AGN obscuration and the Unified Model

S Bianchi, R Maiolino, G Risaliti - Advances in Astronomy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Unification Models of Active Galactic Nuclei postulate that all the observed differences
between type 1 and type 2 objects are due to orientation effects with respect to the line of …

High-z galaxies with JWST and local analogues–it is not only star formation

J Brinchmann - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT I present an analysis of the JWST NIRSpec data of SMACS 0723 released as
Early Release Observations. As part of this three new redshifts are provided, bringing the …

Star formation inside a galactic outflow

R Maiolino, HR Russell, AC Fabian, S Carniani… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Recent observations have revealed massive galactic molecular outflows,, that may have the
physical conditions (high gas densities,,) required to form stars. Indeed, several recent …

Determining star formation rates for infrared galaxies

GH Rieke, A Alonso-Herrero, BJ Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that measures of star formation rates (SFRs) for infrared galaxies using either
single-band 24 μm or extinction-corrected Paα luminosities are consistent in the total …

PS16dtm: a tidal disruption event in a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy

PK Blanchard, M Nicholl, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of PS16dtm (also known as SN 2016ezh), a luminous transient that
occurred at the nucleus of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy hosting a 10 6 M⊙ black hole. The …

BASS. XXV. DR2 Broad-line-based Black Hole Mass Estimates and Biases from Obscuration

JE Mejía-Restrepo, B Trakhtenbrot… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of broad emission lines and virial estimates of supermassive
black hole masses (M BH) for a large sample of ultrahard X-ray-selected active galactic …

A sample of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies detected via [Fe X] coronal line emission: active galactic nuclei and/or tidal disruption events

M Molina, AE Reines, L Latimer… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The massive black hole (BH) population in dwarf galaxies (M BH≲ 10 5 M⊙) can provide
strong constraints on the origin of BH seeds. However, traditional optical searches for active …

Torus and active galactic nucleus properties of nearby seyfert galaxies: Results from fitting infrared spectral energy distributions and spectroscopy

A Alonso-Herrero, CR Almeida, R Mason… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We used the CLUMPY torus models and a Bayesian approach to fit the infrared spectral
energy distributions and ground-based high angular resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of …

The AGNIFS survey: spatially resolved observations of hot molecular and ionized outflows in nearby active galaxies

RA Riffel, T Storchi-Bergmann, R Riffel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the hot molecular and warm ionized gas kinematics for 33 nearby (0.001≲ z≲
0.056) X-ray selected active galaxies using the H m and Br γ emission lines observed in the …

BASS. XXIX. The near-infrared view of the broad-line region (BLR): the effects of obscuration in BLR characterization

F Ricci, E Treister, FE Bauer… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Virial black hole (BH) mass (M BH) determination directly involves knowing the broad-line
region (BLR) clouds' velocity distribution, their distance from the central supermassive BH (R …