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We use quasi-simultaneous near-infrared (near-IR) and optical spectroscopy from four observing runs to study the continuum around 1 micron in 23 well-known broad-emission line active galactic nuclei (AGN). We show that, after correcting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hermine Landt , Martin Elvis , Martin J. Ward , Misty C. Bentz , Kirk T. Korista , Margarita Karovska

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known as sources of high energy gamma-rays. The emission probably results from non-thermal radiation of relativistic jets belonging to the AGN. Earlier investigations of these processes have suggested that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Schuster , M. Pohl , R. Schlickeiser

A model is presented in which the strongest radio-emitting jet outflows are produced in black hole systems when the accretion is a geometrically thick ($H/R \sim 1$) inflow ({\it e.g.}, ADAF, CDAF) {\em and} if the black hole is rotating.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David L. Meier

Emission-line studies in the active galactic nuclei (AGNs), particularly those utilizing high spatial resolution, provide the most accurate method to determine critical quantities of the central engine and of the gas a few tens of parsecs…

We discuss accretion flows on massive black holes in which different elements of the flow (clumps) have velocities that may differ substantially. We estimate the consequence of collisions between these clumps as they come close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. J. -L. Courvoisier , M. Turler

We present the first implementation of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in the form of momentum driven jets in an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) cosmological resimulation of a galaxy cluster. The jets are powered by gas accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

The energy emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) may provide a self-regulating process (AGN feedback) that shapes the evolution of galaxies. This is believed to operate along two modes: on galactic scales by clearing the interstellar…

Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries emit a compact, optically thick, mildy relativistic radio jet when they are in the hard and hard-intermediate states. In a series of papers, we have developed a jet model and have shown, through Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 P. Reig , N. Kylafis

We propose a new model for the disk-jet connection in black hole x-ray transients and active galactic nuclei. In our model, the inner part of the accretion disk around the central black hole switches between two states. In one state, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle , A. R. King

Variability of active galactic nuclei is not well understood. One possible explanation is existence of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBH) in their centres. It is expected that major mergers are common in the Universe. It is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-23 Marijana Smailagić , Edi Bon

Recent models for the inner structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN) aim at connecting the outer region of the accretion disk with the broad-line region and dusty torus through a radiatively accelerated, dusty outflow. Such an outflow not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Hermine Landt

Active galaxies and quasers are believed to harbour Black Holes at their centers and at the same time produce cosmic radio jets through which immense amount of matter and energy are ejected out of the core of the galaxy. In our work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das

We show that Massive Black Holes of AGNs follow the same approximately linear relation with the luminosity of the host spheroid (bulge) found in normal (quiescent) galaxies, with the black hole mass being ~0.002 that of the bulge. We also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Wandel

We explore possible physical origin of correlation between radio wave and very-high-energy neutrino emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggested by recently reported evidence for correlation between neutrino arrival directions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrii Neronov , Dmitry Semikoz

It has been recently proposed that the broad line region in active galactic nuclei originates from dusty clouds driven from the accretion disk by radiation pressure, at a distance from the black hole where the disk is cooler than the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Pasquale Galianni , Keith Horne

Emission-line variability data for Seyfert 1 galaxies provide strong evidence for the existence of supermassive black holes in the nuclei of these galaxies, and that the line-emitting gas is moving in the gravitational potential of that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-21 Bradley M. Peterson , Amri Wandel

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes in galaxies, which present unique observational signatures covering the full electromagnetic spectrum (and more) over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stefano Bianchi , Vincenzo Mainieri , Paolo Padovani

The active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomena results from a supermassive black hole accreting its surrounding gaseous and dusty material. The infrared (IR) regime provides most of the information to characterize the dusty structures that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-31 Jianwei Lyu , George Rieke

The origin of the Broad Line Region (BLR) in active galaxies remains unknown. It seems to be related to the underlying accretion disk but an efficient mechanism is required to rise the material from the disk surface without giving too…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Bozena Czerny , Pu Du , Jian-Min Wang , Vladimir Karas

We show that it is possible to explain the physical origin of jet precession in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) through the misalignment between the rotation axes of the accretion disk and of the Kerr black hole. We apply this scenario to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 Anderson Caproni , Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Zulema Abraham