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We use machine learning techniques to investigate their performance in classifying active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including X-ray selected AGNs (XAGNs), infrared selected AGNs (IRAGNs), and radio selected AGNs (RAGNs). Using known physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-26 Yu-Yen Chang , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Wei-Hao Wang , Yen-Ting Lin , Chen-Fatt Lim , Yoshiki Toba , Yuxing Zhong , Siou-Yu Chang

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…

$\require{mediawiki-texvc}$ We study accretion disk emission from eight Seyfert $1 - 1.5$ active galactic nuclei (AGN) using far ultra-violet ($1300-1800$ ${\AA}$) slit-less grating spectra acquired with AstroSat/UVIT. We correct for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Shrabani Kumar , G. C. Dewangan , K. P. Singh , P. Gandhi , I. E. Papadakis , P. Tripathi , L. Mallick

We assume that dust near active galactic nuclei (AGN) is distributed in a torus-like geometry, which may be described by a clumpy medium or a homogeneous disk or as a combination of the two (i.e. a 2-phase medium). The dust particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-11 Ralf Siebenmorgen , Frank Heymann , Andreas Efstathiou

We study a combined sample of 264 star-forming, 51 composite, and 73 active galaxies using optical spectra from SDSS and mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. We examine optical and mid-IR spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , D. Schiminovich , M. O'Dowd , B. Bertincourt

The cosmic X-ray background (XRB) spectrum and active galaxy number counts encode essential information about the spectral evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and have been successfully modeled by XRB synthesis models for many years.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 M. S. Avirett-Mackenzie , D. R. Ballantyne

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) of galaxies play an important role in the life and evolution of galaxies due to the impact they exert on certain properties and the evolutionary path of galaxies. It is well known that infrared (IR)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Carlos G. Bornancini , Gabriel A. Oio , M. Victoria Alonso , Diego García Lambas

This is the first paper in a dedicated series to study the properties of the optically selected BLR-less AGNs (Active Galactic Nuclei with no-hidden central broad emission line regions). We carried out a systematic search for the BLR-less…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Xue Guang Zhang

In today's modern wide-field galaxy surveys, there is the necessity for parametric surface brightness decomposition codes characterised by accuracy, small degree of user intervention, and high degree of parallelisation. We try to address…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-03 Luca Tortorelli , Amata Mercurio

In this Master's project, the X-ray nuclear properties of a sample of bright nearby galaxies are explored. This is done by matching their comprehensive optical spectroscopic classification to the latest available XMM-Newton catalogue -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-10 Ivayla E. Kalcheva

Modern sky surveys are producing ever larger amounts of observational data, which makes the application of classical approaches for the classification and analysis of objects challenging and time-consuming. However, this issue may be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Lars Doorenbos , Olena Torbaniuk , Stefano Cavuoti , Maurizio Paolillo , Giuseppe Longo , Massimo Brescia , Raphael Sznitman , Pablo Márquez-Neila

We used data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) to study the incidence of AGN in continuum-selected galaxies at $z\sim3$. From optical and infrared imaging in the 24 deg$^{2}$ Spitzer HETDEX Exploratory Large…

The X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of galaxies is dominated by AGN (classified by their optical spectra) above Lx=10**42 erg/s, below this value by normal galaxies. The X-ray flux of AGN at low X-ray luminosity therefore contains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Lehmann , G. Hasinger , A. D. Schwope , Th. Boller

This work discusses the broadband X-ray spectral analysis of 11 candidate heavily-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected based on their infrared and X-ray properties by a recently published machine learning algorithm. This paper is…

We present a broadband X-ray analysis of a new homogeneous sample of 95 active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the 22-month Swift/BAT all-sky survey. For this sample we treated jointly the X-ray spectra observed by XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-20 A. A. Vasylenko , V. I. Zhdanov , E. V. Fedorova

We explore spectroscopic and photometric methods for identifying high-redshift galaxies containing an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) with JWST observations. After demonstrating the limitations of standard optical methods, which appear…

Identifying active galactic nuclei (AGN) and isolating their contribution to a galaxy's energy budget is crucial for studying the co-evolution of AGN and their host galaxies. Brightness temperature ($T_b$) measurements from high-resolution…

A new, complete sample of 14,584 broad-line AGNs at $z<0.35$ is presented, which are uncovered homogeneously from the complete database of galaxies and quasars observed spectroscopically in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 He-Yang Liu , Wen-Juan Liu , Xiao-Bo Dong , Hongyan Zhou , Tinggui Wang , Honglin Lu , Weimin Yuan

Highly ionized, z=0 metal absorption lines detected in the X-ray spectra of background active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide an effective method to probe the hot ($T\sim10^6$ K) gas and its metal content in and around the Milky Way. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Taotao Fang , David A. Buote , James S. Bullock , Renyi Ma

We present ongoing work on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), derived from X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared and radio photometry and spectroscopy. Our work is motivated by new wide-field imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 M. J. I. Brown , K. J. Duncan , H. Landt , M. Kirk , C. Ricci , N. Kamraj
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