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This is the first of two papers in which a study is made of a sample of 12 southern radio-luminous Seyfert galaxies. Our aim is to investigate possible correlations between radio morphology and nuclear/circumnuclear emission-line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. A. Bransford , P. N. Appleton , C. A. Heisler , R. P. Norris , A. P. Marston

The ionizing continuum shape of quasars is generally not directly observable, but indirect arguments, based on photoionization models and thin accretion disk models suggest that it should peak in the extreme UV, and drop steeply into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ari Laor

We present photoionization models of the optical and IR coronal line spectrum in NGC1068 and the Circinus galaxy. The line fluxes have been calculated using (a) a non-thermal (nuclear) continuum source and (b) the non-thermal continuum plus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Nazarova , P. T. O'Brien , M. J. Ward

(Abridge) The relationship between coronal line (CL) emission and nuclear activity in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is analyzed, for the first time, based on NIR spectra. The 8 CLs studied, of Si, S, Fe, Al and Ca elements and corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Rodríguez-Ardila , M. A. Prieto , J. G. Portilla , J. M. Tejeiro

We obtained observations of NGC 4639 with ASCA in order to investigate its mildly active Seyfert 1 nucleus at hard X-ray energies. Koratkar et al. (1995) have previously shown that the nucleus is a pointlike source in the ROSAT soft X-ray…

To understand the nature of transient obscuring outflows in active galactic nuclei, we observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 on two occasions in December 2016 triggered by Swift monitoring indicating strong soft X-ray absorption in…

We present a X-ray spectroscopic study of the bright Compton-thick Seyfert 2s NGC1068 and the Circinus Galaxy, performed with BeppoSAX. Matt et al. (1997 and 1998) interpreted the spectrum above 4 keV as the superposition of Compton…

The Seyfert 1 galaxy 1E1615+061 was observed to display a very steep and intense soft X-ray spectrum during a HEAO-1 A2 observation in the 1978. Such an exceptionally soft X-ray state has never been observed subsequently, but the source has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Guainazzi , L. Piro , M. Capalbi , A. N. Parmar , M. Yamauchi , M. Matsuoka

We present new UV spectra of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548, which we obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at high spectral resolution, in conjunction with simultaneous Chandra X-ray Observatory spectra.…

We present a Suzaku observation of the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC4395 with an estimated black hole mass of ~10^5 Msun. Rapid and strong X-ray variability with an rms amplitude of ~60 per cent is observed in the 0.4-10 keV band with the XIS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 K. Iwasawa , Y. Tanaka , L. C. Gallo

We present the results from a 500 ks Chandra observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. We detect broadened emission lines of O VII and C VI in the spectra, similar to those observed in the optical and UV bands. The source was…

We present adaptive optics-assisted J- and K-band integral field spectroscopy of the inner 300 x 300 pc of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC1068. The data were obtained with the Gemini NIFS integral field unit spectrometer, which provided us with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Mazzalay , A. Rodríguez-Ardila , S. Komossa , Peter J. McGregor

In 2006 June, the obscured low luminosity active galactic nucleus in the nearby Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 4258 was observed with Suzaku for ~ 100 ks. Utilizing the XIS and the HXD, the nucleus emission was detected over 2 to 40 keV range, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shin'ya Yamada , Takeshi Itoh , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

The physical conditions near the optical continuum peak (``hot spot'') in the inner narrow line region (NLR) of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1068. Spectra were taken with HST/STIS through the 0.1X52 arcsec slit, covering the full STIS 1200 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. B. Kraemer , D. M. Crenshaw

We present relations of the black hole mass and the optical luminosity with the velocity dispersion and the luminosity of the [Ne V] and the [O IV] high-ionization lines in the mid-infrared (MIR) for 28 reverberation-mapped active galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Dasyra , L. C. Ho , L. Armus , P. Ogle , G. Helou , B. M. Peterson , D. Lutz , H. Netzer , E. Sturm

We present optical broad band B-I colour maps of a further sample of 10 Seyfert 2 galaxies. In these bands, the contribution from emission lines to the total flux is small, and hence the images predominantly trace the continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. K. Kotilainen

We present a detailed analysis of the intrinsic X-ray absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 using Chandra/HETGS data obtained 2002 May, as part of a program which included simultaneous UV spectra using HST/STIS and FUSE. NGC 4151 was…

We present here the analysis of ultraviolet spectra from IUE and an X-ray spectrum from ROSAT PSPC observations of the X-ray weak, far-infrared loud AGN, PG 1126-041 (Mrk 1298). The first UV spectra taken in June 1992, simultaneously with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. G. Wang , W. Brinkmann , W. Wamsteker , W. Yuan , J. X. Wang

The presence of an obscuring torus around the nucleus of Seyfert galaxies, as supposed in the popular unification scheme, can strongly modify the X--ray spectrum for both type 1 and 2 Seyfert galaxies. We find that if the torus is Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriele Ghisellini , Francesco Haardt , Giorgio Matt

Variable super-strong coronal emission lines were observed in one galaxy, SDSS J095209.56+214313.3, and their origin remains controversy. In this paper, we report the detection of variable broad spectral bumps, reminiscent of supernova (SN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ting-Gui Wang , Hongyan Zhou , Lifan Wang , Honglin Lu , Dawei Xu