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We present a deep near-infrared spectrum of the Orion Bar Photodissociation Region (PDR) taken with the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) on the 2.7 m telescope at the McDonald Observatory. IGRINS has high spectral resolution…

We analyse the level of nuclear activity in galaxies belonging to UZC-CGs. Spectra are available for 868 galaxies (90% of the whole catalog); 67 % of them show nuclear activity (AGN or Star formation). To carry out a detailed study about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Martinez , A. del Olmo , P. Focardi , J. Perea

We present a large sample which contains 45 Seyfert 1 galaxies (Sy1s), 46 hidden broad-line region (HBLR) Seyfert 2 galaxies (Sy2s), 57 non-HBLR Sy2s, and 22 starburst galaxies to distinguish their properties and to seek the possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Yu-Zhong Wu , Yong-Heng Zhao , Xian-Min Meng

We present a large sample of H- and K-band spectra of 32 optically line luminous central cluster galaxies. We find significant rovibrational H_2 emission in 23 of these galaxies as well as H recombination and/or [FeII] emission in another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. C. Edge , R. J. Wilman , R. M. Johnstone , C. S. Crawford , A. C. Fabian , S. W. Allen

Galaxy-galaxy mergers and close interactions have long been regarded as a viable mechanism for channeling gas toward the central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies which are triggered as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). AGN pairs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Michael A. Strauss , Lei Hao

The complete near infrared (0.9-2.5 micron) spectra in three different star forming regions (HH24-26, HH72 and BHR71) are presented and analyzed in the framework of shock excitation models. The spectra are dominated by H_2 rovibrational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Giannini , C. McCoey , A. Caratti o Garatti , B. Nisini , D. Lorenzetti , D. R. Flower

We discuss ROSAT HRI X-ray observations of 33 very nearby galaxies, sensitive to X-ray sources down to a luminosity of approximately 10^38 erg/s. The galaxies are selected from a complete, volume limited sample of 46 galaxies with d<7 Mpc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Lira , A. Lawrence , R. A. Johnson

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…

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxies are an important type of active galactic nucleus (AGN), generally expected to be accreting at high Eddington rate. The properties of their outflows and importance of AGN feedback remain intriguing. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Xiao-Dan Fu , Junfeng Wang , Xiaoyu Xu , Zhi-Xiang Zhang

We analyze the long-term evolution of the fluxes of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) - 0923+392, 3C 111, 3C 273, 3C 345, 3C 454.3, and 3C 84 - in the frequency range 80-267 GHz using archival calibration data of the IRAM Plateau de Bure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Trippe , M. Krips , V. Pietu , R. Neri , J. M. Winters , F. Gueth , M. Bremer , P. Salome , R. Moreno , J. Boissier , F. Fontani

Using adaptive optics on Keck and the VLT in the H- and K-bands, we have begun a project to probe the dynamics and star formation around AGN on scales of 0.1arcsec. The stellar content of the nucleus is traced through the 2.29micron CO2-0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. I. Davies , L. J. Tacconi , R. Genzel

We present a spatially resolved Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich analysis of the narrow-line region (NLR) in the low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) I galaxy NGC 5005 using Hubble Space Telescope narrowband imaging of [O…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-19 Anna Trindade Falcão , G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis , P. Zhu , S. Kraemer , W. P. Maksym , R. Middei , D. L. Król

We present near-infrared ($H$- and $K$-band) integral-field observations of the inner $\sim$700pc of the active spiral galaxy NGC613, obtained with SINFONI on the Very Large Telescope. We use emission-line ratios to determine the dominant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Falcón-Barroso , C. Ramos Almeida , T. Böker , E. Schinnerer , J. H. Knapen , A. Lançon , S. Ryder

To investigate the origins of the warm absorbers in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we study the ionization-state structure of the radiation-driven fountain model in a low-mass AGN (Wada et al. 2016) and calculate the predicted X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Shoji Ogawa , Yoshihiro Ueda , Keiichi Wada , Misaki Mizumoto

We have observed HNC 1-0, CN 1-0 and 2-1 line emission in a sample of 13 IR luminous (LIRGs, L_IR > 10E11 Lo) starburst and Seyfert galaxies. HNC 1-0 is detected in 9, CN 1-0 is detected in 10 and CN 2-1 in 7 of the galaxies. We also report…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Aalto , A. G. Polatidis , S. Huttemeister , S. J. Curran

Recent observations supported by theoretical models have lead to the view that giant and supergiant stars are over abundant, and/or a high metallicity component may be present, in the stellar populations at the centres of active galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Serote Roos , C. Boisson , M. Joly , M. J. Ward

(Abridge) The relationship between coronal line (CL) emission and nuclear activity in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is analyzed, for the first time, based on NIR spectra. The 8 CLs studied, of Si, S, Fe, Al and Ca elements and corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Rodríguez-Ardila , M. A. Prieto , J. G. Portilla , J. M. Tejeiro

This is the third in a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation-mapping campaign aimed to study the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with high accretion rates. We present new results on the variability of the optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Chen Hu , Pu Du , Kai-Xing Lu , Yan-Rong Li , Fang Wang , Jie Qiu , Jin-Ming Bai , Shai Kaspi , Luis C. Ho , Hagai Netzer , Jian-Min Wang

We selected 27244 nearby, red, giant early-type galaxies (RGEs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In a large fraction (53%) of their spectra the [O III] emission line is detected, with an equivalent width (EW) distribution strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Capetti , Ranieri D. Baldi