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Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to exhibit optical/UV variability and most of them can be well modeled by the damped random walks. Physical processes that are not related to the accretion disk, such as tidal disruption events (TDE)…

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We study the hypothesis of high metallicity clumps being responsible for the abundance discrepancy found in planetary nebulae between the values obtained from recombination and collisionaly excited lines. We generate grids of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-30 V. Gómez-Llanos , C. Morisset

The primary source of emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), the accretion disk, is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick dusty structure ("the so-called dusty torus"). The infrared radiation emitted by the dust is nothing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-13 Marko Stalevski , Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Paulina Lira , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes

Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) observations of 3C radio galaxies and quasars shed new light on the nature of the central engines of AGN. Emission from silicate dust obscuring the central engine can be used to estimate the bolometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ogle , R. R. J. Antonucci , D. Whysong

Galaxies, which often contain ionised gas, sometimes also exhibit a so-called low-ionisation nuclear emission line region (LINER). For 30 years this was attributed to a central mass-accreting supermassive black hole (AGN) of low luminosity,…

We present high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; Lbol \lesssim 10^42 erg/sec). Infrared (IR) observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. E. Mason , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , N. A. Levenson , J. Radomski , C. Ramos Almeida , L. Colina , M. Elitzur , I. Aretxaga , P. F. Roche , N. Oi

In Planetary Nebulae (PNe) and HII regions ionic abundances can be derived by using collisionally excited lines (CELs) or recombination lines (ORLs). Such abundances do not coincide for the same ion and usually abundances from ORLs are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Miriam Pena , Francisco Ruiz-Escobedo , Jackeline Rechy-Garcıa , Jorge Garcıa-Rojas

We present the results of Spitzer IRS low-resolution infrared 5-35 micron spectroscopy of nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z < 0.15. We focus on the search for the signatures of buried active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the…

We present initial results from a Chandra survey of a complete sample of the 8 nearest (z <= 0.04) ultraluminous IR galaxies (ULIRGs), and also include the IR-luminous galaxy NGC 6240 for comparison. In this paper we use the hard X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Ptak , T. Heckman , N. A. Levenson , K. Weaver , D. Strickland

This overview provides a historical perspective highlighting the pioneering role which the fairly modest observational facilities of ARIES have played since the 1990s in systematically characterizing the optical variability on hour-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-16 Gopal-Krishna , Paul J. Wiita

We provide a comprehensive census of the near-Infrared (NIR, 0.8-2.4 $\mu$m) spectroscopic properties of 102 nearby (z < 0.075) active galactic nuclei (AGN), selected in the hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) from the Swift-Burst Alert Telescope…

The combination of the $z=0-13.5$ cosmic star formation history and active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history as inferred by the James Webb Space Telescope is connected to the cosmic spectral energy distribution (CSED) to explore the…

We have surveyed an optical/IR selected sample of nearby E/S0 galaxies with and without nuclear dust structures with the VLA at 3.6 cm to a sensitivity of 100 $\mu$Jy. We can construct a Radio Luminosity Function (RLF) of these galaxies to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Davor Krajnovic , Walter Jaffe

The absence of broad [O III] ${\lambda\lambda}$4959,5007 forbidden emission lines is one of the key arguments cited in the published literature for the gas density exceeding the critical density; 7 ${\times}$ 10$^5$ cm$^{-3}$, in the broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Nick Devereux

The nearby type-II AGN 1ES1927+654 went through a violent changing-look (CL) event beginning December 2017 during which the optical and UV fluxes increased by four magnitudes over a few months, and broad emission lines newly appeared in the…

We present IFU observations of six emission-line nebulae that surround the central galaxy of cool core clusters. Qualitatively similar nebulae are observed in cool core clusters even when the dynamics and possibly formation and excitation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Hatch , C. S. Crawford , A. C. Fabian

The observed faintness of infrared fine-structure line emission along with the warm far-infrared (FIR) colors of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) is a long-standing problem. In this work, we calculate the line and continuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. P. Abel , C. Dudley , Jacqueline Fischer , S. Satyapal , P. A. M. van Hoof

Using the SEDs of the weak AGNs 35 LINERs presented in a companion paper, we assess whether photoionization by the weak AGN can power the emission-line luminosities measured through the large (few-arcsecond) apertures used in ground-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael Eracleous , Jason A. Hwang , Helene M. L. G. Flohic

We analyse the 6.4 keV iron line component produced in the Galactic Center (GC) region by cosmic rays in dense molecular clouds (MCs) and in the diffuse molecular gas. We showed that this component, in principle, can be seen in several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 V. A. Dogiel , D. O. Chernyshov , A. M. Kiselev , K. -S. Cheng