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We conduct a study on the relationship between galaxy environments and their active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity at high redshifts ($2.0<z<4.0$). Specifically, we study the AGN fraction in galaxies residing in a range of environments at…

We have collected an heterogeneous sample of galaxies at redshifts 0.001<z<3.35 with the aim of exploring the evolution of the physical parameters and of the element abundances calculated by modelling the observed spectra. The evolution…

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For the first time, we construct a catalog of compact groups selected from a complete, magnitude-limited redshift survey. We select groups with $N \geq 3$ members based on projected separation and association in redshift space alone. We…

We considered the fourth catalog of gamma-ray point sources produced by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and selected only jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) or sources with no specific classification, but with a low-frequency…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the high-redshift Universe are thought to reside in overdense environments. However, recent works provide controversial results partly due to the use of different techniques and possible suppression of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Satoshi Kikuta , Masatoshi Imanishi , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Yuichi Matsuda , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Fumiaki Nakata

We present spectroscopic observations of 27 active galactic nuclei (AGN) with some of the lowest black hole (BH) masses known. We use the high spectral resolution and small aperture of our Keck data, taken with the Echellette Spectrograph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Randi R. Ludwig , Jenny E. Greene , Aaron J. Barth , Luis C. Ho

Properties of galaxies depend on their large-scale environment. As the influence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy evolution is becoming more evident, their large scale environments may help us understand the evolutionary processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Lietzen , P. Heinämäki , P. Nurmi , L. J. Liivamägi , E. Saar , E. Tago , L. O. Takalo , M. Einasto

We constrain the behavior of the radio luminosity function (RLF) of two classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) namely AGN of low radio power (LRP) and BL Lac objects. The extrapolation of the observed steep RLFs to low power predicts a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Alessandro Capetti , Claudia M. Raiteri

Using Spitzer-IRS spectroscopy, we investigate the ubiquity of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in a complete (~94%), volume-limited sample of the most bolometrically-luminous galaxies (L_IR > (0.3-20) x 10^10 L_sun) to D < 15 Mpc. Our analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andy Goulding , Dave Alexander

Motivated by the apparently conflicting results reported in the literature on the effect of environment on nuclear activity, we have carried out a new analysis by comparing the fraction of galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-09 Amirnezam Amiri , Saeed Tavasoli , Gianfranco De Zotti

Isolated compact groups of galaxies (CGs) present a range of dynamical states, group velocity dispersions, and galaxy morphologies with which to study galaxy evolution, particularly the properties of gas both within the galaxies and in the…

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

The low luminosity QSO (LLQSO) sample consists of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) up to a redshift of z=0.06 in the Hamburg/ESO QSO survey. Its purpose is to study how the brightest AGN in the nearby universe evolve with respect to AGN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Lydia Moser , Jens Zuther , Sebastian Fischer , Gerold Busch , Monica Valencia-S. , Andreas Eckart , Melanie Krips , Julia Scharwaechter

Motivated by theoretical expectations that Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) in galactic centers may provide a favorable environment for super-massive black holes to form and/or efficiently grow, we set out to measure the fraction of nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Adi Foord , Elena Gallo , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Brendan P. Miller , Vivienne F. Baldassare , Kayhan Gultekin , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We searched in the public archive of the Chandra X-ray Observatory as of March 2016 and assembled a sample of 719 galaxies within 50 Mpc with ACIS observations available. By cross-correlation with the optical or near-infrared nuclei of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Rui She , Luis C. Ho , Hua Feng

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

Our aim is to explore the nature of emission line galaxies by combining high-resolution observations obtained in different bands to understand which objects are powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus(AGN). From the spectroscopic Palomar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Balmaverde , A. Capetti

We present morphological analysis of the 16$\mu$m flux-density-limited galaxy sample at 0.8$<z<$1.3 from arXiv:2103.04585. At the targeted redshift, the 16$\mu$m emission corresponds to the Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) feature from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-14 Piaoran Liang , Y. Sophia Dai , Jia-Sheng Huang , Cheng Cheng , Shi Yaru

Most galaxies in clusters have supermassive black holes at their center, and a fraction of those supermassive black holes show strong activity. These active galactic nuclei(AGNs) are an important probe of environmental dependence of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 H. D. Mishra , X. Dai

Close encounters between galaxies are expected to be a viable mechanism, as predicted by numerical simulations, by which accretion onto supermassive black holes can be initiated. To test this scenario, we construct a sample of 562 galaxies…