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We evaluate the underlying assumptions for the identification of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) through near- and mid-infrared photometry and spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting out to z ~ 3. For massive galaxies, log(M) > 9.5, our…

We report the discovery of blue shifted (delta(V) > 200 km/s) mid-infrared [NeIII] and/or [NeV] emission in 25 out of 82 ULIRGs (30% of our sample). The incidence of blue shifted [NeV] emission is even higher (59%) among the sources with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. W. W. Spoon , J. Holt

We discuss the merger rate, close galaxy environment, and clustering on scales up to a Mpc of the SWIFT BAT hard X-ray sample of nearby (z<0.05), moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN). We find a higher incidence of galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-03 Michael Koss , Richard Mushotzky , Sylvain Veilleux , Lisa Winter

Galaxies selected on the basis of their emission line strength show low metallicities, regardless of their redshifts. We conclude this from a sample of faint galaxies at redshifts between 0.6 < z < 2.4, selected by their prominent emission…

We present a sample of 930 intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with black hole masses of $M_\mathrm{BH} \leqslant 2 \times 10^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, uniformly selected from the Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Wen-Juan Liu , Luis C. Ho , Xiao-Bo Dong , Su Yao , Paulina Lira , Yicheng Guo

Spectra, position, magnitudes and colors are presented for 485 faint (B<20.5) emission line objects selected with the ultraviolet-excess (UVX) criterion on a area of 24.6 sq. deg in the South Galactic Pole. The objects were selected from…

Double-peaked [O III]5007, profiles in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may provide evidence for the existence of dual AGNs, but a good diagnostic for selecting them is currently lacking. Starting from $\sim$ 7000 active galaxies in SDSS DR7,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. -M Wang , Y. -M. Chen , C. Hu , W. -M. Mao , S. Zhang , W. -H. Bian

We perform a systematic study of outflow in the narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at $z\sim0.4-0.8$ basing upon a large sample of $\sim900$ quasars at $z\sim 0.4-0.8$. The sample is extracted from the Sloan Digital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Wei

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

Recent observations have revealed an interesting active galactic nuclei (AGN) subclass that shows strong activity at large scales ($\sim1$ kpc) but weaker at small scales ($<10$ pc), suggesting a strong change in the mass accretion rate of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 J. Pflugradt , K. Ichikawa , M. Akiyama , M. Kokubo , B. Vijarnwannaluk , H. Noda , X. Chen

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a substantial population of high-redshift, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs), whose properties challenge standard models of black hole growth and AGN emission. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Greta Zucchi , Xihan Ji , Piero Madau , Roberto Maiolino , Ignas Juodžbalis , Francesco D'Eugenio , Sophia Geris , Yuki Isobe

We explore the kinematics of ionized gas via the [O III] $\lambda$5007 emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected on the basis of their mid-infrared (IR) emission, and split into obscured and unobscured populations based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 M. A. DiPompeo , R. C. Hickox , C. M. Carroll , J. C. Runnoe , J. R. Mullaney , T. C. Fischer

The [O III] 5007 line is commonly used as an indicator of the systemic redshift of AGNs. Also, recent studies have used the width of this emission line as a proxy for the stellar velocity dispersion in the host galaxy. This paper calls both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todd Boroson

We investigated AGN activity in low-mass galaxies, an important regime that can shed light onto BH formation and evolution, and their interaction with their host galaxies. We identified 336 AGN candidates from a parent sample of $\sim…

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Coadd Data. We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor Error…

In this paper, we utilize high-quality rest-UV spectra of three radio galaxies at $z \sim$ 3 observed with VLT/FORS2 to measure the flux of several emission lines including relatively faint ones, such as NIV]$\lambda$1486,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Koki Terao , Tohru Nagao , Kyoko Onishi , Kenta Matsuoka , Masayuki Akiyama , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Takuji Yamashita

Optical emission lines are used to categorize galaxies into three groups according to their dominant central radiation source: active galactic nuclei, star formation, or low-ionization (nuclear) emission regions [LI(N)ERs] that may trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-07 Dhanesh Krishnarao , Robert A. Benjamin , L. Matthew Haffner

Searching for active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies is important for our understanding of the seed black holes that formed in the early Universe. Here, we test infrared selection methods for AGN activity at low galaxy masses. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Kevin N. Hainline , Amy E. Reines , Jenny E. Greene , Daniel Stern

Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) through their X-ray emission is efficient, but necessarily biased against X-ray-faint objects. We aim to characterize this bias by comparing X-ray-selected AGNs to the ones identified through…