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We have carried out a study of the luminosity function (henceforth LF) of galaxies in the region of the HDF-North using our very complete redshift catalog. We solve for the LF at four rest frame wavelengths from 0.24 to 2.2mu. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Judith G. Cohen

We report the discovery of the brightest X-ray source hosted by a faint (M_B=-16) dwarf galaxy in the immediate vicinity of the ultraluminous IRAS merging galaxy Mrk 273. The dwarf galaxy, 1.3 arcmin away from Mrk 273, is at the tip of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 X. -Y. Xia , Th. Boller , H. Wu , Z. -G. Deng , Y. Gao , Z. -L. Zou , Shude Mao , G. Borner

We investigate the far-infrared (far-IR) incidence of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) and non-AGN galaxies as a function of stellar mass (M$_*$), star formation rate (SFR), and specific black hole accretion rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-27 G. Mountrichas , F. J. Carrera , I. Georgantopoulos , S. Mateos , A. Ruiz , A. Corral

Recent Chandra and XMM observations of distant quasars have shown strong local (z~0) X-ray absorption lines from highly ionized gas, primarily He-like oxygen. The nature of these X-ray absorbers, i.e., whether they are part of the hot gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Taotao Fang , Christopher McKee , Claude Canizares , Mark Wolfire

We present a measure of the hard (2-8 keV) X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of Active Galactic Nuclei up to z~5. At high redshifts, the wide area coverage of the Chandra Multiwavength Project is crucial to detect rare and luminous (Lx >…

The optical classification of a Seyfert galaxy and whether it is considered X-ray absorbed are often used interchangeably. But there are many borderline cases and also numerous examples where the optical and X-ray classifications appear to…

We present a study of the hard X-ray properties of a sample that includes all the Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIGs, L_IR > 10^11 L_sun) observed in the 2-10 keV energy band (new and archival data). We find that a significant fraction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Risaliti , R. Gilli , R. Maiolino , M. Salvati

The X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is highly variable. Measurements of time lags (characterised by lag spectra) between variability in the light curves in energy bands corresponding to directly observed continuum emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 D. R. Wilkins , A. C. Fabian

Optically--faint X-ray sources (those with f_X/f_R > 10) constitute about 20% of X-ray sources in deep surveys, and are potentially highly obscured and/or at high redshift. Their faint optical fluxes are generally beyond the reach of…

In this paper we present the source list for 3 Chandra observations of the Local Group galaxy M33. The observations are centered on the nucleus and on the star forming region NGC 604. We detect a total of 261 sources in an area of \~0.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -J. Grimm , J. McDowell , A. Zezas , D. -W. Kim , G. Fabbiano

We present an X-ray analysis of fourteen nearby (z < 0.044) AGN in low mass galaxies (M_* <= 5*10^9 Msun) selected based on their optical variability (Baldassare et al. 2020). Comparing and contrasting different AGN selection techniques in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander Messick , Vivienne Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

Various types of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are briefly discussed, with an emphasis on the theory of recent X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations of the subclass, Seyfert 1 galaxies. The large radiation power from AGN is thought to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roland Svensson

We investigate the relation between the X-ray nuclear emission, optical emission line, radio luminosity and black hole mass for a sample of nearby Seyfert galaxies. Strong linear correlations between the 2-10 keV and [OIII], radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Panessa , L. Bassani , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , X. Barcons , F. J. Carrera , L. C. Ho , K. Iwasawa , S. Pellegrini

We systematically determine the electron density and electron temperature of active galaxies and star-forming galaxies using spectroscopy from the SDSS DR7, while mainly focusing on the NLRs. Density and temperature are determined through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-18 Zhitai Zhang , Yanchun Liang , François Hammer

We have compared the X-ray--to--optical flux ratios (F_x/F_opt) of absorbed active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) with those of nearby, optically classified Seyfert 2 galaxies. The comparison provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Carolin N. Cardamone , Edward C. Moran , Laura E. Kay

A major recent development in extragalactic astronomy has been the discovery of a population of galaxies that are luminous at submillimetre wavelengths. Estimates of their spectral energy distributions suggest that these galaxies are the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Neil Trentham , A. W. Blain , Jeff Goldader

The case of gamma-ray absorption due to photon-photon pair production of jet photons in the external photon environment like accretion disk and broad-line region radiation field of gamma-ray loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) that exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 A. Reimer

We present here an analysis of the X-ray properties of a sample of LINER galaxies observed with the ROSAT PSPC and HRI instruments. A spatial analysis shows that the bulk of the X-ray emission is consistent with arising from a point source;…

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

We present new determinations of the local sub-mm luminosity functions. We find the local sub-mm luminosity density converging to 7.3+/-0.2 x 10^19 W/Hz/Mpc^3 /h_65 at 850um solving the ``sub-mm Olbers' Paradox.'' Using the sub-mm colour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Stephen Serjeant , Diana Harrison