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X-ray surveys facilitate investigations of the environment of AGNs. Deep Chandra observations revealed that the AGNs source surface density rises near clusters of galaxies. The natural extension of these works is the measurement of spatial…

Context. Variability is a ubiquitous feature of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and the characterisation of the variability is crucial to constrain its physical mechanism and proper applications in AGN studies. The advent of all-sky and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai

The relationship between the populations of optically and X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has been unclear due to divergent results from different studies. Arnold et al. (2009) claim that X-ray AGN are almost entirely disjoint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-12 Yu-Xiao Dai , Glennys R. Farrar

We present a kinematic analysis based on the large Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) dataset of SDSS-IV MaNGA (10.000 galaxies). We have compiled a diverse sample of 594 unique Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), identified through a variety of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-06 Marco Albán , Dominika Wylezalek , Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene , Rogemar A. Riffel

Most massive galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in their cores. When galaxies merge, gas is driven to nuclear regions and can accrete onto the central black hole. Thus one expects to see dual AGN in a fraction of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. C. McGurk , C. E. Max , D. J. Rosario , G. A. Shields , K. L. Smith , S. A. Wright

Using a suite of X-ray, mid-IR and optical active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity indicators, we search for Compton-thick (CT) AGNs with intrinsic L_X>10^42erg/s at z~0.03-0.2, a region of parameter space which is currently poorly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Andy Goulding , David Alexander , James Mullaney , Jonathan Gelbord , Ryan Hickox , Martin Ward , Mike Watson

Fast and energetic winds are invoked by galaxy formation models as essential processes in the evolution of galaxies. These outflows can be powered either by star-formation and/or AGN activity, but the relative dominance of the two…

The 9-month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog provides the first unbiased (log N_H < 24) look at local (<z> = 0.03) AGN. In this paper, we present the collected X-ray properties (0.3 - 12keV) for the 153 AGN detected. In addition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. M. Winter , R. Mushotzky , C. S. Reynolds , J. Tueller

We perform a systematic, multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis of X-ray detected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) at $z=0.2-0.8$ with SDSS counterparts in the Stripe 82 region, consisting of 60 type-1 and 137 type-2 AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-07 Kenta Setoguchi , Yoshihiro Ueda , Yoshiki Toba , Junyao Li , John Silverman , Ryosuke Uematsu

The morphology of galaxies reflects their assembly history and ongoing dynamical perturbations from the environment. Analyzing i-band images from the Pan-STARRS1 Survey, we study the optical morphological asymmetry of the host galaxies of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Yulin Zhao , Yang A. Li , Jinyi Shangguan , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho

We present an estimate of the space density of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at z=3. Combining deep X-ray data with Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) colour-selection in the rest-frame UV makes for highly efficient identification of AGN in a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nandra , E. S. Laird , C. C. Steidel

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

Low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN) probe accretion physics in the low Eddington regime and can provide additional clues about galaxy evolution. AGN variability is ubiquitous and thus provides a reliable tool for finding AGN. We…

We present the Advanced Camera for Surveys Active Galactic Nuclei (ACS-AGN) Catalog, a catalog of 2585 active galactic nucleus (AGN) host galaxies that are at redshifts 0.2<z<2.5 and that were imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Aaron Stemo , Julia M. Comerford , R. Scott Barrows , Daniel Stern , Roberto J. Assef , Roger L. Griffith

Major mergers between galaxies are predicted to fuel their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs), particularly after coalescence. However, determining the prevalence of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in mergers remains a challenge,…

Surveys above 10 keV represent one of the the best resources to provide an unbiased census of the population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We present the results of 60 months of observation of the hard X-ray sky with Swift/BAT. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Ajello , D. M. Alexander , J. Greiner , G. M. Madejski , N. Gehrels , D. Burlon

We investigated the variation in the fraction of optical active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosts with stellar mass, as well as their local and global environments. Our sample is composed of cluster members and field galaxies at $z \le 0.1$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-08 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro , S. B. Rembold

We analysed 385 galactic spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS-DR7) that belong to the catalog of isolated pairs of galaxies by Karachentsev. The spectra corresponds to physical pairs of galaxies as defined by V…

We present the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected by optical variability in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF). Based on the locations of variable components and light curves, 211 optically variable AGN were reliably…

We present the multi-wavelength and environmental properties of 37 variability-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including 30 low luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs), using a high cadence time-domain survey (ASAS-SN) from a spectroscopic sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai , Marko Mićić