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Dual active galactic nuclei (AGN), which are the manifestation of two actively accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) hosted by a pair of merging galaxies, are a unique laboratory for studying the physics of SMBH feeding and feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-11 Meicun Hou , Zhiyuan Li , Xin Liu , Zongnan Li , Ruancun Li , Ran Wang , Jing Wang , Luis C. Ho

We present the host galaxy molecular gas properties of a sample of 213 nearby (0.01<z< 0.05) hard X-ray selected AGN galaxies, drawn from the 70-month catalog of Swift-BAT, with 200 new CO(2-1) line measurements obtained with the JCMT and…

The jets of radio AGN provide one of the most important forms of AGN feedback, yet considerable uncertainties remain about how they are triggered. Since the molecular gas reservoirs of the host galaxies can supply key information about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 C. Tadhunter , T. Oosterloo , R. Morganti , C. Ramos Almeida , M. Villar Martín , B. Emonts , D. Dicken

We present the images and kinematics of circumnuclear molecular gas from 100 pc scale down to 10 pc scale in nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI). We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Satoki Matsushita

We present the highest resolution --- 15 pc (0.03'') --- ALMA $^{12}$CO(2-1) line emission and 1.3mm continuum maps, tracers of the molecular gas and dust, respectively, in the nearby merging galaxy system NGC 6240, that hosts two…

We present the results of CO observations toward 14 host galaxies of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at z = 0.1-2.5 by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. We successfully detected CO(3-2) or CO(4-3) emission in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Bunyo Hatsukade , Kouji Ohta , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Kotaro Kohno , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Yuu Niino , Yoichi Tamura

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been detected in the centers of most nearby massive galaxies. Galaxies today are the products of billions of years of galaxy mergers, but also billions of years of SMBH activity as active galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-05 Sandor Van Wassenhove , Marta Volonteri , Lucio Mayer , Massimo Dotti , Jillian Bellovary , Simone Callegari

We analyse the 2-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the stars as well as molecular and ionised gas in the central few hundred parsecs of 5 active and 5 matched inactive galaxies. The equivalent widths of the Br-gamma line indicate…

We present measurements of the cool molecular gas mass around the nuclei of two gas-rich mergers, III Zw 035 and IRAS F01364-1042, whose enclosed masses (M$_\mathrm{enc}$) within the central 40-80 pc would be overmassive if attributed…

In the last two decades high resolution (< 5 arcsec) CO observations for ~ 150 galaxies have provided a wealth of information about the molecular gas morphologies in the circumnuclear regions. While in samples of 'normal' galaxies the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Espada , S. Martin , P. -Y. Hsieh , P. T. P. Ho , S. Matsushita , L. Verdes-Montenegro , J. Sabater , S. Verley , M. Krips , V. Espigares

This is the second paper of a series exploring the multi-component (stars, warm and cold gas and radio jets) properties of a sample of eleven nearby low excitation radio galaxies (LERGs), with the aim of better understanding the AGN…

Dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with comparable masses are commonly witnessed among the major merged galaxies with interaction remnants. Considering almost every massive galaxy is associated with multiple dwarf satellites around it,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Xiao Cao , Yan-Mei Chen , Yong Shi , Junfeng Wang , Zhi-Jie Zhou , Min Bao , Qiusheng Gu , Alexei Moiseev , Luis C. Ho , Lan Wang , Guangquan Zeng

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) influence their host galaxies through winds and jets that can drive molecular outflows, traceable with CO line emissions using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Recent studies leveraging ALMA data have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yuze Zhang , Serena Viti , Santiago García-Burillo , Ko-Yun Huang

We present a study of the molecular gas in five closely-spaced ($R_{\perp}<20$ kpc) dual quasars ($L_{\rm bol}\gtrsim10^{44}~\mathrm{erg~s}^{-1}$) at redshifts $0.4<z<0.8$ with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The dual…

The physical quantity that directly controls the feedback of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in elliptical galaxies remains to be determined. The discovery of molecular gas around the AGNs suggests that the gas is fueling the AGNs. Therefore,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Yutaka Fujita , Takuma Izumi , Hiroshi Nagai , Nozomu Kawakatu , Norita Kawanaka

Galaxy-galaxy mergers and close interactions have long been regarded as a viable mechanism for channeling gas toward the central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies which are triggered as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). AGN pairs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss , Lei Hao

The presence of dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) on scales of a few tens of kpc can be used to study merger-induced accretion on supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and offer insights about SMBH mergers, using dual AGNs as merger precursors.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Vida Saeedzadeh , Arif Babul , Suvodip Mukherjee , Michael Tremmel , Thomas R. Quinn , Lucio Mayer

Minor mergers frequently occur between giant and gas-rich low mass galaxies and can provide significant amounts of interstellar matter to refuel star formation and power AGN in the giant systems. Major starbursts and/or AGN result when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. König , S. Aalto , S. Muller , R. J. Beswick , J. S. Gallagher

While observations of molecular gas at cosmic noon and beyond have focused on the gas within galaxies (i.e., the interstellar medium; ISM), it is also crucial to study the molecular gas reservoirs surrounding each galaxy (i.e., in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 G. C. Jones , R. Maiolino , S. Carniani , C. Circosta , Y. Fudamoto , J. Scholtz

We present the analysis of the molecular gas in the nuclear regions of NGC 4968, NGC 4845, and MCG-06-30-15, with the help of ALMA observations of the CO(2-1) emission line. The aim is to determine the kinematics of the gas in the central…

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