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In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGN) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to both an…

We present a detailed study of the optical spectroscopic properties of 12 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with candidate low-mass black holes (BHs) selected by Kamizasa et al. through rapid X-ray variability. The high-quality, echellette…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Luis Ho , Minjin Kim

The innermost regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are critical for understanding galaxy evolution and the dynamics of matter near a Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH). Yet, due to smaller angular projections, it is very difficult to resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Vivek Kumar Jha

We study the spatially resolved star formation, gas ionisation, and outflow properties of 1813 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MaNGA survey, which we classify into infrared (IR), broad-line (BL), narrow-line (NL), and radio (RD) AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Gaoxiang Jin , Guinevere Kauffmann , Y. Sophia Dai , Martin J. Hardcastle , Bohan Yue

Large-scale outflows driven by AGNs are an important element of galaxy evolution. Detailed analysis of their properties allows us to probe the activity history of the galactic nucleus and, potentially, other properties of the host galaxy. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Kastytis Zubovas , Matas Tartėnas

Recent observations have indicated that a large fraction of the low to intermediate luminosity AGN population lives in disk-dominated hosts, while the more luminous quasars live in bulge-dominated hosts, in conflict with some previous model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Dale D. Kocevski , Kevin Bundy

Properties of galaxies depend on their large-scale environment. As the influence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy evolution is becoming more evident, their large scale environments may help us understand the evolutionary processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Lietzen , P. Heinämäki , P. Nurmi , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Saar , E. Tago , L. O. Takalo , M. Einasto

Active Galactic Nuclei are powered by accretion onto massive black holes. Although radio-quiet objects are not as spectacular sources of very high energy photons as radio-loud ones this class of objects also represents a challenge for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Czerny , R. Goosmann , V. Karas , G. Ponti

We explore how the local environment is related to the redshift, type, and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Recent simulations and observations are converging on the view that the extreme luminosity of quasars is fueled in major…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Natalie E. Strand , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers

Understanding the relative roles of large-scale environment and internal host-galaxy processes in shaping AGN activity is essential for constraining models of black-hole growth and galaxy evolution. We investigate how the environment of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 G. Mountrichas , F. J. Carrera , F. Shankar , A. Georgakakis

We use the Horizon Run 5 cosmological simulation to study the effect of galaxy intrinsic properties and the local environment on AGNs characterized by their threshold of the accretion rate. We select galaxies in the stellar mass range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Ankit Singh , Changbom Park , Ena Choi , Juhan Kim , Hyunsung Jun , Brad K. Gibson , Yonghwi Kim , Jaehyun Lee , Owain Snaith

It is widely believed that stellar-mass black holes (sMBHs) exist within the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN), forming a distinct population termed ``accretion-modified star" (AMS). Gas from the dense disk accretes onto these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Jun-Rong Liu , Jian-Min Wang , Hua Feng

We perform an exploratory study of the physical properties of accretion flows and jets in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) by modeling the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 12 LLAGNs in low-ionization nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Michael Eracleous

Quasar accretion disks are believed to form stars by self-gravity. Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN) are much dimmer galactic centers, and are often believed to be quasars that ran out of gaseous fuel. LLAGN accretion disks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei Nayakshin

Galaxy mergers are likely to play a role in triggering active galactic nuclei (AGN), but the conditions under which this process occurs are poorly understood. In Paper I, we constructed a sample of spatially offset X-ray AGN that represent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene , David Pooley

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) exhibit dramatic spectral variability on unexpectedly short timescales, challenging standard accretion flow models. Despite growing samples, the physical drivers of this extreme variability,…

We compiled a sample of 95 AGNs serendipitously detected in the 3-20 keV band at Galactic latitude |b|>10 during the RXTE slew survey (XSS, Revnivtsev et al.), and utilize it to study the statistical properties of the local population of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Sazonov , M. Revnivtsev

We summarize what large surveys of the contemporary universe have taught us about the physics and phenomenology of the processes that link the formation and evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Timothy Heckman , Philip Best

We present a follow-up study on a series of papers concerning the role of close interactions as a possible triggering mechanism of AGN activity. We have already studied the close (<100kpc/h) and the large scale (<1 Mpc/h) environment of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Koulouridis , M. Plionis , V. Chavushyan , D. Dultzin , Y. Krongold , I. Georgantopoulos , J. Leon-Tavares