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Aims: We present a near-infrared spectral atlas of 47 active galactic nuclei (AGN), of all degrees of activity, in the wavelength interval of 0.8-2.4 microns, including the fluxes of the observed emission lines. We analyze the spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Riffel , A. Rodriguez-Ardila , M. G. Pastoriza

The abundance of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in cosmic voids is relatively unexplored in the literature, but can potentially provide new constraints on the environmental dependence of AGN activity and the AGN-host co-evolution. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-01 H. D. Mishra , X. Dai , E. Guerras

We have conducted a new spectroscopic survey to characterize the nature of nuclear activity in Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) galaxies and establish its frequency. We have obtained new intermediate resolution optical spectroscopy for 200…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. Martinez , A. del Olmo , R. Coziol , J. Perea

The most rapidly evolving regions of galaxies often display complex optical spectra with emission lines excited by massive stars, shocks and accretion onto supermassive black holes. Standard calibrations (such as for the star formation…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are axisymmetric systems to first order; their observed properties are likely strong functions of inclination with respect to our line of sight. However, except for a few special cases, the specific inclinations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. C. Fischer , D. M. Crenshaw , S. B. Kraemer , H. R. Schmitt

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…

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

We present 3.5m Apache Point Observatory second-epoch spectra of four low-metallicity emission-line dwarf galaxies discovered serendipitously in the Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to have extraordinary large broad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Y. I. Izotov , T. X. Thuan

We present a measurement of the fraction of cluster galaxies hosting X-ray bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as a function of clustercentric distance scaled in units of $r_{500}$. Our analysis employs high quality Chandra X-ray and Subaru…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Ehlert , A. von der Linden , S. W. Allen , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , B. Luo , A. Mantz , R. G. Morris , D. Applegate , P. Kelly

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with double-peaked [O III] lines are suspected to be sub-kpc or kpc-scale binary AGNs. However, pure gas kinematics can produce the same double-peaked line profile in spatially integrated spectra. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hai Fu , Lin Yan , Adam D. Myers , Alan Stockton , S. G. Djorgovski , G. Aldering , Jeffrey A. Rich

In this paper we present a classification of emission-line galaxies at intermediate and high redshifts (0.52.5 for near-infrared spectra), using the Dn(4000) index as a supplementary diagnostic. Our goal is to complement the diagnostic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 Julien Marocco , Emeric Hache , Fabrice Lamareille

We analyse the correlations between continuum properties and emission line equivalent widths of star-forming and active galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since upcoming large sky surveys will make broad-band observations only,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-22 Róbert Beck , László Dobos , Ching-Wa Yip , Alexander S. Szalay , István Csabai

Context. A defining characteristic of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that distinguishes them from other astronomical sources is their stochastic variability, which is observable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Upcoming optical…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are remarkable astronomical sources emitting over the whole electromagnetic spectrum, with different bands providing unique windows on distinct sub-structures and their related physics. AGN come in a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Paolo Padovani

We have constructed a catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with $z < 0.13$, based on optical spectroscopy, from the parent sample of galaxies in the 6dF galaxy survey (Final Release of 6dFGS), a census of the Southern hemisphere. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Yan-Ping Chen , Ingyin Zaw , Glennys R Farrar , Sana Elgamal

Surveys above 10 keV represent one of the the best resources to provide an unbiased census of the population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We present the results of 60 months of observation of the hard X-ray sky with Swift/BAT. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Ajello , D. M. Alexander , J. Greiner , G. M. Madejski , N. Gehrels , D. Burlon

We present the results of an analysis of a well-selected sample of galaxies with active and inactive galactic nuclei from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in the range 0.01 < z < 0.16. The SDSS galaxy catalogue was split into two classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. B. Westoby , C. G. Mundell , I. K. Baldry

We present a compilation of spectral energy distributions of 35 weak AGNs in LINERs using recent data from the published literature. We make use of previously published compilations of data, after complementing and extending them with more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael Eracleous , Jason A. Hwang , Helene M. L. G. Flohic

From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using a redshift-selected subset (0.35 < z < 0.45) of 54 CL-AGNs…

Double-peaked narrow emission lines in active galactic nucleus (AGN) spectra can be produced by AGN outflows, rotation, or dual AGNs, which are AGN pairs in ongoing galaxy mergers. Consequently, double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines are…