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HE 0435-5304 from Hamburg European Southern Observatory survey is a quasar that appears in the literature with two conflicting redshift values: $\sim 1.2$ and $\sim 0.4$. It was used in the studies of the intergalactic medium through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Krzysztof Hryniewicz , Małgorzata Bankowicz , Katarzyna Małek , Aleksander Herzig , Agnieszka Pollo

We present a detailed analysis of the rest-frame optical emission line ratios for three spectroscopically confirmed galaxies at $z>7.5$. The galaxies were identified in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations field…

We introduce a new infrared diagnostic to separate galaxies on the basis of their dominant infrared emission: stellar or nuclear. The main novelty with respect to existing diagnostics, is the usage of a broad band encompassing at the same…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Dario Fadda , Giulia Rodighiero

We report detections of the [OIII]$\lambda$4364 auroral emission line for 16 galaxies at z=2.1-8.7, measured from JWST/NIRSpec observations obtained as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey program. We combine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Ryan L. Sanders , Alice E. Shapley , Michael W. Topping , Naveen A. Reddy , Gabriel B. Brammer

We revisit black hole mass estimates for high-redshift broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) discovered with JWST by jointly analysing their broad emission lines and their systematic non-detections in deep Chandra imaging. Building upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Alessandro Trinca , Alessandro Lupi , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau

We have used XMM-Newton to observe six Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs): members of the rare population of local galaxies that have properties that are very similar to distant Lyman Break Galaxies. Our six targets were specifically selected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jianjun Jia , Andrew Ptak , Timothy M. Heckman , Roderik A. Overzier , Ann Hornschemeier , Stephanie M. LaMassa

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes with luminous accretion disks found in some galaxies, and are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution. However, traditional optical spectroscopy for identifying AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-16 Ziting Guo , John F. Wu , Chelsea E. Sharon

It is a widespread opinion that hydrogen reionization is mainly driven by primeval star-forming galaxies, with a minor role of high-z active galactic nuclei. Recent observations, however, challenge this notion, indicating a number of issues…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 A. Grazian , E. Giallongo , F. Fiore , K. Boutsia , F. Civano , S. Cristiani , G. Cupani , M. Dickinson , F. Fontanot , N. Menci , M. Romano

We present a deep DREAMS JWST/NIRSpec MSA medium-grating spectrum of MACS0416-Y1, a galaxy at $z=8.312$ with the highest-redshift ALMA dust continuum detection to date, in order to characterize its properties together with archival IFU and…

We present Keck/OSIRIS laser guide-star assisted adaptive optics (LGSAO) integral field spectroscopy of [O III] 5007 Angstrom nebular emission from twelve galaxies hosting optically faint (R = 20 - 25; nuLnu ~ 10^44 -10^46 erg/s) active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 David R. Law , Charles C. Steidel , Yuguang Chen , Allison L. Strom , Gwen C. Rudie , Ryan F. Trainor

The discovery over the last several decades of moderate luminosity AGNs in disk-dominated galaxies - which show no "classical" bulges - suggests that secular mechanisms represent an important growth pathway for supermassive black holes in…

We use the Cosmic Archaeology Tool (CAT) semi-analytical model to explore the contribution of Population (Pop) III/II stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to the galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) evolution at $4 \leq z \leq 20$. We…

The unexpectedly high nitrogen-to-oxygen (N/O) ratios observed in high-redshift (z) galaxies have challenged our understanding of early star formation. Notably, many of these nitrogen-rich galaxies show signatures of active galactic nuclei…

We introduce the Mass-Excitation (MEx) diagnostic to identify active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxies at intermediate redshift. In the absence of near-infrared spectroscopy, necessary to use traditional nebular line diagrams at z>0.4, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stéphanie Juneau , Mark Dickinson , David M. Alexander , Samir Salim

A global understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies hinges on completing a census of AGN activity without selection biases down to the low-luminosity regime. Toward that goal, we identify AGN within faint radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Stacey Alberts , Wiphu Rujopakarn , George Rieke , Preshanth Jagannathan , Kristina Nyland

We present a coherent database of spectroscopic observations of far-IR fine-structure lines from the Herschel/PACS archive for a sample of 170 local AGN, plus a comparison sample of 20 starburst galaxies and 43 dwarf galaxies. Published…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros , L. Spinoglio , M. Pereira-Santaella , M. A. Malkan , P. Andreani , K. M. Dasyra

The star formation rate (SFR) is one of the most fundamental parameters of galaxies, but nearly all of the standard SFR diagnostics are difficult to measure in active galaxies because of contamination from the active galactic nucleus (AGN).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-21 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan

Cosmic reionization represents the latest phase transition in the Universe, when the Lyman continuum (LyC) photons turned the intergalactic medium (IGM) from neutral to highly ionized. It has long been debated whether galaxies or active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Danyang Jiang , Linhua Jiang , Shengxiu Sun , Weiyang Liu , Shuqi Fu

The presence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in low mass (Mstar $\lesssim$ $10^{9}$ Msun) galaxies at high redshift has been established, and it is important to characterise these objects and the impact of their feedback on the host…

We present the second catalog and data release of optical spectral line measurements and AGN demographics of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on the of Swift-BAT hard X-ray detected AGNs. We use spectra from dedicated…