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Changing look active-galatic-nuclei (CL AGNs) can yield considerable insight into accretion physics as well as the co-evolution of black holes and their host galaxies. A large sample of these CL AGNs is essential to achieve the latter goal.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Zhenfeng Sheng , Tinggui Wang , Ning Jiang , Jiani Ding , Zheng Cai , Hengxiao Guo , Luming Sun , Liming Dou , Chenwei Yang

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…

We study a combined sample of 264 star-forming, 51 composite, and 73 active galaxies using optical spectra from SDSS and mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. We examine optical and mid-IR spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , D. Schiminovich , M. O'Dowd , B. Bertincourt

We present a new sample of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified using the catalog of the AKARI Mid-infrared(MIR) All-Sky Survey. Our MIR search has an advantage in detecting AGNs that are obscured at optical wavelengths due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-24 S. Oyabu , D. Ishihara , M. Malkan , H. Matsuhara , T. Wada , T. Nakagawa , Y. Ohyama , Y. Toba , T. Onaka , S. Takita , H. Kataza , I. Yamamura , M. Shirahata

Some of the most active galaxies in the Universe are obscured by large quantities of dust and emit a substantial fraction of their bolometric luminosity in the infrared. Observations of these infrared luminous galaxies with the Infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aprajita Verma , Vassilis Charmandaris , Ulrich Klaas , Dieter Lutz , Martin Haas

Feedback, in particular from active galactic nuclei (AGN), is believed to play a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies. In the local Universe, many galaxies with an AGN are indeed observed to reside in the so-called green valley,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-12 Ignacio Martin-Navarro , Francesco Shankar , Mar Mezcua

We investigate the simultaneous triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in merging galaxies, using a large suite of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. We compute dual-AGN observability time-scales using bolometric, X-ray, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Pedro R. Capelo , Massimo Dotti , Marta Volonteri , Lucio Mayer , Jillian M. Bellovary , Sijing Shen

We present a catalog of physical properties for galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). By fitting broadband spectral energy distributions of sources in the WISE AGN Catalog…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , Daniel Stern , Roberto J. Assef

The role of AGN in quenching galaxies and driving the evolution from star-forming to quiescent remains a key question in galaxy evolution. We present evidence from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey for fading AGN activity in…

We present a detailed investigation of the incidence of circumnuclear dust structure in a large, well-matched sample of early-type galaxies with and without Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). All 34 early-type AGN hosts in our sample have…

Dust plays a central role in the unification theory of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, little is known about the nature (e.g., size, composition) of the dust which forms a torus around the AGN. In this Letter we report a systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jianwei Lyu , Lei Hao , Aigen Li

Active galactic nucleus (AGN)-driven gas outflows are one of the best tracers of AGN feedback in action, as these powerful outflows expel/heat or compress the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM), thus quenching or enhancing star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruisong Xia , Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Mengqiu Huang , Hao Liu , Xiaozhi Lin

Recent high angular resolution observations resolved for the first time the mid-infrared (MIR) structure of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN). Surprisingly, they revealed that a major fraction of their MIR emission comes from the polar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Marko Stalevski , Daniel Asmus , Konrad R. W. Tristram

The effect of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on their host galaxies -- in particular their levels of star formation -- remains one of the key outstanding questions of galaxy evolution. Successful cosmological models of galaxy evolution…

We investigate the infrared contribution from supermassive black hole activity versus host galaxy emission in the mid to far-infrared (IR) spectrum for a large sample of X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) residing in dusty,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 Arianna Brown , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray , Jingzhe Ma , Ryan C. Hickox , Mojegan Azadi

We investigate the process of rapid star formation quenching in a sample of 12 massive galaxies at intermediate redshift (z~0.6) that host high-velocity ionized gas outflows (v>1000 km/s). We conclude that these fast outflows are most…

We present the results of a combined galaxy population analysis for the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified at 0 < z < 1.4 within the SDSS, Bootes and DEEP2 surveys. We identified AGN in a uniform and unbiased manner at…

Galaxy mergers are key events in galaxy evolution, often causing massive starbursts and fueling active galactic nuclei (AGN). In these highly dynamic systems, it is not yet precisely known how much starbursts and AGN respectively contribute…

A semi-empirical model is presented that describes the distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the cosmic web. It populates dark-matter halos in N-body simulations (MultiDark) with galaxy stellar masses using empirical relations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Georgakakis , J. Comparat , A. Merloni , L. Ciesla , J. Aird , A. Finoguenov

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