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The Seyfert galaxy NGC 5515 has double-peaked narrow-line emission in its optical spectrum, and it has been suggested that this could indicate that it has two active nuclei. We observed the source with high resolution Very Long Baseline…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , T. Xiao , Z. Paragi , T. An , E. Kun , L. Á. Gergely

We present the results of UV spectroscopy of AGNs with double-peaked Balmer emission lines. In 2/3 of the objects, the far-UV resonance lines are strong, with single-peaked profiles resembling those of Seyfert galaxies. The Mg II line is…

The repeating changing-look active galactic nuclei (RCL AGNs) exhibit multiple appearances and disappearances of broad emission lines (BELs), whose underlying mechanism remains a puzzle. Expanding the sample of RCL AGNs is valuable for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Qian Dong , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Wei-Jian Guo , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jun-Xian Wang , Yong-Gang Zheng

Low-metallicity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are interesting to study the early phase of the AGN evolution. However most AGNs are chemically matured and accordingly low-metallicity AGNs are extremely rare. One approach to search for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-28 Kota Kawasaki , Tohru Nagao , Yoshiki Toba , Koki Terao , Kenta Matsuoka

Double-peaked broad emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may indicate the existence of a bound supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary where two distinct broad line regions (BLRs) contribute together to the line profile. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Yue Shen , Abraham Loeb

One of the proposed explanations for the broad, double-peaked Balmer emission lines observed in the spectra of some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is that they are associated with sub-parsec supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Jia Liu , Michael Eracleous , Jules P. Halpern

We explore the gas ionization and kinematics, as well as the optical--IR spectral energy distributions for UGC 11185, a nearby pair of merging galaxies hosting obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs), also known as SDSS J181611.72+423941.6…

In this work, we aim to further populate the low-mass regime of black hole (BH) scaling relations to better understand the formation and growth mechanisms of central supermassive BHs. We target six galaxies that have been previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Megan R. Sturm , Amy E. Reines , Jenny Greene , Sheyda Salehirad

We present an analysis of a large sample of AGN environments at z~1 using stacked Spitzer data at 3.6um. The sample contains type-1 and type-2 AGN in the form of quasars and radio galaxies, and spans a large range in both optical and radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. T. Falder , J. A. Stevens , Matt J. Jarvis , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Lacy , R. J. McLure , E. Hatziminaoglou , M. J. Page , G. T. Richards

We use the sample of emission-line nuclei derived from a recently completed optical spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies to quantify the incidence of local (z = 0) nuclear activity. Consistent with previous studies, we find detectable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko , Wallace L. W. Sargent

Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) are compact (<1 kpc), jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), whose jet axes are not aligned close to the line of sight, and whose observed emission is not predominantly relativistically boosted towards us. Two…

Active Galactic Nuclei are objects associated with the presence of an accretion disc around supermassive black holes found in the very central region of galaxies with a well-defined bulge. In the optical range of the spectrum, a possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-08 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner

We use time-domain optical spectroscopy to distinguish between broad emission lines powered by accreting black holes (BHs) or stellar processes (i.e., supernovae) for 16 galaxies identified as AGN candidates by Reines \etal (2013). Our…

We present the kinematic properties of a type-2 QSO, SDSS J132323.33-015941.9 at z~0.35, based on the analysis of Very Large Telescope integral field spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, which suggest that the target is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Jong-Hak Woo , Hojin Cho , Bernd Husemann , S. Komossa , Daeseong Park , Vardha Bennert

We present the first quantified, statistical map of broad-line active galactic nucleus (AGN) frequency with host galaxy color and stellar mass in nearby (0.01 < z < 0.11) galaxies. Aperture photometry and z-band concentration measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan R. Trump , Alexander D. Hsu , Jerome J. Fang , S. M. Faber , David C. Koo , Dale D. Kocevski

In this manuscript, based on SDSS photometry and spectroscopy, a method is proposed to test the hypothesis that the orbital kinematics of kpc-scale dual-core systems can lead to double-peaked narrow emission lines (DPNELs), through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 XingQian Chen , Peizhen Cheng , Ying Gu , Qi Zheng , MingFeng Liu , XueGuang Zhang

As the third installment in a series systematically searching dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) amongst merging galaxies, we present the results of 20 dual AGNs found by using the SDSS fiber spectra. To reduce the flux contamination from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Yang-wei Zhang , Yang Huang , Jin-ming Bai , Xiao-wei Liu , Jian-guo Wang , Xiao-bo Dong

We analysed the nuclear region of all 56 early-type galaxies from the DIVING$^\mathrm{3D}$ Project, which is a statistically complete sample of objects that contains all 170 galaxies of the Southern Hemisphere with B < 12.0 mag and galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner , R. B. Menezes , K. Slodkowski Clerici , M. D. da Silva

We analyse the integral-field spectroscopy data for the $\approx10,000$ galaxies in final data release of the MaNGA survey. We identify 188 galaxies for which the emission lines cannot be described by single Gaussian components. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-21 Youquan Fu , Michele Cappellari , Shude Mao , Shengdong Lu , Kai Zhu , Ran Li

We here report a spectroscopic identification of two new changing-look AGNs (CL-AGNs): SDSS\,J104705.16+544405.8 and SDSS\,J120447.91+170256.8 both with a "turn-off" type transition from type 1 to type 1.8/1.9. The identification is arrived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , Y. Wang , J. B. Zhang , J. Zheng , J. Y. Wei