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Double-peaked profiles associated with the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are regarded as the clearest evidence of the presence of an accretion disk. They are most commonly detected by means of optical spectroscopy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-10 Denimara Dias dos Santos , Alberto Rodríguez-Ardila , Swayamtrupta Panda , Murilo Marinello

Spectra taken with HST reveal that NGC 4450 emits Balmer emission lines with displaced double peaks and extremely high-velocity wings. This characteristic line profile, previously seen in a few nearby LINERs and in a small fraction of…

The prominent broad Fe II emission blends in the spectra of active galactic nuclei have been shown to vary in response to continuum variations, but past attempts to measure the reverberation lag time of the optical Fe II lines have met with…

Broad emission line regions (BLRs) lying into central accretion disks has been widely accepted to explain the unique double-peaked broad emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (double-peaked BLAGNs). Here, accepted the accretion disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-09 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

We report the discovery of an extremely broad H-alpha emission line in the LINER nucleus of NGC 4579. From ground-based observations, the galaxy was previously known to contain a Type 1 nucleus with a broad H-alpha line of FWHM = 2300 km/s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Barth , L. C. Ho , A. V. Filippenko , H. -W. Rix , W. L. W. Sargent

Broad (~10,000 km/s), double-peaked emission-line profiles of Balmer lines emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to originate in the outer parts of an accretion disk surrounding a nuclear supermassive black hole (SMBH), at…

We have discovered an extremely broad, double-peaked H-alpha emission line in the polarized flux spectrum of NGC 2110, establishing that this well-studied Seyfert 2 galaxy contains a disk-like hidden broad-line region (BLR). Several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edward C. Moran , Aaron J. Barth , Michael Eracleous , Laura E. Kay

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

(Abridged) Approximately 1% of low redshift (z<0.3) optically-selected type 2 AGNs show a double-peaked [OIII] narrow emission line profile in their spatially-integrated spectra. Such features are usually interpreted as due either to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yue Shen , Xin Liu , Jenny E. Greene , Michael A. Strauss

We present optical longslit observations of the complete sample of 71 Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with double-peaked narrow emission lines at $z < 0.1$ in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Double-peaked emission lines are produced by a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Rebecca Nevin , Julia Comerford , Francisco Müller-Sánchez , R. Scott Barrows , Michael Cooper

We present an investigation of the structure of the emission line region in a sample of 12 single-peaked Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Using the high resolution H-beta and H-alpha line profiles observed with the Isaac Newton Telescope (La…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. C. Popovic , E. Mediavilla , E. Bon , D. Ilic

We report the results of 3D spectroscopic observations of Mrk 493 (NLS1 galaxy) with the integral-field spectrograph MPFS of the SAO RAS 6-m telescope. The difference in the slope of the optical continuum emission intensity across the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. Popovic , A. A. Smirnova , J. Kovacevic , A. V Moiseev , V. L. Afanasiev

The broad (FWHM ~ 10,000 km/s) double-peaked H{\alpha} profile from the LINER/Seyfert 1 nucleus of NGC 1097 was discovered in 1991, and monitored for the following 11 years. The profile showed variations attributed to the rotation of gas in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-29 Jaderson S. Schimoia , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Cláudia Winge , Michael Eracleous

We have studied the Ly-al, Hbeta, Halpha and Mg II2798 line profiles of the Seyfert 1 galaxy III Zw 2. The shapes of these broad emission lines show evidence of a multicomponent origin and also features which may be identified as the peaks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. C. Popovic , E. G. Mediavilla , E. Bon , N. Stanic , A. Kubicela

Type-2 Low-ionization Narrow Emission-line Regions (LINERs) have been optically classified with the Palomar data as not presenting a broad component in the Balmer emission lines associated to the Broad Line Region (BLR) of the Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-27 L. Hermosa-Muñoz , S. Cazzoli , I. Márquez , J. Masegosa

The Broad Emission Lines (BELs) in spectra of type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be very complex, indicating a complex Broad Line Region (BLR) geometry. According to the standard unification model one can expect an accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Bon , N. Gavrilovic , G. La Mura , L. C. Popovic

We present a sample of 167 type 2 AGNs with double-peaked [O III] 4959,5007 narrow emission lines, selected from the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The double-peaked profiles can be well modeled by two velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss , Jenny E. Greene

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…

We investigate a long-term (26 years, from 1987 to 2013) variability in the broad spectral line properties of the radio galaxy Arp 102B, an active galaxy with broad double-peaked emission lines. We use observations presented in Paper I…

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