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We use a sample of active galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey to show that host galaxy morphology is tied to the accretion rate and X-ray obscuration of its active galactic nucleus (AGN). Unobscured and rapidly accreting broad-line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 Jonathan R. Trump

Using the spectra of a sample of $\sim$28,000 nearby obscured active galaxies from Data Release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we probe the connection between AGN activity and star formation over a range of radial scales in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephanie M. LaMassa , Timothy M. Heckman , Andrew Ptak , C. Megan Urry

We present a sample of 930 intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with black hole masses of $M_\mathrm{BH} \leqslant 2 \times 10^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, uniformly selected from the Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Wen-Juan Liu , Luis C. Ho , Xiao-Bo Dong , Su Yao , Paulina Lira , Yicheng Guo

The luminous electromagnetic emission from distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) including quasars is believed to be powered by accretion onto super-massive black holes (SMBHs). In the standard unification model for AGNs a dusty torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shuang Nan Zhang

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the signposts of black hole growth, and likely play an important role in galaxy evolution. An outstanding question is whether AGN of different spectral types indicate different evolutionary stages in the…

We build a simple physical model to study the high-redshift active galactic Nucleus (AGN) evolution within the co-evolution framework of central black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies. The correlation between the circular velocity of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Jirong Mao , Minsun Kim

There is a broad consensus that accretion onto supermassive black holes and consequent jet formation power the observed emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, there has been less agreement about how jets form in accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Shane W. Davis , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

White dwarfs (WDs) embedded in gaseous disks of active galactic nucleus (AGNs) can rapidly accrete materials from the disks and grow in mass to reach or even exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. Binary WD (BWD) mergers are also believed to occur…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Jin-Ping Zhu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang , Liang-Duan Liu , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), such as Seyfert galaxies, quasars, etc., show light variations in all wavelength bands, with various amplitude and in many time scales. The variations usually look erratic, not periodic nor purely random. Many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chatief Kunjaya , Putra Mahasena , Kiki Vierdayanti , Stefani Herlie

Recent models for the inner structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN) aim at connecting the outer region of the accretion disk with the broad-line region and dusty torus through a radiatively accelerated, dusty outflow. Such an outflow not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Hermine Landt

Pouliasis et al (2022b) explored star formation rates, black hole accretion rates, and stellar mass of active galaxies at redshift above 3.5, uncovering a leveling off of the star formation rate at high stellar mass, which they consider to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 David Garofalo , Ektoras Pouliasis

We investigate the origin of the intrinsic scatter in the correlation between black hole mass (MBH) and bulge luminosity [L(bulge)] in a sample of 45 massive, local (z < 0.35) type~1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We derive MBH from…

Observations show that the accretion flows in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) probably have a two-component structure with an inner ADAF and an outer truncated accretion disk. As shown by Taam et al. (2012), the truncation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Erlin Qiao , B. F. Liu , Francesca Panessa , J. Y. Liu

The main fuelling processes for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are currently unknown. Previous work showed that galaxies with a large kinematic misalignment between their stellar and gas reservoirs have a higher AGN fraction than galaxies…

Compact objects (COs) can exist and evolve in an active galactic nuclei (AGN) disk, triggering a series of attractive CO-related multi-messenger events around a supermassive black hole. To better understand the nature of an embedded CO and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Ken Chen , Jia Ren , Zi-Gao Dai

(Abridged) We present a method that tracks the growth of supermassive black holes (BHs) and the feedback from AGN in cosmological simulations. Our model is a substantially modified version of the one by Springel et al. (2005). Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye

AGNs exhibit a wide range of black hole masses and inflow/outflow properties. It is now possible to probe regions close to the event horizons of nearby SMBHs using VLBI with earth-sized baselines, as performed by the EHT. This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Christian Fendt , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Neil M. Nagar , Felipe Agurto-Sepulveda , Javier Pedreros

We analyze the broadband photometric light curves of Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sergeev et al. (2005) sample and find that a) perturbations propagating across the continuum emitting region are a general phenomenon securely detected in most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Doron Chelouche

Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN). Massive clusters, which represent the…

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has become a major component in simulations of galaxy evolution, in particular for massive galaxies. AGN jets have been shown to provide a large amount of energy and are capable of quenching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause , Joseph Silk