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We review the evidence for AGN optical and X-ray broad line emission from an accretion disk. We argue that there is little, if any, statistical evidence to support this assertion. The inconsistency is strongest for the rare class of Balmer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Sulentic , P. Marziani , D. Dultzin-Hacyan

Using the stellar population synthesis, we model the stellar contribution for a sample of 110 double-peaked broad-lines AGNs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The stellar velocity dispersions ($\sigma_*$) are obtained for 52…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei-Hao Bian , Yan-Mei Chen , Qu-Sheng Gu , Jin-Min Wang

The current cosmological structure formation models predict that galaxies evolve through frequent mergers. During these events, the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) residing in the centres of the galaxies shrink to the central region, while…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-10 Krisztina É. Gabányi , Sándor Frey , Emma Kun , Zsolt Paragi , Tao An

(Abridged) Using an empirical relation between the broad line region size and optical continuum luminosity, we estimated the black hole mass and accretion rate for 135 AGNs with double-peaked broad emission lines in two samples. With black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xue-Bing Wu , F. K. Liu

Double peaked broad emission lines in active galactic nuclei are generally considered to be formed in an accretion disc. In this paper, we compute the profiles of reprocessing emission lines from a relativistic, warped accretion disc around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-Miao Wu , Ting-Gui Wang , Xiao-Bo Dong

Using the Gemini Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (GNIRS), we have assembled a complete sample of 20 K-selected galaxies at 2.0<z<2.7 with high quality near-infrared spectra. As described in a previous paper, 9 of these 20 galaxies have strongly…

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries form due to galaxy mergers and minor accretion events. When the SMBHs are accreting, they form dual or binary AGN and can give rise to double-peaked emission lines in the optical spectra of the merger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 K. Rubinur , M. Das , P. Kharb

We discuss the possible origin of the double-peaked profiles recently observed in Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at the epoch of reionization ($z \gtrsim 6.5$) from obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). Combining the extent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

Double-peaked broad emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may indicate the existence of a bound supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary where two distinct broad line regions (BLRs) contribute together to the line profile. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Yue Shen , Abraham Loeb

Active Galactic Nuclei are objects associated with the presence of an accretion disc around supermassive black holes found in the very central region of galaxies with a well-defined bulge. In the optical range of the spectrum, a possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-08 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner

We present a study of the extended radio emission in a sample of 8434 low redshift (z < 0.35) broad line active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To calculate the jet and lobe contributions to the total radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephen E. Rafter , D. Michael Crenshaw , Paul J. Wiita

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

Spectra taken with HST reveal that NGC 4450 emits Balmer emission lines with displaced double peaks and extremely high-velocity wings. This characteristic line profile, previously seen in a few nearby LINERs and in a small fraction of…

We review the latest attempts to determine the accretion geometry in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). These objects, which comprise ~10-20% of the AGN population, produce powerful collimated radio jets that can extend thousands of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. R. Ballantyne

The majority of nearby radio-loud AGN are found in massive, old elliptical galaxies with weak emission lines. At high redshifts,however, most known radio AGN have strong emission lines. In this paper, we examine a subset of radio AGN with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guinevere Kauffmann , Timothy M. Heckman , Philip N. Best

Double-peaked emission line AGN (DPAGN) have been regarded as binary black hole candidates. We present here results from parsec-scale radio observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of five DPAGN belonging to the KISSR sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 P. Kharb , S. Subramanian , M. Das , S. Vaddi , Z. Paragi

In the manuscript, the simple but interesting results are reported on the upper limits of NLRs sizes of a small sample of 38 low redshift ($z<0.1$) AGN with double-peaked broad emission lines (double-peaked BLAGN), in order to check whether…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 XueGuang Zhang

We present a uniform X-ray spectral analysis of eight type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have been previously observed with relativistically broadened iron emission lines. Utilizing data from the XMM-Newton European Photon Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Laura W. Brenneman , Christopher S. Reynolds

In order to contribute to the general effort aiming at the improvement of our knowledge about the physical conditions within the Broad Line Region (BLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), here we present the results achieved by our analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 G. La Mura , L. Č. Popović , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Ilić

The origin of outflow in narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nucleus (AGN) is studied in this paper by focusing on the relationship between the [\ion{O}{3}]$\lambda$5007 line profile and the hard X-ray (in a bandpass of 2-10 keV)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Wei