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 …

The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

A De Rosa, C Vignali, T Bogdanović, PR Capelo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The quest for binary and dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the dawn of the multi-
messenger era is compelling. Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (AGN)–active SMBHs at …

Fitting AGN/Galaxy X-Ray-to-radio SEDs with CIGALE and Improvement of the Code

G Yang, M Boquien, WN Brandt, V Buat… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Modern and future surveys effectively provide a panchromatic view for large numbers of
extragalactic objects. Consistently modeling these multiwavelength survey data is a critical …

AGN wind scaling relations and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies

F Fiore, C Feruglio, F Shankar, M Bischetti… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is often identified as
the main mechanism responsible for regulating star formation in active galactic nucleus …

The COSMOS2015 Catalog: Exploring the 1< z< 6 Universe with half a million galaxies

C Laigle, HJ McCracken, O Ilbert… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the COSMOS2015 24 catalog, which contains precise photometric redshifts and
stellar masses for more than half a million objects over the 2deg 2 COSMOS field. Including …

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 …

The COSMOS2015 galaxy stellar mass function-Thirteen billion years of stellar mass assembly in ten snapshots

I Davidzon, O Ilbert, C Laigle, J Coupon… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We measure the stellar mass function (SMF) and stellar mass density of galaxies in the
COSMOS field up to z~ 6. We select them in the near-IR bands of the COSMOS2015 …

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey. I. Spectral measurements, derived quantities, and AGN demographics

M Koss, B Trakhtenbrot, C Ricci, I Lamperti… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first catalog and data release of the Swift-BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey.
We analyze optical spectra of the majority of the detected AGNs (77%, 642/836) based on …

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of the Quasar Survey Spectra

DM Alexander, TM Davis, E Chaussidon… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A key component of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation (SV)
is a detailed visual inspection (VI) of the optical spectroscopic data to quantify key survey …

Two Massive, Compact, and Dust-obscured Candidate z≃ 8 Galaxies Discovered by JWST

HB Akins, CM Casey, N Allen, MB Bagley… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a search for extremely red, dust-obscured, z> 7 galaxies with JWST/NIRCam+
MIRI imaging over the first 20 arcmin 2 of publicly available Cycle 1 data from the COSMOS …