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The low-luminosity active galactic nuclei in NGC 3147, NGC 4203, and NGC 4579 have been imaged at four frequencies with the Very Long Baseline Array. The galaxies are unresolved at all frequencies, with size upper limits of $10^3-10^4$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James S. Ulvestad , Luis C. Ho

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

There is now strong evidence that many low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) contain accreting massive black holes and that the nuclear radio emission is dominated by parsec-scale jets launched by these black holes. Here, we present preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Nagar , A. S. Wilson , H. Falcke , J. S. Ulvestad , C. G. Mundell

We present simultaneous, sub-arcsecond (<=50pc) resolution 5 GHz, 8.4 GHz, and 15 GHz VLA observations of a well-defined sample of sixteen low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs). The radio emission in most of these nuclei does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , Heino Falcke

The radio-X-ray slope in the fundamental plane of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is found to be steeper compared with that of radio-quiet AGNs in previous works. In this work, we reinvestigate the fundamental plane in radio-loud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Shuang-Liang Li , Minfeng Gu

Low-luminosity AGNs are perceived to be radio loud and devoid of a ``big blue bump'', indicating a transition from a radiatively efficient, geometrically thin, accretion disc in high-luminosity AGNs, to a geometrically thick, radiatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Maoz

We report a serendipitous discovery of six very low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) only by optical variability in one-month baseline. The detected flux variability is ~ 1-5% of the total luminosity of host galaxies. Careful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomonori Totani , Takahiro Sumi , George Kosugi , Naoki Yasuda , Mamoru Doi , Takeshi Oda

We present the completed results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all (~200) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) and AGNs in the Palomar Spectroscopic Sample. The high incidences of pc-scale radio nuclei, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Neil M. Nagar , Heino Falcke , Andrew S. Wilson

We present a comprehensive spectroscopic and variability-based characterisation of a sample of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) hosting low mass black holes, identified by $H\beta$ full width at half maximum (FWHM) $< 2200$ km…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Himanshu Sharma , Vivek Kumar Jha , Hum Chand , Swayamtrupta Panda

(abbreviated): This paper presents the results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all known (96) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) at D<19Mpc. We find that almost half of all LINERs and low-luminosity Seyferts have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. M. Nagar , H. Falcke , A. S. Wilson , J. S. Ulvestad

We study the hard-X-ray spectral properties of ten highly luminous radio-quiet (RQ) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z=1.3-3.2, including new XMM-Newton observations of four of these sources. We find a significant correlation between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ohad Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , Hagai Netzer , Roberto Maiolino , Shai Kaspi

We review ASCA results on a search for low luminosity active nuclei at the center of nearby normal galaxies. More than a dozen low-luminosity AGN have been discovered with 2-10 keV luminosity in the range 10^{40-41} ergs/s. Their X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Terashima

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

We investigate the high-frequency radio spectra of twenty low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) with compact radio cores. Our millimetre survey with the Nobeyama Millimetre Array (NMA) and analyses of submillimetre archival data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Doi , S. Kameno , K. Kohno , K. Nakanishi , M. Inoue

We present the completed results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of all (around 200) low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) in the Palomar spectroscopic Sample of all (around 470) nearby bright northern galaxies. The high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Nagar , H. Falcke , A. S. Wilson

In recent work, we have identified two sub-populations of radio-loud AGN which appear to be distinguished by jet structure, where low-efficiency accreting systems produce `weak' jets which decelerate more rapidly than the `strong' jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 Eileen T. Meyer , Giovanni Fossati , Markos Georganopoulos , Matthew L. Lister

The long-term variability study over a range of black hole (BH) mass systems from the microquasars of stellar-mass black holes to the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) of supermassive black holes, in $\gamma$-rays offers new insights into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Ajay Sharma , Raj Prince , Debanjan Bose

The nuclei of most normal galaxies contain supermassive black holes, which can accrete gas through a disk and become active. These Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN, can form jets which are observed on scales from AU to Mpc and from meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Roger Blandford , David Meier , Anthony Readhead

Accreting supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies are the engine of active galactic nuclei (AGN). X-ray light curves of unabsorbed AGN show dramatic random variability on timescales ranging from seconds to years. The power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Mehdy Lefkir , Simon Vaughan , Mike Goad , Daniela Huppenkothen , Phil Uttley

We analyze the broadband photometric light curves of Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sergeev et al. (2005) sample and find that a) perturbations propagating across the continuum emitting region are a general phenomenon securely detected in most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Doron Chelouche
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