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This is the fourth paper in a series that reports on our investigation of the clustering properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this paper we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-15 Mirko Krumpe , Takamitsu Miyaji , Bernd Husemann , Nikos Fanidakis , Alison L. Coil , Hector Aceves

In recent years deep X-ray and infrared surveys have provided an efficient way to find accreting supermassive black holes, otherwise known as active galactic nuclei (AGN), in the young universe. Such surveys can, unlike optical surveys,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-10 C. Megan Urry , E. Treister

We present a sample of 930 intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with black hole masses of $M_\mathrm{BH} \leqslant 2 \times 10^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, uniformly selected from the Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Wen-Juan Liu , Luis C. Ho , Xiao-Bo Dong , Su Yao , Paulina Lira , Yicheng Guo

The tight correlations found between masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the luminosities, total stellar masses, and velocity dispersions of their host galaxies are often interpreted as a sign of their co-evolution. Studying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-25 Martin Millon , Frédéric Courbin , Aymeric Galan , Dominique Sluse , Xuheng Ding , Malte Tewes , S. G. Djorgovski

We test a novel method for estimating black hole masses ($M_{\rm BH}$) in obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) that uses proxies to measure the full-width half maximum of broad H$\alpha$ (FWHM$_{\rm bH\alpha}$) and the accretion disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 S. LaMassa , I. Farrow , C. M. Urry , B. Trakhtenbrot , C. Auge , M. J. Koss , A. Peca , D. Sanders , T. J. Turner

We present an expanded sample of low-mass black holes (BHs) found in galactic nuclei. Using standard virial mass techniques to estimate BH masses, we select from the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey all broad-line active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho

The statistical distributions of active galactic nuclei (AGN), i.e. accreting supermassive black holes (BHs), in mass, space and time, are controlled by a series of key properties, namely the BH-galaxy scaling relations, Eddington ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Viola Allevato , Francesco Shankar , Christopher Marsden , Uluk Rasulov , Akke Viitanen , Antonis Georgakakis , Andrea Ferrara , Alexis Finoguenov

We propose a new method of estimation of the black hole masses in AGN based on the normalized excess variance, sigma_{nxs}^2. We derive a relation between sigma_{nxs}^2, the length of the observation, T, the light curve bin size, Delta t,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Nikolajuk , I. E. Papadakis , B. Czerny

Along the last ten years, a general relativistic method has been developed to generate analytical expressions for the black hole (BH) parameters in terms of observables, namely the frequency shift of photons emitted by orbiting test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Adriana González-Juárez , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

We present results of the cross-correlation analysis between active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and galaxies at redshift 0.1-1. We obtain data of ~10,000 SDSS AGNs in which their virial masses with a super-massive black hole (SMBH) were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yutaka Komiya , Yuji Shirasaki , Masatoshi Ohishi , Yoshihiko Mizumoto

JWST has identified a large population of faint, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the early universe that are powered by black holes (BHs) that often appear overmassive relative to their host galaxies. In this study, we examine…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a crucial role in galaxy evolution by influencing the observational properties of their host galaxies. We investigate the host galaxy properties of X-ray selected AGNs, focusing on differences between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Carlos G. Bornancini , Gabriel A. Oio , Georgina Coldwell

We present a new constraint on the mass of the black hole in the active S0 galaxy NGC 5273. Due to the proximity of the galaxy at $16.6 \pm 2.1$ Mpc, we were able to resolve and extract the bulk motions of stars near the central black hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Katie A. Merrell , Eugene Vasiliev , Misty C. Bentz , Monica Valluri , Christopher A. Onken

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the ratio between black hole mass (MBH) and host galaxy total stellar mass (Mstellar) out to z~2.5 for a sample of 100 X-ray-selected moderate-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in…

Star formation in galaxies is governed by internal and environmental processes, yet their relative roles are not well understood. In particular, uncertainties in measurements of active galactic nuclei (AGN) host galaxies, combined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Hassen M. Yesuf , Connor Bottrell

We present a study of the connection between black hole accretion, star formation, and galaxy morphology at z<=2.5. We focus on active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected by their mid-IR power-law emission. By fitting optical to far-IR…

The relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an area of active research. One way to investigate this is to compare parsec-scale jets formed by SMBHs with the projected shape of their kiloparsec-scale host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 D. Fernández Gil , J. A. Hodgson , B. L'Huillier , J. Asorey , C. Saulder , K. Finner , M. J. Jee , D. Parkinson , F. Combes

We present a new method for supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurements in Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using polarization angle across broad lines. This method gives measured masses which are in a good agreement with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-03 Luka C. Popovic , Victor L. Afanasiev , Djordje Savic

The goal of this project is to construct an estimator for the masses of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the broad Halpha emission line. We make use of published reverberation mapping data. We remeasure all…

Black hole masses are found to correlate with several global properties of their host galaxies, suggesting that black holes and galaxies have an intertwined evolution and that active galactic nuclei (AGN) have a significant impact on galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 Natàlia Porqueres , Jens Jasche , Torsten A. Enßlin , Guilhem Lavaux