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We have obtained high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; L_bol < 5 x 10^42 erg/s). Infrared (IR) observations…

Aims. The accretion disk of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) is a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF). Our goal is to find evidence of RIAF radiation from LLAGNs with jets and analyze their radiation properties,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Yuwei Yu , Jin Zhang

We present the multi-wavelength and environmental properties of 37 variability-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including 30 low luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs), using a high cadence time-domain survey (ASAS-SN) from a spectroscopic sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai , Marko Mićić

The physics of active super massive black holes (BHs) is governed by their mass (M_BH), spin (a*) and accretion rate ($\dot{M}$). This work is the first in a series of papers with the aim of testing how these parameters determine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel M. Capellupo , Hagai Netzer , Paulina Lira , Benny Trakhtenbrot , Julían Mejía-Restrepo

Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the broad-band continuum emission from black-hole accretion discs can serve as a tool to measure parameters of the central body and constrain the geometry of the inner accretion flow. We focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Marcel Štolc , Michal Zajaček , Bożena Czerny , Vladimír Karas

Feedback from radio AGN jets is regularly implemented into contemporary models of galaxy evolution to offset radiative cooling in the large-scale environments in which they typically reside. While previous studies suggest that the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 J. C. S. Pierce , F. Sweijen , M. J. Hardcastle , L. K. Morabito , H. J. A. Röttgering , R. D. Baldi

We investigate the X-ray origin in FRIs using the multi-waveband high resolution data of eight FR I sources, which have very low Eddington ratios. We fit their multi-waveband spectrum using a coupled accretion-jet model. We find that X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Qingwen Wu , Feng Yuan , Xinwu Cao

The respective contribution of disk and jet components to the total emission in low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) is an open question. This paper suggests that $\gamma$-rays emitted from electrons accelerated in jets could be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hajime Takami

We present predictions for the evolution of radio emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). We use a model that follows the evolution of Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) masses and spins, within the latest version of the GALFORM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew J. Griffin , Cedric G. Lacey , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Claudia del P. Lagos

An interesting feature in active galactic nuclei (AGN) accreting at low rate is the weakness of the reflection features in their X-ray spectra, which can result from the gradual disappearance of the torus with decreasing accretion rates. It…

The inner structure of AGNs is expected to change below a certain luminosity limit. The big blue bump, footprint of the accretion disk, is absent for the majority of low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). Moreover, recent simulations suggest that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros , M. A. Prieto , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , M. Montes

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

Accretion states, which are universally observed in stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries, are also anticipated in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This is the case at low luminosities, when the jet-corona coupling dominates the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros , Teo Muñoz-Darias

Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the central few tens of parsec region of some of the nearest, most well studied, active galactic nuclei (AGN) are presented. These genuine AGN-core SEDs, mostly from Seyfert galaxies, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. Prieto , J. Reunanen , K. R. W. Tristram , N. Neumayer , J. A. Fernandez-Ontiveros , M. Orienti , K. Meisenheimer

At luminosities below a few percent of Eddington, accreting black holes switch to a hard spectral state which is very different from the soft blackbody-like spectral state that is found at higher luminosities. The hard state is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the optical emission-line flux ratios of narrow-line regions, in order to determine whether the formation of AGN jets requires specific accretion conditions. We find that bright compact radio galaxies, which are powerful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nozomu Kawakatu , Tohru Nagao , Jong-Hak Woo

We find a significant anti-correlation between the hard X-ray photon index and the Eddington ratio L_Bol/L_Edd for a sample of Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions (LINERs) and local Seyfert galaxies, compiled from literatures with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Xinwu Cao

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes in galaxies, which present unique observational signatures covering the full electromagnetic spectrum (and more) over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stefano Bianchi , Vincenzo Mainieri , Paolo Padovani

There is a significant nonlinear correlation between the Eddington ratio (L_bol=L_Edd) and the Eddington-scaled kinetic power (L_kin=L_Edd) of jets in low luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) (Merloni & Heinz). It is believed that these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Shuang-Liang li , Xinwu Cao

We collect data at all frequencies for the new sources classified as unknown active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the latest Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray catalog. Focusing on the 36 sources with measured redshift, we compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Luca Giuliani , Gabriele Ghisellini , Tullia Sbarrato