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Jets associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been observed for almost a century, initially at optical and radio wavelengths. They are now widely accepted as "exhausts" produced electromagnetically by the central, spinning, massive…

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The investigation of emission line regions within active galaxies (AGNs) has a rich and extensive history, now extending to the use of AGNs and quasars as "standardizable" cosmological indicators, shedding light on the evolution of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-28 Swayamtrupta Panda , Paola Marziani , Bozena Czerny , Alberto Rodriguez-Ardila , Francisco Pozo Nunez

The spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are often characterized by a wealth of emission lines with different profiles and intensity ratios that led to a complicated classification. Their electro-magnetic radiation spans more than 10…

Deep field observations are an essential tool to probe the cosmological evolution of galaxies. In this context, X-ray deep fields provide information about some of the most energetic cosmological objects: active galactic nuclei (AGN).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Hasinger , A. Mueller

We describe new efforts to model radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a cosmological context using the SAGE semi-analytic galaxy model. Our new method tracks the physical properties of radio jets in massive galaxies, including the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Mojtaba Raouf , Stanislav S. Shabala , Darren J. Croton , Habib G. Khosroshahi , Maksym Bernyk

The cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) harbor some of the most extreme conditions of matter and energy in the Universe. One of the major goals of high-energy astrophysics is to probe these extreme environments in the vicinity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Weaver

The last decade has seen tremendous developments in gamma-ray astronomy with the extragalactic sky becoming highly populated by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). This brief review highlights some of the progress in AGN research achieved over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Frank M. Rieger

Deep X-ray surveys are providing crucial information on the evolution of AGN and galaxies. We review some of the latest results based on the X-ray spectral analysis of the sources detected in the Chandra Deep Field South, namely: i)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Tozzi , R. Gilli , the CDFS Team

We explore host galaxy properties and environment of a sample of Type 1 and 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) taken from the COSMOS2015 catalog, within 0.3 $\leq z \leq$ 1.1 selected for their emission in X-rays, optical spectra and SED…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Carlos Guillermo Bornancini , Diego García Lambas

We study the AGN-host co-evolution issue here by focusing on the correlation between the hard X-ray emission from central AGNs and the stellar populations of the host galaxies. By focusing on the galaxies with strong H$\alpha$ line emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Wang , X. L. Zhou , J. Y Wei

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes with luminous accretion disks found in some galaxies, and are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution. However, traditional optical spectroscopy for identifying AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-16 Ziting Guo , John F. Wu , Chelsea E. Sharon

For nearly seven decades astronomers have been studying active galaxies, that is to say galaxies with actively accreting central supermassive black holes, AGN. A small fraction of these are characterized by luminous, powerful radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 J. F. Radcliffe , P. D. Barthel , M. A. Garrett , R. J. Beswick , A. P. Thomson , T. W. B. Muxlow

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) significantly influence galaxy evolution. Specific sources such as obscured AGNs, especially Type II quasars (QSO2), still remain understudied. We characterise 366 QSO2 candidates in the redshift desert (median…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-09 P. A. C. Cunha , A. Humphrey , J. Brinchmann , A. Paulino-Afonso , L. Bisigello , M. Bolzonella , D. Vaz

We first review some basic properties of the most important classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN), including quasars, blazars, Seyfert galaxies and radio galaxies. The most commonly accepted type of scheme designed to individually unify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul J. Wiita

Both star formation (SF) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play an important role in galaxy evolution. Statistically quantifying their relative importance can be done using radio luminosity functions. Until now these relied on galaxy…

The evolution of galaxies depends on their environments. In this work, active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in different environments has been studied. The fractions of radio and optical AGN in four different environments have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Halime Miraghaei

The discovery of the M-sigma relation, the local galaxy bimodality, and the link between black-hole and host-galaxy properties, have raised the question whether AGN play a role in galaxy evolution. Several theoretical models implement AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 M. Vitale , L. Fuhrmann , M. Garcia-Marin , A. Eckart , J. Zuther , A. M. Hopkins

The appearance of active galactic nuclei (AGN) depends so strongly on orientation that our current classification schemes are dominated by random pointing directions instead of more interesting physical properties. Light from the centers of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 C. Megan Urry , Paolo Padovani

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the most luminous objects in the universe, making them valuable probes for studying galaxy evolution. However, understanding how AGN properties evolve over cosmic time remains a fundamental challenge.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Shreya Sareen , Swayamtrupta Panda