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Black hole masses for samples of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are currently estimated from single-epoch optical spectra using scaling relations anchored in reverberation mapping results. In particular, the two quantities needed for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hermine Landt , Martin J. Ward , Bradley M. Peterson , Misty C. Bentz , Martin Elvis , Kirk T. Korista , Margarita Karovska

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a substantial population of high-redshift, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs), whose properties challenge standard models of black hole growth and AGN emission. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Greta Zucchi , Xihan Ji , Piero Madau , Roberto Maiolino , Ignas Juodžbalis , Francesco D'Eugenio , Sophia Geris , Yuki Isobe

It was suggested that the prominent feature of the optical Fe II emission has a connection with the accretion process in active galactic nuclei (AGN). For a large sample of 4037 quasars ($z < 0.8$) with measured $\rm H\beta$ line dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-04 Liu Y. S. , Bian W. H.

The physics of active super massive black holes (BHs) is governed by their mass (M_BH), spin (a*) and accretion rate ($\dot{M}$). This work is the first in a series of papers with the aim of testing how these parameters determine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel M. Capellupo , Hagai Netzer , Paulina Lira , Benny Trakhtenbrot , Julían Mejía-Restrepo

Modeling the spectral energy distribution (SED) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a very important role in constraining modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Here, we utilize an advanced supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Tong Su , Qi Guo , Erlin Qiao , Wenxiang Pei , Luis C. Ho , Cedric G. Lacey

The presence of absorbing gas around the central engine of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a common feature of these objects. Recent work has looked at the effect of the dust component of the gas, and how it enhances radiation pressure such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. I. Raimundo , A. C. Fabian , F. E. Bauer , D. M. Alexander , W. N. Brandt , B. Luo , R. V. Vasudevan , Y. Q. Xue

The sizes of the broad-line regions (BLRs) in $\gamma$-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are estimated from their optical continuum luminosity by using the empirical relation between $R_{\rm BLR}$ and $L_{\lambda,\rm opt}$. Using the broad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhong-Hui Fan , Xinwu Cao

We propose the rest-frame 2-10 keV photon index, \ga, acting as an indicator of the bolometric correction, \lb/$L_{\rm 2-10keV}$ (where \lb~ is the bolometric luminosity and $L_{\rm 2-10keV}$ is the rest-frame 2-10 keV luminosity), in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xin-Lin Zhou , Yong-Heng Zhao

We have conducted a systematic search of low-mass black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with broad Halpha emission lines, aiming at building a homogeneous sample that is more complete than previous ones for fainter, less highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiao-Bo Dong , Luis C. Ho , Weimin Yuan , Ting-Gui Wang , Xiaohui Fan , Hongyan Zhou , Ning Jiang

In this work we perform a Bayesian statistical fit to estimate the mass-to-distance ratio and the recessional redshift of 10 different black holes hosted at the centre of active galactic nuclei, namely the galaxies NGC 5765b, NGC 6323, UGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-28 D. Villaraos , A. Herrera-Aguilar , U. Nucamendi , G. Gonzalez-Juarez , R. Lizardo-Castro

Bolometric luminosities and Eddington ratios of both X-ray selected broad-line (Type-1) and narrow-line (Type-2) AGN from the XMM-Newton survey in the COSMOS field are presented. The sample is composed by 929 AGN (382 Type-1 AGN and 547…

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

The fraction of dwarf galaxies hosting central, intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) at low redshifts is an important observational probe of black hole seeding at high redshift. Detections of nuclear accretion signatures in dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Colin J. Burke , Priyamvada Natarajan , Vivienne F. Baldassare , Marla Geha

We present results of the clustering analysis between active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and galaxies at redshift 0.1-1.0 for investigating properties of galaxies associated with the AGNs, revealing the nature of fueling mechanism of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Yuji Shirasaki , Yutaka Komiya , Masatoshi Ohishi , Yoshihiko Mizumoto

We present inferences on the geometry and kinematics of the broad-Hbeta line-emitting region in four active galactic nuclei monitored as a part of the fall 2010 reverberation mapping campaign at MDM Observatory led by the Ohio State…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 C. J. Grier , A. Pancoast , A. J. Barth , M. M. Fausnaugh , B. J. Brewer , T. Treu , B. M. Peterson

We present 12 new AGN at 4<z<7 in the JADES survey (in addition to the previously identified AGN in GN-z11 at z=10.6) revealed through the detection of a Broad Line Region as seen in Halpha. The depth of JADES, together with the use of…

The recent discovery of a correlation between nuclear black hole mass, M_bh, and the stellar velocity dispersion (Gebhardt et al. 2000, Ferrarese and Merritt 2000), in elliptical galaxies and spiral bulges, has raised the question whether…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles H. Nelson

The black hole mass MBH is crucial in constraining the growth of supermassive BHs within their host galaxies. Since direct measurements of MBH with dynamical methods are restricted to a limited number of nearly quiescent nearby galaxies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 M. Gliozzi , J. K. Williams , A. Akylas , I. E. Papadakis , O. I. Shuvo , A. Halavatkar , A. Alt

We have completed two years of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of a large number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with very high accretion rates. In this paper, we report on the result of the second phase of the campaign, during…

We have investigated the ensemble regularities of the equivalent widths (EWs) of MgII 2800 emission line of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), using a uniformly selected sample of 2092 Seyfert 1 galaxies and quasars at 0.45 <= z <= 0.8 in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-15 Xiao-Bo Dong , Ting-Gui Wang , Jian-Guo Wang , Xiaohui Fan , Huiyuan Wang , Hongyan Zhou , Weimin Yuan