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We report the discovery of 13 broad-line AGNs at $z = 5 - 8$ from the first 10% data of the JWST Cycle 3 Treasury Program COSMOS-3D. These AGNs are identified by their broad H$\alpha$ or H$\beta$ emission lines through the NIRCam grism…

To provide insight into the apparent mismatch between the optical and X-ray absorption properties observed in 10-30 % of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), we have conducted a detailed study of two X-ray unabsorbed AGN with a type-2 optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-22 I. Ordovás-Pascual , S. Mateos , F. J. Carrera , K. Wiersema

The main goal of the FIRST-APM QSO Survey (FAQS) survey is to compile the most complete sample of Bright QSOs, located in the well optically investigated area of the sky covered by the Second Byurakan Survey (SBS). We do that through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. H. Chavushyan , V. O. Verkhodanov , R. Mujica , L. Carrasco

We report the discovery of a high redshift, narrow emission-line galaxy identified in the optical follow-up of deep ROSAT fields. The object has a redshift of z=2.35 and its narrow emission lines together with its high optical and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Almaini , B. J. Boyle , R. E. Griffiths , T. Shanks , G. C. Stewart , I. Georgantopoulos

We have compiled a sample of 21 low redshift (z < 0.3), luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Balmer decrements (Halpha/Hbeta > 7) using the galaxy and QSO catalogs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release. Using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Xiao-Bo Dong , Hong-Yan Zhou , Ting-Gui Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Cheng Li , You-Yuan Zhou

Recent work has suggested that the fraction of obscured AGN declines with increasing luminosity, but it has been difficult to quantify this trend. Here, we attempt to measure this fraction as a function of luminosity by studying the ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ezequiel Treister , Julian H. Krolik , Cornelis Dullemond

We present a multi wavelength analysis of 28 of the most luminous low-redshift narrow-line, ultra-hard X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) drawn from the 70 month Swift/BAT all-sky survey, with bolometric luminosities of…

We present XMM-Newton data centered on one of the MUNICS Near Infrared Cluster Survey fields (S2F1) and we discuss the X-ray properties of the 6 X-ray emitting EROs found. For one of them we have already obtained the redshift using…

We report on the spectral confirmation of 18 QSO candidates from the "QUasars as BRIght beacons for Cosmology in the Southern hemisphere'' survey (QUBRICS), previously observed in the optical band, for which we acquired new spectroscopic…

The high spectral resolution and sensitivity of FUSE have enabled far-ultraviolet studies of AGN and QSOs that are a natural complement to observations using HST, Chandra, and XMM-Newton. Through synergistic use of the large sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard A. Kriss

Polarimetric study in the UV and optical has been one of the keys to reveal the structure and nature of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Combined with the HST's high spatial resolution, it has directly confirmed the predicted scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Kishimoto , Robert Antonucci , Catherine Boisson , Omer Blaes

We present the review of some new problems in cosmology and physics of stars in connection with future launching of WSO. We discuss three problems. UV observations of distant z > 6 quasars allow to obtain information on the soft < 1 KeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yu. N. Gnedin , M. Yu. Piotrovich , T. M. Natsvlishvili

While there are numerous criteria for photometrically identifying active galactic nuclei (AGNs), searches in the optical and UV tend to exclude galaxies that are highly dust obscured. This is problematic for constraining models of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Anson Lam , Edward L. Wright , Matthew A. Malkan

Some of the most active galaxies in the Universe are obscured by large quantities of dust and emit a substantial fraction of their bolometric luminosity in the infrared. Observations of these infrared luminous galaxies with the Infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aprajita Verma , Vassilis Charmandaris , Ulrich Klaas , Dieter Lutz , Martin Haas

In this paper we discuss the X-ray properties of 49 local (z<0.035) Seyfert 2 galaxies with HST/WFC2 high-resolution optical coverage. It includes the results of 26 still unpublished Chandra and XMM-Newton observations, which yield 25 (22)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Guainazzi , G. Matt , G. C. Perola

We report a search for H2O megamasers in 274 SDSS type-2 AGNs (0.3 < z < 0.83), half of which can be classified as type-2 QSOs from their [OIII] 5007 luminosity, using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Effelsberg 100-m…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Nicola Bennert , Richard Barvainis , Christian Henkel , Robert Antonucci

We present AGN from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) having double-peaked profiles of [OIII] 5007,4959 and other narrow emission-lines, motivated by the prospect of finding candidate binary AGN. These objects were identified by means of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Krista L. Smith , G. A. Shields , E. W. Bonning , C. C. McMullen , D. J. Rosario , S. Salviander

We report the discovery of five broad-absorption-line (BAL) QSOs in a complete sample of 111 ultraviolet excess (UVX) QSO candidates also detected in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. All five BAL QSOs, which include two high-ionization BAL QSOs and…

Recently a new method to discover obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by utilizing X-ray and Infrared data has been developed. We carried out a survey of H2O maser emission toward ten obscured AGNs with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope. We…

We present an all-sky sample of ~ 1.4 million AGNs meeting a two color infrared photometric selection criteria for AGNs as applied to sources from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer final catalog release (AllWISE). We assess the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Nathan Secrest , Rachel Dudik , Bryan Dorland , Norbert Zacharias , Valeri Makarov , Alan Fey , Julien Frouard , Charlie Finch