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We present high resolution radio continuum observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at 6, 8.5, 11.5 and 15 GHz of the double-peaked emission-line galaxy 2MASXJ12032061+1319316. The radio emission has a prominent S-shaped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Rubinur Khatun , M. Das , P. Kharb , M. Honey

How Supermassive Blackholes (SMBHs) are spun-up is a key issue of modern astrophysics. As an extension of the study in Wang et al. (2016), we here address the issue by comparing the host galaxy properties of nearby ($z<0.05$) radio-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 J. Wang , M. Z. Kong , S. F. Liu , D. W. Xu , Q. Zhang , J. Y. Wei

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei can eject hypervelocity stars (HVSs). Using restricted three-body integrations, we study the properties of stars ejected by circular, binary SMBHs as a function of their mass ratios $q =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert

We report a triple black hole candidate with a close binary black hole (BBH) in the blue quasar SDSS J153231.80+420342.7 (=SDSS J1532) at a redshift of 0.209. It shows double-peaked profiles in all narrow emission lines, which can be a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Qi Zheng , YiWen Jiang , Xue-Guang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

We present a method for comparing the H$\beta$ emission-line profiles of observed supermassive black hole (SBHB) candidates and models of sub-parsec SBHBs in circumbinary disks. Using the approach based on principal component analysis we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Khai Nguyen , Tamara Bogdanovic , Jessie C. Runnoe , Michael Eracleous , Steinn Sigurdsson , Todd Boroson

From the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we identify 14 off-nuclear broad (FWHM>1000 km/s) Halpha and/or Hbeta emission line sources that indicate spatially offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-02 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , James Negus , Francisco Muller-Sanchez

Binary or dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) are expected from galaxy formation theories. However, confirmed DAGN are rare and finding these systems has proved to be challenging. Recent systematic searches for DAGN using double-peaked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Rubinur Khatun , M. Das , P. Kharb

In the $\Lambda$CDM scenario, small galaxies merge to produce larger entities. Since supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found in galaxies of all sizes, SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) are generally expected to form during the amalgamation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Xian Chen , D. N. C. Lin , Xiaojia Zhang

In this paper we study the object SDSS J1130+0058 which is the only AGN known to have both double-peaked low-ionization broad emission lines, and also X-shaped radio structures. Emission from an accretion disk can reproduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xue-Guang Zhang , Dultzin-Hacyan D. , Ting-Gui Wang

The radio-emitting quasar SDSS J1425+3231 (z=0.478) was recently found to have double-peaked narrow [O III] optical emission lines. Based on the analysis of the optical spectrum, Peng et al. (2011) suggested that this object harbours a dual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-24 S. Frey , Z. Paragi , T. An , K. E. Gabanyi

We study influence of a galactic central supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary on gas dynamics and star formation activity in a nuclear gas disk by making three-dimensional Tree+SPH simulations. Due to orbital motions of SMBHs, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hidenori Matsui , Asao Habe , Takayuki R. Saitoh

Self-lensing flares (SLFs) are expected to be produced once or twice per orbit by an accreting massive black hole binary (MBHB), if the eclipsing MBHBs are observed close to edge-on. SLFs can provide valuable electromagnetic (EM) signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-15 Luke Major Krauth , Jordy Davelaar , Zoltán Haiman , John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

A list of candidates for \textit{supermassive binary black holes} (SMBBHs), compiled from available data on the variability in the optical range and the shape of the emission spectrum, is analysed. An artificial neural network is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-10 A. M. Malinovsky , E. V. Mikheeva

I discuss the possibility that accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries with sub-parsec separations produce periodically recurring luminous outbursts that interrupt periods of relative quiescence. This hypothesis is motivated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Takamitsu L. Tanaka

In this paper, we explore the mechanisms that regulate the formation and evolution of stellar black hole binaries (BHBs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We show that dynamical interactions can efficiently drive "in-situ" BHB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-17 Manuel Arca Sedda

From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using a redshift-selected subset (0.35 < z < 0.45) of 54 CL-AGNs…

Recently, much attention has been given to double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies, some of which are suggested to be related with merging galaxies. We make a systematic search to build the largest sample of these sources from Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jun-Qiang Ge , Chen Hu , Jian-Min Wang , Jin-Ming Bai , Shu Zhang

We model the electromagnetic emission signatures of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with an associated gas component. The method comprises numerical simulations of relativistic binaries and gas coupled with calculations of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tamara Bogdanovic , Britton D. Smith , Michael Eracleous , Steinn Sigurdsson

We present the study of multi-messenger signatures of massive black hole (MBH) binaries residing in the centres of galaxy merger remnants. In particular, we first focus on the gravitational wave background (GWB) produced by an ensemble of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Małgorzata Curyło , Tomasz Bulik

This is the eighth in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We employ the recently developed dynamical modeling approach…