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Galaxy mergers are expected to produce multiple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in close-separation, but the detection of such SMBHs has been difficult. 2MASS J165939.7$+$183436 is a red active galactic nucleus (AGN) that is a prospective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Dohyeong Kim , Myungshin Im , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

We present spectropolarimetric and spectrophotometric observations of the peculiar active galactic nucleus (AGN) SDSS J120300.19+162443.7 (hereafter J1203+1624) at $z=0.1656$. Its optical total flux spectra clearly show broad emission lines…

We report an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) with extremely high equivalent width (EW), EW(LyA+NV,rest)>921 AA in the rest-frame, at z~2.24 in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) as a representative case of the…

High resolution (0.4 arcsec) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 0 observations of HCO+(4-3) and HCN(4-3) toward a mid-stage infrared bright merger VV114 have revealed compact nuclear (<200 pc) and extended (3 - 4 kpc)…

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

We investigate optical, infrared, and radio active galactic nucleus (AGN) signs in the merger remnant Arp 187, which hosts luminous jets launched in the order of $10^5$ yr ago but whose present-day AGN activity is still unknown. We find AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Kohei Ichikawa , Junko Ueda , Megumi Shidatsu , Taiki Kawamuro , Kenta Matsuoka

As the third installment in a series systematically searching dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) amongst merging galaxies, we present the results of 20 dual AGNs found by using the SDSS fiber spectra. To reduce the flux contamination from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Yang-wei Zhang , Yang Huang , Jin-ming Bai , Xiao-wei Liu , Jian-guo Wang , Xiao-bo Dong

We present a new sample of 116 double-peaked Balmer line Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Double-peaked emission lines are believed to originate in the accretion disks of AGN, a few hundred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Iskra V. Strateva , Michael A. Strauss , Lei Hao , David J. Schlegel

In the hierarchical structure formation model, galaxies grow through various merging events. Numerical simulations indicate that the mergers can enhance the activity of the central supermassive black holes in the galaxies. Pfeifle et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Krisztina Éva Gabányi , Sándor Frey , Shobita Satyapal , Anca Constantin , Ryan W. Pfeifle

We present the results of our ALMA Cycle 2 high angular resolution (0.1-0.2 arcsec) observations of the nuclear region of the nearby well-studied type-2 active galactic nucleus (AGN), NGC 1068, at HCN J=3-2 and HCO+ J=3-2 emission lines.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Masatoshi Imanishi , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Takuma Izumi

Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) hosting extended photoionized nebulae provide us with a unique view of the timescales associated with AGN activity. Here, we present a new Green Bean galaxy (RGB1) at $z=0.304458\pm0.000007$ with large…

We have performed a spectral decomposition to search for dual active galactic nuclei (DAGNs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars with $z<0.25$. Potential DAGN candidates are searched by referencing velocity offsets and spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 D. -C. Kim , Ilsang Yoon , A. S. Evans , Minjin Kim , E. Momjian , Ji Hoon Kim

A systematic analysis of the X-ray emission from the nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy Mrk 273 was carried out by combining new 200 ksec Chandra data with archived 44 ksec data. The active galactic nucleus (AGN) associated with the…

We report the serendipitous multiwavelength discovery of a candidate dual black hole system with a separation of ~100 pc, in the gas-rich luminous infrared galaxy MCG-03-34-64 (z=0.016). Hubble Space Telescope/ACS observations show three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-18 Anna Trindade Falcao , T. J. Turner , S. B. Kraemer , V. Braito , J. Reeves , H. R. Schmitt , L. Feuillet

GH 10 is a broad-lined active galactic nucleus (AGN) energized by a black hole of mass 800,000 Solar masses. It was the only object detected by Greene et al. in their Very Large Array (VLA) survey of 19 low-mass AGNs discovered by Greene &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Wrobel , J. E. Greene , L. C. Ho , J. S. Ulvestad

We use deep adaptive optics assisted integral field spectroscopy from SINFONI on the VLT to study the spatially resolved properties of ionized gas outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) in three galaxies at z~2.2 -- K20-ID5,…

We present results on a multi-wavelength analysis of SDSS J025214.67-002813.7, a system which has been previously classified as a binary AGN candidate based on periodic signals detected in the optical light curves. We use available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Adi Foord , Xin Liu , Kayhan Gültekin , Kevin Whitley , Fangzheng Shi , Yu-Ching Chen

We present Chandra and optical observations of a candidate dual AGN discovered serendipitously while searching for recoiling black holes via a cross-correlation between the serendipitous XMM source catalog (2XMMi) and SDSS-DR7 galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 D. Lena , G. Panizo-Espinar , P. G. Jonker , M. A. P. Torres , M. Heida

We report the discovery of SDSS J0849+1114 as the first known triple Type 2 Seyfert nucleus. It represents three active black holes that are identified from new spatially resolved optical slit spectroscopy using the Dual Imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 Xin Liu , Meicun Hou , Zhiyuan Li , Kristina Nyland , Hengxiao Guo , Minzhi Kong , Yue Shen , Joan M. Wrobel , Sijia Peng

Feedback by radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy groups is not fully understood. Open questions include the duty cycle of the AGN, the spatial extent of the radio lobes, the effect they have on the intragroup medium, and the…

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