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The main fuelling processes for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are currently unknown. Previous work showed that galaxies with a large kinematic misalignment between their stellar and gas reservoirs have a higher AGN fraction than galaxies…

Links between the properties of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGNs) and the morphology of their hosts may provide important clues for our understanding of how RLAGNs are triggered. In this work, focusing on passive galaxies, we study…

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Continuum and emission-line variability of active galactic nuclei provides a powerful probe of microarcsecond scale structures in the central regions of these sources. In this contribution, we review basic concepts and methodologies used in…

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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the most luminous objects in the universe, making them valuable probes for studying galaxy evolution. However, understanding how AGN properties evolve over cosmic time remains a fundamental challenge.…

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We study variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by using the deep optical multiband photometry data obtained from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC SSP) survey in the COSMOS field. The images analyzed here were taken…

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I give a brief review of the observational properties of low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). I outline some unresolved issues in the study of LLAGNs, emphasizing the uncertainties in the role of the truncated thin accretion disk, the dusty…

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We present Chandra ACIS-S X-ray imaging spectroscopy for five dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates. Our targets were drawn from a sample of 1286 [O III]-selected AGN pairs systematically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

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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 study properties of the host galaxies of 15 hard X-ray selected type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at intermediate redshifts (0.05$<z<$0.6) detected in $ASCA$ surveys. The absorption corrected hard X-ray luminosities $L_{\rm 2-10 keV}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaku Kiuchi , Kouji Ohta , Masayuki Akiyama , Kentaro Aoki , Yoshihiro Ueda

We study the properties of 975 active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected by variability in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey. Using complementary multi wavelength data from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared, we use SED fitting to determine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Heinis , S. Gezari , S. Kumar , W. S. Burgett , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters

In this work, we revisit the size-luminosity relation of the extended narrow line regions (ENLRs) using a large sample of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey. The…

The active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most powerful sources with an inherent, pronounced and random variation of brightness. The randomness of their time series is so subtle as to blur the border between aperiodic fluctuations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-02 Andjelka B Kovacevic , Luka C. Popovic , Dragana Ilic

How a seemingly `dead' host galaxy provides fuel for its active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains an unresolved problem. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we present a new high-sensitivity atomic-hydrogen…

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We analyze a sample of 30,000 nearby obscured AGNs with optical spectra from SDSS and mid-IR photometry from WISE. Our aim is to investigate the AGN host galaxy properties with mid-IR luminosities as AGN activity indicator, and to compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Li Shao , Guinevere Kauffmann , Cheng Li , Jing Wang , Timothy M. Heckman

The unification of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a model that has been difficult to test due to the lack of knowledge on the intrinsic luminosities of the objects. We present a test were we probe the model by statistical investigation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Beatriz Villarroel , Andreas Korn , Yoshiki Matsuoka

We present a 5 month NICER X-ray monitoring campaign for two low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) -- NGC 4594 and IC 1459 -- with complementary Swift and NuSTAR observations. Utilizing an absorbed power law and thermal source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-17 Nicole M. Ford , Michael Nowak , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Daryl Haggard , Kristen Dage , Dhanya G. Nair , Chi-kwan Chan

We study the moderate-to-high radiative luminosity active galactic nuclei (HLAGN) within the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project. The survey covers 2.6 square degrees centered on the COSMOS field with a 1$\sigma$ sensitivity of 2.3 $\mathrm{\mu…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Lana Ceraj , Vernesa Smolčić , Ivan Delvecchio , Jacinta Delhaize , Mladen Novak

We present high angular resolution radio snap-shot observations of seven nearby low-luminosity active galaxies (LLAGN) from the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) survey. The observations were conducted with MERLIN and EVN/VLBI at 18cm and 6cm. At…

The morphological classification of active galaxies may be affected by the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this paper, we provide the most detailed analysis on how different AGN contributions, from 5% to 75%, to the total…

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