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The majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed by XMM-Newton reveal narrow Fe K-alpha lines at ~ 6.4 keV, due to emission from cold (neutral) material. There is an X-ray Baldwin effect in Type I AGN, in that the equivalent width of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Page , P. T. O'Brien , J. N. Reeves , M. J. L. Turner

Most Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit a narrow Fe Kalpha line at ~ 6.4 keV in the X-ray spectra, due to the fluorescent emission from cold material far from the inner accretion disk. Using XMM-Newton observations, Page et al. found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Jiang , J. X. Wang , T. G. Wang

The narrow component of the iron K$\alpha$ is an almost ubiquitous feature in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and is believed to originate in neutral material, possibly located in the molecular torus. This would imply a…

The existence of an anti-correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of the narrow core of the iron Kalpha line and the luminosity of the continuum (i.e. the X-ray Baldwin effect) in type-I active galactic nuclei has been confirmed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Claudio Ricci , Stephane Paltani , Hisamitsu Awaki , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Murray Brightman

The narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line is one of the main signatures of the reprocessing of X-ray radiation from the material surrounding supermassive black holes, and it has been found to be omnipresent in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Stephane Paltani , Kohei Ichikawa , Poshak Gandhi , Hisamitsu Awaki

The X-ray Baldwin effect is the inverse correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of the narrow component of the iron Kalpha line and the X-ray luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). A similar trend has also been observed between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Claudio Ricci , Stephane Paltani , Yoshihiro Ueda , Hisamitsu Awaki

Using Chandra High Energy Grating (HEG) observations of 32 AGNs, we present a systematic study of the X-ray Baldwin effect (XBE, i.e. the anti-correlation between narrow Fe K{\alpha} line EW and X-ray continuum luminosity for AGN samples)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xinwen Shu , Junxian Wang , Tahir Yaqoob , Peng Jiang , Youyuan Zhou

We present our discovery of a narrow-line Baldwin effect, an anti-correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of a line and the flux of the associated continuum, in 5-20$\mu$m mid-infared lines from a sample of 68 Active Galactic Nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 M. Keremedjiev , L. Hao , V. Charmandaris

We present the first study of an Iwasawa-Taniguchi/X-ray Baldwin effect for Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (AGN). We report a statistically significant anti-correlation between the rest-frame equivalent width (EW) of the narrow core…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Peter G. Boorman , Poshak Gandhi , Mislav Balokovic , Murray Brightman , Fiona Harrison , Claudio Ricci , Daniel Stern

A number of recent results from X-ray observations of Active Galactic Nuclei involving the Fe K alpha line (reduction of line variability compared to the X-ray continuum variability, the X-ray ``Baldwin effect'') were attributed to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. T. Zycki , A. Rozanska

X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton have shown that there are relatively narrow cores to the iron K-alpha emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Plausible origins for this core emission include the outer regions of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nandra

We examine the near-infrared (NIR) emission from low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). Our galaxy sample includes 15 objects with detected 2-10 keV X-ray emission, dynamical black hole mass estimates from the literature, and available Gemini/NIFS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Antoine Dumont , Anil Seth , Jay Strader , Jenny E. Greene , Leonard Burtscher , Nadine Neumayer

The anti-correlations between the equivalent widths of emission lines and the continuum luminosity in AGNs, known as the Baldwin effect are well established for broad lines, but are less well studied for narrow lines. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , C. Martin Gaskell , Xiao-Bo Dong

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) are known to change their spectral type between 1 and 2 (changing-state) or change their absorption between Compton-thick and Compton-thin (changing-obscuration) on timescales of years or less.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan , Xue-bing Wu , Qingwen Wu , Wenfei Yu , Hao Liu

We combine emission line and X-ray luminosities for 45 sources from the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), and seven HELLAS sources, to obtain a new sample of 52 X-ray selected type-II active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Eighteen of our sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hagai Netzer , V. Mainieri , P. Rosati , Benny Trakhtenbrot

The Baldwin Effect, a negative correlation between emission-line equivalent width and luminosity in active galactic nuclei, is still of interest as a diagnostic of accretion physics nearly thirty years after its discovery. This review…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph C. Shields

We suggest that the growth of the central black hole in active galactic nuclei (AGN) due to the matter accreted over the AGN lifetime causes an evolution of the luminosity and spectrum. In a previous paper we have shown that the effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amri Wandel

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 report on the analysis of a large sample of 744 type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei, including quasars and Seyfert 1 galaxies across the redshift range from 0 < z < 5 and spanning nearly 6 orders of magnitude in continuum luminosity. We…

In this paper we assess the relationship of the population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) selected by hard X-rays to the traditional population of AGN with strong optical emission lines. First, we study the emission-line properties of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , A. Hornschemeier , G. Kauffmann
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