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NGC 3115 is an S0 galaxy that has always been considered to have a pure absorption-line spectrum. Some recent studies have detected a compact radio-emitting nucleus in this object, coinciding with the photometric center and with a candidate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-14 R. B. Menezes , J. E. Steiner , T. V. Ricci

We present the discovery of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) that is turning off and then on again in the z=0.06 galaxy SDSS J1354+1327. This episodic nuclear activity is the result of discrete accretion events, which could have been…

We report the discovery of a candidate active galactic nucleus (AGN), 2XMM J123103.2+110648 at z = 0.13, with an X-ray spectrum represented purely by soft thermal emission reminiscent of Galactic black hole (BH) binaries in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuichi Terashima , Naoya Kamizasa , Hisamitsu Awaki , Aya Kubota , Yoshihiro Ueda

The nearby galaxy NGC 3115 contains a known radio-emitting, low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN), and was recently claimed to host a candidate AGN displaced 14.3 pc from the galaxy's optical photocenter. Our goal is to understand…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Megan L. Jones , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Kristina Nyland , Joan M. Wrobel

We report the results of an investigation to determine the nature of the offset active galactic nucleus (AGN) found in the source CXO J101527.2+625911. Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray observatory data had suggested that the offset…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 D. -C. Kim , E. Momjian , Ilsang Yoon , Minjin Kim , A. S. Evans , Ji Hoon Kim , S. T. Linden , L. Barcos-Munoz , G. C. Privon

We present strong evidence for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the z=0.36 galaxy COSMOS J100043.15+020637.2. COSMOS Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the galaxy shows a tidal tail, indicating that the galaxy recently underwent a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Julia M. Comerford , Roger L. Griffith , Brian F. Gerke , Michael C. Cooper , Jeffrey A. Newman , Marc Davis , Daniel Stern

Offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are AGNs that are in ongoing galaxy mergers, which produce kinematic offsets in the AGNs relative to their host galaxies. Offset AGNs are also close relatives of dual AGNs. We conduct a systematic search…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene

We report the discovery of a kiloparsec-scale dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) in J0038+4128. From the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC2) images, we find two optical nuclei with a projection separation of 4.7…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Y. Huang , X. -W. Liu , H. -B. Yuan , M. -S. Xiang , Z. -Y. Huo , Y. -H. Hou , G. Jin , Y. Zhang , X. -L. Zhou

We present a sample of 18 optically-selected and X-ray detected spatially offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In 9 systems, the X-ray AGN is spatially offset from the galactic stellar core that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene , David Pooley

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) ejected from the potential well of its host galaxy via gravitational wave recoil carries important information about the mass ratio and spin alignment of the pre-merger SMBH binary. Such a recoiling SMBH may…

Dual-Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are a natural consequence of the hierarchical structure formation scenario, and can provide an important test of various models for black hole growth. However, due to their rarity and difficulty to find at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 C. S. Mangat , J. P. McKean , R. Brilenkov , P. Hartley , H. R. Stacey , S. Vegetti , D. Wen

JWST has discovered a large population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at high redshift. Many of these newly discovered AGN have broad permitted lines (typically H$\alpha$), but are extremely weak in the X-rays. Here we present the NIRSpec…

We obtained Keck/OSIRIS near-IR adaptive optics-assisted integral-field spectroscopy to probe the morphology and kinematics of the ionized gas in four velocity-offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Francisco Müller-Sánchez , Julia M. Comerford , Daniel Stern , Fiona A. Harrison

Jets of high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be used to directly probe the activity of the black holes in the early Universe. Radio sources with jets misaligned with respect to the line of sight are expected to dominate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Yingkang Zhang , Tao An , Sándor Frey , Xiaolong Yang , Máté Krezinger , Oleg Titov , Alexey Melnikov , Pablo de Vicente , Fengchun Shu , Ailing Wang

JWST has enabled the discovery of a statistical sample of obscured (type II) active galactic nuclei (AGN) at cosmic noon. Studies comparing those type II AGN with type I AGN at that epoch have reinforced the long-standing idea of an…

Triple AGN systems are expected to be the result of the hierarchical model of galaxy formation. Since there are very few of them confirmed as such, we present the results of a new study of the triple-AGN candidate SDSS J102700.40+174900.8…

We present optical SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) integral field spectroscopy, Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging, Chandra X-ray imaging, and Very Large Array radio interferometry of the merging galaxy 2MASX…

Dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and offset AGNs are kpc-scale separation supermassive black holes pairs created during galaxy mergers, where both or one of the black holes are AGNs, respectively. These dual and offset AGNs are valuable…

We report the results of a pilot study that searched for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in local ($z<$0.25) galaxies hosting double-peaked narrow emission lines in their optical spectra. We present high-resolution $L-$band (1.5 GHz or 18…

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