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New tools from Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) mid-infrared spectroscopy have recently become available to determine the power sources of dust-obscured ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs). We compare ISO classifications - starburst or…

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We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations for a sample of ten optically faint luminous infrared galaxies (R-[24]> 14) using Keck NIRSPEC and Gemini NIRI. The sample is selected from a 24 micron Spitzer MIPS imaging survey of the…

We present the AKARI near-infrared (NIR; 2.5-5 micron) spectroscopic study of 36 (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies [(U)LIRGs] at z=0.01-0.4. We measure the NIR spectral features including the strengths of 3.3 micron polycyclic aromatic…

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High resolution, mid-infrared (MIR) images of a set of nine nearby active galaxies are presented. The data were obtained with the TIMMI2 instrument mounted at the ESO 3.6m telescope using a set of N-band narrow filters. The resulting images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Galliano , D. Alloin , E. Pantin , P. O. Lagage , O. Marco

We present high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; Lbol \lesssim 10^42 erg/sec). Infrared (IR) observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. E. Mason , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , N. A. Levenson , J. Radomski , C. Ramos Almeida , L. Colina , M. Elitzur , I. Aretxaga , P. F. Roche , N. Oi

We present our statistical study of near infrared (NIR) variability of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the COSMOS field, using UltraVISTA data. This is the largest sample of AGN light curves in YJHKs bands, making possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 P. Sánchez , P. Lira , R. Cartier , V. Pérez , N. Miranda , C. Yovaniniz , P. Arévalo , B. Milvang-Jensen , J. Fynbo , J. Dunlop , P. Coppi , S. Marchesi

We present medium resolution near infrared spectroscopic observations of 41 obscured and intermediate class AGN (type 2, 1.9 and 1.8; AGN2) with redshift $z \lesssim$0.1, selected from the Swift/BAT 70-month catalogue. The observations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-21 F. Onori , F. La Franca , F. Ricci , M. Brusa , E. Sani , R. Maiolino , S. Bianchi , A. Bongiorno , F. Fiore , A. Marconi , C. Vignali

We present the first systematic investigation of the [NeV] (14um/24um) and [SIII] (18um/33um) infrared line flux ratios, traditionally used to estimate the density of the ionized gas, in a sample of 41 Type 1 and Type 2 active galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. P. Dudik , J. C. Weingartner , S. Satyapal , J. Fischer , C. C. Dudley , B. O'Halloran

We perform spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to 711 luminous X-ray AGN at 0.7 < z < 4.5 using 10-bands of optical and infra-red photometric data for objects within XMM-SERVS. This fitting provided 510 reliable (reduced $\chi ^2 <…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Adam Marshall , Matthew W. Auger-Williams , Manda Banerji , Roberto Maiolino , Rebecca Bowler

We present [NII] 205 $\mu$m fine structure line observations of three submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) and three quasar host galaxies at 4$\lesssim$z$\lesssim$6 using the Institut de radioastronomie millim\'etrique (IRAM) interferometer. The…

We present Herschel observations of six fine-structure lines in 25 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at z<0.27. The lines, [O III]52, [N III]57, [O I]63, [N II]122, [O I]145, and [C II]158, are mostly single gaussians with widths <600 km s-1…

We report a new sample of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the XMM serendipitous source and AKARI point-source catalogs. We match X-ray sources with infrared (18 and 90 micron) sources located at |b|>10 deg to create a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Yuichi Terashima , Yoshitaka Hirata , Hisamitsu Awaki , Shinki Oyabu , Poshak Gandhi , Yoshiki Toba , Hideo Matsuhara

We investigate the X-ray properties of three interacting luminous infrared galaxy systems. In one of these systems, IRAS 18329+5950, we resolve two separate sources. A second, IRAS 20550+1656, and third, IRAS 19354+4559, have only a single…

We present high quality (high signal-to-noise ratio and moderate spectral resolution) near-infrared (near-IR) spectroscopic observations of 23 well-known broad-emission line active galactic nuclei (AGN). Additionally, we obtained…

We perform long-term ($\approx 15$ yr, observed-frame) X-ray variability analyses of the 68 brightest radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the 6 Ms $Chandra$ Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey; the majority are in the redshift range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 G. Yang , W. Brandt , B. Luo , Y. Xue , F. Bauer , M. Sun , S. Kim , S. Schulze , X. Zheng , M. Paolillo , O. Shemmer , T. Liu , D. Schneider , C. Vignali , F. Vito , J. -X. Wang

Temporal asymmetry in the flux variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) offers key insights into the physical mechanisms driving AGN variability. In this study, we investigated the variability of the torus by analyzing temporal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

We use a combination of the XMM-Newton serendipitous X-ray survey with the optical SDSS, and the infrared WISE all-sky survey in order to check the efficiency of the low X-ray to infrared luminosity selection method in finding heavily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , J. Aird , D. M. Alexander , A. Comastri , A. Del Moro , P. Gandhi , A. Georgakakis , C. M. Harrison , J. R. Mullaney

The origin of outflow in narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nucleus (AGN) is studied in this paper by focusing on the relationship between the [\ion{O}{3}]$\lambda$5007 line profile and the hard X-ray (in a bandpass of 2-10 keV)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Wei

We investigate infrared colours and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 338 X-ray selected AGN from Swift-BAT 105-month survey catalogue that have AKARI detection, in order to find a new selection criteria for Compton-thick AGN. By…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Ece Kilerci-Eser , Tomotsugu Goto , Tolga Guver , Asli Tuncer , Oguz Han Atas

We explore the nature of the long-wavelength mid-infrared (MIR) emission of a sample of 13000 local Type II (narrow-line) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using 12 and 22 micron photometry from the WISE…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. J. Rosario , L. Burtscher , R. I. Davies , R. Genzel , D. Lutz , L. J. Tacconi