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The results of Chandra snapshot observations of 11 LINERs (Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions), three low-luminosity Seyfert galaxies, and one HII-LINER transition object are presented. Our sample consists of all the objects with…

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We perform a detailed investigation of moderate-to-high quality X-ray spectra of ten of the most luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known at z>4 (up to z~6.28). This study includes five new XMM observations and five archived X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , C. Vignali , D. P. Schneider , X. Fan , G. T. Richards , M. A. Strauss

We have analyzed archival \textit{Chandra} and \textit{XMM-Newton} data for two nearly complete homogeneously selected samples of type 2 Seyfert galaxies (Sy2s). These samples were selected based on intrinsic Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , L. Martins , V. Wild , P. Sonnentrucker , A. Hornschemeier

We used Spitzer/IRS spectroscopic data on 426 galaxies including quasars, Seyferts, LINER and HII galaxies to investigate the relationship among the mid-IR emission lines. There is a tight linear correlation between the [Ne V]14.3 um and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Miguel Pereira-Santaella , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Almudena Alonso-Herrero , George H. Rieke

We study the X-ray emission of a representative sample of 27 local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). The median IR luminosity of our sample is log L_IR/L_sun = 11.2, thus the low-luminosity end of the LIRG class is well represented. We…

We present a large sample of infrared-luminous candidate active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that lack X-ray detections in Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR fields. We selected all optically detected SDSS sources with redshift measurements,…

We report X-ray fluxes in the 2--10 keV band from LINERs (low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions) and low-luminosity Seyfert galaxies obtained with the ASCA satellite. Observed X-ray luminosities are in the range between 4e39 and 5e41…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuichi Terashima , Luis C. Ho , Andrew F. Ptak

We report the results of a new analysis of the ROSAT Wide Field Camera (WFC) all-sky survey data, designed to detect extragalactic sources of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation in regions of low Galactic N_H. We identify a total of 19…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Edelson , S. Vaughan , R. Warwick , E. Puchnarewicz , I. George

Using Spitzer-IRS spectroscopy, we investigate the ubiquity of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in a complete (~94%), volume-limited sample of the most bolometrically-luminous galaxies (L_IR > (0.3-20) x 10^10 L_sun) to D < 15 Mpc. Our analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andy Goulding , Dave Alexander

We use restframe near- and mid-IR data of an isotropically selected sample of quasars and radio galaxies at 1.0 \leq z \leq 1.4, which have been published previously, to study the wavelength-dependent anisotropy of the IR emission. For that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. F. Hoenig , C. Leipski , R. Antonucci , M. Haas

We present a broadband X-ray analysis of a new homogeneous sample of 95 active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the 22-month Swift/BAT all-sky survey. For this sample we treated jointly the X-ray spectra observed by XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-20 A. A. Vasylenko , V. I. Zhdanov , E. V. Fedorova

Results are presented of extended and refined optical identification of 181 radio/X-ray sources in the RASS-Green Bank (RGB) catalog which have been spectroscopically observed in the Sloan digital sky survey (SDSS) DR5. For 72 sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-24 Deliang Wang , Jianguo Wang , Xiaobo Dong

Low-luminosity AGNs are perceived to be radio loud and devoid of a ``big blue bump'', indicating a transition from a radiatively efficient, geometrically thin, accretion disc in high-luminosity AGNs, to a geometrically thick, radiatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Maoz

We present a uniform and systematic analysis of the 0.6-10 keV X-ray spectra of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed by ASCA. The sample 10 BLRGs, 5 QSRs, 9 NLRGs, and 10 RGs. At soft X-rays, about half of the NLRGs and all of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. M. Sambruna , M. Eracleous , R. F. Mushotzky

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is providing an unprecedented view of local AGNs (<z> = 0.03) and their host galaxy properties. In this paper, we present an analysis of the optical spectra of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lisa M. Winter , Karen T. Lewis , Michael Koss , Sylvain Veilleux , Brian Keeney , Richard F. Mushotzky

This paper presents the results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of 83 of the 118 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) in the IRAS 1 Jy ULIRG sample. We have observed these ULIRGs at 15GHz with the Very Large Array (VLA). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , Heino Falcke , Sylvain Veilleux , Roberto Maiolino

Several studies of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) have shown that the soft X-ray emission presents a size and morphology that resembles that of the narrow-line region (NLR) traced by [O III]. Since the NLR is mainly constituted by gas…

A fraction of active galactic nuclei do not show the classical Seyfert-type signatures in their optical spectra, i.e. they are optically "elusive". X-ray observations are an optimal tool to identify this class of objects. We combine new…

The infrared is a key wavelength regime for probing the dusty, obscured nuclear regions of active galaxies. We present results from an infrared study of 87 nearby Seyfert galaxies using the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based…

We generated a sample of 409 AGNs for which both the radio luminosity at 5 GHz and the line luminosity in [OIII] 5007 have been measured. The radio luminosity spans a range of ten orders of magnitude, and the [OIII] line luminosity spans a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chun Xu , Mario Livio , Stefi A. Baum