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Gravitational instability in the outskirts of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disks lead to disk fragmentation and formation of super-massive (several 10^2Msun) stars with potentially long lifetimes. Alternatively, stars can be captured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

We have obtained Keck NIR spectroscopy of a sample of nine M$_\star$ $<$ 10$^{10}$ M$_\odot$ dwarf galaxies to confirm AGN activity and the presence of galaxy-wide, AGN-driven outflows through coronal line (CL) emission. We find strong CL…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Thomas Bohn , Gabriela Canalizo , Sylvain Veilleux , Weizhe Liu

We present narrow- and medium-band HST imaging, with additional supporting ground-based data, for 8 galaxies identified as hosting fading AGN. These have AGN-ionized gas projected >10 kpc from the nucleus, and significant shortfall of…

The gas-phase metallicity distribution in galaxies provides significant information on their evolution. We report the discovery of negative radial gradients in the gas-phase metallicity of the narrow-line region of the nine galaxies in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Amirnezam Amiri , Johan H. Knapen , Bret D. Lehmer , Amirhossein Khoram

The origin of obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still an open debate. In particular, it is unclear what drives the relative contributions to the line-of-sight column densities from galaxy-scale and torus-linked obscuration. The…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are the compact, energetic central regions of galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes that accrete surrounding gas and dust. Their optical spectra can be identified by strong emission-line signatures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Sruthi Suresh , Wei Jeat Hon , Rachel L Webster , Christian Wolf , Christopher A Onken

We analyze ionized gas emission lines in deep rest-frame optical spectra of 16 quiescent galaxies at redshift $1.7<z<3.5$ observed with JWST/NIRSpec by the Blue Jay survey. Robust detection of emission lines in $75\%$ of the sample…

The effects of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on their host-galaxies depend on the coupling between the injected energy and the interstellar medium (ISM). Here, we model and quantify the impact of long-range AGN ionizing radiation -- in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-09 Orianne Roos , Stéphanie Juneau , Frédéric Bournaud , Jared M. Gabor

Energetic gas outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are considered as one of the mechanisms, by which supermassive black holes affect their host galaxies. To probe the impact of AGN-driven outflows, it is essential to quantify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Daeun Kang , Jong-Hak Woo

Ionised gas kinematics provide crucial evidence of the impact that active galactic nuclei (AGN) have in regulating star formation in their host galaxies. Although the presence of outflows in AGN host galaxies has been firmly established,…

We investigate the possible presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies and other nearby galaxies to identify candidates for follow-up confirmation and dynamical mass measurements. We use the Wide-field Infrared Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Francine R. Marleau , Dominic Clancy , Rebecca Habas , Matteo Bianconi

Recent well resolved numerical simulations of AGN feedback have shown that its effects on the host galaxy may be not only negative but also positive. In the late gas poor phase, AGN feedback blows the gas away and terminates star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King , Mark Wilkinson

We analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical imaging of eight low-mass galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their photometric variability in \cite{baldassare_search_2020}. We use GALFIT to model the 2D galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-06 Erin Kimbro , Vivienne Baldassare , Guy Worthey , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

To study the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback on the galactic ISM, we present Magellan long-slit spectroscopy of 12 luminous nearby type 2 AGN (L_bol~10^{45.0-46.5} erg/s, z~0.1). These objects are selected from a parent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Ai-Lei Sun , Jenny E. Greene , Nadia L. Zakamska

The morphology of galaxies reflects their assembly history and ongoing dynamical perturbations from the environment. Analyzing i-band images from the Pan-STARRS1 Survey, we study the optical morphological asymmetry of the host galaxies of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Yulin Zhao , Yang A. Li , Jinyi Shangguan , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho

The analysis of a sample of 30 isolated spiral galaxies with and without an AGN results in active and control galaxies having similar bulge and disk properties (since both samples are selected to match in morphological and bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Isabel Márquez , the DEGAS Consortium

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 use 4 galaxies from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey with clear signs of accretion onto supermassive black holes to investigate the relative contribution of star-formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rebecca L. Davies , Lisa J. Kewley , I-Ting Ho , Michael A. Dopita

We study the properties of kinematically disturbed galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey using a quantitative criterion, based on kinemetry (Krajnovic et al.). The approach, similar to the application of kinemetry by Shapiro et al. uses…

This is the second paper of a series exploring the multi-component (stars, warm and cold gas and radio jets) properties of a sample of eleven nearby low excitation radio galaxies (LERGs), with the aim of better understanding the AGN…