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We use Chandra data to study the incidence and properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in 16 intermediate redshift ($0.5 < z < 1.1$) X-ray-selected galaxy groups in the Chandra Deep Field-South. We measure an AGN fraction of $f(L_{X,H} >…

One percent of redshift z~0.1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) show velocity splitting of a few hundred km/s in the narrow emission lines in spatially integrated spectra. Such line profiles have been found to arise from the bulk motion of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-12 Yang Lyu , Xin Liu

In this work we carry out an analysis of star-formation and nuclear activity in the different stages during a galaxy merger identified in isolated systems (isolated galaxies, isolated pairs, and isolated triplets) using integral field…

We investigate the relation between AGN and star formation (SF) activity at $0.5 < z < 3$ by analyzing 898 galaxies with X-ray luminous AGN ($L_X > 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$) and a large comparison sample of $\sim 320,000$ galaxies without…

We develop a novel method to identify active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and study the nature of low-luminosity AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This is the second part of a series of papers and we study the correlations between the AGN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Masayuki Tanaka

Bars are considered an efficient mechanism for transporting gas toward the central regions of galaxies, potentially enhancing nuclear activity. However, the extent to which bars influence active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and whether their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 V. Marels , V. Mesa , M. Jaque Arancibia , S. Alonso , G. Coldwell , G. Damke , V. Contreras Rojas

Binary active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide clues to how gas-rich mergers trigger and fuel AGNs and how supermassive black hole (SMBH) pairs evolve in a gas-rich environment. While significant effort has been invested in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-24 Jinyi Shangguan , Xin Liu , Luis C. Ho , Yue Shen , Chien Y. Peng , Jenny E. Greene , Michael A. Strauss

We present a statistical analysis of the connections between galactic bars, star formation, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity using 33,201 disk galaxies (0.01 < z < 0.05) from DESI DR1 cross-matched with Galaxy Zoo DESI. Based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Jianfei Liu , Zhimin Zhou

Physical processes such as re-ignition, enhancement, and fading of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not entirely understood because the timeline of these events is expected to last many years. However, it is well known that the differences…

"Changing-look" active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) are a newly-discovered class of AGNs that show the appearance (or disappearance) of broad emission lines within a short time scale (months to years) and are often associated with the dramatic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 Jun-Jie Jin , Xue-Bing Wu , Xiao-Tong Feng

Context. The determination of the relative frequency of active galactic nuclei (AGN) versus other spectral classes, for example, HII region-like (HII), transition objects (TRAN), passive (PAS), and retired (RET), in a complete set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 G. Gavazzi , G. Consolandi , S. Belladitta , A. Boselli , M. Fossati

We present an analysis of star formation and nuclear activity of about 28000 galaxies in a volume-limited sample taken from SDSS DR4 low-redshift catalogue (LRC) taken from the New York University Value Added Galaxy Catalogue (NYU-VAGC) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-28 A. Mercurio , C. P. Haines , A. Gargiulo , F. La Barbera , P. Merluzzi , G. Busarello

(Abridged) The prevalence of radio-loud AGN activity in present-day massive halos is determined using a sample of 625 nearby groups and clusters from the SDSS. Brightest group and cluster galaxies (BCGs) are more likely to host a radio-loud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. N. Best , A. von der Linden , G. Kauffmann , T. M. Heckman , C. R. Kaiser

Compared with numerous X-ray dominant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) without emission-line signatures in their optical spectra, the X-ray selected AGNs with optical emission lines are probably still in the high-accretion phase of black hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-17 Feng Li , Qirong Yuan , Weihao Bian , Xi Chen , Pengfei Yan

We analysed the nuclear region of all 56 early-type galaxies from the DIVING$^\mathrm{3D}$ Project, which is a statistically complete sample of objects that contains all 170 galaxies of the Southern Hemisphere with B < 12.0 mag and galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner , R. B. Menezes , K. Slodkowski Clerici , M. D. da Silva

Radio AGN in the nearby Universe are more likely to be found in galaxies with early-type morphology, the detection rate in spiral or late-type galaxies (LTGs) being around an order of magnitude lower. We combine the mJy Imaging VLBA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Sugata Kaviraj , Stanislav S. Shabala , Adam T. Deller , Enno Middelberg

We identify a sample of spectroscopically measured emission line galaxy (ELG) pairs up to z=1.6 from the WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallels (WISP) survey. WISP obtained slitless, near-infrared grism spectroscopy along with direct imaging…

Galaxy mergers are expected to have a profound influence on the star formation histories of galaxies. It is generally expected that mergers are the main drivers of galaxy mass growth through the accretion of mass and the triggering of new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Josephine Chishala , Roberto De Propris , Mirjana Pović

Multiwavelength studies indicate that nuclear activity and bulge properties are closely related, but the details remain unclear. To study this further, we combine $Hubble~Space~Telescope$ bulge structural and photometric properties with 1.5…

About half of nearby galaxies have a central surface brightness >1 magnitude below that of the sky. The overall properties of these low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) remain understudied, and in particular we know very little about…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-05 Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Elena Gallo , Anil Seth , Jenny Greene , Vivienne Baldassare