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The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions (i.e., total and core RLF respectively). Using a large…

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We investigated the time-dependent radiative and dynamical properties of light supersonic jets launched into an external medium, using hydrodynamic simulations and numerical radiative transfer calculations. These involved various structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Svetlana Korunoska , Khee-Gan Lee , Kai-Yan Lee , Nicola Beddows

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the centres of galaxies can cycle between periods of activity and of quiescence. Characterising the duty-cycle of AGN is crucial for understanding their impact on the evolution of the host galaxy. For radio…

We use hydrodynamic simulations post-processed with the radiative-transfer code RADAMESH to assess recent claims that the low HeII opacity observed in z>3 quasar spectra may be incompatible with models of HeII reionization driven by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Michele Compostella , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

We study the spatially resolved star formation, gas ionisation, and outflow properties of 1813 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MaNGA survey, which we classify into infrared (IR), broad-line (BL), narrow-line (NL), and radio (RD) AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Gaoxiang Jin , Guinevere Kauffmann , Y. Sophia Dai , Martin J. Hardcastle , Bohan Yue

High redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) provide key insights into early supermassive black hole growth and cosmic evolution. This study investigates the parsec-scale properties of 86 radio-loud quasars at z $\geq$ 3 using very long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Shaoguang Guo , Tao An , Yuanqi Liu , Chuanzeng Liu , Zhijun Xu , Yulia Sotnikova , Timur Mufakharov , Ailing Wang

Analytical models describing the dynamics of lobed radio sources are essential for interpretation of the tens of millions of radio sources that will be observed by the Square Kilometre Array and pathfinder instruments. We propose that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Ross J. Turner , Stanislav S. Shabala

We model the kiloparsec-scale synchrotron emission from jets in 10 Fanaroff-Riley Class I radio galaxies for which we have sensitive, high-resolution imaging and polarimetry from the Very Large Array. We assume that the jets are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

Ongoing and future radio surveys aim to trace the evolution of black hole growth and feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) throughout cosmic time; however, there remain major uncertainties in translating radio luminosity functions into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 J. H. Croston , J. Ineson , M. J. Hardcastle

The enormous sizes and variability of emission of radio-loud AGNs arise from the relativistic flows of plasma along two oppositely directed jets. We use the Athena hydrodynamics code to simulate an extensive suite of 54 propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Yutong Li , Paul J. Wiita , Terance Schuh , Geena Elghossain , Shaoming Hu

We investigate the luminosity evolution of the host galaxies of radio-loud AGN through Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 72 BL Lac objects, including new STIS imaging of nine z > 0.6 BL Lacs. With their intrinsically low accretion rates and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew O'Dowd , C. Megan Urry

The radio luminosity function (RLF) of radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars is often modelled as a broken power-law. The break luminosity is close to the dividing line between the two Fanaroff-Riley (FR) morphological classes for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian R. Kaiser , Philip N. Best

VLBI observations of relativistic outflows (jets) in galactic nuclei, complemented with detailed studies made in other spectral domains, have become an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-03 Andrei Lobanov

Analysis of the frequency and physical properties of galaxies with star-formation and AGN activity in different environments in the local universe is a cornerstone for understanding structure formation and galaxy evolution. We have built a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pietro Reviglio , David J. Helfand

Current wide-area radio surveys are dominated by active galactic nuclei, yet many of these sources have no identified optical counterparts. Here we investigate whether one can constrain the nature and properties of these sources, using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding

We cross-correlate the largest available Mid-Infrared (WISE), X-ray (3XMM) and Radio (FIRST+NVSS) catalogues to define the MIXR sample of AGN and star-forming galaxies. We pre-classify the sources based on their positions on the WISE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-01 B. Mingo , M. G. Watson , S. R. Rosen , M. J. Hardcastle , A. Ruiz , A. Blain , F. J. Carrera , S. Mateos , F. X. Pineau , G. C. Stewart

In order to understand the physical mechanisms at work during the formation of massive early-type galaxies, we performed six zoomed hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of halos in the mass range 4.3 10^12 < M_vir < 8.0 10^13 M_sun at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yohan Dubois , Raphaël Gavazzi , Sébastien Peirani , Joseph Silk

An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

Feedback from AGN is known to affect the host galaxy's evolution. In radio AGN, one manifestation of feedback is seen in gas outflows. However, it is still not well understood whether the effect of feedback evolves with the radio AGN life…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Pranav Kukreti , Raffaella Morganti , Clive Tadhunter , Francesco Santoro

Radial gradients of the brightness temperatures along the parsec-scale jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be used to infer the energy balance and to estimate the parameter range of physical conditions in these regions. In this paper,…

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