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A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy

We present an X-ray stacking analysis of $\sim$75,000 star-forming galaxies between $0.1<z<5.0$ using the Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey to study the X-ray emission of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) and its connection to host…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Francesca M. Fornasini , Francesca Civano , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Martin Elvis , Stefano Marchesi , Takamitsu Miyaji , Andreas Zezas

(abridged)The majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suffer from significant obscuration by surrounding dust and gas. X-ray surveys in the 2-10 keV band will miss the most heavily-obscured AGN in which the absorbing column density exceeds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , Timothy M. Heckman , Andrew A. Ptak , Ann Hornschemeier , Lucimara Martins , Paule Sonnentrucker , Christy Tremonti

The UV-X continuum, the X-ray spectral features, and the variability in these bands provide powerful tools for studying the innermost regions of AGNs from which we gain an insight into the accretion process. In this chapter the discussion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Suzy Collin

The hot plasma filling galaxy clusters emits copious X-ray radiation. The classic unheated and unperturbed cooling flow model predicts dramatic cooling rates and an isobaric X-ray spectrum with constant differential luminosity distribution.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 M. Gaspari

We present an X-ray analysis of fourteen nearby (z < 0.044) AGN in low mass galaxies (M_* <= 5*10^9 Msun) selected based on their optical variability (Baldassare et al. 2020). Comparing and contrasting different AGN selection techniques in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander Messick , Vivienne Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

We argue that the X-ray and UV flux illuminating the parsec-scale accretion disk around luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) is super-Eddington with respect to the local far-infrared dust opacity. The far infrared opacity may be larger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Chang , E. Quataert , N. Murray

We present the observed-frame optical, near- and mid-infrared properties of X-ray selected AGN in the Lockman Hole. Using a likelihood ratio method on optical, near-infrared or mid-infrared catalogues, we assigned counterparts to 401 out of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Rovilos , S. Fotopoulou , M. Salvato , V. Burwitz , E. Egami , G. Hasinger , G. Szokoly

Soft X-ray emission (0.5--2.0 keV) plays a pivotal role in regulating the optical and UV emission in the AGNs. We collected a sample of 1811 AGNs from the SDSS database and obtained various parameters of Balmer lines, optical continuum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 D. Nour , K. Sriram

We consider the emission of high energy to very high energy $\gamma$-rays in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN) or the central regions of radio-loud AGN. We use our results to estimate the $\gamma$-ray flux from the central regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 P. A. Johnson , A. Mastichiadis , R. J. Protheroe , T. S. Stanev , A. P. Szabo

Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from X-ray to far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths are presented for a sample of 1246 X-ray luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN; $L_{0.5-10\rm{keV}}>10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1}$), with $z_{\rm{spec}}<1.2$, selected…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are generally accepted to be powered by the release of gravitational energy in a compact accretion disk surrounding a massive black hole. Such disks are also necessary to collimate powerful radio jets seen in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jack F. Gallimore , Stefi A. Baum , Christopher P. O'Dea

A sample of X-ray and optically selected narrow emission-line galaxies (769 sources) from the 3XMM catalogue cross-correlated with SDSS (DR9) catalogue has been studied. Narrow-emission line active galactic nuclei (AGN; type-2) have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Estelle Pons , Mike G. Watson

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) produce a dominant fraction (~80%) of the Soft X-ray background (SXB) at photon energies 0.5<E<2 keV. If dust pervaded throughout the intergalactic medium, its scattering opacity would have produced diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mark Dijkstra , Abraham Loeb

A complete flat-spectrum radio-loud sample of AGN includes a significant fraction of Seyfert-like AGN including a NLS1. Analysis of their optical spectra suggests that the reddest continuum colours are either associated with AGN in nearby…

We present an X-ray and optical analysis of a 2-8 keV flux limited (fx > 10e-14 erg s^-1 cm^-2) sample of 126 AGN detected in 16 Chandra fields. This work represents a small though significant subset of the Chandra Multiwavelength Project…

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). It is often believed that these AGN have small black hole mass, which is responsible for the narrowness of the permitted lines. They are also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-27 A. Vietri , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , E. Congiu , G. La Mura , V. Cracco , M. Frezzato , S. Chen , A. Cattapan , T. Peruzzi , P. Rafanelli

We present a study of the X-ray properties of a sample of six nearby late-type spiral galaxies based on XMM-Newton observations. Since our primary focus is on the linkage between X-ray emission and star formation in extended, extranuclear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Owen , R. S. Warwick

We have extended our earlier study (Heard & Warwick 2013, Paper I) of the X-ray emission emanating from the central 100 pc x 100 pc region of our Galaxy to an investigation of several features prominent in the soft X-ray (2-4.5 keV) band.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Heard , R. S. Warwick

Recent observations have shown that a large portion of the mid--infrared (MIR) spectrum of active galactic nuclei (AGN) stems from the polar regions. In this paper, we investigate the effects of this polar gas on the X-ray spectrum of AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Jeffrey McKaig , Claudio Ricci , Stéphane Paltani , Shobita Satyapal