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We assemble a broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) ranging from optical to mid-infrared of nearby active galactic nuclei at $z < 0.4$. SED fitting analysis is performed using semi-empirical templates derived from Palomar-Green…

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Accretion and star formation (SF) rates in low redshift SDSS type-II active galactic nuclei (AGN) are critically evaluated. Comparison with photoionization models indicates that bolometric luminosity (Lbol) estimates based on L(oiii 5007A)…

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We report Swift observations of a sample of 92 bright soft X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN). This sample represents the largest number of AGN observed to study the spectral energy distribution (SED) of AGN with simultaneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dirk Grupe , S. Komossa , Karen M. Leighly , Kim L. Page

We investigate the origin of the observed X-ray weakness in high z LRDs and other JWST-selected broad line AGN by comparing their X-ray and optical properties with those of a diverse sample of low z AGN, including super-Eddington accreting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 A. Tortosa , C. Ricci , P. Du , G. Venturi , L. C. Ho , R. Li , J. -M. Wang , M. Berton

We present the results from performing spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting on 121 variable active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) using photometry from both the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and…

Using the H$\beta$ linewidth, we obtained the virial central supermassive black hole masses and then the Eddington ratios in a sample of broad-line AGNs and NLS1s observed by ASCA. Combined with the data from ROSAT and Chandra observations,…

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We present the results of a stacking analysis performed on Spitzer/Infrared Spectrograph high-resolution mid-infrared spectra of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) in the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS). By binning on…

We find a significant anti-correlation between the hard X-ray photon index and the Eddington ratio L_Bol/L_Edd for a sample of Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions (LINERs) and local Seyfert galaxies, compiled from literatures with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Xinwu Cao

We present the results from a combined study of the average X-ray spectral and timing properties of 14 nearby AGN. For 11 of the sources in the sample, we used all the available data from the RXTE archive, which were taken until the end of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 I. E. Papadakis , M. Sobolewska , P. Arevalo , A. Markowitz , I. M. McHardy , L. Miller , J. N. Reeves , T. J. Turner

Genuine spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the central few parsec of the nearest and brightest active galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere are presented. They are compiled from very high spatial resolution observations in the radio…

We use new central stellar velocity dispersions and nuclear X-ray and Halpha luminosities for the Palomar survey of nearby galaxies to investigate the distribution of nuclear bolometric luminosities and Eddington ratios for their central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-17 Luis C. Ho

We present the results of recent studies on the co-evolution of galaxies and the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) using Herschel far-infrared and Chandra X-ray observations in the Bo\"otes survey region. For a sample of star-forming (SF)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-13 Chien-Ting J. Chen , Ryan C. Hickox

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN) presents challenges due to their faint emissions and the complexity of their accretion processes. This study introduces a new CIGALE module tailored for…

We study a combined sample of 264 star-forming, 51 composite, and 73 active galaxies using optical spectra from SDSS and mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. We examine optical and mid-IR spectroscopic…

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We study the X-ray power spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) to investigate whether Seyfert I and II power spectra are similar or not, whether the AGN variability depends on black hole mass and accretion rate, and to compare the AGN…

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Accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes offer unique opportunities to study the fundamental physics of standard thin disks, super-Eddington disks, and structure that may be connected to flux variability. These local analogues of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 J. M. Miller , D. Barret , E. Cackett , M. Diaz Trigo , C. Done , E. Gallo , J. Kaastra , C. Motch , C. Pinto , G. Ponti , N. Webb , A. Zoghbi

It is well established that AGNs play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. These AGNs can be linked to the accretion processes onto massive black holes and past merger events in their host galaxies, which may lead to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Xuechen Zheng , Yuze Zhang , Huub Röttgering

We map the co-eval growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes in detail by measuring the incidence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in galaxies as a function of star formation rate (SFR) and redshift (to z~4). We combine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 James Aird , Alison L. Coil , Antonis Georgakakis

We critically examine the dependence of spectral index on luminosity in optically selected AGN samples. An analysis of optically selected high-redshift quasars showed an anti-correlation of $\alpha_{OX}$, the spectral index between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sumin Tang , Shuang Nan Zhang , Philip F. Hopkins

We determine the cumulative spectral energy distribution (SED) of local AGN in the 3-300 keV band and compare it with the spectrum of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) in order to test the widely accepted paradigm that the CXB is a…

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