English
Related papers

Related papers: Low-Mass Active Galactic Nuclei with Rapid X-Ray V…

200 papers

We present X-ray spectral variability of 24 local active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Palomar sample of nearby galaxies, as observed mainly by Swift. From hardness ratio measurements, we find that 18 AGN with low accretion rates show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 S. D. Connolly , I. M. McHardy , C. J. Skipper , D. Emmanoulopoulos

(Abridged) We complete the census of nuclear X-ray activity in 100 early type Virgo galaxies observed by the Chandra X-ray Telescope as part of the AMUSE-Virgo survey, down to a (3sigma) limiting luminosity of 3.7E+38 erg/s over 0.5-7 keV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Elena Gallo , Tommaso Treu , Philip J. Marshall , Jong-Hak Woo , Christian Leipski , Robert Antonucci

We perform a detailed investigation of moderate-to-high quality X-ray spectra of ten of the most luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known at z>4 (up to z~6.28). This study includes five new XMM observations and five archived X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , C. Vignali , D. P. Schneider , X. Fan , G. T. Richards , M. A. Strauss

We investigate the X-ray variability properties of Seyfert1 Galaxies belonging to the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). The sample includes 151 unobscured (N$_{\rm H}<10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$) AGNs observed with XMM-Newton for a total exposure…

In contrast to massive, bulge hosting galaxies, very few supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are known in either low mass, or bulgeless galaxies. Such a population could provide clues to the origins of SMBHs and to secular pathways for their…

The Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources, Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources, and High Frequency Peakers (HFP) radio sources are thought to be young radio AGNs, at the early stage of AGN evolution. We investigated the optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Mai Liao , Minfeng Gu

We study properties of the host galaxies of 15 hard X-ray selected type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at intermediate redshifts (0.05$<z<$0.6) detected in $ASCA$ surveys. The absorption corrected hard X-ray luminosities $L_{\rm 2-10 keV}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaku Kiuchi , Kouji Ohta , Masayuki Akiyama , Kentaro Aoki , Yoshihiro Ueda

We present new Chandra X-ray observations of seven low-mass black holes (~1e6 Msun) accreting at low Eddington ratios between -2.0<log L/Ledd<-1.5. We compare the X-ray properties of these seven low-mass active galactic nuclei (AGN) to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Richard M. Plotkin , Elena Gallo , Francesco Haardt , Brendan P. Miller , Abigail J. Wood , Amy E. Reines , Jianfeng Wu , Jenny E. Greene

We report stellar velocity dispersion measurements for a sample of 28 AGN host galaxies including our previous work. Using the mass-dispersion ($M_{\bullet}-\sigma$) and the fundamental plane relations, we estimate the black hole mass for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -H. Woo , C. M. Urry , R. P. van der Marel , P. Lira , J. Maza

We compute black hole masses and bolometric luminosities for 57 active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the redshift range 1.25 < z < 2.67, selected from the GOODS-South deep multi-wavelength survey field via their X-ray emission. We determine host…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Brooke D. Simmons , C. Megan Urry , Kevin Schawinski , Carolin Cardamone , Eilat Glikman

We explore host galaxy properties and environment of a sample of Type 1 and 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) taken from the COSMOS2015 catalog, within 0.3 $\leq z \leq$ 1.1 selected for their emission in X-rays, optical spectra and SED…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Carlos Guillermo Bornancini , Diego García Lambas

Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) through their X-ray emission is efficient, but necessarily biased against X-ray-faint objects. We aim to characterize this bias by comparing X-ray-selected AGNs to the ones identified through…

We present the observed-frame optical, near- and mid-infrared properties of X-ray selected AGN in the Lockman Hole. Using a likelihood ratio method on optical, near-infrared or mid-infrared catalogues, we assigned counterparts to 401 out of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Rovilos , S. Fotopoulou , M. Salvato , V. Burwitz , E. Egami , G. Hasinger , G. Szokoly

Understanding the relative roles of large-scale environment and internal host-galaxy processes in shaping AGN activity is essential for constraining models of black-hole growth and galaxy evolution. We investigate how the environment of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 G. Mountrichas , F. J. Carrera , F. Shankar , A. Georgakakis

We present the first systematic study of short-timescale X-ray variability in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN), utilizing archival Chandra observations of approximately 3,000 broad-line AGN selected from the SDSS and DESI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiurui Zhao , Luca Comisso , Stefano Marchesi , Marco Ajello , Elias Kammoun , Yue Shen , Qiaoya Wu

X-ray emission detection in a galaxy is one of the efficient tools for selecting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). However, many X-ray-selected AGNs are not easily selected as AGNs by their optical emission. These galaxies, so-called optically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-31 Itsna K. Fitriana , Takashi Murayama

Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside in the heart of virtually every massive galaxy, it remains debated whether dwarf galaxies commonly host SMBHs. Because low-mass galaxies may retain memory of the assembly history of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-04 Andrea Sacchi , Akos Bogdan , Urmila Chadayammuri , Angelo Ricarte

We present an initial sample of 19 intermediate-mass black hole candidates in active galactic nuclei culled from the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using the linewidth-luminosity-mass scaling relation established for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng
‹ Prev 1 8 9 10 Next ›