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 …

[HTML][HTML] From clusters to proto-clusters: the infrared perspective on environmental galaxy evolution

S Alberts, A Noble - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
Environment is one of the primary drivers of galaxy evolution; via multiple mechanisms, it
can control the critical process of transforming galaxies from star forming to quiescent …

Half of the most luminous quasars may be obscured: investigating the nature of WISE-selected hot dust-obscured galaxies

RJ Assef, PRM Eisenhardt, D Stern… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
HALF OF THE MOST LUMINOUS QUASARS MAY BE OBSCURED: INVESTIGATING THE
NATURE OF WISE-SELECTED HOT DUST-OBSCURED GALAXIES - IOPscience Skip to content …

The most luminous galaxies discovered by WISE

CW Tsai, PRM Eisenhardt, J Wu, D Stern… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present 20 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)-selected galaxies
with bolometric luminosities L bol> 10 14 L☉, including five with infrared luminosities L IR≡ …

Detection of companion galaxies around hot dust-obscured hyper-luminous galaxy W0410-0913

M Ginolfi, E Piconcelli, L Zappacosta, GC Jones… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The phase transition between galaxies and quasars is often identified with the rare
population of hyper-luminous, hot dust-obscured galaxies. Galaxy formation models predict …

Polar dust, nuclear obscuration, and IR SED diversity in type-1 AGNs

J Lyu, GH Rieke - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the hypothesized similar face-on viewing angles, the infrared emission of type-1
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has diverse spectral energy distribution (SED) shapes that …

Extremely red quasars from SDSS, BOSS and WISE: classification of optical spectra

NP Ross, F Hamann, NL Zakamska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Quasars with extremely red infrared-to-optical colours are an interesting population that can
test ideas about quasar evolution as well as orientation, obscuration and geometric effects in …

The WISSH quasars project-XI. The mean spectral energy distribution and bolometric corrections of the most luminous quasars

I Saccheo, A Bongiorno, E Piconcelli, V Testa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Hyperluminous quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are ideal laboratories to investigate
active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback mechanisms. Their formidable energy release …

An overdensity of Lyman break galaxies around the hot dust-obscured galaxy WISE J224607. 56− 052634.9

D Zewdie, RJ Assef, C Mazzucchelli… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the identification of Lyman break galaxy (LBG) candidates around the most
luminous hot dust-Obscured galaxy (Hot DOG) known, WISE J224607. 56− 052634.9 …

Radio and far-IR emission associated with a massive star-forming galaxy candidate at z ≃ 6.8: a radio-loud AGN in the reionization era?

R Endsley, DP Stark, X Fan, R Smit… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the identification of radio (0.144–3 GHz) and mid-, far-infrared, and sub-mm (24–
850μm) emission at the position of one of 41 UV-bright () z≃ 6.6–6.9 Lyman-break galaxy …