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Using a fully cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that self-consistently incorporates the growth and feedback of supermassive black holes and the physics of galaxy formation, we examine the effects of environmental factors (e.g., local gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Suchetana Chatterjee , Colin DeGraf , Jonathan Richardson , Zheng Zheng , Daisuke Nagai , Tiziana Di Matteo

Understanding the relationship between galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the dark matter halos in which they reside is key to constraining how black-hole fueling is triggered and regulated. Previous efforts have relied on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Leauthaud , A. J. Benson , F. Civano , A. L. Coil , K. Bundy , R. Massey , M. Schramm , A. Schulze , P. Capak , M. Elvis , A. Kulier , J. Rhodes

The spatial clustering of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered to be one of the important diagnostics for the understanding of the underlying processes behind their activities complementary to measurements of the luminosity function…

We present the clustering properties and halo occupation distribution (HOD) modelling of very low redshift, hard X-ray-detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) using cross-correlation function measurements with Two-Micron All Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-01 Mirko Krumpe , Takamitsu Miyaji , Alison L. Coil , Hector Aceves

We perform halo occupation distribution (HOD) modeling of the projected two-point correlation function (2PCF) of high-redshift (z~1.2) X-ray-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the XMM-COSMOS field measured by Allevato et al. The HOD…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-22 Jonathan W. Richardson , Suchetana Chatterjee , Zheng Zheng , Adam Myers , Ryan C. Hickox

The connection between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host dark matter halos provides powerful insights into how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow and coevolve with their host galaxies. Here we investigate the impact of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 M. C. Powell , M. Krumpe , A. Coil , T. Miyaji

It is widely reported, based on clustering measurements of observed active galactic nuclei (AGN) samples, that AGN reside in similar mass host dark matter halos across the bulk of cosmic time, with log $M/M_\odot$~12.5-13.0 to z~2.5. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 James Aird , Alison L. Coil

We study the spatial clustering through the projected two-point correlation function of $632$ $(1130)$ XMM-COSMOS Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with known spectroscopic (spectroscopic or photometric) redshifts in the range $z = [0.1 - 2.5]$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-28 A. Viitanen , V. Allevato , A. Finoguenov , A. Bongiorno , N. Cappelluti , R. Gilli , T. Miyaji , M. Salvato

We investigate the clustering and dark halo properties for the narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the SDSS, particularly examining the joint dependence on galaxy mass and color. AGN in galaxies with blue colors or massive red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Lixin Wang , Cheng Li

Which galaxies in the general population turn into active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a keystone of galaxy formation and evolution. Thanks to SRG/eROSITA's contiguous 140 square degree pilot survey field, we constructed a large, complete, and…

Recent systematic searches for massive black holes (BHs) in local dwarf galaxies led to the discovery of a population of faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We investigate the agreement of the BH and AGN populations in the Illustris, TNG,…

Understanding the relative roles of large-scale environment and internal host-galaxy processes in shaping AGN activity is essential for constraining models of black-hole growth and galaxy evolution. We investigate how the environment of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 G. Mountrichas , F. J. Carrera , F. Shankar , A. Georgakakis

We conducted precise measurements of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) clustering at $z\sim1$ and $z\sim2$ by measuring the two-point cross-correlation function (CCF) between galaxies and X-ray-selected AGNs, and the two-point auto-correlation…

We consider simple semi-analytic models that relate the active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution to the merging history of their host dark matter haloes and quantify their ability of matching the AGN luminosity function and its spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Marulli , E. Branchini , L. Moscardini , M. Volonteri

We investigate the effect of environment on the presence and fuelling of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) by identifying galaxies hosting AGN in massive galaxy clusters and the fields around them. We have identified AGN candidates via optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-29 Alison J. Klesman , Vicki L. Sarajedini

This paper explores the role of small-scale environment ($<1$ Mpc) in modulating accretion events onto supermassive black holes by studying the incidence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in massive clusters of galaxies. A flexible,…

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 present the first quantified, statistical map of broad-line active galactic nucleus (AGN) frequency with host galaxy color and stellar mass in nearby (0.01 < z < 0.11) galaxies. Aperture photometry and z-band concentration measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan R. Trump , Alexander D. Hsu , Jerome J. Fang , S. M. Faber , David C. Koo , Dale D. Kocevski

This is the fifth paper in a series of investigations of the clustering properties of luminous, broad-emission-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this work…

The triggering mechanisms for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are still debated. Some of the most popular ones include galaxy interactions (IT) and disk instabilities (DI). Using an advanced semi analytic model (SAM) of galaxy formation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 M. Gatti , F. Shankar , V. Bouillot , N. Menci , A. Lamastra , M. Hirschmann , F. Fiore
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