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Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are intriguing due to their continuum as well as emission line properties. The observed peculiar properties of the NLS1s are believed to be due to accretion rate close to Eddington limit. As a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Smita Mathur

Radio-loud Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are unique probes of the formation of powerful radio jets at extreme (near-Eddington) accretion rates and low black hole masses, in a regime very different from classical blazars and,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-07 S. Komossa

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies provide us with unique insights into the drivers of AGN activity under extreme conditions. Given their low black hole (BH) masses and near-Eddington accretion rates, they represent a class of galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 V. Karamanavis , E. Angelakis , S. Komossa , I. Myserlis , D. Blinov , J. A. Zensus

Narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies constitute a class of active galactic nuclei characterized by the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the H$\beta$ broad emission line < 2000 km/s and the flux ratio of [O III] to H$\beta$ < 3. Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-06 Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , Hum Chand , Xue-Guang Zhang

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are active galactic nuclei (AGN) recently identified as a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources. The high energy emission is explained by the presence of a relativistic jet observed at small angles, just…

We revisited the spectroscopic characteristics of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) by analysing a homogeneous sample of 296 NLS1s at redshift between 0.028 and 0.345, extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) public…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 V. Cracco , S. Ciroi , M. Berton , F. Di Mille , L. Foschini , G. La Mura , P. Rafanelli

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies represent a distinct category in the larger family of Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei. The occurrence of emission line profiles not broader than 2000 km/s, combined with luminosity estimates comparable to those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-14 G. La Mura , S. Ciroi , V. Cracco , D. Ilić , L. Č. Popović , P. Rafanelli

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). It is often believed that these AGN have small black hole mass, which is responsible for the narrowness of the permitted lines. They are also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-27 A. Vietri , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , E. Congiu , G. La Mura , V. Cracco , M. Frezzato , S. Chen , A. Cattapan , T. Peruzzi , P. Rafanelli

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, with their extreme properties, defy our current knowledge of active galactic nuclei and relativistic jet systems. They excite, and might help us answer, many questions concerning the evolution and unification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-15 Emilia Järvelä , Anne Lähteenmäki

[Abridged] Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are a class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have all the properties of type 1 Seyfert galaxies but show peculiar characteristics, including the narrowest Balmer lines, strongest Fe II…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Tarchi , P. Castangia , A. Columbano , F. Panessa , J. A. Braatz

Narrow-line Seyfert\,1 galaxies (NLS1s) with very small broad-line widths (say, FWHM(\hb) $\la $ 1200\,\kms) represent the extreme type of Seyfert\,1 galaxies that have small black hole masses (\mbh) and/or high Eddington ratios (\redd).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. L. Ai , W. Yuan , H. Y. Zhou , T. G. Wang , S. H. Zhang

We present the first systematic study of (non-radio-selected) radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies. Cross-correlation of the `Catalogue of Quasars and Active Nuclei' with several radio and optical catalogues led to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Komossa , W. Voges , D. Xu , S. Mathur , H. -M. Adorf , G. Lemson , W. Duschl , D. Grupe

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are active galactic nuclei (AGN) believed to be in the early stages of their evolution. A fraction of them have been found to host relativistic jets. Due to the lack of large-scale diffuse radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-20 Emilia Järvelä , Marco Berton , Luca Crepaldi

Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are believed to be powered by accretion of matter onto low mass black holes (BHs) in spiral host galaxies with BH masses M_BH of 10^6 - 10^8 M_sun . However, the broad band spectral energy distribution…

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 AGNs (NLS1s) represent a unique stage in the black hole growth history, characterised by low black hole masses of approximately $10^{6}$-$10^{8}$ solar masses and around-Eddington accretion rates. X-ray studies of…

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are a type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were originally classified as sources with little to no radio emission. Although the class is rather unified from an optical perspective, their radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Varglund , E. Järvelä , M. J. Hardcastle , S. Varglund , A. Lähteenmäki

(abridged) It has been suggested that Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are evolutionarily young objects, powered by the accretion of gas onto central black holes that are lower in mass than those found in typical broad-line Seyferts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Ryan , M. M. De Robertis , S. Virani , A. Laor , P. C. Dawson

There is growing evidence to suggest that the black hole mass has been previously underestimated with the H$\beta$ line width for certain active galactic nuclei (AGN). With the assumption of the flatter rather than isotropic velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-21 Xiang Liu , Pingping Yang , Renzhi Su , Zhen Zhang

We present results from the analysis of the optical spectra of 47 radio-selected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). These objects are a subset of the First Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS) and were initially detected at 20 cm (flux density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. J. Whalen , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen , E. C. Moran , R. H. Becker

We present the results of a detailed multi-wavelength study of a sample of sixteen narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies known in $\gamma$-rays so far. This includes a focused X-ray spectral analysis, to compare them with a more general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. L. Parker , J. Jiang , A. C. Fabian , L. Brenneman , M. Ajello , D. Hartmann
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