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Using the multi-epoch mid-infrared (MIR) photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spanning a baseline of $\sim10$ yr, we extensively investigate the MIR variability of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at $0.15 < z < 0.4$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-11 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

Stern et al.(2012) presented a study of WISE selection of AGN in the 2 deg^2 COSMOS field, finding that a simple criterion W1-W2>=0.8 provides a highly reliable and complete AGN sample for W2<15.05, where the W1 and W2 passbands are…

We quantify the luminosity contribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to the 12 $\mu$m, mid-infrared (MIR; 5-38 $\mu$m), and the total IR (5-1000 $\mu$m) emission in the local AGN detected in the all-sky 70-month Swift/Burst Alert…

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

We propose a new method of analysing a variable component for type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the near-infrared wavelength region. This analysis uses a multiple regression technique and divides the variable component into two…

We fitted the optical to mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of ~15000 type-I, 0.75<z<2, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in an attempt to constrain the properties of the physical component responsible for the rest-frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rivay Mor , Benny Trakhtenbrot

We investigate the optical variability of low-redshift ($0.15< z\leq0.4$) active galactic nuclei using the multi-epoch data from the Zwicky Transient Facility. We find that a damped random walk model well describes the ensemble structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-13 Minjin Kim , Suyeon Son , Luis C. Ho

We present measurements of the dusty torus sizes of 51 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a redshift of $z<$ 0.8. Our analysis utilizes about 16 years of optical photometric data of 146 AGNs from various time-domain surveys, including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Ashutosh Tomar , Suvendu Rakshit , Amit Kumar Mandal , Shivangi Pandey

We present the measurement of the line-of-sight extinction of the dusty torus for a large number of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the reddening of the colour of the variable flux component in near-infrared (NIR)…

(abridged) This paper is the second part of a work investigating the properties of dusty tori in AGN by means of multi-component SED fitting. It focuses on low luminosity, low redshift (z < 0.25) AGN selected among emission line galaxies as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Jacopo Fritz , Tom Jarrett

We use mid-infrared variability in galaxies to search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local universe. We use a sample of 10,220 galaxies from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-09 Aashay Pai , Michael R. Blanton , John Moustakas

The primary source of emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), the accretion disk, is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick dusty structure ("the so-called dusty torus"). The infrared radiation emitted by the dust is nothing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-13 Marko Stalevski , Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Paulina Lira , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes

This work focuses on the properties of dusty tori in active galactic nuclei (AGN) derived from the comparison of SDSS type 1 quasars with mid-Infrared (MIR) counterparts and a new, detailed torus model. The infrared data were taken by the…

We report a sizable class of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with unusually weak near-infrared (1-3{\mu}m) emission in the XMM-COSMOS type 1 AGN sample. The fraction of these "hot-dust-poor" AGNs increases with redshift from 6% at…

We systematically investigate the near- (NIR) to far-infrared (FIR) photometric properties of a nearly complete sample of local active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected in the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky ultra hard X-ray (14-195…

Weak emission-line active galactic nuclei (WLAGNs) are radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that have nearly featureless optical spectra. We investigate the ultraviolet to mid-infrared spectral energy distributions of 73 WLAGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-20 Xudong Zhang , Yuan Liu

The unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) claims that the properties of AGN depend on the viewing angle of the observer with respect to a toroidal distribution of dust surrounding the nucleus. Both the mid-infrared (MIR) attenuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 O. Gonzalez-Martin , J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa , T. Diaz-Santos , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , P. Esquej , C. Ramos Almeida , R. Mason , C. Telesco

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs) show large changes in luminosity and optical spectral state on time-scales of a few years, and provide a valuable probe of time-dependent accretion in the disc-BLR-torus system. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 Yu Tao , Jie Tang , Xuan Wei

We present a detailed investigation of the near-to-far infrared (IR) spectral energy distribution (SED) of a large sample of Spitzer-observed active galactic nuclei (AGN). We fitted the spectra of 51 narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rivay Mor , Hagai Netzer

We fitted Spitzer/IRS ~2-35 um spectra of 26 luminous QSOs in attempt to define the main emission components. Our model has three major components: a clumpy torus, dusty narrow line region (NLR) clouds and a blackbody-like dust. The models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Rivay Mor , Hagai Netzer , Moshe Elitzur
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