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Soft gamma rays from low accreting supermassive black holes and connection to energetic neutrinos [PDF]

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
The origins of the soft gamma-ray and high-energy neutrino backgrounds remain unknown. Here, the authors show radiatively inefficient accretion flows of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei can produce the soft gamma ray and high energy neutrino ...
Shigeo S. Kimura   +2 more
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The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. III. Hβ Lag Measurements of 32 Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei and the High-luminosity End of the Size–Luminosity Relation

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal
We present the main results from a long-term reverberation mapping campaign carried out for the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP).
Jong-Hak Woo   +30 more
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The Radio Spectra of High-luminosity Compact Symmetric Objects: Implications for Studies of Compact Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal
This paper addresses, for the first time, a key aspect of the phenomenology of compact symmetric objects (CSOs): the characteristics of their radio spectra.
P. V. de la Parra   +20 more
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Calibrating Mg ii-based Black Hole Mass Estimators Using Low-to-high-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2020
Abstract We present single-epoch black hole mass (M BH) estimators based on the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) Mg ii 2798 Å and optical Hβ 4861 Å emission lines. To enlarge the luminosity range of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we combine the 31 reverberation-mapped AGNs with relatively low luminosities from Bahk et al ...
Huynh Anh N. Le   +2 more
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The Number Density of Intermediate‐ and High‐Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei atz∼ 2–3 [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2005
We use the combination of the 2 Ms Chandra X-ray image, new J and H band images, and the Spitzer IRAC and MIPS images of the Chandra Deep Field-North to obtain high spectroscopic and photometric redshift completeness of high and intermediate X-ray luminosity sources in the redshift interval z=2-3.
Barger, A. J., Cowie, L. L.
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THE STRUCTURE AND SPECTRAL FEATURES OF A THIN DISK AND EVAPORATION-FED CORONA IN HIGH-LUMINOSITY ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2012
We investigate the accretion process in high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (HLAGNs) in the scenario of the disk evaporation model. Based on this model, the thin disk can extend down to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) at accretion rates higher than 0.02(M) over dot(Edd) while the corona is weak since part of the coronal gas is cooled by ...
J. Y. Liu   +3 more
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Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021
In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration succeeded in capturing the first direct image of the center of the M87 galaxy. The asymmetric ring morphology and size are consistent with theoretical expectations for a weakly accreting ...
The EHT MWL Science Working Group   +745 more
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In Situ Star Formation in Accretion Disks and Explanation of Correlation between the Black Hole Mass and Metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Recent observations show that the metallicity Z _BLR of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is solar to supersolar, which is positively correlated with the mass of supermassive black holes ( M _BH ) and does not evolve with the ...
Xiao Fan, Qingwen Wu
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The narrow-line region of high-luminosity active galactic nuclei

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 1993
We have made high signal-to-noise spectroscopic observations of seven radio-loud quasars with the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ground at McDonald Observatory and at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The resolution is 300-400 km s-1 over the wavelength range 1000-8500 Å, enabling us to separate the broad and narrow ...
Wills, Beverley J.   +7 more
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Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Source Models: Successes, Challenges and General Predictions [PDF]

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences, 2023
Understanding the acceleration of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. In this short review, we summarize the general observational constraints on their composition, spectrum and isotropy which ...
Globus Noémie, Blandford Roger
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