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The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is finding previously unidentified, luminous red active galactic nuclei (AGN). This new sample has a space density similar to, or greater than, previously known AGN, suggesting that a large fraction of…

Atomic data and plasma models play a crucial role in the diagnosis and interpretation of astrophysical spectra, thus influencing our understanding of the universe. In this investigation we present a systematic comparison of the leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 M. Mehdipour , J. S. Kaastra , T. Kallman

We present analysis of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from mid-infrared through X-ray of a sample of 420 hard X-ray selected, z-band and Spitzer/IRAC detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) and AGN candidates from the GOODS…

The UV-X continuum, the X-ray spectral features, and the variability in these bands provide powerful tools for studying the innermost regions of AGNs from which we gain an insight into the accretion process. In this chapter the discussion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Suzy Collin

We present the X-ray spectra of 86 optically-identified sources in the 13H XMM-Newton/Chandra deep field which have >70 X-ray counts. The sample consists of 50 broad line AGN, 25 narrow emission line galaxies, 6 absorption line galaxies,…

We present modeling and interpretation of the continuum and emission lines for a sample of 51 unobscured Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN). All of these AGNs have high quality spectra from both XMM-Newton and Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Jin , M. Ward , C. Done , J. M. Gelbord

We describe a complete, flux-density-limited sample of galaxies at redshift $0.8 < z < 1.3$ selected at 16 micron. At the selection wavelength near 8 micron rest, the observed emission comes both from dust heated by intense star formation…

We present the results of a uniform analysis of the soft X-ray spectra of fifteen type I AGN observed with the high resolution X-ray gratings on board \emph{Chandra}. We found that ten of the fifteen AGN exhibit signatures of an intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Barry McKernan , Tahir Yaqoob , Chris Reynolds

The broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is investigated for a well-selected sample composed of $23$ Seyfert 1 galaxies observed simultaneously in the optical/UV and X-ray bands with the Neil Gehrels…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Huaqing Cheng , Weimin Yuan , He-Yang Liu , A. A. Breeveld , Chichuan Jin , Bifang Liu

The SWIFT gamma ray observatory's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) has detected a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) based solely on their hard X-ray flux (14-195 keV). In this paper, we present for the first time {\it XMM-Newton} X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lisa M. Winter , Richard F. Mushotzky , Jack Tueller , Craig Markwardt

In this work we present the most comprehensive INTEGRAL AGN sample which lists 272 objects. Here we mainly use this sample to study the absorption properties of active galaxies, to probe new AGN classes and to test the AGN unification…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Malizia , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , N. Masetti , F. Panessa , J. B. Stephen , P. Ubertini

We use mid-infrared spectral decomposition to separate the 6micron mid-infrared AGN continuum from the host emission in the ISO low resolution spectra of 71 active galaxies and compare the results to observed and intrinsic 2-10keV hard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lutz , R. Maiolino , H. W. W. Spoon , A. F. M. Moorwood

We consider a sample of type-I active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were observed by Chandra/HETG and resulted in high signal-to-noise grating spectra, which we study in detail. All objects show signatures for very high ionization outflows.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Doron Chelouche

We analyse the ROSAT PSPC hardness ratio and the 0.5-2 keV to 2-10 keV flux ratio of 65 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for which there are both ROSAT archival observations available and 2-10 keV fluxes, mostly from the HEAO-1 MC-LASS survey.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Teresa Ceballos , Xavier Barcons

More than half of all low-redshift AGN exhibit UV and X-ray absorption by highly ionized gas. The observed UV and X-ray absorption lines are almost always blue-shifted at velocities of hundreds of km/s, indicating that the absorbing gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard A. Kriss

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of sources detected in the 13H XMM-Newton deep (200ks) field. In order to constrain the absorbed AGN population, we use extensive Monte Carlo simulations to directly compare the X-ray colours…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Dwelly , M. J. Page , N. S. Loaring , K. O. Mason , I. McHardy , K. Gunn , T. Sasseen

A wide-frequency radio study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is crucial to evaluate the intervening radiative mechanisms responsible for the observed emission and relate them with the underlying accretion physics. We present wide frequency…

Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central source, giving rise to type 1 line spectrum for pole-on viewing and type 2 characteristics in edge-on sources. Infrared radiation at its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Elitzur , Maia Nenkova , Zeljko Ivezic

We investigate the physical cause of the great range in the ionization level seen in the spectra of narrow lined active galactic nuclei (AGN). Mean field independent component analysis identifies examples of individual SDSS galaxies whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris T. Richardson , James T. Allen , Jack A. Baldwin , Paul C. Hewett , Gary J. Ferland