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With the aim of investigating galaxies with two strong simultaneous starbursts, we have extracted a sample of galaxies with double-peaked emission lines in their global spectra from the SDSS spectral database. We then fitted the emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. S. Pilyugin , I. A. Zinchenko , B. Cedres , J. Cepa , A. Bongiovanni , L. Mattsson , J. M. Vilchez

Although accretion disks are a theoretically appealing model for the geometry and dynamics of the gas in the vicinity of black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), there is little direct observational evidence for their existence. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iskra Strateva , Michael A. Strauss , Lei Hao

A fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have double-peaked H$\alpha$, H$\beta$ and Mg II broad lines attributed to emission from rotating gas in the accretion disk. Using optical spectroscopy of a flux-limited sample of AGN selected via…

In this paper, we presented a detailed analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey optical spectrum of a new sub-kpc scale dual AGN candidate SDSS J222428.53+261423.2 (=SDSS J2224). The target is one of the few AGNs with all the optical narrow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-22 Qi Zheng , XueGuang Zhang , QiRong Yuan , Paola Severgnini , Cristian Vignali

Binary or dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) are expected from galaxy formation theories. However, confirmed DAGN are rare and finding these systems has proved to be challenging. Recent systematic searches for DAGN using double-peaked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Rubinur Khatun , M. Das , P. Kharb

We have performed a spectral decomposition to search for dual active galactic nuclei (DAGNs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars with $z<0.25$. Potential DAGN candidates are searched by referencing velocity offsets and spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 D. -C. Kim , Ilsang Yoon , A. S. Evans , Minjin Kim , E. Momjian , Ji Hoon Kim

Although thousands of galaxy mergers are known, only a handful of sub-kiloparsec-scale supermassive black hole (SMBH) pairs have been confirmed so far, leaving a huge gap between the observed and predicted numbers of such objects. In this…

Although double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies have been studied extensively in the past years, only a few are reported with the green pea galaxies (GPs). Here we present our discovery of five GPs with double-peaked narrow [OIII]…

This paper presents Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of 13 double-peaked [O III] emission-line type-2 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) at redshifts 0.06 < z < 0.41 (with a median redshift of z~0.15) identified in the Sloan Digital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Liu , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss

We present a first attempt to model the narrow-line (NL) region of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy mergers, using a novel physical prescription. This model is used to determine the origin of double-peaked…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Laura Blecha , Abraham Loeb , Ramesh Narayan

Double-peaked emission line AGN (DPAGN) have been regarded as binary black hole candidates. We present here results from parsec-scale radio observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of five DPAGN belonging to the KISSR sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 P. Kharb , S. Subramanian , M. Das , S. Vaddi , Z. Paragi

AGN with double-peaked narrow lines (DPAGN) may be caused by kiloparsec scale binary AGN, bipolar outflows, or rotating gaseous disks. We examine the class of DPAGN in which the two narrow line components have closely similar intensity as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-08 Krista Lynne Smith , G. A. Shields , S. Salviander , A. C. Stevens , D. J. Rosario

We present a sample of 131 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at redshifts 0.8<z<1.6 with double peaks in either of the high-ionization narrow emission lines [NeV]3426 or [NeIII]3869. These sources were selected with the intention of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Scott Barrows , Claud H. Sandberg Lacy , Julia Kennefick , Julia M. Comerford , Daniel Kennefick , Joel C. Berrier

In this manuscript, we propose, for the first time, an oversimplified but potentially effective gravitational acceleration model to interpret the double-peaked narrow emission lines (DPNELs) shifted in the same direction. We adopt the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 XingQian Chen , GuiLin Liao , Qi Zheng , XueGuang Zhang

Dual galaxy system (DGS) is one of the widely accepted scenarios to explain the double-peaked narrow emission lines (DPNELs) due to orbital motions of the two galaxies in a merging system. After considering no physical connections between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-18 Zhang XueGuang

Double-peaked (DP) broad emission line profiles in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are often interpreted as signatures of rotating disk-like structures in the broad-line region (BLR) and are commonly observed in low-luminosity AGNs using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Kelly F. Heckler , Rogemar A. Riffel , Daniel Marsango , Tiago V. Ricci , Angela C. Krabbe , Oli L. Dors

Narrow emission lines in a galaxy's spectrum that show double peaks indicate the presence of distinct gas components with different velocities, and its physical origin remains uncertain. This study uses galaxies from the final MaNGA data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-20 Jiajie Qiu , Shiyin Shen , Shuai Feng , Yanmei Chen , Ruixiang Chang , Qianwen Zhao , Qi Zeng

We outline a full-scale search for galaxies exhibiting double-peaked profiles of promi- nent narrow emission lines, motivated by the prospect of finding objects related to merging galaxies, and even dual active galactic nuclei candidates as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 M. X. Wang , A. L. Luo , Y. H. Song , S. Y. Shen , S. Feng , L. L. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. -B. Li , B. Du , W. Hou , Y. X. Guo , X. Kong , J. N. Zhang

Double-peaked Balmer-line profiles originate in the accretion disks of a few percent of optically selected AGN. The reasons behind the strong low-ionization line emission from the accretion disks of these objects is still uncertain. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. V. Strateva , W. N. Brandt , M. Eracleous , D. P. Schneider , G. Chartas

Kpc-scale dual and offset Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are signposts of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) triggered during late-stage galaxy mergers, offering crucial insights into the coevolution of SMBHs and galaxies. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Junyao Li , Ming-Yang Zhuang , Yue Shen , Marta Volonteri , Nianyi Chen , Tiziana Di Matteo