Ionized outflows from active galactic nuclei as the essential elements of feedback

S Laha, CS Reynolds, J Reeves, G Kriss… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are one of the fundamental mechanisms by
which the central supermassive black hole interacts with its host galaxy. Detected in≥ 50 …

AGN STORM 2. I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817

E Kara, M Mehdipour, GA Kriss… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the ongoing, intensive, multiwavelength monitoring program
of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817. While this active galactic nucleus was, in part …

Quantifying the impact of variable BLR diffuse continuum contributions on measured continuum interband delays

KT Korista, MR Goad - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the contribution of reprocessed continuum emission (1000–10 000 Å)
originating in broad-line region (BLR) gas, the diffuse continuum (DC), to the wavelength …

Spectroscopic indication of a centi-parsec supermassive black hole binary in the galactic center of NGC 5548

YR Li, JM Wang, LC Ho, KX Lu, J Qiu… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
As a natural consequence of cosmological hierarchical structure formation, sub-parsec
supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) should be common in galaxies but thus far …

Changing-look event in NGC 3516: continuum or obscuration variability?

M Mehdipour, GA Kriss, LW Brenneman… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Seyfert-1 galaxy NGC 3516 has undergone major spectral changes in recent years. In
2017 we obtained Chandra, NuSTAR, and Swift observations during its new low-flux state …

Evidence that 50% of BALQSO outflows are situated at least 100 pc from the central source

N Arav, G Liu, X Xu, J Stidham, C Benn… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The most robust way for determining the distance of quasar absorption outflows is the use of
troughs from ionic excited states. The column density ratio between the excited and …

Evidence for Periodicity in 43 year-long Monitoring of NGC 5548

E Bon, S Zucker, H Netzer, P Marziani… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of 43 years (1972 to 2015) of spectroscopic observations of the
Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. This includes 12 years of new unpublished observations (2003 …

Quantifying the AGN-driven outflows in ULIRGs (QUADROS)–I: VLT/Xshooter observations of nine nearby objects

M Rose, C Tadhunter, C Ramos Almeida… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although now routinely incorporated into hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy evolution, the
true importance of the feedback effect of the outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) …

TPHO: a time-dependent photoionization model for AGN outflows

D Rogantini, M Mehdipour, J Kaastra… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered a promising candidate for driving
AGN feedback at large scales. However, without information on the density of these outflows …

Dimming of Continuum Captured in Mrk 841: New Clues on the Nature of the Soft X-Ray Excess

M Mehdipour, GA Kriss, JS Kaastra… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a remarkable change in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Mrk 841,
providing new insights on how the soft X-ray excess emission in active galactic nuclei …