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The cosmic history of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth is important for understanding galaxy evolution, reionization and the physics of accretion. Recent NuSTAR, Swift-BAT and \textit{Chandra} hard X-ray surveys have provided new…

We investigate the infrared contribution from supermassive black hole activity versus host galaxy emission in the mid to far-infrared (IR) spectrum for a large sample of X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) residing in dusty,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 Arianna Brown , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray , Jingzhe Ma , Ryan C. Hickox , Mojegan Azadi

Utilizing Chandra X-ray observations in the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) we identify 241 X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs, L > 10^{42} ergs/s) and study the properties of their host galaxies in…

For over 60 years, the scientific community has studied actively growing central super-massive black holes (active galactic nuclei -- AGN) but fundamental questions on their genesis remain unanswered. Numerical simulations and theoretical…

Most of the local active galactic nucleus (AGN) population is obscured and much of the X-ray background originates in obscured AGNs. The contribution of obscured accretion to the growth of massive black holes is discussed here. The recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Fabian

We present evidence that AGN do not reside in ``special'' environments, but instead show large-scale clustering determined by the properties of their host galaxies. Our study is based on an angular cross-correlation analysis applied to…

We study properties of the host galaxies of 15 hard X-ray selected type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at intermediate redshifts (0.05$<z<$0.6) detected in $ASCA$ surveys. The absorption corrected hard X-ray luminosities $L_{\rm 2-10 keV}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaku Kiuchi , Kouji Ohta , Masayuki Akiyama , Kentaro Aoki , Yoshihiro Ueda

Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the majority of the AGN population. However, due to the difficulties in measuring their black hole (BH) masses, it is still unknown whether they follow the same BH mass-host galaxy scaling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 F. Ricci , F. La Franca , A. Marconi , F. Onori , F. Shankar , R. Schneider , E. Sani , S. Bianchi , A. Bongiorno , M. Brusa , F. Fiore , R. Maiolino , C. Vignali

We put active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with low-mass black holes on the fundamental plane of black hole accretion---the plane that relates X-ray emission, radio emission, and mass of an accreting black hole---to test whether or not the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-22 Kayhan Gultekin , Edward M. Cackett , Ashley L. King , Jon M. Miller , Jason Pinkney

The properties of low-mass galaxies hosting central black holes provide clues about the formation and evolution of the progenitors of supermassive black holes. In this letter, we present HSC-XD 52, a spectroscopically confirmed low-mass…

We present X-ray properties of optically-selected intermediate-mass (~10^5--10^6 M_Sun) black holes (BHs) in active galaxies (AGNs), using data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Our observations are a continuation of a pilot study by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Louis-Benoit Desroches , Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are occasionally seen in pairs, suggesting that tidal encounters are responsible for the accretion of material by both central supermassive black holes (BHs). In Paper I of this series, we selected a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss

We aim to determine the intrinsic far-Infrared (far-IR) emission of X-ray-luminous quasars over cosmic time. Using a 16 deg^2 region of the Stripe 82 field surveyed by XMM-Newton and Herschel Space Observatory, we identify 2905 X-ray…

We present a study of the infrared properties of X-ray selected, moderate luminosity (Lx=10^{42}-10^{44}ergs/s) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) up to z~3, to explore the links between star formation in galaxies and accretion onto their…

We have determined the cosmological evolution of the density of AGN and of their Nh distribution as a function of the un-absorbed 2-10 keV luminosity up to redshift 4. We used the HELLAS2XMM sample combined with other published catalogs,…

We have completed a spectroscopic survey of X-ray point sources in eight low-redshift clusters of galaxies (0.05<z<0.31) and have identified 40 cluster members with broad-band (0.3-8 keV) X-ray luminosities between L_X = 8x10^{40} and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Martini , Daniel D. Kelson , Eunhyeuk Kim , John S. Mulchaey , Alex A. Athey

We investigate the relationship between black hole accretion and star formation in a sample of 453 $z\approx0.3$ type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We use available CO observations to demonstrate that the combination of nebular dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan

We have studied the host galaxies of a sample of radio-loud AGN spanning more than four decades in the energy output of the nucleus. The core sample includes 40 low-power sources (BL Lac objects) and 22 high-power sources (radio-loud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew O'Dowd , C. Megan Urry , Riccardo Scarpa

We present an analysis of the optical nuclear spectra from the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a sample of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we derived the virial black hole (BH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Smitha Subramanian , Ramya. S , Mousumi Das , Koshy George , Sivarani. T , Tushar Prabhu

We study the spatial clustering through the projected two-point correlation function of $632$ $(1130)$ XMM-COSMOS Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with known spectroscopic (spectroscopic or photometric) redshifts in the range $z = [0.1 - 2.5]$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-28 A. Viitanen , V. Allevato , A. Finoguenov , A. Bongiorno , N. Cappelluti , R. Gilli , T. Miyaji , M. Salvato