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Active galactic nucleus (AGN)-driven gas outflows are one of the best tracers of AGN feedback in action, as these powerful outflows expel/heat or compress the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM), thus quenching or enhancing star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruisong Xia , Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Mengqiu Huang , Hao Liu , Xiaozhi Lin

We present a multi-wavelength study of nuclear outflows in the nearby dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC~4395, which hosts an intermediate-mass black hole. Using \textit{JWST}/NIRSpec and MIRI IFU spectroscopy (1.66--28.6~$\mu$m), together with ALMA…

Lags measured from correlated X-ray/UV/optical monitoring of AGN allow us to determine whether UV/optical variability is driven by reprocessing of X-rays or X-ray variability is driven by UV/optical seed photon variations. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 I. M. McHardy , D. T. Cameron , T. Dwelly , S. Connolly , P. Lira , D. Emmanoulopoulos , J. Gelbord , E. Breedt , P. Arevalo , P. Uttley

X-ray observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) show variability on timescales ranging from a few hours up to a few days. Some of this variability may be associated with occultation events by clouds in the broad line region. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 E. S. Kammoun , F. Marin , M. Dovciak , E. Nardini , G. Risaliti , M. Sanfrutos

We analyse optical datacubes of the inner kiloparsec of 30 local ($z\le0.02$) active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosts that our research group, AGNIFS, has collected over the past decade via observations with the integral field units of the…

In this work we analyzed X-ray light curves of active galactic nucleus NGC 4051 obtained using Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer of Chandra satellite. Taking into account mainly flaring behaviour of AGNs we have used wavelet analysis for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Halevin

We present analysis of the long-term X-ray spectral variability of Seyfert galaxies as observed by Swift, which provides well-sampled observations over a much larger flux range and a much longer timescale than any other X-ray observatory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-27 S. D. Connolly , I. M. McHardy , T. Dwelly

We study the optical variability characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) AGN catalogue by utilising approximately five years of optical light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Vivek Kumar Jha , Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Hum Chand

Large scale, weakly collimated outflows are very common in galaxies with large infrared luminosities. In complex systems in particular, where intense star formation (SF) coexists with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), it is not clear yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Claudio Melioli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Rapid flux changes in the X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei are commonly observed. The power-density spectra show a pseudo power-law form with a turnover at low frequencies and a high frequency break, similar to galactic black-hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Nandra

Spectral-timing techniques have proven valuable in studying the interplay between the X-ray corona and the accretion disc in variable active galactic nuclei (AGN). Under certain conditions, photo-ionized outflows emerging from central AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Juráňová , E. Costantini , P. Uttley

During an extensive multiwavelength campaign that we performed in 2013-14 the prototypical Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 has been found in an unusual condition of heavy and persistent obscuration. The newly discovered "obscurer" absorbs most of…

We consider a sample of type-I active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were observed by Chandra/HETG and resulted in high signal-to-noise grating spectra, which we study in detail. All objects show signatures for very high ionization outflows.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Doron Chelouche

(Abridged) Our deep multiwavelength campaign on NGC 5548 revealed an unusually strong X-ray obscuration. The resulting dramatic decrease in incident ionizing flux allowed us to construct a comprehensive physical, spatial and temporal…

Many active galactic nuclei (AGN) show strong variability of the optical continuum. Since the line flux, profile shapes and intensity ratios are changing, we analyze the variability patterns and possible periodicity of Type 1 AGN NGC 5548,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-30 Nataša Bon , Edi Bon , Paola Marziani

As part of an extensive study of the physical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) we report high spatial resolution near-IR integral-field spectroscopy of the narrow-line region (NLR) and coronal-line region (CLR) of seven Seyfert…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. Müller-Sánchez , A. Prieto , E. K. S. Hicks , H. Vives-Arias , R. I. Davies , M. Malkan , L. J. Tacconi , R. Genzel

Correlated variability between coronal X-rays and disc optical/UV photons provides a very useful diagnostic of the interplay between the different regions around an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and how they interact. AGN that reveal strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Samuzal Barua , Oluwashina K. Adegoke , Ranjeev Misra , Pramod Pawar , V. Jithesh , Biman J. Medhi

We introduce our project, AGNSTRONG (Active Galactic Nuclei and STaR fOrmation in Nearby Galaxies). Our research goals encompass investigating the kinematic properties of ionized and molecular gas outflows, understanding the impact of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-16 Huynh Anh N. Le , Chen Qin , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Kim Ngan N. Nguyen , Ruisong Xia , Xiaozhi Lin

Winds outflowing from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may carry significant amount of mass and energy out to their host galaxies. In this paper we report the detection of a sub-relativistic outflow observed in the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy…

AGN are a key ingredient for understanding galactic evolution. AGN-driven outflows are one of the manifestations of feedback. The AO mode for MUSE at the VLT permits to study the innermost tens of parsecs of nearby AGN in the optical. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 S. Comerón , J. H. Knapen , C. Ramos Almeida , A. E. Watkins