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We analyze Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer observations of nine low-redshift (z < 0.1) Palomar-Green quasar host galaxies to investigate the spatial distribution and kinematics of the warm, ionized interstellar medium, with the goal of…

Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to play a key role in the short- and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new and archival ALMA data, we observed the OH 119um…

Outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) seem to be common and are thought to be important from a variety of perspectives: as an agent of chemical enhancement of the interstellar and intergalactic media, as an agent of angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Ganguly , Michael S. Brotherton

Inflows at the dusty torus and smaller scales is crucial to investigate the process of supermassive black hole accretion. However, only few cases of inflowing gas at small scales have been reported through redshifted broad absorption lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Zhi-Fu Chen , Minfeng Gu , Zhicheng He , Defu Bu , Fulai Guo , Qiusheng Gu , Yiping Qin

Absorption outflows in quasars play an important role in understanding active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback and their influence on galaxy evolution. The unprecedented spectral data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 Maryam Dehghanian , Nahum Arav , Mayank Sharma , Gwen Walker , Kyle Johnston , Matthew Kaupin , Justin Gandhi

It is common to assume that all narrow absorption lines (NALs) at extreme high-velocity shifts form in cosmologically intervening gas or galaxies unrelated to quasars. However, previous detailed studies of individual quasars have shown that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-23 Chen Chen , Fred Hamann , Bo Ma

We present a detailed analysis of the Astrophysical Research Consortium 3.5 m telescope spectrum of QSO SDSS J0838+2955. The object shows three broad absorption line (BAL) systems at 22,000, 13,000, and 4900 km s^-1 blueshifted from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxwell Moe , Nahum Arav , Manuel A. Bautista , Kirk T. Korista

We describe two studies designed to characterize the total column densities, kinetic energies, and acceleration physics of broad absorption line (BAL) outflows in quasars. The first study uses new Chandra X-ray and ground-based rest-frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Fred Hamann , Daniel Capellupo , George Chartas , Sean McGraw , Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo , Joseph Shields , Jane Charlton , Michael Eracleous

Negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is considered a key mechanism in shaping galaxy evolution. Fast, extended outflows are frequently detected in the AGN host galaxies at all redshifts and luminosities, both in ionised and…

Some cosmological hydrodynamical simulations predict that outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a key role in powering the Ly$\alpha$ nebulae observed around high-redshift quasars. In such simulations, AGN feedback seeded as…

Photoionization modeling of certain low-ionization broad absorption lines in quasars implies very compact (Delta R~0.01 pc), galaxy-scale (R kpc) absorbers blueshifted by several 1000 km s^-1. While these are likely signatures of quasar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

While feedback is important in theoretical models, we do not really know if it works in reality. Feedback from jets appears to be sufficient to keep the cooling flows in clusters from cooling too much and it may be sufficient to regulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Smita Mathur , Rebecca Stoll , Yair Krongold , Fabrizio Nicastro , Nancy Brickhouse , Martin Elvis

Quasar outflows can play a crucial role in the evolution of their host galaxies through various feedback processes. This effect is expected to be particularly important when the universe was only 2-3 billion years old, during the period…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Mayank Sharma , Nahum Arav , Maryam Dehghanian , Gwen Walker , Kyle Johnston , Matthew Kaupin , Justin Gandhi

While stellar processes are believed to be the main source of feedback in dwarf galaxies, the accumulating discoveries of AGN in dwarf galaxies over recent years arouse the interest to also consider AGN feedback in them. Fast, AGN-driven…

We report on a survey for narrow (FWHM < 600 km/s) CIV absorption lines in a sample of bright quasars at redshifts $1.8 \le z < 2.25$ in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our main goal is to understand the relationship of narrow CIV absorbers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Nestor , F. Hamann , P. Rodriguez Hidalgo

We have monitored 12 intrinsic narrow absorption lines (NALs) in five quasars and seven mini-broad absorption lines (mini-BALs) in six quasars for a period of 4-12 years (1-3.5 years in the quasar rest-frame). We present the observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Toru Misawa , Jane C. Charlton , Michael Eracleous

We present the results of a search for variability in the equivalent widths (EWs) of narrow, associated (Delta v < 5,000 km/s) absorption lines found in the UV spectra of z < 1.5 quasars. The goal of this search was to use variability as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Wise , M. Eracleous , J. C. Charlton , . R. Ganguly

To investigate the impact of winds and low-to-moderate power jets on the cold molecular gas reservoirs of AGN, we present high angular resolution ALMA CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) observations of a sample of six type-2 quasars (QSO2s) at z$\sim$0.1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 A. Audibert , C. Ramos Almeida , S. García-Burillo , G. Speranza , I. Lamperti , M. Pereira-Santaella , F. Panessa

The aim of this paper is to test the basic model of negative AGN feedback. According to this model, once the central black hole accretes at the Eddington limit and reaches a certain critical mass, AGN driven outflows blow out gas,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 B. Balmaverde , A. Marconi , M. Brusa , S. Carniani , G. Cresci , E. Lusso , R. Maiolino , F. Mannucci , T. Nagao

Context. Quasar outflows play a significant role in the active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, impacting the interstellar medium and potentially influencing galaxy evolution. Characterizing these outflows is essential for understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-31 M. Dehghanian , N. Arav , M. Sharma , G. Walker , K. Johnston , M. Kaupin