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 …

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 …

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 …

BASS. XXII. The BASS DR2 AGN Catalog and Data

MJ Koss, C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, K Oh… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the active galactic nucleus (AGN) catalog and optical spectroscopy for the
second data release of the Swift BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). With this DR2 …

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 …

Quasars as standard candles-III. Validation of a new sample for cosmological studies

E Lusso, G Risaliti, E Nardini, G Bargiacchi… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present a new catalogue of∼ 2400 optically selected quasars with spectroscopic
redshifts and X-ray observations from either Chandra or XMM–Newton. The sample can be …

Hidden hearts of neutrino active galaxies

K Murase - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent multimessenger studies have provided evidence for high-energy neutrino sources
that are opaque to GeV–TeV gamma rays. We present model-independent studies on the …

The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, MJ Koss, Y Ueda… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The majority of the accreting supermassive black holes in the Universe are obscured by
large columns of gas and dust,,. The location and evolution of this obscuring material have …

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 …

The destruction and recreation of the X-ray corona in a changing-look active galactic nucleus

C Ricci, E Kara, M Loewenstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the drastic transformation of the X-ray properties of the active galactic nucleus
(AGN) 1ES 1927+ 654, following a changing-look event. After the optical/ultraviolet outburst …