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The Spitzer Space Telescope revolutionized studies of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Its combined sensitivity and mapping speed at mid-infrared wavelengths revealed a substantial population of highly-obscured AGNs. This population implies a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-13 Mark Lacy , Anna Sajina

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) variability can be used to study the physics of the region in the vicinity of the central black hole. In this paper, we investigated intra-night optical variability of AGN in the COSMOS field in order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Joonho Kim , Marios Karouzos , Myungshin Im , Changsu Choi , Dohyeong Kim , Hyunsung D. Jun , Joon Hyeop Lee , Mar Mezcua

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes in galaxies, which present unique observational signatures covering the full electromagnetic spectrum (and more) over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stefano Bianchi , Vincenzo Mainieri , Paolo Padovani

We characterize the incidence of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is 0.3 < z < 1 star-forming galaxies by applying multi-wavelength AGN diagnostics (X-ray, optical, mid-infrared, radio) to a sample of galaxies selected at 70-micron from the…

A wide-frequency radio study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is crucial to evaluate the intervening radiative mechanisms responsible for the observed emission and relate them with the underlying accretion physics. We present wide frequency…

We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since emission lines are often contaminated by…

We present a comprehensive analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of 198 newly identified active galactic nuclei (AGNs), leveraging archival data from the {\it Chandra} X-ray Observatory. All these AGNs exhibit a powerlaw spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Samrat Ghosh , Samir Mandal , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Shivam Kumaran

Variability has proven to be a powerful tool to detect active galactic nuclei (AGN) in multi-epoch surveys. The new-generation facilities expected to become operational in the next few years will mark a new era in time-domain astronomy and…

We test the consistency of active galactic nuclei (AGN) optical flux variability with the $\textit{damped random walk}$ (DRW) model. Our sample consists of 20 multi-quarter $\textit{Kepler}$ AGN light curves including both Type 1 and 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 Vishal P. Kasliwal , Michael S. Vogeley , Gordon T. Richards

An incremental version of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope is presented. This version (4LAC-DR3) derives from the third data release of the 4FGL catalog based on 12 years of E>50…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 LAT collaboration , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Philippe Bruel , Sara Buson , Regina Caputo , Patrizia Caraveo , Teddy Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Niccolo Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Elizabeth Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , David Green , Isabelle Grenier , Sylvain Guiriec , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Taishu Kayanoki , Michael Kuss , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Tiffany Lewis , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Michael Lovellette , Pasquale Lubrano , Grzegorz Madejski , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Peter Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Maria Elena Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Roopesh Ojha , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , Zhiyuan Pei , Harold A. Pena-Herazo , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Jeff Scargle , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Dan Suson , Hiro Tajima , Diego F. Torres , Janeth Valverde , Hend Yassin , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We report the results of a pilot study that searched for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in local ($z<$0.25) galaxies hosting double-peaked narrow emission lines in their optical spectra. We present high-resolution $L-$band (1.5 GHz or 18…

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are multiwavelength emitters. To have any hope of understanding them, or even to determine their energy output, we must observe them with many telescopes. I will review what we have learned from broad-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Belinda J. Wilkes

Hard X-ray surveys are an important tool for the study of active galactic nuclei (AGN): they provide almost an unbiased view of absorption in the extragalactic population, allow the study of spectral features such as reflection and high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-12 Loredana Bassani , M. Molina , A. Malizia , F. Panessa , R. Landi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini , A. J. Bird , J. B. Stephen

We report the discovery of eight new recurrent changing-look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including seven re-brightening turn-off AGNs and one fading turn-on AGN. These systems are valuable for placing constraints on the duration of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-22 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Elena Gallo , Donghoon Son , Qian Yang , Junjie Jin , Hengxiao Guo , Minzhi Kong

The nature of the so-called ``changing-look'' (CL) active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is characterized by spectral-type transitions within $\sim10$~yr, remains an open question. As the first in our series of studies, we here attempt to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 J. Wang , W. K. Zheng , T. G. Brink , D. W. Xu , A. V. Filippenko , C. Gao , C. H. Xie , J. Y. Wei

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are ideal sources for multi-wavelength studies as their emission can cover almost 20 orders of magnitude in frequency from the radio to the gamma-ray band. After reviewing their basic properties, I will assess…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

We report the discovery using Spitzers high resolution spectrograph of 7 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in a sample of 32 late-type galaxies that show no definitive signatures of AGN in their optical spectra. Our observations suggest that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Satyapal , D. Vega , R. P. Dudik , N. P. Abel , T. Heckman

Time variability is a strong probe of energetic phenomena which occur at small spatial scales, like Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We use ALMA observations at 100 GHz executed over a period of 2.5 months to look for time variability in the…