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A long-standing problem for models of galaxy formation has been the mismatch between the predicted shape of the mass function of dark matter halos and the observed shape of the luminosity function of galaxies. The number of massive halos is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 P. N. Best , C. R. Kaiser , T. M. Heckman , G. Kauffmann

We investigate the relationship between radio power and properties related to active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Radio power at 1.4 or 5 GHz, which has been used in many studies, can be affected by synchrotron self-absorption and free-free…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Songyoun Park , Bong Won Sohn , Sukyoung K. Yi

Dark matter haloes in which galaxies reside are likely to have a significant impact on their evolution. We investigate the link between dark matter haloes and their constituent galaxies by measuring the angular two-point correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 C. L. Hale , M. J. Jarvis , I. Delvecchio , P. W. Hatfield , M. Novak , V. Smolcic , G. Zamorani

We present an analysis of the AGN broad-line regions of 6 powerful radio galaxies at z>~2 (HzRGs) with rest-frame optical imaging spectroscopy obtained at the VLT. All galaxies have luminous (L(H-alpha)=few x 10^44 erg s^-1), spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicole P. H. Nesvadba , Carlos De Breuck , Matt D. Lehnert , Philip N. Best , Luc Binette , Daniel Proga

The properties of radio loud active galaxies (radiogalaxies, BL Lac objects and radio loud quasar) at low and high redshift are briefly reviewed and compared. The recently derived empirical relations between central black hole mass and host…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renato Falomo

We study the cosmic evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using a beaming-minimized sample of 4{,}555 steep-spectrum sources over $0<z\lesssim4$, compiled from the XXL survey, VLA-COSMOS, and other wide-field data sets. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Wenjie Wang , Zunli Yuan , B. Šlaus , Hongwei Yu , Yu Luo

Radio-emitting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are common in elliptical galaxies and AGN feedback is one of the possible mechanisms for regulating star formation in massive galaxies. It is unclear if all passive galaxy populations host radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Hei Yung Chan , Michael J. I. Brown

Studying the morphology of a large sample of active galaxies at different wavelengths and comparing it with active galactic nuclei (AGN) properties, such as black hole mass ($M_{BH}$) and Eddington ratio ($\lambda_{Edd}$), can help us in…

We study the nature of the faint radio source population detected in the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Early Science data in the COSMOS field, focusing on the properties of the radio-loud active…

We study the cosmic evolution of radio sources out to $z \simeq 1.5$ using a GMRT 610 MHz survey covering $\sim$1.86 deg$^2$ of the ELAIS N1 field with a minimum/median rms noise 7.1/19.5\,$\mu$Jy / beam and an angular resolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 E. F. Ocran , A. R. Taylor , M. Vaccari , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , I. Prandoni , M. Prescott , C. Mancuso

We examine the processes triggering star formation and Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) activity in a sample of 25 low redshift ($z<0.13$) gas-rich galaxy mergers observed at milli-arcsecond resolution with Very Long Baseline Interferometry as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Stanislav Shabala , Adam Deller , Sugata Kaviraj , Enno Middelberg , Ross Turner , Yuan-Sen Ting , James Allison , Tim Davis

We investigate the astrophysics of radio-emitting star-forming galaxies and ac- tive galactic nuclei (AGNs), and elucidate their statistical properties in the radio band including luminosity functions, redshift distributions, and number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Claudia. Mancuso , A. Lapi , I. Prandoni , I. Obi , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , F. Perrotta , A. Bressan , A. Celotti , L. Danese

We study the properties of 975 active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected by variability in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey. Using complementary multi wavelength data from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared, we use SED fitting to determine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Heinis , S. Gezari , S. Kumar , W. S. Burgett , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters

Based on a sample of over 1,800 radio AGN at redshifts out to z~5, which have typical stellar masses within ~3x(10^{10}-10^{11}) Msol, and 3 GHz radio data in the COSMOS field, we derived the 1.4 GHz radio luminosity functions for radio AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 V. Smolcic , M. Novak , I. Delvecchio , L. Ceraj , M. Bondi , J. Delhaize , S. Marchesi , E. Murphy , E. Schinnerer , E. Vardoulaki , G. Zamorani

In these proceedings I briefly: (1) review the impact (or "feedback") that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are predicted to have on their host galaxies and larger scale environment, (2) review the observational evidence for or against these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Harrison

The morphological study is crucial to investigate the connections between active galactic nuclei (AGN) activities and the evolution of galaxies. Substantial studies have found that radiative-mode AGNs primarily reside in disk galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Yuxing Zhong , Akio K. Inoue , Satoshi Yamanaka , Toru Yamada

Exploring how radio-emitting active galactic nuclei (AGN) behave and evolve with time is critical for understanding how AGN feedback impacts galaxy evolution. In this work, we investigate the relationship between 1.4 GHz radio continuum AGN…

We explore radio and spectroscopic properties of a sample of 14 miniature radio galaxies, i.e. early-type core galaxies hosting radio-loud AGN of extremely low radio power, 10^(27-29) erg s^(-1) Hz^(-1) at 1.4 GHz. Miniature radio galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ranieri D. Baldi , Alessandro Capetti

[abridged] AGN feedback is a crucial ingredient for understanding galaxy evolution. However, a complete quantitative time-dependent framework, including the dependence of such feedback on AGN, host galaxy, and host halo properties, is yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni