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The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is finding previously unidentified, luminous red active galactic nuclei (AGN). This new sample has a space density similar to, or greater than, previously known AGN, suggesting that a large fraction of…

We presented the multiwavelength analysis of a heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 449. We first constructed a broadband X-ray spectrum using the latest NuSTAR and XMM-Newton data. Its column density ($\simeq 10^{24}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Xiaotong Guo , Qiusheng Gu , Jun Xu , Guanwen Fang , Xue Ge , Yongyun Chen , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a crucial role in galaxy evolution by influencing the observational properties of their host galaxies. We investigate the host galaxy properties of X-ray selected AGNs, focusing on differences between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Carlos G. Bornancini , Gabriel A. Oio , Georgina Coldwell

We present a systematic X-ray and multiwavelength study of a sample of 47 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with reverberation-mapping measurements. This sample includes 21 super-Eddington accreting AGNs and 26 sub-Eddington accreting AGNs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Hezhen Liu , B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , Michael S. Brotherton , S. C. Gallagher , Q. Ni , Ohad Shemmer , J. D. Timlin

Heavily obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially Compton-thick sources with line-of-sight column density ($N_{\rm H,los}$) $>$ 10$^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$, are critical to understanding supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth and the origin…

We present a study of the connection between black hole accretion, star formation, and galaxy morphology at z<=2.5. We focus on active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected by their mid-IR power-law emission. By fitting optical to far-IR…

We have measured the angular sizes of radio cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and analyzed their sky distributions and frequency dependencies to study synchrotron opacity in AGN jets and the strength of angular broadening in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

The origin of obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still an open debate. In particular, it is unclear what drives the relative contributions to the line-of-sight column densities from galaxy-scale and torus-linked obscuration. The…

In this work, which is a continuation of Castell\'o-Mor et al. (2016), we present new X-ray and infrared (IR) data for a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) covering a wide range in Eddington ratio over a small luminosity range. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Núria Castelló-Mor , Shai Kaspi , Hagai Netzer , Pu Du , Chen Hu , Luis C. Ho , Jin-Ming Bai , Wei-Hao Bian , Ye-Fei Yuan , Jian-Min Wang

We present results of a high-resolution soft X-ray (0.2-2 keV) spectroscopic study of a sample of 69 nearby obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) on board XMM-Newton. This is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matteo Guainazzi , Stefano Bianchi

We have newly identified a substantial number of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) featuring weak broad-line regions (BLRs) at z < 0.2 from detailed analysis of galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Kyuseok Oh , Sukyoung K. Yi , Kevin Schawinski , Michael Koss , Benny Trakhtenbrot

Using the X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the XMM-XXL north survey and the SDSS Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectroscopic follow-up of them, we compare the properties of X-ray unobscured and obscured…

Over ten mid-infrared (mid-IR) and X-ray models are currently attempting to describe the nuclear obscuring material of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but many questions remain unresolved. This study aims to determine the physical parameters…

X-ray emission detection in a galaxy is one of the efficient tools for selecting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). However, many X-ray-selected AGNs are not easily selected as AGNs by their optical emission. These galaxies, so-called optically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-31 Itsna K. Fitriana , Takashi Murayama

Motivated by theoretical expectations that Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) in galactic centers may provide a favorable environment for super-massive black holes to form and/or efficiently grow, we set out to measure the fraction of nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Adi Foord , Elena Gallo , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Brendan P. Miller , Vivienne F. Baldassare , Kayhan Gultekin , Oleg Y. Gnedin

In this paper we discuss the X-ray properties of 49 local (z<0.035) Seyfert 2 galaxies with HST/WFC2 high-resolution optical coverage. It includes the results of 26 still unpublished Chandra and XMM-Newton observations, which yield 25 (22)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Guainazzi , G. Matt , G. C. Perola

The application of multi-wavelength selection techniques is crucial for discovering a complete and unbiased set of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Here, we select a sample of 72 AGN candidates in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) using deep…

Surveys of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in different observational regimes seem to give different answers for the behaviour of the obscured fraction with luminosity. Based on the complex spectra seen in recent studies, we note that partial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jack H. Mayo , Andy Lawrence

We used archival very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data of active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed from 1.4 GHz to 86 GHz to measure the angular size of VLBI radio cores in 8959 AGNs. We analysed their sky distributions, frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 T. A. Koryukova , A. B. Pushkarev , A. V. Plavin , Y. Y. Kovalev

The X-ray properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) depend on their underlying physical parameters, particularly the accretion rate. We identified eight reverberation-mapped AGNs with some of the largest known accretion rates without…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Jaya Maithil , Michael S. Brotherton , Ohad Shemmer , Bin Luo , Pu Du , Jian-Min Wang , Hu Chen , Sarah C. Gallagher , Yan-Rong Li , Rodrigo S. Nemmen