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Far-infrared spectroscopy obtained with the ISO LWS has shown that there is strong variation (more than 2 orders of magnitude) in the [C II]/FIR ratios in galaxies extending from blue compact dwarfs, to normal and starburst galaxies, down…

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The narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line is one of the main signatures of the reprocessing of X-ray radiation from the material surrounding supermassive black holes, and it has been found to be omnipresent in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Stephane Paltani , Kohei Ichikawa , Poshak Gandhi , Hisamitsu Awaki

Many classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been observed and recorded since the discovery of Seyfert galaxies. In this paper, we examine the sample of luminous galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We find a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-05 Ben Roig , Michael R. Blanton , Nicolas P. Ross

We conduct the first systematic survey of a total of eleven optical coronal lines in the spectra of a large sample of low redshift (z < 0.8) Type 1 quasars observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that strong coronal line…

Arp 220 is the nearest ULIRG; it shows evidence of 100 pc-scale molecular outflows likely connected with galaxy-scale outflows traced by ionised and neutral gas. The two highly obscured nuclei of Arp 220 are the site of intense star…

Temporal asymmetry in the flux variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) offers key insights into the physical mechanisms driving AGN variability. In this study, we investigated the variability of the torus by analyzing temporal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

We report the broadband X-ray spectra of the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) UGC 5101 in the 0.25-100 keV band observed with Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), NuSTAR, Suzaku, XMM-Newton, and Chandra. A Compton-thick AGN obscured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Saeko Oda , Atsushi Tanimoto , Yoshihiro Ueda , Masatoshi Imanishi , Yuichi Terashima , Claudio Ricci

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of WISE mid-IR color selection (W1-W2) for identifying obscured (Type 2) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at low redshift (z<0.3), using a sample of ~360,000 SDSS galaxies classified via emission…

Using the multi-epoch mid-infrared (MIR) photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spanning a baseline of $\sim10$ yr, we extensively investigate the MIR variability of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at $0.15 < z < 0.4$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-11 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

We present the results of our ALMA observations of three AGN-dominated nuclei in optical Seyfert 1 galaxies (NGC 7469, I Zw 1, and IC 4329 A) and eleven luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) with various levels of infrared estimated energetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Masatoshi Imanishi , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Takuma Izumi

We summarize multiwavelength properties of a sample of galaxies in the CDF-N and CDF-S whose Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) exhibit the characteristic power-law behavior expected for AGN in the Spitzer/IRAC 3.6-8micron bands. AGN…

The reflection spectrum of the torus around AGN is characterized by X-ray fluorescent lines, which are most prominent for type II AGN. A clumpy torus allows photons reflected from the back-side of the torus to leak through the front…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Jiren Liu , Yuan Liu , Xiaobo Li , Weiwei Xu , Lijun Gou , Cheng Cheng

We have conducted a comprehensive mid-IR spectroscopic investigation of 67 Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Line Regions (LINERs) using archival observations from the high resolution modules of the Infrared Spectrograph on board the Spitzer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 R. P. Dudik , S. Satyapal , D. Marcu

We present the results of infrared 2.8-4.1 micron (L-band) spectroscopy of nearby infrared luminous galaxies with possible signatures of dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in data at other wavelengths. The samples are chosen to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masatoshi Imanishi

We measure the clustering of non-quasar X-ray AGN at z=0.7-1.4 in the AEGIS field. Using the cross-correlation of 113 Chandra-selected AGN, with a median log L_X=42.8 erg s^-1, with ~5,000 DEEP2 galaxies, we find that the X-ray AGN are fit…

We present 8-13 micron imaging and spectroscopy of 9 type 1 and 10 type 2 AGN obtained with the VLT/VISIR instrument at spatial resolution <100 pc. The emission from the host galaxy sources is resolved out in most cases. The silicate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. F. Hoenig , M. Kishimoto , P. Gandhi , A. Smette , D. Asmus , W. Duschl , M. Polletta , G. Weigelt

In order to derive the AGN contribution to the cosmological ionizing emissivity we have selected faint AGN candidates at $z>4$ in the CANDELS GOODS-South field which is one of the deepest fields with extensive multiwavelength coverage from…

In order to constrain the properties of dense and warm gas around active galactic nuclei, we have searched Infrared Space Observatory spectra of local active galactic nuclei for the signature of the 4.7micron fundamental ro-vibrational band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lutz , E. Sturm , R. Genzel , H. W. W. Spoon , G. J. Stacey

We present results from the fitting of infrared (IR) spectral energy distributions of 21 active galactic nuclei (AGN) with clumpy torus models. We compiled high spatial resolution ($\sim 0.3$--$0.7$ arcsec) mid-IR $N$-band spectroscopy,…

We present a study of Spitzer/IRAC and X-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selection techniques in order to quantify the overlap, uniqueness, contamination, and completeness of each. We investigate how the overlap and possible contamination…