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Most massive galaxies show emission lines that can be characterized as LINERs. To what extent this emission is related to AGNs or to stellar processes is still an open question. In this paper, we analysed a sample of such galaxies to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner , R. B. Menezes

NGC 4527 is a nearby edge-on spiral galaxy with both starburst and AGN features, hosting a LINER nucleus. We present a radio study of the large-scale structure and nuclear region of this galaxy, based on new uGMRT observations at 700 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 C. A. Galante , G. E. Romero , J. Saponara , P. Benaglia

We present GALEX far-ultraviolet (FUV, $\lambda_{eff}$=1538 \AA) and near-ultraviolet (NUV, $\lambda_{eff}$=2316 \AA) surface photometry of 40 early-type galaxies (ETGs) selected from a wider sample of 65 nearby ETGs showing emission lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Marino , R. Rampazzo , L. Bianchi , F. Annibali , A. Bressan , L. M. Buson , M. S. Clemens , P. Panuzzo , W. W. Zeilinger

We report on the discovery of an absorption line at $E=8.56^{+0.05}_{-0.11}$ keV detected with a significance of $>3.3\sigma$ in the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton spectra of a newly discovered hyperluminous X-ray source (HLX, $L_{\rm X}>10^{41}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Murray Brightman , Peter Kosec , Felix Fürst , Hannah Earnshaw , Marianne Heida , Matthew J Middleton , Daniel Stern , Dominic J Walton

JWST spectroscopy has built large emission line samples at $z\gtrsim4$, but it has yet to confidently reveal many galaxies with the hard radiation fields commonly associated with AGN photoionization. While this may indicate a weaker UV…

Identifying the dominant ionizing sources in galaxies is essential for understanding their formation and evolution. Traditionally, spectra are classified based on their dominant ionizing source using strong emission lines and Baldwin,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Ahmad Nemer , Ivan Katkov , Jospeh Gelfand , Changhyun Cho

In this work, we investigated the nitrogen and oxygen abundances in a sample of galaxies with Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Regions (LINERs) in their nucleus. Optical spectroscopic data (3 600 - 10 000 {\AA}) of 40 LINERs from the Mapping…

We present evidence of the co-existence of either an AGN or an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), together with a young super stellar cluster in the 3 central parsecs of NGC4303. The galaxy contains a low luminosity AGN and hosts a number of…

Reionisation-era galaxies often display intense nebular emission lines, both in rest-frame optical ([OIII]+H$\beta$) and ultraviolet (UV; CIII], CIV). How such strong nebular emission is powered remains unclear, with both active galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Mengtao Tang , Daniel P. Stark , Richard S. Ellis , Stéphane Charlot , Anna Feltre , Alice E. Shapley , Ryan Endsley

We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were classified as LINERs by weak narrow forbidden line emission…

Understanding the nuclear growth and feedback processes in galaxies requires investigating their often obscured central regions. One way to do this is to use (sub)millimeter line emission from vibrationally excited HCN (HCN-vib). It has…

We have undertaken near-continuous monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 in the X-ray with RXTE over a ~30d baseline. The source shows strong variability with a root-mean-square (rms) amplitude of ~16 per cent, and peak-to-peak…

Passive red galaxies frequently contain warm ionized gas and have spectra similar to low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs). Here we investigate the nature of the ionizing sources powering this emission, by comparing nuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Renbin Yan , Michael R. Blanton

NGC 404, at a distance of 3.4 Mpc, is the nearest S0 galaxy. This galaxy harbors a LINER; however, since the spectrum does not show a broad H{\alpha} emission, it is not certain that this LINER is a low luminosity AGN and its nature is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-28 Roberto B. Menezes , João E. Steiner , Tiago V. Ricci , Alexandre S. Oliveira

Aims: We investigate the origin of X-rays and the nature of accretion flow in 4 LINERs hosted by radio galaxies, namely NGC1692, PKS0625-35, 3C88, 3C444, recently observed with XMM. Methods: We combine the results from the time-averaged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gliozzi , L. Foschini , R. M. Sambruna , F. Tavecchio

We report X-ray fluxes in the 2--10 keV band from LINERs (low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions) and low-luminosity Seyfert galaxies obtained with the ASCA satellite. Observed X-ray luminosities are in the range between 4e39 and 5e41…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuichi Terashima , Luis C. Ho , Andrew F. Ptak

We present high signal to noise ratio Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph observations of 17 Virgo early-type galaxies. The galaxies were selected from those that define the colour-magnitude relation of the cluster, with the aim of detecting the…

We present observations and initial analysis from an HST/STIS program to obtain the first co-spatial, UV-optical spectra of ten Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe). Our primary objective was to measure the critical emission lines of carbon and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Reginald J. Dufour , Karen B. Kwitter , Richard A. Shaw , Richard B. C. Henry , Bruce Balick , Romano L. M. Corradi

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, emitting radiation from low-energy radio waves to high energy $\gamma$-rays. They are well known to exhibit flux variations at nearly all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 M. Reshma , C. S. Stalin , Amit Kumar Mandal , S. B. Gudennavar , Senorita Benedict , Prajwel Joseph

JWST observations have revealed rare galaxies with UV spectra exhibiting intense lines of nitrogen, indicative of super-solar N/O abundances at low metallicity. To better understand these enigmatic objects and provide new constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Morel , D. Schaerer , R. Marques-Chaves , N. Prantzos , C. Charbonnel , G. Brammer , M. Xiao , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky