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Recent high angular resolution observations resolved for the first time the mid-infrared (MIR) structure of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN). Surprisingly, they revealed that a major fraction of their MIR emission comes from the polar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Marko Stalevski , Daniel Asmus , Konrad R. W. Tristram

Obscured AGNs provide an opportunity to study the material surrounding the central engine. Geometric and physical constraints on the absorber can be deduced from the reprocessed AGN emission. In particular, the obscuring gas may reprocess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Raj Gohil , David R. Ballantyne

The INTEGRAL mission provides a large data set for studying the hard X-ray properties of AGN and allows testing of the unified scheme for AGN. We present analysis of INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI, JEM-X, and OMC data for 199 AGN supposedly detected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Beckmann , S. Soldi , C. Ricci , J. Alfonso-Garzón , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , A. Domingo , N. Gehrels , P. Lubinski , J. M. Mas-Hesse , A. A. Zdziarski

(abridged)The majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suffer from significant obscuration by surrounding dust and gas. X-ray surveys in the 2-10 keV band will miss the most heavily-obscured AGN in which the absorbing column density exceeds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , Timothy M. Heckman , Andrew A. Ptak , Ann Hornschemeier , Lucimara Martins , Paule Sonnentrucker , Christy Tremonti

We investigate the multi-wavelength properties of host galaxies of 3701 X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to z~5 in the Chandra-COSMOS Legacy Survey. Thanks to the extensive multi-wavelength photometry available in the COSMOS…

Accretion discs in AGN may be associated with coronal gas, as suggested by their X-ray emission. Stellar coronal emission includes radio emission, and AGN corona may also be a significant source for radio emission in radio quiet (RQ) AGN.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Igor Raginski , Ari Laor

We present the emission properties of a sample of 3,579 type 1 AGN, selected based on the detection of broad H-alpha emission. The sample covers the range of black hole mass 10^6<M_BH/M_Sun<10^9.5 and luminosity in Eddington units 10^-3 <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Jonathan Stern , Ari Laor

We present infrared, optical, and X-ray data of 48 X-ray bright, optically dull AGNs in the COSMOS field. These objects exhibit the X-ray luminosity of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) but lack broad and narrow emission lines in their…

We present a systematic search for broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST sample of 18 star-forming galaxies ($M_\star>10^{9.5}~M_{\odot}$) at redshifts $z=4.4-5.7$. Using JWST/NIRSpec IFU, we identify 7 AGN…

VLT and NTT spectra are used to examine the nuclear and extended coronal line emission in a sample of well-known Seyfert 1 and 2 galaxies. The excellent spatial resolution obtained with VLT allowed us to map [SiVI] 1.963 $\mu$m and [SiVII]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rodriguez-Ardila , A. Prieto , S. M. Viegas

This review describes recent developments related to the unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN). It focuses on new ideas about the origin and properties of the central obscurer (torus), and the connection with its surrounding. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Hagai Netzer

We use 317,000 emission-line galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate line-ratio selection of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In particular, we demonstrate that "star formation dilution" by HII regions causes a significant…

We report the \Suzaku/XIS and HXD and \Chandra/ACIS-I results on the X-ray spectra of the Phoenix cluster at the redshift $z=0.596$. The spectrum of the intracluster medium (ICM) is well-reproduced with the emissions from a low temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shutaro Ueda , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Naohisa Anabuki , Hiroshi Nakajima , Katsuji Koyama , Hiroshi Tsunemi

We present near-IR spectroscopy in J- and H-band for a large sample of 243 X-ray selected moderate-luminosity type-1 AGN in the COSMOS, SXDS and E-CDF-S survey fields using the multi-object spectrograph Subaru/FMOS. Our sample covers the…

The Broad Emission Lines (BELs) in spectra of type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be very complex, indicating a complex Broad Line Region (BLR) geometry. According to the standard unification model one can expect an accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Bon , N. Gavrilovic , G. La Mura , L. C. Popovic

We present a new sample of 116 double-peaked Balmer line Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Double-peaked emission lines are believed to originate in the accretion disks of AGN, a few hundred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Iskra V. Strateva , Michael A. Strauss , Lei Hao , David J. Schlegel

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are axisymmetric systems to first order; their observed properties are likely strong functions of inclination with respect to our line of sight. However, except for a few special cases, the specific inclinations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. C. Fischer , D. M. Crenshaw , S. B. Kraemer , H. R. Schmitt

Recent results have suggested that active galactic nuclei (AGN) could provide enough photons to reionise the Universe. We assess the viability of this scenario using a semi-numerical framework for modeling reionisation, to which we add a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 Sultan Hassan , Romeel Davé , Sourav Mitra , Kristian Finlator , Benedetta Ciardi , Mario G. Santos

The unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) claims that the properties of AGN depend on the viewing angle of the observer with respect to a toroidal distribution of dust surrounding the nucleus. Both the mid-infrared (MIR) attenuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 O. Gonzalez-Martin , J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa , T. Diaz-Santos , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , P. Esquej , C. Ramos Almeida , R. Mason , C. Telesco

Using the Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), we have assembled a complete sample of 20 K-selected galaxies at 2.0<z<2.7 with high quality near-infrared spectra. As described in a previous paper, 9 of these 20 galaxies have strongly…