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The non linear correlation between the UV and X-ray emission observed in Active Galactic Nuclei remains a puzzling question that challenged accretion models. While the UV emission originates from the cold disk, the X-ray emission is emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Samuel Barnier , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Jonathan Ferreira , Gregoire Marcel

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are occasionally seen in pairs, suggesting that tidal encounters are responsible for the accretion of material by both central supermassive black holes (BHs). In Paper I of this series, we selected a sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss

Theoretical models for the production of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei predict that jet power arises from the spin and mass of the central black hole, as well as the magnetic field near the event horizon. The physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti , T. Sbarrato

We present new estimates of redshift-dependent luminosity functions of IR lines detectable by SPICA/SAFARI and excited both by star formation and by AGN activity. The new estimates improve over previous work by using updated evolutionary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Bonato , M. Negrello , Z. -Y. Cai , G. De Zotti , A. Bressan , A. Lapi , F. Pozzi , C. Gruppioni , L. Danese

We combine data from two all-sky surveys in order to study the connection between the infrared and hard X-ray (>10keV) properties for local active galactic nuclei (AGN). The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope all-sky survey provides an unbiased,…

The presence of the warm absorber of considerable optical depth is seen in many AGN. We show that this medium may affect significantly the optical/UV spectrum of an AGN by backscattering a fraction of the total radiation flux towards the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Loska , B. Czerny , R. Szczerba

Water and ice Cherenkov telescopes of the present and future aim for the detection of a neutrino signal from extraterrestrial sources at energies E>PeV. Some of the most promising extragalactic sources are Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julia K. Becker , Peter L. Biermann , Wolfgang Rhode

The dichotomy between radio-loud (RL) and radio-quiet (RQ) active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to be intrinsically related to radio jet production. This difference may be explained by the presence of a strong magnetic field (B-field)…

We use a sample of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with estimated central black hole masses to explore their jet formation mechanisms. The jet power of AGNs is estimated from their extended radio luminosity. It is found that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xinwu Cao

The X-ray--to--UV relation of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), commonly parametrized via the monochromatic luminosities at $2500\,\mathring{A}$ and $2\,keV$, reflects the energetic interplay between the accretion disc and the X-ray-emitting…

Six low-luminosity active galactic nuclei have been imaged at multiple frequencies from 1.7--43 GHz (2.3--15 GHz for three of the galaxies) using the Very Long Baseline Array. In spite of dynamic ranges of about 100 in several frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Anderson , James S. Ulvestad , Luis C. Ho

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host powerful jets containing high-energy electrons and protons. The astrophysical environment where AGNs and their jets are found is characterized by large concentrations of both dark matter (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Mikhail Gorchtein

Compact radio active galactic nuclei (compact radio AGN) are compact ($\leq$ 20 kpc), powerful radio sources. Currently, the preferred scenario is that they are at the early stage of AGN evolution. At present, the research of compact radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Mai Liao , Minfeng Gu

We present the completed results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all (~200) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) and AGNs in the Palomar Spectroscopic Sample. The high incidences of pc-scale radio nuclei, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Neil M. Nagar , Heino Falcke , Andrew S. Wilson

We study the orientation of accretion disks, traced by the position angle of the jet, relative to the dust disk major axis in a sample of 20 nearby Radio Galaxies. We find that the observed distribution of angles between the jet and dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henrique R. Schmitt

Jets associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been observed for almost a century, initially at optical and radio wavelengths. They are now widely accepted as "exhausts" produced electromagnetically by the central, spinning, massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 R. Blandford , W. East , K. Nalewajko , Y. Yuan , J. Zrake

We examine the disc--jet connection in stellar mass and supermassive black holes by investigating the properties of their compact emission in the X-ray and radio bands. We compile a sample of ~100 active galactic nuclei with measured mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Andrea Merloni , Sebastian Heinz , Tiziana Di Matteo

We investigate the optical emission-line flux ratios of narrow-line regions, in order to determine whether the formation of AGN jets requires specific accretion conditions. We find that bright compact radio galaxies, which are powerful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nozomu Kawakatu , Tohru Nagao , Jong-Hak Woo

We present a systematic X-ray and multiwavelength study of a sample of 47 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with reverberation-mapping measurements. This sample includes 21 super-Eddington accreting AGNs and 26 sub-Eddington accreting AGNs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Hezhen Liu , B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , Michael S. Brotherton , S. C. Gallagher , Q. Ni , Ohad Shemmer , J. D. Timlin

Relativistic jets of plasma are a key ingredient of many types of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Today we know that AGNs are powered by the accretion of inter stellar material into the gravitational field of a Super Massive Black Hole and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Giovanni La Mura , Giovanni Busetto , Stefano Ciroi , Piero Rafanelli , Marco Berton , Enrico Congiu , Valentina Cracco , Michele Frezzato