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Star formation characteristics of galaxies hosting AGN

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-08-21 v1

Abstract

We present an analysis of the ultra-violet (UV) observations of two Seyfert type active galactic nuclei (AGN), namely NGC ~4051 and NGC ~4151. These observations aimed at studying the star formation in the hosts of these AGN were carried out with the ultra-violet imaging telescope on board AstroSat in far-UV. A total of 193 and 328 star-forming regions (SF) were identified using SExtractor in NGC ~4051 and NGC ~4151, respectively. Using aperture photometry of the identified SF regions, we estimated the star formation rates (SFRs). We found NGC ~4051 to have the lowest SFR with a median value of 3.16 ×\times 105^{-5} M_{\odot} yr1^{-1} while for NGC ~4151, we found a median SFR of 0.012 M_{\odot} yr1^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.2308.09002,
  title  = {Star formation characteristics of galaxies hosting AGN},
  author = {Payel Nandi and C. S. Stalin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09002},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Comments are welcome. Accepted for the 3rd BINA Proceedings