English
Related papers

Related papers: Dependence of optical Active Galactic Nuclei ident…

200 papers

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method captures different subsets of AGN due to signal-to-noise (SNR)…

To gain insights into long-term Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability, we analyze an AGN sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compare their photometry with observations from the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey (HSC) observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Neven Caplar , Theodore Pena , Sean D. Johnson , Jenny E. Greene

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGNs) exhibit drastic variations in broad emission lines (BELs), the mechanism of which remains unclear. Expanding the sample of CL AGNs is helpful to reveal the mechanism. This study aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Qian Dong , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Yong-Gang Zheng

We present an analysis of the radial distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in $2300$ galaxy clusters from the Massive and Distant Clusters of {\it WISE} Survey (MaDCoWS). MaDCoWS provides the largest coverage of the extragalactic sky…

We perform spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to 711 luminous X-ray AGN at 0.7 < z < 4.5 using 10-bands of optical and infra-red photometric data for objects within XMM-SERVS. This fitting provided 510 reliable (reduced $\chi ^2 <…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Adam Marshall , Matthew W. Auger-Williams , Manda Banerji , Roberto Maiolino , Rebecca Bowler

We present an analysis of the long-term optical variability for $\sim50,000$ nearby (z<0.055) galaxies from the NASA-Sloan Atlas, $35,000$ of which are low-mass ($M_{\ast}<10^{10}~M_{\odot}$). We use difference imaging of Palomar Transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Vivienne F. Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

In studies of the connection between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies there is widespread disagreement on some key aspects stemming largely from a lack of understanding of the nature of the full underlying AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Mackenzie L. Jones , Ryan C. Hickox , Simon J. Mutch , Darren J. Croton , Andrew F. Ptak , Michael A. DiPompeo

We present the results of an analysis of a well-selected sample of galaxies with active and inactive galactic nuclei from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in the range 0.01 < z < 0.16. The SDSS galaxy catalogue was split into two classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. B. Westoby , C. G. Mundell , I. K. Baldry

As the third paper of our serial studies that are aim at examining the AGN-host coevolution by using partially obscured AGNs, we extend the broad-line composite galaxies (composite AGNs) into ROSAT-selected Seyfert 1.8/1.9 galaxies basing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Wang , J. Y. Wei

We present a study of the stellar population in Low Luminosity AGN (LLAGN). Our goal is to search for spectroscopic signatures of young and intermediate age stars, and to investigate their relationship with the ionization mechanism in…

In this paper we present our studies on the stellar populations and star formation histories (SFHs) for the Reines et al. sample of 136 dwarf galaxies which host active galactic nuclei (AGNs), selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-06 Wei Cai , Yinghe Zhao , Hong-Xin Zhang , Jin-Ming Bai , Hong-Tao Liu

We present a measurement of the fraction of cluster galaxies hosting X-ray bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as a function of clustercentric distance scaled in units of $r_{500}$. Our analysis employs high quality Chandra X-ray and Subaru…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Ehlert , A. von der Linden , S. W. Allen , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , B. Luo , A. Mantz , R. G. Morris , D. Applegate , P. Kelly

We use the technique of total satellite luminosity, L_sat, to probe the dark matter halos around active galactic nuclei in the SDSS Main Galaxy Sample. Our results focus on galaxies and AGN that are the central galaxy of their halo. Our two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Mehmet Alpaslan , Jeremy L. Tinker

AGN feedback is believed to play an important role in shaping a variety of observed galaxy properties, as well as the evolution of their stellar masses and star formation rates. In particular, in the current theoretical paradigm of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Fontanot , Anna Pasquali , Gabriella De Lucia , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rachel S. Somerville , Xi Kang

We have analyzed the emission line properties of 6019 Type II AGN at redshifts between 0.4-0.8 with [OIII] luminosities greater than 3x10^8 Lsun, characteristic of the Type II quasars first identified in population studies by Zakamska et al…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Guinevere Kauffmann , Claudia Maraston

We assemble a sample of 696 type 1 AGN up to a redshift of $z=2.5$, all of which have an SDSS spectrum containing at least one broad emission line (H $\alpha$, H $\beta$ or Mg II) and an XMM-Newton X-ray spectrum containing at least 250…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Daniel Kynoch , Jake A. J. Mitchell , Martin J. Ward , Chris Done , Elisabeta Lusso , Hermine Landt

We compare predictions of how Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) populate host galaxies at low redshifts to observations, finding large discrepancies between cosmological simulation predictions and observed patterns. Modern cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-08 Arjun Suresh , Michael R. Blanton , Douglas Rennehan

Using a large sample of local galaxies (144,940) with -17.5< Mr <-22 and 0.025< z <0.107, selected from SDSS DR5, we compare AGN host galaxies with non-AGN galaxies at matched luminosity, velocity dispersion, color, color gradient, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yun-Young Choi , Jong-Hak Woo , Changbum Park

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) are known to change their spectral type between 1 and 2 (changing-state) or change their absorption between Compton-thick and Compton-thin (changing-obscuration) on timescales of years or less.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan , Xue-bing Wu , Qingwen Wu , Wenfei Yu , Hao Liu

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