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To gain insights into long-term Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability, we analyze an AGN sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compare their photometry with observations from the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey (HSC) observed…

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We present a multi-wavelength analysis of three candidate active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in low-mass galaxies in the Bo\"otes field with the aim of improving constraints on the occupation fraction of low-mass black holes (BHs). Galaxies with…

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We have completed a spectroscopic survey of X-ray point sources in eight low-redshift clusters of galaxies (0.05<z<0.31) and have identified 40 cluster members with broad-band (0.3-8 keV) X-ray luminosities between L_X = 8x10^{40} and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Martini , Daniel D. Kelson , Eunhyeuk Kim , John S. Mulchaey , Alex A. Athey

The dependence of the long-term optical/UV variability on the spectral and the fundamental physical parameters for radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is investigated. The multi-epoch repeated photometric scanning data in the…

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We present a thorough study of the Changing-Look Active Galactic Nucleus (CL-AGN) Mrk 1018, utilizing an extensive dataset spanning optical, UV, and X-ray spectro-photometric data from 2005 to 2019. We analysed X-ray spectra and broad-band…

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Deep Chandra X-ray exposures provide an efficient route for locating optically faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshifts. We use deep multicolor optical data to search for z>5 AGN in the 2 Ms X-ray exposure of the Chandra Deep…

The physical parameters of galaxies and/or AGNs can be derived by fitting their multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs). By using CIGALE code, we perform multi-band SED fitting (from ultraviolet to infrared) for 791 X-ray sources…

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We present an analysis of deep multiwavelength data for z ~ 0.3-3 starburst galaxies selected by their 70 um emission in the Extended-Chandra Deep Field-South and Extended Groth Strip. We identify active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. A. Rafferty , W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , Y. Q. Xue , F. E. Bauer , B. D. Lehmer , B. Luo , C. Papovich

We present the X-ray spectroscopic study of the Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGN) population within the $\textit{Chandra}$ Deep Field South (CDF-S) by using the deepest X-ray observation to date, the $\textit{Chandra}$ 7 Ms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-18 A. Corral , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , P. Ranalli

Most of the variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are based on ensemble analyses. Nevertheless, it is interesting to provide estimates of the individual variability properties of each AGN, in order to relate them with…

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Observations and theoretical simulations suggest that the large scale environment plays a significant role in how galaxies form and evolve and, in particular, whether and when galaxies host an actively accreting supermassive black hole in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Anish S. Aradhey , Anca Constantin , Michael S. Vogeley , Kelly A. Douglass

The widely accepted active galactic nucleus (AGN) paradigm has been recently challenged by the discovery of the so-called ``changing-look'' (CL) phenomenon characterized by spectral-type transitions. By comparing the SDSS-V and SDSS DR16…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Bai , T. G. Brink , C. Gao , W. K. Zheng , A. V. Filippenko

Our understanding of highly accreting AGNs is hampered by the lack of a complete systematic investigation in terms of their main spectral and variability properties, and by the relative paucity of them in the local Universe, especially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 M. Laurenti , F. Tombesi , F. Vagnetti , E. Piconcelli , M. Guainazzi , C. Vignali , M. Paolillo , R. Middei , A. Bongiorno , L. Zappacosta

Deep extragalactic X-ray surveys, such as the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy field (CCLS), are prone to be biased against active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high column densities due to their lower count rates at a given luminosity. To quantify this…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are well-known to exhibit flux variability across a wide range of wavelength regimes, but the precise origin of the variability at different wavelengths remains unclear. To investigate the relatively unexplored…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 James R. A. Davenport , John J. Ruan , Andrew C. Becker , Chelsea L. Macleod , Roc M. Cutri

We take advantage of the rich multi-wavelength data available in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), including the 4 Msec Chandra observations (the deepest X-ray data to date), in order to search for heavily-obscured low-luminosity AGN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ezequiel Treister , C. Megan Urry , Kevin Schawinski , Carolin N. Cardamone , David Sanders

The $\gamma$-ray astronomy in time domain has been by now progressed further as the variabilities of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on different timescales have been reported a lot. We study the $\gamma$-ray variabilities of 23 jetted AGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang

We present new Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope observations of eight optically selected broad-line AGN candidates in nearby dwarf galaxies ($z<0.055$). Including archival Chandra observations of three additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Vivienne F. Baldassare , Amy E. Reines , Elena Gallo , Jenny E. Greene

Even in deep X-ray surveys, Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT AGNs, ${\rm N_H} \geqslant 1.5~\times~10^{24}~{\rm cm}^{-2}$) are difficult to be identified due to X-ray flux suppression and their complex spectral shape. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Xiaotong Guo , Qiusheng Gu , Nan Ding , Xiaoling Yu , Yongyun Chen