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We present an X-ray analysis of fourteen nearby (z < 0.044) AGN in low mass galaxies (M_* <= 5*10^9 Msun) selected based on their optical variability (Baldassare et al. 2020). Comparing and contrasting different AGN selection techniques in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander Messick , Vivienne Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are variable on a wide range of timescales, though relatively few systematic variability surveys have been conducted. Previous broad-band (both spectral and temporal) variability surveys of AGN are limited in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Grindlay

We present the results of a high-resolution, 5 GHz, Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array study of the nuclear radio emission in a representative subset of the Atlas3D survey of early-type galaxies (ETGs). We find that 51 +/- 4% of the ETGs in…

We present a ~ 1" (100 pc) resolution 12CO (3-2) map of the nearby intermediate stage interacting galaxy pair NGC 4038/9 (the Antennae galaxies) obtained with the Submillimeter Array. We find that half the CO (3-2) emission originates in…

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

We present the observational results from the 43-GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of 124 compact radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that were conducted between 2014 November and 2016 May. The typical dimensions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 X. -P. Cheng , T. An , S. Frey , X. -Y. Hong , X. He , K. I. Kellermann , M. L. Lister , B. -Q. Lao , X. -F. Li , P. Mohan , J. Yang , X. -C. Wu , Z. -L. Zhang , Y. -K. Zhang , W. Zhao

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be powered by accretion of matter onto a supermassive black hole. A fundamental ingredient in shaping our understanding of AGN is their variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Maurizio Paolillo , Iossif Papadakis

Measurement of the evolution of both active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-formation in galaxies underpins our understanding of galaxy evolution over cosmic time. Radio continuum observations can provide key information on these two…

We report on daily monitoring of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469, around 95 GHz and 143 GHz, with the IRAM 30 m radio telescope, and with the Swift X-Ray and UV/Optical telescopes, over an overlapping period of 45 days. The source was observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Ehud Behar , Shai Kaspi , Gabriel Paubert , Nicolas Billot , Uria Peretz , Ranieri D. Baldi , Ari Laor , Jelle Kaastra , Missagh Mehdipour

We present new NuSTAR and Chandra observations of NGC 3393, a galaxy reported to host the smallest separation dual AGN resolved in the X-rays. While past results suggested a 150 pc separation dual AGN, three times deeper Chandra imaging,…

We have pioneered a new method for the measurement of extragalactic distances. This method uses the time-lag between variations in the short wavelength and long wavelength light from an active galactic nucleus (AGN), based on a quantitative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Yoshii , Y. Kobayashi , T. Minezaki , S. Koshida , B. A. Peterson

Binary active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide clues to how gas-rich mergers trigger and fuel AGNs and how supermassive black hole (SMBH) pairs evolve in a gas-rich environment. While significant effort has been invested in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-24 Jinyi Shangguan , Xin Liu , Luis C. Ho , Yue Shen , Chien Y. Peng , Jenny E. Greene , Michael A. Strauss

Recent observations have revealed an interesting active galactic nuclei (AGN) subclass that shows strong activity at large scales ($\sim1$ kpc) but weaker at small scales ($<10$ pc), suggesting a strong change in the mass accretion rate of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 J. Pflugradt , K. Ichikawa , M. Akiyama , M. Kokubo , B. Vijarnwannaluk , H. Noda , X. Chen

We analyze the long-term evolution of the fluxes of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) - 0923+392, 3C 111, 3C 273, 3C 345, 3C 454.3, and 3C 84 - in the frequency range 80-267 GHz using archival calibration data of the IRAM Plateau de Bure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Trippe , M. Krips , V. Pietu , R. Neri , J. M. Winters , F. Gueth , M. Bremer , P. Salome , R. Moreno , J. Boissier , F. Fontani

AGILE pointed observations performed from July 9, 2007 to October 30, 2009 cover a very large time interval, with a \gamma-ray dataset useful to perform studies of medium to high brightness galactic sources in the 30 MeV -- 50 GeV energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Verrecchia , C. Pittori , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , M. Tavani , F. Lucarelli , P. Giommi

We have analyzed the clustering of ~ 90,000 narrow-line AGN drawn from the Data Release 4 (DR4) of the SDSS. We compute the cross-correlation between AGN and a reference sample of galaxies, and compare this to results for control samples of…

The origin of short timescale (weeks/months) variability of AGN, whether due to intrinsic disc variations or reprocessing of X-ray emission by a surrounding accretion disc, has been a puzzle for many years. However recently a number of…

The extreme, intra-hour and > 10% rms flux density scintillation observed in AGNs such as PKS 0405-385, J1819+3845 and PKS 1257-326 at cm wavelengths has been attributed to scattering in highly turbulent, nearby regions in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-22 J. Y. Koay , H. E. Bignall , J. -P. Macquart , D. L. Jauncey , B. J. Rickett , J. E. J. Lovell

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are characterized by emission of radiation over more than 10 orders of magnitude in frequency. Therefore, the execution of extensive surveys of the sky, with different types of detectors, is providing the…

A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy