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We study a complete and distance-limited sample of 25 LINERs, 21 of which have been imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope to study their physical properties and to compare their radio and optical properties with those of other samples of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. D. Macchetto , M. Chiaberge

An unprecedentedly large number of LINERs has been discovered in a recently completed optical spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies, allowing several statistical properties of the host galaxies and of the line-emitting regions to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis C. Ho

LINERs exist in the nuclei of a large fraction of luminous galaxies, but their connection with the AGN phenomenon has remained elusive. We present Hubble Space Telescope narrowband [O III]5007 and H-alpha+[N II] emission-line images of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. W. Pogge , D. Maoz , L. C. Ho , M. Eracleous

In order to determine the incidence of black hole accretion-driven nuclear activity in nearby galaxies, as manifested by their radio emission, we have carried out a high-resolution Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. E. Filho , P. D. Barthel , L. C. Ho

The results of Chandra snapshot observations of 11 LINERs (Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions), three low-luminosity Seyfert galaxies, and one HII-LINER transition object are presented. Our sample consists of all the objects with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuichi Terashima , Andrew S. Wilson

We use the sample of emission-line nuclei derived from a recently completed optical spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies to quantify the incidence of local (z = 0) nuclear activity. Consistent with previous studies, we find detectable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko , Wallace L. W. Sargent

The results of Chandra snapshot observations of 11 LINERs (Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions), three low-luminosity Seyfert galaxies, and one HII-LINER transition object are presented. Our sample consists of all the objects with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Yuichi Terashima , Andrew S. Wilson

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

I review the basic properties of low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs), as well as the main ionization mechanisms thus far proposed for them. There is substantial heterogeneity among LINERs, especially those with extended…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei V. Filippenko

This paper presents the results of a high resolution radio imaging survey of 83 of the 118 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) in the IRAS 1 Jy ULIRG sample. We have observed these ULIRGs at 15GHz with the Very Large Array (VLA). We…

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

(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 present an analysis of the host properties of 85224 emission-line galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that Seyferts and LINERs form clearly separated branches on the standard optical diagnostic diagrams. We derive a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Lisa J. Kewley , Brent Groves , Guinevere Kauffmann , Tim Heckman

To get insight in the nature of the ionized gas in the nuclear region of LINERs we have performed a study of HST Halpha imaging of 32 LINERs. The main conclusion from this analysis is that for the large majority of LINERs (84%) an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Masegosa , I. Márquez , A. Ramirez , O. González-Martín

Historically, Seyfert nuclei have been considered to be radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We question this widely held assumption by showing that the distribution of the radio-to-optical luminosity ratio R, when properly measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Luis C. Ho , Chien Y. Peng

We use the database from Paper III to quantify the global and nuclear properties of emission-line nuclei in the Palomar spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies. We show that the host galaxies of Seyferts, LINERs, and transition objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko , Wallace L. W. Sargent

Although the properties of the narrow-line region (NLR) of active galactic nuclei(AGN) have been deeply studied by many authors in the past three decades, many questions are still open. The main goal of this work is to explore the NLR of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Vaona , S. Ciroi , F. Di Mille , V. Cracco , G. La Mura , P. Rafanelli

We present high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; Lbol \lesssim 10^42 erg/sec). Infrared (IR) observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. E. Mason , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , N. A. Levenson , J. Radomski , C. Ramos Almeida , L. Colina , M. Elitzur , I. Aretxaga , P. F. Roche , N. Oi

We report results from the first mid-infrared spectroscopic study of a comprehensive sample of 33 LINERs, observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We compare the properties of two different LINER populations: infrared-faint LINERs, with…

A cross-correlation of the SDSS DR7 with the FIRST radio survey makes it possible to conduct a joined multiwavelength statistical study of radio-optical galaxy properties on a very large number of sources. Our goal is to improve the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Vitale , J. Zuther , M. Garcia-Marin , A. Eckart , M. Bremer , M. Valencia-S. , A. Zensus

The unified model of Seyfert galaxies suggests that there are hidden broad-line regions (HBLRs) in Seyfert 2 galaxies (S2s). However, there is increasing evidence for the appearance of a subclass of S2s lacking of HBLR (non-HBLR S2s). An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. -P Zhang , J. -M. Wang
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