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Aims.The main purpose of this study is to investigate aspects regarding the validity of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) unification paradigm (UP). In particular, we focus on the AGN host galaxies, which according to the UP should show no…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-03 Anamaria Gkini , Manolis Plionis , Maria Chira , Elias Koulouridis

We describe our efforts to study dwarf galaxies with active nuclei, whose black holes, with masses < 10^6 M_sun, provide the best current observational constraints on the mass distribution of primordial seed black holes. Although these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. E. Greene , A. J. Barth , L. C. Ho

The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are at the lowest end of mass function of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and preferentially reside in late-type host galaxies with pseudobulges, which are thought…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Akihiro Doi , Motoki Kino , Nozomu Kawakatu , Kazuhiro Hada

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) are an intriguing subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their observed properties indicate low central black hole mass and high accretion rate. The extremely radio-loud NLS1 sources often show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-07 K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , Z. Paragi , E. Järvelä , T. Morokuma , T. An , M. Tanaka , I. Tar

I provide a short review of the properties of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum and of the models to explain them. Their continuum and emission-line properties manifest one extreme form of Seyfert…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-18 S. Komossa

There is now strong evidence that many low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) contain accreting massive black holes and that the nuclear radio emission is dominated by parsec-scale jets launched by these black holes. Here, we present preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Nagar , A. S. Wilson , H. Falcke , J. S. Ulvestad , C. G. Mundell

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are generally believed to be radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with relatively less-massive (10$^{5}$$-$10$^{8}$~M$_{\odot}$) Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBH). Using the FIRST radio detections…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-16 Veeresh Singh , Hum Chand , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , Preeti Kharb

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) are active galactic nuclei (AGN) known to have small masses of the central black hole and high accretion rates. NLS1s are generally radio-quiet, but a small part of them (about 7\%) are radio-loud. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-25 M. Berton , L. Foschini , A. Caccianiga , J. L. Richards , S. Ciroi , E. Congiu , V. Cracco , G. La Mura , L. Marafatto , P. Rafanelli

In a previous paper we showed that the radio sources selected by combining large areas radio and optical surveys, present a strong deficit of radio emission with respect to 3CR radio-galaxies matched in line emission luminosity. We argued…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ranieri D. Baldi , Alessandro Capetti

We examine the properties of the host galaxies of 22,623 narrow-line AGN with 0.02<z<0.3 selected from a complete sample of 122,808 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We focus on the luminosity of the [OIII]$\lambda$5007 emission…

Occupying the intermediate-mass regime of the accretion--jet parameter space, radio continuum emission from active galactic nuclei with black hole mass M_BH <~ 10^6 Msun (low-mass AGNs) is a valuable probe to the physics of relativistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-30 Jin-Zhi Wu , Xiao-Bo Dong , Lei Qian , Wen-Juan Liu , Fu-Guo Xie , Bo Peng

This is the second of a series of three papers exploring the connection between the multiwavelength properties of AGN in nearby early-type galaxies and the characteristics of their hosts. In Capetti et al. (2005) we presented a study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Balmaverde , A. Capetti

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s), a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at early stage of accretion process, are also found to host relativistic jets. However, currently known jetted NLS1s are rare. The majority of NLS1s are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-23 Xu-Liang Fan

We present the completed results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all (~200) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) and AGNs in the Palomar Spectroscopic Sample. The high incidences of pc-scale radio nuclei, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Neil M. Nagar , Heino Falcke , Andrew S. Wilson

I will review some of the developments in studies of the host galaxy properties of Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) and GigaHertz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio sources. In contrast to previous reviews structured around observational technique, I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Holt

We present an analysis of the host properties of 85224 emission-line galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that Seyferts and LINERs form clearly separated branches on the standard optical diagnostic diagrams. We derive a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Lisa J. Kewley , Brent Groves , Guinevere Kauffmann , Tim Heckman

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies are an enigmatic class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that exhibit peculiar multiwavelength properties across the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, these sources have allowed us to explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Vaidehi S. Paliya , C. S. Stalin , Alberto Dominguez , D. J. Saikia

We investigate the nature of low-luminosity radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) selected from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) first data release (DR1). Using optical, mid-infrared, and radio data, we have conservatively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-01 J. Chilufya , M. J. Hardcastle , J. C. S. Pierce , J. H. Croston , B. Mingo , X. Zheng , R. D. Baldi , H. J. A. Röttgering

High-energy {\gamma}-rays, which are produced by powerful relativistic jets, are usually associated with blazars and radio galaxies. In the current active galactic nuclei (AGN) paradigm, such jets are almost exclusively launched from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 Emilia Järvelä , Anne Lähteenmäki , Jonathan León-Tavares

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are intriguing due to their continuum as well as emission line properties. The observed peculiar properties of the NLS1s are believed to be due to accretion rate close to Eddington limit. As a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Smita Mathur