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We report on a multiwavelength survey of a sample of 42 flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (RLNLS1s). This is the largest known sample of this type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) to date. We found that 17% of sources…

The last decade has witnessed a steadily increasing number of observational studies concerning the rare class of radio loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, of which several hundred are currently known. According to the current AGN paradigm,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-15 Matthew L. Lister

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are a type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were originally classified as sources with little to no radio emission. Although the class is rather unified from an optical perspective, their radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Varglund , E. Järvelä , M. J. Hardcastle , S. Varglund , A. Lähteenmäki

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) and Narrow-Line quasars (NLQs) seem to amount to ~ 10-30 % of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the local universe. Together with their average accretion rate, we argue that the black hole (BH) growth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kawaguchi , K. Aoki , K. Ohta , S. Collin

A model for the inner regions of accretion flows is presented where, due to disc instabilities, cold and dense material is clumped into deep sheets or rings. Surrounding these density enhancements is hot, tenuous gas where coronal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Fabian , D. R. Ballantyne , A. Merloni , S. Vaughan , K. Iwasawa , Th. Boller

A fraction of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) are hosted by galaxies that present a disturbed morphology, in some cases hinting for merger processes, that are putative sources of gas replenishment. We have been investigating the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-06 Sonia Anton , Alessandro Caccianiga , Luca Bizzocchi , Jose Afonso

We present the results of a detailed multi-wavelength study of a sample of sixteen narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies known in $\gamma$-rays so far. This includes a focused X-ray spectral analysis, to compare them with a more general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. L. Parker , J. Jiang , A. C. Fabian , L. Brenneman , M. Ajello , D. Hartmann

We assume that the gravitational instability of standard thin accretion disks leads to the Broad Line Regions (BLRs), the B band luminosity comes from standard thin disk and the motion of BLRs is virial. The central black hole masses, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bian , Y. Zhao

We argue that the narrow line regions of Seyfert galaxies are powered by the transport of energy and momentum by the radio-emitting jets and consequently that the ratio of the radio power to jet energy flux is much smaller than is usually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. V. Bicknell , M. A. Dopita , Z. Tsvetanov , R. S. Sutherland

We present a new catalog of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12). This was obtained by a systematic analysis through modeling of the continuum and emission lines of the spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , Hum Chand , Xue-Guang Zhang

It is not yet well known whether narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies follow the $M_{BH} - \sigma_{\star}$ relation found for normal galaxies. Emission lines, such as [SII] or [OIII]$\lambda$5007, have been used as a surrogate of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Eduardo O. Schmidt , Diego Ferreiro , Luis Vega , Gabriel A. Oio

It has been thought that narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies are likely to be in the early stages of the evolution of active galaxies. To test this suggestion, the ratios of the central massive black hole (MBH) mass to the bulge mass ($M_{\rm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bian Weihao , Zhao Yongheng

It is known that the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the nuclear radiation of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) has different shapes with respect to that of ordinary broad-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (BLS1s), particularly in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Nagao , T. Murayama , Y. Taniguchi

We have studied the location of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies and broad-line Seyfert 1 (BLS1) galaxies on the M_BH - sigma relation of non-active galaxies. We find that NLS1 galaxies as a class - as well as the BLS1 galaxies of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Komossa , D. Xu

This work studies the optical emission line properties and physical conditions of the narrow line region (NLR) of seven narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1). Our results show that the flux carried out by the narrow component of H-beta is,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Rodriguez-Ardila , L. Binette , M. G. Pastoriza , C. J. Donzelli , .

We analyzed a large sample of SDSS spectra of Seyfert galaxies, subdividing Seyfert 1s based on their narrow-to-broad Halpha components. Comparing their narrow-lines (NL) to Seyfert2s in line-ratio diagrams, most of the NL of strong Sy 1.0…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Matthew Malkan , Lisbeth Jensen , Lei Hao

An analysis was made of 0.3-15 keV X-ray spectra of a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy, Ton S180, using archival data from ASCA, RXTE, and XMM-Newton. At energies above 2.5 keV, a power-law with a photon index of ~ 2.3 successfully and…

We discuss the relationship between a standard Shakura & Sunyaev (1973) accretion disk model and the Big Blue Bump (BBB) observed in Type 1 AGN, and propose a new method to estimate black hole masses. We apply this method to a sample of 23…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Calderone , G. Ghisellini , M. Colpi , M. Dotti

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) are very interesting objects which display peculiar properties when compared to their broad line analogues (BLS1). Although well studied in many wavebands, their behaviour at >10 keV is poorly studied…

We have conducted a systematic search of low-mass black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with broad Halpha emission lines, aiming at building a homogeneous sample that is more complete than previous ones for fainter, less highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiao-Bo Dong , Luis C. Ho , Weimin Yuan , Ting-Gui Wang , Xiaohui Fan , Hongyan Zhou , Ning Jiang