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Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are generally considered peculiar objects among the broad class of Type 1 active galactic nuclei, due to the relatively small width of the broad lines, strong X-ray variability, soft X-ray continua,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Decarli , M. Dotti , M. Fontana , F. Haardt

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies represent a distinct category in the larger family of Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei. The occurrence of emission line profiles not broader than 2000 km/s, combined with luminosity estimates comparable to those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-14 G. La Mura , S. Ciroi , V. Cracco , D. Ilić , L. Č. Popović , P. Rafanelli

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 AGNs (NLS1s) represent a unique stage in the black hole growth history, characterised by low black hole masses of approximately $10^{6}$-$10^{8}$ solar masses and around-Eddington accretion rates. X-ray studies of…

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are intriguing due to their continuum as well as emission line properties. The observed peculiar properties of the NLS1s are believed to be due to accretion rate close to Eddington limit. As a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Smita Mathur

The recent observations of highly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBH) at very high redshift ($>$4) with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allowed us to shed light for the very first time on the early evolutionary phases of active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-05 M. Berton , E. Järvelä , A. Tortosa , C. Mazzucchelli

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). It is often believed that these AGN have small black hole mass, which is responsible for the narrowness of the permitted lines. They are also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-27 A. Vietri , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , E. Congiu , G. La Mura , V. Cracco , M. Frezzato , S. Chen , A. Cattapan , T. Peruzzi , P. Rafanelli

(abridged) It has been suggested that Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are evolutionarily young objects, powered by the accretion of gas onto central black holes that are lower in mass than those found in typical broad-line Seyferts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Ryan , M. M. De Robertis , S. Virani , A. Laor , P. C. Dawson

In this work, we test the hypothesis that narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NSL1s) are active galactic nuclei in their early phase and are therefore younger and more active than the more common broad-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (BLS1s). If that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-17 James K. Williams , Mario Gliozzi , Ross V. Rudzinsky

[Abridged] Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are a class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have all the properties of type 1 Seyfert galaxies but show peculiar characteristics, including the narrowest Balmer lines, strongest Fe II…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Tarchi , P. Castangia , A. Columbano , F. Panessa , J. A. Braatz

I provide a short review of the properties of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum and of the models to explain them. Their continuum and emission-line properties manifest one extreme form of Seyfert…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-18 S. Komossa

Line profiles can provide fundamental information on the physics of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In the case of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) this is of particular importance since past studies revealed how their permitted line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Berton , I. Björklund , A. Lähteenmäki , E. Congiu , E. Järvelä , G. Terreran , G. La Mura

Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are believed to be powered by accretion of matter onto low mass black holes (BHs) in spiral host galaxies with BH masses M_BH of 10^6 - 10^8 M_sun . However, the broad band spectral energy distribution…

No. Due to their apparently extreme optical to X-ray properties, Narrow Line Seyfert 1s (NLSy1s) have been considered a special class of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Here, we summarize observational results from different groups to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-20 M. Valencia-S. , J. Zuther , A. Eckart , S. Smajic , C. Iserlohe , M. Garcia-Marin , G. Busch , M. Vitale , M. Bremer , S. Fischer , M. Horrobin , L. Moser , Y. E. Rashed , C. Straubmeier , .

The properties of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies, the links and correlations between them, and the physics behind them, are still not well understood. Apart from accretion rates and black hole masses, density and outflows were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dawei Xu , Stefanie Komossa , Hongyan Zhou , Tinggui Wang , Jianyan Wei

We investigated narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) at optical, mid-infrared (MIR) and X-ray wavelengths, comparing them to the broad line active galactic nuclei (BLAGNs). We found that black hole mass, coronal line luminosities, X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Maša Lakićević , Luka Č. Popović , Jelena Kovačević-Dojčinović

We present optical images of nearby 50 narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) which cover all the NLS1s at z<0.0666 and $\delta \ge -25^{\circ}$ known at the time of 2001. Among the 50 NLS1s, 40 images are newly obtained by our observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kouji Ohta , Kentaro Aoki , Toshihiro Kawaguchi , Gaku Kiuchi

We revisited the spectroscopic characteristics of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) by analysing a homogeneous sample of 296 NLS1s at redshift between 0.028 and 0.345, extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) public…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 V. Cracco , S. Ciroi , M. Berton , F. Di Mille , L. Foschini , G. La Mura , P. Rafanelli

It is possible that narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are in the early stage of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) evolution. It is important to estimate the mass of supermassive black hole (SBH) in NLS1s. Here we considered the different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bian , Y. Zhao

Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are remarkable for their extreme continuum and emission line properties which are not well understood. New results bearing on the spectroscopic characteristics of these objects are presented here, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anca Constantin , Joseph C. Shields

There is growing evidence to suggest that the black hole mass has been previously underestimated with the H$\beta$ line width for certain active galactic nuclei (AGN). With the assumption of the flatter rather than isotropic velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-21 Xiang Liu , Pingping Yang , Renzhi Su , Zhen Zhang
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