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We critically examine the dependence of spectral index on luminosity in optically selected AGN samples. An analysis of optically selected high-redshift quasars showed an anti-correlation of $\alpha_{OX}$, the spectral index between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sumin Tang , Shuang Nan Zhang , Philip F. Hopkins

We study the ensemble X-ray variability properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) over a large range of timescales (20 ks $\leq T\leq$ 14 yrs), redshift ($0\leq z \lesssim 3$), luminosities ($10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}\leq L_X\leq 10^{46}$ erg…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 M. Paolillo , I. E. Papadakis , W. N. Brandt , F. E. Bauer , G. Lanzuisi , V. Allevato , O. Shemmer , X. C. Zheng , D. De Cicco , R. Gilli , B. Luo , M. Thomas , P. Tozzi , F. Vito , Y. Q. Xue

We consider a sample of type-I active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were observed by Chandra/HETG and resulted in high signal-to-noise grating spectra, which we study in detail. All objects show signatures for very high ionization outflows.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Doron Chelouche

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Yuki Kimura , Toru Yamada , Mitsuru Kokubo , Naoki Yasuda , Tomoki Morokuma , Tohru Nagao , Yoshiki Matsuoka

The narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line is one of the main signatures of the reprocessing of X-ray radiation from the material surrounding supermassive black holes, and it has been found to be omnipresent in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Stephane Paltani , Kohei Ichikawa , Poshak Gandhi , Hisamitsu Awaki

Magnetically confined winds of early-type stars are expected to be sources of bright and hard X-rays. To clarify the systematics of the observed X-ray properties, we have analyzed a large series of Chandra and XMM observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Yael Naze , Veronique Petit , Melanie Rinbrand , David Cohen , Stan Owocki , Asif ud-Doula , Gregg A Wade

We present an X-ray stacking analysis of $\sim$75,000 star-forming galaxies between $0.1<z<5.0$ using the Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey to study the X-ray emission of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) and its connection to host…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Francesca M. Fornasini , Francesca Civano , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Martin Elvis , Stefano Marchesi , Takamitsu Miyaji , Andreas Zezas

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) are known to change their spectral type between 1 and 2 (changing-state) or change their absorption between Compton-thick and Compton-thin (changing-obscuration) on timescales of years or less.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan , Xue-bing Wu , Qingwen Wu , Wenfei Yu , Hao Liu

It is known that the IR and X-ray luminosities of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are correlated with L_{IR} ~ L_{X}. Moreover, the IR flux ratio between the 5.8 and 3.6 \mu m bands is a good distinguishing characteristic of AGN or AGN-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-08 P. Shalima , V. Jithesh , K. Jeena , R. Misra , S. Ravindranath , G. C. Dewangan , C. D. Ravikumar , B. R. S. Babu

The enormous range of X-ray luminosities among elliptical galaxies with similar optical luminosities can be attributed to large scatter and systematic variations in the dark halo mass determined from X-ray observations. The mean halo mass…

We contrast measurements of composite optical and ultraviolet (UV) spectra constructed from samples of QSOs defined by their soft X-ray brightness. X-ray bright (XB) composites show stronger emission lines in general, but particularly from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul J. Green

Over the last few years X-ray observations of broad-line radio galaxies (BLRGs) by ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX have shown that these objects seem to exhibit weaker X-ray reflection features (such as the iron K\alpha line) than radio-quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Ballantyne , R. R. Ross , A. C. Fabian

Most of the variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are based on ensemble analyses. Nevertheless, it is interesting to provide estimates of the individual variability properties of each AGN, in order to relate them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-17 M. Laurenti , F. Vagnetti , R. Middei , M. Paolillo

We consider simple semi-analytic models that relate the active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution to the merging history of their host dark matter haloes and quantify their ability of matching the AGN luminosity function and its spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Marulli , E. Branchini , L. Moscardini , M. Volonteri

We present the results from a detailed X-ray variability analysis of 66 AGN in the Lockman Hole, which have optical spectroscopic identifications. We compare, quantitatively, their variability properties with the properties of local AGN,…

We present the results from the spectral analysis of more than 7,500 RXTE spectra of 10 AGN, which have been observed by RXTE regularly over a long period of time ~ 7-11 years. These observations most probably sample most of the flux and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 M. A. Sobolewska , I. E. Papadakis

We presented CAIXA, a Catalogue of AGN in the XMM-Newton Archive, in a companion paper. Here, a systematic search for correlations between the X-ray spectral properties and the multiwavelength data was performed for the sources in CAIXA.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefano Bianchi , Nuria Fonseca Bonilla , Matteo Guainazzi , Giorgio Matt , Gabriele Ponti

We investigated the statistics of the X-ray spectral properties of a complete flux-limited sample of bright AGNs from HEAO-1 all-sky catalogs to provide the bright end constraint of the evolution of AGN hard X-ray luminosity function (HXLF)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Shinozaki , T. Miyaji , Y. Ishisaki , Y. Ueda , Y. Ogasaka , K. Hayashida , H. Awaki

We explore the connections between the infrared and X-ray properties of AGNs. Using the well constrained infrared SEDs of a sample of local (i.e., z < 0.1) sample of X-ray AGNs, we develop new diagnostics that exploit 24um and 70um flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. R. Mullaney , D. M. Alexander

The results of a 0.4-10.0 keV ASCA spectral analysis of a sample of low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN; M51, NGC 3147, NGC 4258), low-ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs; NGC 3079, NGC 3310, NGC 3998, NGC 4579, NGC 4594) and starburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ptak , P. Serlemitsos , T. Yaqoob , R. Mushotzky