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The launch of the Infrared Space Observatory and new atomic data have opened a window to the study of high ionization gas in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present the results of a large number of photoionization simulations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jason W. Ferguson , Kirk T. Korista , Gary J. Ferland

A fraction of active galactic nuclei do not show the classical Seyfert-type signatures in their optical spectra, i.e. they are optically "elusive". X-ray observations are an optimal tool to identify this class of objects. We combine new…

How do active galactic nuclei with low optical luminosities produce powerful radio emission? Recent studies of active galactic nuclei with moderate radio and low optical luminosities (Fanaroff & Riley class I, FR I) searching for broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-19 R. C. Gleisinger , C. P. O'Dea , J. F. Gallimore , S. Wykes , S. A. Baum

X-ray emission detection in a galaxy is one of the efficient tools for selecting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). However, many X-ray-selected AGNs are not easily selected as AGNs by their optical emission. These galaxies, so-called optically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-31 Itsna K. Fitriana , Takashi Murayama

We investigate the physical cause of the great range in the ionization level seen in the spectra of narrow lined active galactic nuclei (AGN). Mean field independent component analysis identifies examples of individual SDSS galaxies whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris T. Richardson , James T. Allen , Jack A. Baldwin , Paul C. Hewett , Gary J. Ferland

We investigated by means of MUSE/VLT observations the true size of the coronal line region (CLR) in a local sample of nine active galactic nuclei known for displaying prominent coronal emission. Our analysis show that the CLR is extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 A. Rodríguez-Ardila , M. A. Fonseca-Faria , L. G. Dahmer-Hahn , A. Prieto , R. Riffel , R. A. Riffel

In the context of observations of the rest-frame ultraviolet and optical emission from distant galaxies, we explore the emission-line properties of photoionization models of active and inactive galaxies. Our aim is to identify new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Anna Feltre , Stephane Charlot , Julia Gutkin

Mid-resolution spectra are used to deduce the size and kinematics of the coronal gas in a sample of Seyfert galaxies by means of observations of the [FeXI], [FeX], [FeVII], [SiVI] and [SiVII] lines. These coronal lines (CL) extend from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Rodriguez-Ardila , M. A. Prieto , S. Viegas , R. Gruenwald

Many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) surveys rely on optical emission line signatures for robust source classification. There are, however, examples of luminous AGN candidates lacking such signatures, including those from the narrow line…

Detecting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in galaxies dominated by powerful nuclear star formation and extinction effects poses a unique challenge. Due to the longer wavelength emission and the ionization potential of Ne^3+, infrared [Ne V]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. P. Abel , S. Satyapal

As a step toward elucidating the physical conditions in nearby active galaxies, this paper presents spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a sample of seven low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs). SEDs for four objects are presented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis C. Ho

Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central source, giving rise to Seyfert 1 line spectrum for pole-on viewing and Seyfert 2 characteristics in edge-on sources. Although the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Nenkova , Z. Ivezic , M. Elitzur

In the framework of a systematic ALMA study of IR-selected main-sequence and starburst galaxies at z~1-1.7 at typical ~1" resolution, we report on the effects of mid-IR- and X-ray-detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) on the reservoirs and…

A summary of mid-infrared continuum luminosities arising from dust is given for very luminous galaxies, Lir > 10^12 solar luminosities, with 0.005 < z < 3.2 containing active galactic nuclei (AGN), including 115 obscured AGN and 60…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel W. Weedman , James R. Houck

Dust-Obscured galaxies (DOGs) are bright 24 um-selected sources with extreme obscuration at optical wavelengths. They are typically characterized by a rising power-law continuum of hot dust (T_D ~ 200-1000K) in the near-IR indicating that…

[Abridged] Deep optical observations of the spectra of 12 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) and 3 Magellanic Cloud PNe were presented in Paper I by Tsamis et al. (2003b), who carried out an abundance analysis using the collisionally excited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. G. Tsamis , M. J. Barlow , X. -W. Liu , P. J. Storey , I. J. Danziger

We present an analysis of STIS/HST optical spectra of a sample of ten Seyfert galaxies aimed at studying the structure and physical properties of the coronal-line region (CLR). The high-spatial resolution provided by STIS allowed us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Ximena Mazzalay , Alberto Rodríguez-Ardila , S. Komossa

We investigate why half of X-ray--selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) in deep surveys lack signs of accretion in their optical spectra. The majority of these ``optically--dull'' AGN are no more than 6 times fainter than their host…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 J. R. Rigby , G. H. Rieke , J. L. Donley , A. Alonso-Herrero , P. G. Pérez-González

Some of the most active galaxies in the Universe are obscured by large quantities of dust and emit a substantial fraction of their bolometric luminosity in the infrared. Observations of these infrared luminous galaxies with the Infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aprajita Verma , Vassilis Charmandaris , Ulrich Klaas , Dieter Lutz , Martin Haas

Most of the optically classified low ionisation narrow emission-line regions (LINERs) nuclei host an active galactic nuclei (AGN). However, how they fit into the unified model (UM) of AGN is still an open question. The aims of this work are…