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Present AGN models aiming to account for the observed infrared SEDs consider a physical description of the dust and a solution of the radiative transfer problem. Mid infrared spectra obtained at different spatial scales are presented. They…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Siebenmorgen , Andreas Efstathiou

We present results of the clustering analysis between active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and galaxies at redshift 0.1-1.0 for investigating properties of galaxies associated with the AGNs, revealing the nature of fueling mechanism of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Yuji Shirasaki , Yutaka Komiya , Masatoshi Ohishi , Yoshihiko Mizumoto

We present a sample of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in dwarf galaxies at $z<1$. We identify dwarf galaxies in the NEWFIRM Medium Band Survey with stellar masses $M_{\star}<3\times 10^{9} M_{\odot}$ that have spectroscopic…

During the final stages of a galaxy merger, dynamical friction acting on the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the post-merger remnant can lead to the formation of a gravitationally bound binary SMBH. In the event that at least one of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Peter Breiding , Michael Eracleous , Tamara Bogdanović , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , T. Joseph W. Lazio

We model the electromagnetic emission signatures of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with an associated gas component. The method comprises numerical simulations of relativistic binaries and gas coupled with calculations of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tamara Bogdanovic , Britton D. Smith , Michael Eracleous , Steinn Sigurdsson

The large majority of extragalactic very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) sources belongs to the class of active galactic nuclei (AGN), in particular the BL Lac sub-class. AGNs are characterized by an extremely bright and compact emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Martin Raue , Lukasz Stawarz , Daniel Mazin , Pierre Colin , Michelle Hui , Matthias Beilicke , Craig Walker

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescences are ubiquitous in the history of the Universe and often exhibit strong accretion activities and powerful jets. These SMBH mergers are also promising candidates for future gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Chengchao Yuan , Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Péter Mészáros

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is known to be a variable source of X-ray, near-infrared (NIR), and submillimeter (submm) radiation and therefore a prime candidate to study the…

Here we study the potential observational signatures of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in the Fe K$\alpha$ line profiles emitted from the accretion disks around their components. We simulated the Fe K$\alpha$ line emission from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 P. Jovanović , V. Borka Jovanović , D. Borka , L. Č. Popović

We describe results from a new technique for the prediction of complete, self-consistent X-ray spectra from three-dimensional General Relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of black hole accretion flows. Density and cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-01 Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman , Timothy R. Kallman , Julian H. Krolik

The masses of 68 supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby (z<0.15) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the INTEGRAL observatory in the hard X-ray energy band (17-60 keV) outside the Galactic plane (|b| > 5 degrees) have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 G. A. Khorunzhev , S. Yu. Sazonov , R. A. Burenin , A. Yu. Tkachenko

The geometry of the accretion flow around stellar mass and supermassive black holes depends on the accretion rate. Broad iron emission lines originating from the irradiation of cool matter can indicate that there is an inner disk below a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Meyer-Hofmeister , B. F. Liu , F. Meyer

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 study the link between the X-ray emission in radio-quiet AGNs and the accretion rate on the central Supermassive Black-Hole (SMBH) using a well-defined and statistically complete sample of 70 type1 AGNs extracted from the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-27 R. Fanali , A. Caccianiga , P. Severgnini , R. Della Ceca , M. Dotti , E. Marchese , A. Corral

The current detectors of gamma-ray emission specially at TeV energies have too poor resolution to determine whether this emission is produced in the jet or in the core, particularly of low luminous, non-blazar AGNs (like radio galaxies). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Hélène Sol

We present a supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurement in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC7469 using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the atomic-${\rm [CI]}$(1-0) and molecular-$^{12}$CO(1-0) emission lines…

Using recently published estimates - based on high spatial resolution spectroscopy - of the mass M_{BH} of nuclear black holes for a sample of nearby galaxies, we explore the dependence of galaxy nucleus emissivity at various wavelengths on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Franceschini , S. Vercellone , A. C. Fabian

The structure of the broad emission line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains unclear. We test in this paper a flattened configuration model for BLR. The virial theorem, by taking into account the disc shape of BLR, allows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

A crucial challenge in astrophysics over the coming decades will be to understand the origins of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that lie at the centres of most, if not all, galaxies. The processes responsible for the initial formation of…

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ($0.12$ arcsec or $\approx11$ pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the $^{12}$CO(2-1)…