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This is the first of a series of three papers exploring the connection between the multiwavelength properties of AGNs in nearby early-type galaxies and the characteristics of their hosts. We selected two samples, both with high resolution 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Capetti , Barbara Balmaverde

We summarize recent results on the infrared (IR) nuclear properties of Seyfert galaxies. 100% of all Seyfert 1-1.9$ and ~50% of all Seyfert 2s in the CfA and RSA samples observed with HST/NICMOS show nuclear point sources at 1.6micron. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Almudena Alonso-Herrero

Galaxy interactions are thought to be one of the main triggers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially at high luminosities, where the accreted gas mass during the AGN lifetime is substantial. Evidence for a connection between mergers…

Aims. We present results of a comprehensive spectral study on the large-scale environment of AGNs based on Sloan Spectroscopic Survey data. Methods. We analyzed the spectra of galaxies in the environment of AGN and other activity classes up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 W. Kollatschny , A. Reichstein , M. Zetzl

We present the two--point correlation function (2PCF) of narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected within the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using a sample of 13605 AGN in the redshift range 0.055 < z < 0.2, we…

We study the host properties and environment of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) galaxies, taken from SDSS-DR12, across the $\text{[O III]}/\text{H}\beta$ vs $\text{[N II]}/\text{H}\alpha$ diagnostic diagram. We select AGN subsamples defined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Noelia Perez , Georgina Coldwell

In order to understand the interactions between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation during the evolution of galaxies, we investigate 142 galaxies detected in both X-ray and 70{\mu}m observations in the COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Ming-Yi Lin , Yasuhiro Hashimoto , Sebastien Foucaud

We used narrowband interference filters with the CCD imaging camera on the Nickel 1.0 meter telescope at Lick Observatory to observe 31 nearby (z < 0.03) Seyfert galaxies in the 12 {\mu}m Active Galaxy Sample. We obtained pure emission line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-11 R. L. Theios , M. A. Malkan , N. R. Ross

Sensitive Herschel far-infrared observations can break degeneracies that were inherent to previous studies of star formation in high-z AGN hosts. Combining PACS 100 and 160um observations of the GOODS-N field with 2Msec Chandra data, we…

We use stellar population synthesis modeling to analyze the host galaxy properties of a sample of 33 UV-selected, narrow-lined active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z ~ 2 - 3. In order to quantify the contribution of AGN emission to host galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kevin N. Hainline , Alice E. Shapley , Jenny E. Greene , Charles C. Steidel , Naveen A. Reddy , Dawn K. Erb

We present a multi-waveband analysis of a 126 galaxy sub-sample of the 12 micron galaxy sample (12MGS), for which we have carried out a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of in a previous paper. We present optical activity classes and we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Murray Brightman , Kirpal Nandra

We analyse Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT AGNs), a heavily obscured subclass that challenges traditional X-ray diagnostics. Using 243 sources from the 70-Month \textit{SWIFT}/BAT catalogue (26 CT, 217 non-CT), we investigate their…

We have compiled a sample of 21 low redshift (z < 0.3), luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Balmer decrements (Halpha/Hbeta > 7) using the galaxy and QSO catalogs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release. Using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Xiao-Bo Dong , Hong-Yan Zhou , Ting-Gui Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Cheng Li , You-Yuan Zhou

Surveys of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in different observational regimes seem to give different answers for the behaviour of the obscured fraction with luminosity. Based on the complex spectra seen in recent studies, we note that partial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jack H. Mayo , Andy Lawrence

We present Chandra ACIS-S X-ray imaging spectroscopy for five dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates. Our targets were drawn from a sample of 1286 [O III]-selected AGN pairs systematically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Meicun Hou , Xin Liu , Hengxiao Guo , Zhiyuan Li , Yue Shen , Paul J. Green

We investigate the effect of environment on the presence and fuelling of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) by identifying galaxies hosting AGN in massive galaxy clusters and the fields around them. We have identified AGN candidates via optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-29 Alison J. Klesman , Vicki L. Sarajedini

While theory and simulations indicate that galaxy mergers play an important role in the cosmological evolution of accreting black holes and their host galaxies, samples of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in galaxies at close separations are…

We present mosaicked long-slit spectral maps of 18 nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), 2 LINERs, and 4 star-forming galaxies. With the resulting data cubes taken using the Kast dual spectrograph on the 3 m Shane telescope of the Lick…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Junjie Xia , Matthew A. Malkan , Nathaniel R. Ross , Agnes J. Ancheta

We have analyzed archival \textit{Chandra} and \textit{XMM-Newton} data for two nearly complete homogeneously selected samples of type 2 Seyfert galaxies (Sy2s). These samples were selected based on intrinsic Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , L. Martins , V. Wild , P. Sonnentrucker , A. Hornschemeier