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In 2014 the NGC 5548 Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping campaign discovered a two-month anomaly when variations in the absorption and emission lines decorrelated from continuum variations. During this time the soft X-ray part…

In this manuscript, we carefully check the correlation between the line width and the line flux of the double-peaked broad H$\alpha$ of the well-known mapped AGN 3C390.3, in order to show some further distinctions between double-peaked…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 XueGuang Zhang

We propose a very simple physical mechanism responsible for the formation of the Low Ionization Line part of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. It explains the scaling of the Broad Line Region size with the monochromatic…

We have monitored the AGN 3C390.3 between 1995 and 2000.Two large amplitude outbursts, of different duration, in continuum and H beta light were observed ie.: in October 1994 a brighter flare that lasted about 1000 days and in July 1997…

We found a very large, 35 kpc, emission-line region around the Seyfert type 2 galaxy NGC 4388, using deep narrow-band imaging with the prime focus camera (Suprime-Cam) of the Subaru telescope. This region consists of many faint gas clouds…

In this work we analyze a sample of AGN spectra, selected from the 6th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, exploiting a generalized technique of line profile analysis, designed to take into account the whole profiles of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. La Mura , F. Di Mille , S. Ciroi , L. Č. Popović , P. Rafanelli

It is now widely accepted that most galaxies undergo an active phase, during which a central super-massive black hole generates vast radiant luminosities through the gravitational accretion of gas. Winds launched from a rotating accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 S. Young , D. J. Axon , A. Robinson , J. H. Hough , J. E. Smith

Recent observations of Seyfert 1 AGN with Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku revealed broad iron K_alpha emission lines, some relativistically blurred. For galactic black hole X-ray binaries XMM-Newton spectra during hard state also reveal the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Meyer-Hofmeister , F. Meyer

LINERs exist in the nuclei of a large fraction of luminous galaxies, but their connection with the AGN phenomenon has remained elusive. We present Hubble Space Telescope narrowband [O III]5007 and H-alpha+[N II] emission-line images of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. W. Pogge , D. Maoz , L. C. Ho , M. Eracleous

We propose that the accretion disks fueling active galactic nuclei are supported vertically against gravity by a strong toroidal ($\phi-$direction) magnetic field that develops naturally as the result of an accretion disk dynamo. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Mitchell C. Begelman , Joseph Silk

Galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) exhibit broad emission lines as a key spectral feature. The shape of emission-line profiles depends on the complex dynamics of discrete clouds within a spatially extended region known as the Broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 M. H. Naddaf , M. L. Martinez-Aldama , D. Hutsemekers , D. Savic , B. Czerny

A new model is presented which explains the origin of the broad emission lines observed in the LINER/Seyfert nucleus of M81 in terms of a steady state spherically symmetric inflow, amounting to 1 x 10^-5 Msun/yr, which is sufficient to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nick Devereux , Andrew Shearer

We investigate the origin of extragalactic continuum emission and its relation to the stellar population of a recently discovered peculiar z=3.344 Lyman alpha emitter. Based on an analysis of the broad-band colors and morphology we find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Michael Rauch , George D. Becker , Martin Haehnelt

We propose a solution to the problem of accretion disc sizes in active galactic nuclei being larger when measured by reverberation mapping than predicted by theory. Considering blackbody reprocessing on a disc with thickness profile $H(r)$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 D. A. Starkey , Jiamu Huang , Keith Horne , Douglas N. C. Lin

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 present a detailed analysis of broad band X-ray data of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC5506. 2-10 keV band are detected during a 1-day ASCA observation, while no significant change in the 2-10 keV continuum shape is found. The ASCA spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. G. Wang , T. Mihara , C. Otani , M. Matsuoka , H. Awaki

This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the influence of radial behavior of disk outflow on the structure and dynamics of the broad line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), with the emphasis on how the mass ejection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-30 Mohammad Hassan Naddaf

We analyze an optical data cube of the nuclear region of NGC 3621, taken with the integral field unit of the Gemini Multi-object Spectrograph. We found that the previously detected central line emission in this galaxy actually comes from a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-09 R. B. Menezes , J. E. Steiner , Patrícia da Silva

NGC 4527 is a nearby edge-on spiral galaxy with both starburst and AGN features, hosting a LINER nucleus. We present a radio study of the large-scale structure and nuclear region of this galaxy, based on new uGMRT observations at 700 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 C. A. Galante , G. E. Romero , J. Saponara , P. Benaglia

We investigate the variability behaviour of the broad Hb emission-line to driving continuum variations in the best-studied AGN NGC 5548. For a particular choice of BLR geometry, Hb surface emissivity based on photoionization models, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Michael R. Goad , Kirk T. Korista
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