for future variability studies in the Rubin era. This Research Note presents a first proof of concept for connecting known CL-AGN with Rubin observing fields, while the full catalog and a more comprehensive analysis will be presented in a forthcoming paper.

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