Changing-look active galactic nuclei

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot - Nature Astronomy, 2023‏ - nature.com
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to show flux variability over all observable
timescales and across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Over the past decade, a growing …

Radio galaxies and feedback from AGN jets

MJ Hardcastle, JH Croston - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
We review current understanding of the population of radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars
from an observational perspective, focusing on their large-scale structures and dynamics …

Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017‏ - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

Obscured active galactic nuclei

RC Hickox, DM Alexander - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of material onto a supermassive
black hole (SMBH) and are among the most luminous objects in the Universe. However, the …

Revisiting the unified model of active galactic nuclei

H Netzer - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
This review describes recent developments related to the unified model of active galactic
nuclei (AGNs). It focuses on new ideas about the origin and properties of the central …

The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS)-I. ALMA images of dusty molecular tori in Seyfert galaxies

S García-Burillo, A Alonso-Herrero, CR Almeida… - Astronomy & …, 2021‏ - aanda.org
We present the first results of the Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS), a
project aimed at understanding the properties of the dusty molecular tori and their …

What drives the growth of black holes?

DM Alexander, RC Hickox - New Astronomy Reviews, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Massive black holes (BHs) are at once exotic and yet ubiquitous, residing at the centers of
massive galaxies in the local Universe. Recent years have seen remarkable advances in …

AGN dusty tori. II. Observational implications of clumpiness

M Nenkova, MM Sirocky, R Nikutta… - The Astrophysical …, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Clumpy torus models with\mathstrut {\cal N} _ {0}\sim 5 {\mbox {--}} 15 dusty clouds along
radial equatorial rays successfully explain AGN infrared observations. The dust has …

The incidence of obscuration in active galactic nuclei

A Merloni, A Bongiorno, M Brusa… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
We study the incidence of nuclear obscuration on a complete sample of 1310 active galactic
nuclei (AGN) selected on the basis of their rest-frame 2–10 keV X-ray flux from the XMM …

A mid-IR selected changing-look quasar and physical scenarios for abrupt AGN fading

D Stern, B McKernan, MJ Graham… - The Astrophysical …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new changing-look quasar, WISE J105203. 55+ 151929.5 at z= 0.303, found by
identifying highly mid-IR-variable quasars in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer …