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Dual-Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are a natural consequence of the hierarchical structure formation scenario, and can provide an important test of various models for black hole growth. However, due to their rarity and difficulty to find at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 C. S. Mangat , J. P. McKean , R. Brilenkov , P. Hartley , H. R. Stacey , S. Vegetti , D. Wen

We compare the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs in three different samples observed with SDSS: radio-loud AGNs (RLAGNs), Low Luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) and AGNs in isolated galaxies (IG-AGNs). All these…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets seen at small viewing angles are the most luminous and abundant objects in the $\gamma$-ray sky. AGN with jets misaligned along the line-of-sight appear fainter in the sky, but are more numerous than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Di Mauro , F. Calore , F. Donato , M. Ajello , L. Latronico

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are now known to be strong gamma-ray emitters. After briefly describing the different classes of AGN and the basic tenets of unified schemes, I discuss the role of blazars (that is BL Lacs and flat-spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

We present the results of a combined galaxy population analysis for the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified at 0 < z < 1.4 within the SDSS, Bootes and DEEP2 surveys. We identified AGN in a uniform and unbiased manner at…

We present a study of the extended radio emission in a sample of 8434 low redshift (z < 0.35) broad line active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To calculate the jet and lobe contributions to the total radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephen E. Rafter , D. Michael Crenshaw , Paul J. Wiita

Offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are AGNs that are in ongoing galaxy mergers, which produce kinematic offsets in the AGNs relative to their host galaxies. Offset AGNs are also close relatives of dual AGNs. We conduct a systematic search…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene

The study of compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) that possess convex radio spectra (the gigahertz-peaked spectrum radio sources) offers a unique opportunity to probe both the early evolutionary stages of relativistic AGN jets and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. L. Lister

Both star formation (SF) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play an important role in galaxy evolution. Statistically quantifying their relative importance can be done using radio luminosity functions. Until now these relied on galaxy…

The cosmic ray source spectrum produced by AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus) jets is calculated. A distinctive feature of these calculations is the account for the jet distribution on kinetic energy. The expected cosmic ray spectrum at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. S. Ptuskin , S. I. Rogovaya , V. N. Zirakashvili

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the most luminous objects in the universe, making them valuable probes for studying galaxy evolution. However, understanding how AGN properties evolve over cosmic time remains a fundamental challenge.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Shreya Sareen , Swayamtrupta Panda

We discuss how several of the questions that remain unclear on the physics of Active Galactic Nuclei may find elements of answers when using in the coming years the extraordinary set of instruments that will be flying simultaneously to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Thierry J. -L. Courvoisier

As a natural consequence of galaxy mergers, binary active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should be commonplace. Nevertheless, observational confirmations are rare, especially for binaries with separations less than ten kpc. Such a system may show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hai Fu , Adam D. Myers , S. G. Djorgovski , Lin Yan

The origin of the radio emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still debated. Multiple physical mechanisms can contribute to the spectrum at these frequencies, including relativistic jets, the jet base, outflows, star formation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 M. Berton , E. Järvelä , S. Chen , L. Crepaldi , I. Varglund , M. Coloma Puga , A. Jimenez-Gallardo , A. Lähteenmäki , S. Panda , C. Piscitelli , A. Tortosa

We investigate the correlation between ionized gas outflows, jets, and star formation in a sample of 42 local type-I active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibiting significant [O III] outflows. This study uses both new submillimeter (sub-mm)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Xiaozhi Lin , Kim Ngan Nhat Nguyen

Intrinsic absorption is a fundamental physical property to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Here a sample of 1290 AGN, selected in the 2-10 keV band from different flux-limited surveys with very high optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Hasinger

There are several key open questions as to the nature and origin of AGN including: 1) what initiates the active phase, 2) the duration of the active phase, and 3) the effect of the AGN on the host galaxy. Critical new insights to these can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-27 Steve Kraemer , Rogier Windhorst , Kenneth G. Carpenter , Mike Crenshaw , Martin Elvis , Margarita Karovska

Analytical and numerical galaxy-formation models indicate that active galactic nuclei (AGNs) likely play a prominent role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, quantifying this effect requires knowledge of how the nuclear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-07 Raffaella Morganti

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

At the request of the conference attendees, we have compiled a classification of extended radio sources in clusters. These range from scales of tens of parsecs to over a megaparsec in scale, and include both sources associated with AGN and…