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We quantify the presence of Active Galactic nuclei (AGN) in a mass-complete (M_* >5e10 M_sun) sample of 123 star-forming and quiescent galaxies at 1.5 < z < 2.5, using X-ray data from the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Karen Pardos Olsen , Jesper Rasmussen , Sune Toft , Andrew W. Zirm

Information on the structure around active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long been derived from measuring lags in their varying light output at different wavelengths. In principle, infrared data would reach to larger radii, potentially even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 E. Elmer , M. Merrifield , O. Almaini , W. G. Hartley , D. T. Maltby

We present a systematic search for radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in dwarf galaxies using recent observations taken by the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). To select these objects, we first establish a criterion to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-25 John-Michael Eberhard , Amy E. Reines , Hansung B. Gim , Jeremy Darling , Jenny E. Greene

Large-scale outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) can have a profound influence on their host galaxies. The outflow properties themselves depend sensitively on the history of AGN energy injection during the lifetime of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Kastytis Zubovas , Jonas Bialopetravičius , Monika Kazlauskaitė

The analysis of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at different wavelengths and the study of possible correlations among different spectral windows are nowadays a major field of inquiry. Optical variability has been largely…

In terms of the variable nature of normal active galaxy nuclei (AGN) and luminous quasars, a so-called flux variation gradient (FVG) method has been widely utilized to estimate the underlying non-variable host galaxy fluxes. The FVG method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 Minxuan Cai , Zhen Wan , Zhenyi Cai , Lulu Fan , Junxian Wang

It is known that some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) transited from type 1 to type 2 or vice versa. There are two explanations for the so-called changing look AGNs: one is the dramatic change of the obscuration along the line-of-sight, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-01 Zhenfeng Sheng , Tinggui Wang , Ning Jiang , Chenwei Yang , Lin Yan , Liming Dou , Bo Peng

We provide a new approach to measure power spectra and reconstruct time series in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the fact that the Fourier transform of AGN stochastic variations is a series of complex Gaussian random variables. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang

Hundreds of Type 2 quasars have been identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data, and there is substantial evidence that they are generally galaxies with highly obscured central engines, in accord with unified models for active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. J. Barth , A. Voevodkin , D. J. Carson , P. Woźniak

Long X-ray observations of bright Active Galactic Nuclei show that X-ray eclipses, with durations from a few hours to a few days, are rather common. This opens up a new window of opportunity in the search for signatures of relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Risaliti , E. Nardini , M. Elvis , L. Brenneman , M. Salvati

We analyze the X-ray properties for a sample of 23 high probability AGN candidates with ultraviolet variability identified in Wasleske et al. (2022). Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the XMM-Newton Observatory, we find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Erik J. Wasleske , Vivienne F. Baldassare

Mrk 590 is a known changing-look AGN which almost turned off in 2012, and then in 2017 partially re-ignited into a repeat flaring state, unusual for an AGN. Our \emph{Swift} observations since 2013 allow us to characterise the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Daniel Lawther , Marianne Vestergaard , Sandra Raimundo , Jun Yi Koay , Bradley M Peterson , Xiaohui Fan , Dirk Grupe , Smita Mathur

A large number of AGN have been monitored for nearly 30 years at 22, 37 and 87 GHz in Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory. These data were combined with lower frequency 4.8, 8.0 and 14.5 GHz data from the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy…

The spatial clustering of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered to be one of the important diagnostics for the understanding of the underlying processes behind their activities complementary to measurements of the luminosity function…

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 have performed a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of local (z < 0.05) ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) using KVN, KaVA, and VLBA. We first…

Physical processes such as re-ignition, enhancement, and fading of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not entirely understood because the timeline of these events is expected to last many years. However, it is well known that the differences…

We study the statistical properties of the Normalized Excess Variance of variability process characterized by a red-noise power spectral density (PSD), as the case of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We perform Monte Carlo simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Allevato , M. Paolillo , I. Papadakis , C. Pinto

The Gaia Alerts system is providing alerts on a variety of objects displaying a significant photometric change detected by the Gaia satellite from one passage to the next one over the same region of the sky. Among the over 22000 alerts…

The majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected at very-high-energies above 100 GeV belong to the class of blazars with a small angle between the jet-axis and the line-of-sight. Only about 10 percent of the gamma-ray AGN are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Dorit Glawion , Alicja Wierzcholska