Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

A comprehensive measurement of the local value of the Hubble constant with 1 km s− 1 Mpc− 1 uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES team

AG Riess, W Yuan, LM Macri, D Scolnic… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the
host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant (H 0) …

First detection of an overmassive black hole galaxy UHZ1: evidence for heavy black hole seed formation from direct collapse

P Natarajan, F Pacucci, A Ricarte… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z≈ 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that
accreting supermassive black holes were already in place 470 million years after the Big …

EIGER. V. Characterizing the host galaxies of luminous quasars at z≳ 6

M Yue, AC Eilers, RA Simcoe… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report JWST/NIRCam measurements of quasar host galaxy emissions and
supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses for six quasars at 5.9< z< 7.1 in the Emission-line …

The x–shooter/alma sample of quasars in the epoch of reionization. ii. black hole masses, eddington ratios, and the formation of the first quasars

EP Farina, JT Schindler, F Walter… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of black hole masses and Eddington ratios (λ Edd) for a sample
of 38 bright (M 1450<− 24.4 mag) quasars at 5.8≲ z≲ 7.5, derived from Very Large …

Universal bolometric corrections for active galactic nuclei over seven luminosity decades

F Duras, A Bongiorno, F Ricci, E Piconcelli… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The AGN bolometric correction is a key element for understanding black hole (BH)
demographics and computing accurate BH accretion histories from AGN luminosities …

Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. V. Extreme mass-ratio inspirals

S Babak, J Gair, A Sesana, E Barausse, CF Sopuerta… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the
gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar …

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey. V. X-ray properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN catalog

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, MJ Koss, Y Ueda… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard X-ray (≥ 10 keV) observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can shed light on some
of the most obscured episodes of accretion onto supermassive black holes. The 70-month …