Star formation and nuclear activity in luminous infrared galaxies: an infrared through radio review

M Perez-Torres, S Mattila, A Alonso-Herrero… - The Astronomy and …, 2021 - Springer
Nearby galaxies offer unique laboratories allowing multi-wavelength spatially resolved
studies of the interstellar medium, star formation and nuclear activity across a broad range of …

Thirty years of astronomy

S Miller, J Tennyson, TR Geballe, T Stallard - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
This review covers the work of the three decades since the first spectroscopic identification
of the H 3+ molecular ion outside of the laboratory in 1988, in the auroral atmosphere of the …

Sounds discordant: Classical distance ladder and ΛCDM-based determinations of the cosmological sound horizon

K Aylor, MK Joy, L Knox, M Millea… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Type Ia supernovae, calibrated by classical distance ladder methods, can be used, in
conjunction with galaxy survey two-point correlation functions, to empirically determine the …

Molecular outflows in local ULIRGs: energetics from multitransition OH analysis

E González-Alfonso, J Fischer… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the energetics of molecular outflows in 14 local ultraluminous infrared galaxies
(ULIRGs) that show unambiguous outflow signatures (P Cygni profiles or high-velocity …

Self-consistent two-phase AGN torus models-SED library for observers

R Siebenmorgen, F Heymann, A Efstathiou - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
We assume that dust near active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is distributed in a torus-like
geometry, which can be described as a clumpy medium or a homogeneous disk, or as a …

Hot dust in panchromatic SED fitting: identification of active galactic nuclei and improved galaxy properties

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Forward modeling of the full galaxy SED is a powerful technique, providing self-consistent
constraints on stellar ages, dust properties, and metallicities. However, the accuracy of these …

JWST detection of extremely excited outflowing CO and H2O in VV 114 E SW: A possible rapidly accreting IMBH

E González-Alfonso, I García-Bernete… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) gas-phase molecular bands are powerful diagnostics of the warm
interstellar medium. We report the James Webb Space Telescope detection of the CO v= 1 …

A NuSTAR survey of nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxies

SH Teng, JR Rigby, D Stern, A Ptak… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present a Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Chandra, and
XMM-Newton survey of nine of the nearest ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs). The …

The High-ionization IR Fine Structure Lines as Bolometric Indicators of the AGN Power: Study of the Complete 12 μm AGN Sample

L Spinoglio, JA Fernández-Ontiveros… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-ionization mid-IR lines, excited in the narrow-line regions of active galactic nuclei
(AGN), barely affected by stellar excitation and dust extinction, trace the AGN bolometric …

A technique to select the most obscured galaxy nuclei

I García-Bernete, D Rigopoulou, S Aalto… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Compact obscured nuclei (CONs) are mainly found in local luminous and ultraluminous
infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs). In the local Universe, these sources are generally selected …