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 …

Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes

M Mezcua - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017 - World Scientific
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range 1 0 0–1 0 6 M⊙, are the
link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the …

Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar

Á Bogdán, AD Goulding, P Natarajan, OE Kovács… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place
less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery …

Primordial black holes from single field models of inflation

J Garcia-Bellido, ER Morales - Physics of the dark universe, 2017 - Elsevier
Primordial black holes (PBH) have been shown to arise from high peaks in the matter power
spectra of multi-field models of inflation. Here we show, with a simple toy model, that it is …

x-cigale: fitting AGN/galaxy SEDs from X-ray to infrared

G Yang, M Boquien, V Buat, D Burgarella… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (cigale) is a powerful multiwavelength
spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code for extragalactic studies. However, the current …

Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5

G Kulkarni, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Determinations of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
high redshifts are important for constraining the AGN contribution to reionization and …

The Chandra deep field-south survey: 7 Ms source catalogs

B Luo, WN Brandt, YQ Xue, B Lehmer… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present X-ray source catalogs for the≈ 7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South
(CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin 2. Utilizing wavdetect for initial source …

The Pan-STARRS1 z> 5.6 Quasar Survey. III. The z≈ 6 Quasar Luminosity Function

JT Schindler, E Bañados, T Connor… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the z≈ 6 type-1 quasar luminosity function (QLF), based on the Pan-STARRS1
(PS1) quasar survey. The PS1 sample includes 125 quasars at z≈ 5.7–6.2, with− 28≲ M …

Titans of the early Universe: The Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes

TE Woods, B Agarwal, V Bromm, A Bunker… - Publications of the …, 2019 - cambridge.org
In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at has provided a striking challenge to our
understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe …

Blossoms from black hole seeds: properties and early growth regulated by supernova feedback

M Habouzit, M Volonteri, Y Dubois - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Massive black holes (BHs) inhabit local galaxies, including the Milky Way and some dwarf
galaxies. BH formation, occurring at early cosmic times, must account for the properties of …