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We queried the Spitzer archive for high-resolution observations with the Infrared Spectrograph of optically selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) for the purpose of identifying sources with resolved fine-structure lines that would enable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-21 K. M. Dasyra , L. C. Ho , H. Netzer , F. Combes , B. Trakhtenbrot , E. Sturm , L. Armus , D. Elbaz

The kinematic disturbances associated with major galaxy mergers are known to produce gas inflows, which in turn may trigger accretion onto the supermassive black holes (SMBH) of the participant galaxies. While this effect has been studied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Robert W. Bickley , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton , Scott Wilkinson

Double-peaked narrow emission lines in active galactic nucleus (AGN) spectra can be produced by AGN outflows, rotation, or dual AGNs, which are AGN pairs in ongoing galaxy mergers. Consequently, double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines are…

Metals in the hot gaseous halos of galaxies encode the history of star formation as well as the feedback processes that eject metals from the galaxies. X-ray observations suggest that massive galaxies have extended distributions of metals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Ena Choi , Ryan Brennan , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Michaela Hirschmann , Thorsten Naab

We investigate the correlation between ionized gas outflows, jets, and star formation in a sample of 42 local type-I active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibiting significant [O III] outflows. This study uses both new submillimeter (sub-mm)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Xiaozhi Lin , Kim Ngan Nhat Nguyen

We present a new tool for the analysis of the optical emission lines of the gas in the Narrow Line Region (NLR) around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). This new tool can be used in large samples of objects in a consistent way using different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 R. García-Benito , E. Pérez-Montero , O. L. Dors , J. M. Vílchez , M. V. Cardaci , G. F. Hägele

Current reverberation mapping (RM) studies primarily focus on single emission lines, particularly the \hb\ line, which may not fully reveal the geometry and kinematic properties of the broad-line region (BLR). To overcome this limitation,…

We present an updated and revised analysis of the relationship between the Hbeta broad-line region (BLR) radius and the luminosity of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). Specifically, we have carried out two-dimensional surface brightness…

Outflows in the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) are considered to play a key role in the host galaxy evolution through transfer of a large amount of energy. A Narrow Line Region (NLR) in the AGN is composed of ionized gas extending from…

Outflows from active galactic nuclei may be produced by absorption of continuum radiation by UV resonance lines of abundant metal ions, as observed in broad absorption line quasars (BALQs). The radiation pressure exerted on the metal ions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor

As part of an extensive study of the physical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) we report high spatial resolution near-IR integral-field spectroscopy of the narrow-line region (NLR) and coronal-line region (CLR) of seven Seyfert…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. Müller-Sánchez , A. Prieto , E. K. S. Hicks , H. Vives-Arias , R. I. Davies , M. Malkan , L. J. Tacconi , R. Genzel

Dust enshrouded activity can ideally be studied by mid-infrared (MIR) observations. In order to explore the AGN versus star forming origin of the nuclear MIR emission of galaxies, observations of high spatial resolution are required. Here…

The location of warm dust producing the Mid-infrared (MIR) emission in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is complex and not yet fully known. We explore this problem by studying how the MIR covering factor (CF_{MIR} =L_{MIR}/L_{bol})…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , Lin Yan , Xiao-Bo Dong

We present the results of broad-line region (BLR) dynamical modeling for eight high-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project, by constraining BLR geometry and kinematics as well as black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Lizvette Villafaña , Tommaso Treu , Elena Gallo

Although now routinely incorporated into hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy evolution, the true importance of the feedback effect of the outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains uncertain from an observational perspective.…

We analyzed the evolution of the metallicity of the gas with the redshift for a sample of AGNs in a very wide redshift range (0<z<4) using ultraviolet emission-lines from the narrow-line regions (NLRs) and photoionization models. The new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Oli L. Dors , Monica V. Cardaci , Guillermo F. Hagele , Angela C. Krabbe

In order to contribute to the general effort aiming at the improvement of our knowledge about the physical conditions within the Broad Line Region (BLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), here we present the results achieved by our analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 G. La Mura , L. Č. Popović , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Ilić

Using a sample of the $Spitzer$ SWIRE-field galaxies whose optical spectra are taken from the Data Release 4 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study possible correlations between the Mid-InfraRed (MIR) dust emission from these galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Wu , Yi-Nan Zhu , Chen Cao , Bo Qin

Measuring metallicity in the nuclear regions of AGNs is difficult because only a few lines are observed and ionization correction becomes a major problem. Nitrogen to carbon ratio has been widely used as an indicator for metallicity, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Smita Mathur , Dale Fields

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are characterized by similar broad emission lines properties at all luminosities ($10^{39}$-$10^{47}$ erg s$^{-1}$). What produces this similarity over a vast range of $10^8$ in luminosity? Photoionization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor , Jonathan Stern