Publications (72)
JADES Data Release 4 -- Paper II: Data reduction, analysis and emission-line fluxes of the complete spectroscopic sample
J. Scholtz, S. Carniani, E. Parlanti +38
We present the fourth data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing deep spectroscopic observations in the two GOODS fields. A companion paper prese…
SUPER VII. Morphology and kinematics of H emission in AGN host galaxies at Cosmic noon using SINFONI
D. Kakkad, V. Mainieri, G. Vietri +19
We present spatially resolved H properties of 21 type 1 AGN host galaxies at z2 derived from the SUPER survey. These targets were observed with the adaptive optics capabi…
Evidence for feedback in action from the molecular gas content in the z~1.6 outflowing QSO XID2028
M. Brusa, C. Feruglio, G. Cresci +16
Gas outflows are believed to play a pivotal role in shaping galaxies, as they regulate both star formation and black hole growth. Despite their ubiquitous presence, the origin and…
Connecting X-ray nuclear winds with galaxy-scale ionised outflows in two lensed quasars
G. Tozzi, G. Cresci, A. Marasco +15
Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are expected to have a significant impact on the host galaxy evolution, but it is still debated how they are accelerated and propaga…
JWST/NIRSpec insights into the circumnuclear region of Arp 220: A detailed kinematic study
L. Ulivi, M. Perna, I. Lamperti +13
The study of starburst and active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback is crucial for understanding the regulation of star formation and the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Arp…
AGN in Dusty Starbursts at Z=2: Feedback Still To Kick In
G. Rodighiero, A. Enia, I. Delvecchio +18
We investigate a sample of 152 dusty sources at 1:5 < z < 2:5 to understand the connection of enhanced Star-Formation-Rate (SFR) and Black-Hole-Accretion-Rate (BHAR). The sources a…
Fast, dust-poor outflows in the local candidate dual AGN MCG-03-34-64 observed with VLT/ERIS
I. Lamperti, F. Mannucci, E. Bertola +28
We present VLT/ERIS IFU J-band observations of MCG-03-34-64, a nearby (z = 0.0167) Seyfert galaxy hosting a candidate dual AGN system with a separation of ~100 pc between the nucle…
The Little Blue and Red Dots Rosetta Stones: Non-Gaussian broad lines, hot dust, and X-ray weakness
M. Brazzini, F. D'Eugenio, R. Maiolino +31
The population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) newly discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exhibits peculiar properties that distinguish it from both local type I AGN…
In-orbit Performance of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph NIRSpec on the James Webb Space Telescope
T. Böker, T. L. Beck, S. M. Birkmann +47
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. In this paper, we summarize the in-orbit performance of NIRSp…
X-shooter reveals powerful outflows in z~1.5 X-ray selected obscured quasi stellar objects
M. Brusa, A. Bongiorno, G. Cresci +20
We present X-shooter at the Vewry Large Telescope observations of a sample of 10 luminous, X-ray obscured QSOs at z from the XMM-COSMOS survey, expected to be caught in th…
Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS IV. Tracing Radio Emission and Unveiling the Role of Winds
E. Amenta, M. Brienza, G. Bruni +30
Most Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are Radio Quiet, with radio emission that may arise from star-formation activity, AGN-driven winds, weak jets, and coronal activity. Disentangling…
MAGNUM survey: A MUSE-Chandra resolved view on ionized outflows and photoionization in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365
G. Venturi, E. Nardini, A. Marconi +24
Ionized outflows, revealed by broad asymmetric wings of the [OIII] line, are commonly observed in AGN but the low intrinsic spatial resolution of observations has generally prevent…
GA-NIFS: high prevalence of dusty and metal-enriched outflows in massive and luminous star-forming galaxies at
B. RodrÃguez Del Pino, S. Arribas, M. Perna +16
The paper investigates ionized outflows in massive, luminous star-forming galaxies at redshifts 3–9 using JWST/NIRSpec IFU data, finding that the outflows are dusty and metal‑enric…
Euclid: A machine-learning search for dual and lensed AGN at sub-arcsec separations
L. Ulivi, F. Mannucci, M. Scialpi +189
Cosmological models of hierarchical structure formation predict the existence of a widespread population of dual accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on kpc-scale separations…
SUPER III. Broad Line Region properties of AGN at z2
G. Vietri, V. Mainieri, D. Kakkad +27
The SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative feedback (SUPER) was designed to conduct a blind search for AGN-driven outflows on X-ray selected AGN at redshi…
Galaxy-wide outflows in z1.5 luminous obscured QSOs revealed through NIR slit-resolved spectroscopy
M. Perna, M. Brusa, G. Cresci +10
Aims. The co-evolution of galaxies and super massive black holes (SMBHs) requires that some sort of feedback mechanism is operating during the active galactic nuclei (AGN) phases.…
Feedback and ionized gas outflows in four low-radio power AGN at z 0.15
L. Ulivi, G. Venturi, G. Cresci +19
An increasing number of observations and simulations suggests that low-power (<10 erg s) jets may be a significant channel of feedback produced by active galactic nuc…
The WISSH QSOs project IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at z~2.4-4.7
M. Bischetti, C. Feruglio, E. Piconcelli +23
Sources at the brightest end of QSO luminosity function during the peak epoch of star formation and black hole accretion (z~2-4, i.e. Cosmic noon) are privileged sites to study the…
Probing black hole accretion in quasar pairs at high redshift
C. Vignali, E. Piconcelli, M. Perna +6
Models and observations suggest that luminous quasar activity is triggered by mergers, so it should preferentially occur in the most massive primordial dark matter haloes, where th…
LBT/ARGOS adaptive optics observations of z lensed galaxies
M. Perna, M. Curti, G. Cresci +24
Gravitationally lensed systems allow a detailed view of galaxies at high redshift. High spatial- and spectral-resolution measurements of arc-like structures can offer unique constr…
Galaxy-scale ionised winds driven by ultra-fast outflows in two nearby quasars
A. Marasco, G. Cresci, E. Nardini +14
We use MUSE adaptive optics (AO) data in Narrow Field Mode to study the properties of the ionised gas in MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041, two nearby (z~0.06) bright quasars hosting sub…
A multi-epoch spectroscopic study of the BAL quasar APM 08279+5255 II. Emission- and absorption-line variability time lags
F. G. Saturni, D. Trevese, F. Vagnetti +2
The study of high-redshift bright quasars is crucial to gather information about the history of galaxy assembly and evolution. Variability analyses can provide useful data on the p…
GA-NIFS: ISM properties and metal enrichment in a merger-driven starburst during the Epoch of Reionisation probed with JWST and ALMA
J. Scholtz, M. Curti, F. D'Eugenio +17
We present deep JWST/NIRSpec integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) and ALMA [CII]158m observations of COS-3018, a star-forming galaxy at z6.85, as part of the GA-NIFS pro…
SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z~2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation
I. Lamperti, C. M. Harrison, V. Mainieri +24
We study the impact of AGN ionised outflows on star formation in high-redshift AGN hosts, by combining NIR IFS observations, mapping the H emission and [OIII] outflows, with ma…
Molecular outflow and feedback in the obscured Quasar XID2028 revealed by ALMA
M. Brusa, G. Cresci, E. Daddi +29
We imaged with ALMA and ARGOS/LUCI the molecular gas and the dust and stellar continuum in XID2028, an obscured QSO at z=1.593, where the presence of a massive outflow in the ioniz…
Winds of change: the nuclear and galaxy-scale outflows and the X-ray variability of 2MASS 0918+2117
P. Baldini, G. Lanzuisi, M. Brusa +21
Powerful outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can significantly impact the gas reservoirs of their host galaxies. However, it is still unclear how these outflows can propagat…
Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays -- SUBWAYS. I. Ultra-fast outflows in QSOs beyond the local Universe
G. A. Matzeu, M. Brusa, G. Lanzuisi +48
We present a new X-ray spectroscopic study of luminous () active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at intermed…
GA-NIFS: co-evolution within a highly star-forming galaxy group at z=3.7 witnessed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS
B. RodrÃguez Del Pino, M. Perna, S. Arribas +17
We present NIRSpec IFS observations of a galaxy group around the massive GS_4891 galaxy at z=3.7 in GOODS-South that includes two other two systems, GS_4891_n to the north and GS_2…
Properties of the Multiphase Outflows in Local (Ultra)luminous Infrared Galaxies
A. Fluetsch, R. Maiolino, S. Carniani +14
Galactic outflows are known to consist of several gas phases, however, so far the connection between these multiple phases has been investigated little and only in a few objects. I…
Connecting outflows with radio emission in active galactic nuclei at cosmic noon
Gabriele S. Ilha, C. M. Harrison, V. Mainieri +17
AGN feedback is a well known mechanism in the evolution of galaxies. One open question is the driving mechanism of galaxy-scale outflows. At low redshift, radio jets often interact…
Dissecting the Obscured Core of GN20: an Active Galactic Nucleus Outshone by Young Stars
M. Hamed, L. Colina, P. G. Pérez-González +17
We investigate the relative contributions of star formation and AGN activity to the total energy budget of GN20, one of the most luminous dusty star-forming galaxies known at …
JWST MIRI/MRS observations of hot molecular gas in an AGN host galaxy at Cosmic Noon
D. Kakkad, V. Mainieri, Takumi S. Tanaka +27
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to play a central role in quenching star formation by removing or destroying molecular gas from host galaxies via radiation-pressure drive…
The PUMA project. III. Incidence and properties of ionised gas disks in ULIRGs, associated velocity dispersion and its dependence on starburstiness
M. Perna, S. Arribas, L. Colina +11
A classical scenario suggests that ULIRGs transform colliding spiral galaxies into a spheroid dominated early-type galaxy. Recent high-resolution simulations have instead shown tha…
A fast ionised wind in a Star Forming-Quasar system at z~1.5 resolved through Adaptive Optics assisted near-infrared data
M. Brusa, M. Perna, G. Cresci +15
Outflows are invoked in co-evolutionary models to link the growth of SMBH and galaxies through feedback phenomena, and from the analysis of both galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei…
GA-NIFS: Mapping AGN-driven ionized outflows in the COSMOS field
E. Bertola, G. Cresci, G. Venturi +17
Active galactic nuclei (AGNi) are a key ingredient in galaxy evolution and possibly shape galaxy growth through the generation of powerful outflows. Little is known regarding AGN-d…
MUSE view of PDS 456: kpc-scale wind, extended ionized gas and close environment
A. Travascio, E. Piconcelli, M. Bischetti +23
PDS 456 is the most luminous RQQ at z<0.3 and can be regarded as a local counterpart of the powerful QSOs shining at Cosmic Noon. It hosts a strong nuclear X-ray ultra-fast outflow…
The XMM-Newton and NuSTAR view of IRASF11119+3257. I Detection of multiple UFO components and a very cold corona
G. Lanzuisi, G. Matzeu, P. Baldini +21
IRASF11119 is an ultra-luminous IR galaxy with post-merger morphology, hosting a type-1 QSO at z=0.189. Its 2013 Suzaku spectrum shows a prominent Ultra Fast Outflow (UFO) absorpti…
A multi-epoch spectroscopic study of the BAL quasar APM 08279+5255: I. C IV absorption variability
D. Trevese, F. G. Saturni, F. Vagnetti +3
Broad Absorption Lines indicate gas outflows with velocities from thousands km/s to about 0.2 the speed of light, which may be present in all quasars and may play a major role in t…
Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS. II. HST UV spectroscopy of winds at intermediate redshifts
M. Mehdipour, G. A. Kriss, M. Brusa +35
We present a UV spectroscopic study of ionized outflows in 21 active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed with the HST. The targets of the SUBWAYS sample were selected with the aim to p…
Cosmic Duets I. High-spatial resolution spectroscopy of dual and lensed AGN with MUSE-NFM
M. Scialpi, F. Mannucci, Q. D'Amato +34
We present the first-year results of the MUSE Large Program "Cosmic Duets", whose goal is to obtain adaptive-optics assisted MUSE observations with an angular resolution of 0.1"-0.…
Little Red and Blue Dots: simply stratified Broad Line Regions
J. Scholtz, F. D'Eugenio, R. Maiolino +14
It has been claimed that a fraction of the so-called Little Red Dots (LRDs) are characterised by exponential broad line profiles, which have been ascribed to broadening from electr…
The impact of environmental effects on AGN: a decline in the incidence of ionized outflows
B. RodrÃguez Del Pino, S. Arribas, A. L. Chies-Santos +3
AGN have been generally considered to be less frequent in denser environments due to the lower number of galaxy-galaxy interactions and/or the removal of their gas-rich reservoirs…
The ultra-dense, interacting environment of a dual AGN at z 3.3 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS
M. Perna, S. Arribas, M. Marshall +18
LBQS 0302-0019 is a blue quasar (QSO) at z ~ 3.3, hosting powerful outflows, and residing in a complex environment consisting of an obscured AGN candidate, and multiple companions,…
MAGNUM survey: Compact jets causing large turmoil in galaxies -- Enhanced line widths perpendicular to radio jets as tracers of jet-ISM interaction
G. Venturi, G. Cresci, A. Marconi +10
Outflows accelerated by AGN are commonly observed in the form of coherent, mildly collimated high-velocity gas directed along the AGN ionisation cones and kinetically powerful (>$1…
The molecular gas content in obscured AGN at z > 1
M. Perna, M. T. Sargent, M. Brusa +11
The standard AGN-galaxy co-evolutionary scenario predicts a phase of deeply buried supermassive black hole growth coexisting with a starburst (SB) before feedback phenomena deplete…
SUPER IV. CO(J=3-2) properties of active galactic nucleus hosts at cosmic noon revealed by ALMA
C. Circosta, V. Mainieri, I. Lamperti +23
Feedback from AGN is thought to be key in shaping the life cycle of their host galaxies by regulating star-formation activity. Therefore, to understand the impact of AGN on star fo…
GA-NIFS: JWST/NIRSpec IFU observations of HFLS3 reveal a dense galaxy group at z~6.3
G. C. Jones, H. Ubler, M. Perna +19
Massive, starbursting galaxies in the early Universe represent some of the most extreme objects in the study of galaxy evolution. One such source is HFLS3 (z~6.34), which was origi…
NuSTAR reveals the extreme properties of the super-Eddington accreting SMBH in PG 1247+267
G. Lanzuisi, M. Perna, A. Comastri +26
PG1247+267 is one of the most luminous known quasars at and is a strongly super-Eddington accreting SMBH candidate. We obtained NuSTAR data of this intriguing source in De…
KASHz+SUPER: Evidence of cold molecular gas depletion in AGN hosts at cosmic noon
E. Bertola, C. Circosta, M. Ginolfi +32
The energy released by AGN has the potential to heat or remove the gas of the ISM, thus likely impacting the cold molecular gas reservoir of host galaxies at first, with star forma…
AGN outflows and feedback twenty years on
C. M. Harrison, T. Costa, C. N. Tadhunter +4
It is the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the seminal papers by Magorrian et al. and Silk & Rees which, along with other related work, ignited an explosion of publicati…
AGN vs. host galaxy properties in the COSMOS field
G. Lanzuisi, I. Delvecchio, S. Berta +13
The coeval AGN and galaxy evolution and the observed local relations between SMBHs and galaxy properties suggest some connection or feedback between SMBH growth and galaxy build-up…
SUPER VIII. Fast and Furious at : obscured type-2 active nuclei host faster ionised winds than type-1 systems
G. Tozzi, G. Cresci, M. Perna +22
We present spatially resolved VLT/SINFONI spectroscopy with adaptive optics of type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the SINFONI Survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of R…
The MAGNUM survey: different gas properties in the outflowing and disk components in nearby active galaxies with MUSE
M. Mingozzi, G. Cresci, G. Venturi +17
We investigated the interstellar medium properties of the disc and outflowing gas in the central regions of nine nearby Seyfert galaxies, all characterised by prominent outflows. T…
SUPER. VI. A giant molecular halo around a z~2 quasar
C. Cicone, V. Mainieri, C. Circosta +16
We present the discovery of copious molecular gas in the halo of cid_346, a quasar studied as part of the SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative f…
Physics of ULIRGs with MUSE and ALMA: The PUMA project I. Properties of the survey and first MUSE data results
M. Perna, S. Arribas, M. Pereira Santaella +8
Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) are characterised by extreme starburst (SB) and AGN activity, and are therefore ideal laboratories for studying the outflow phenomena. We h…
MUSE view of Arp220: Kpc-scale multi-phase outflow and evidence for positive feedback
M. Perna, S. Arribas, C. Catalan-Torrecilla +9
Arp220 is the nearest and prototypical ULIRG, and shows evidence of pc-scale molecular outflows in its nuclear regions and strongly perturbed ionised gas kinematics on kpc scales.…
SINFONI spectra of heavily obscured AGNs in COSMOS: evidence of outflows in a MIR/O target at z
M. Perna, M. Brusa, M. Salvato +9
We present new data for four candidate obscured Compton-Thick (CT) quasars at z 1-2.5 observed with SINFONI VLT spectrograph in AO mode. These sources were selected from a 24…
The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Complex kinematics of the galaxies at the end of the Reionization Era
K. Telikova, J. González-López, M. Aravena +18
The history of gas assembly in early galaxies is reflected in their complex kinematics. While a considerable fraction of galaxies at z~5 are consistent with rotating disks, current…
Metal enrichment and evolution in four z > 6.5 quasar sightlines observed with JWST/NIRSpec
L. Christensen, P. Jakobsen, C. Willott +7
We present JWST/NIRSpec R~2700 spectra of four high-redshift quasars: VDES J0020-3653 (z = 6.860), DELS J0411-0907 (z = 6.825), UHS J0439+1634 (z = 6.519) and ULAS J1342+0928 (z =…
Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays -- SUBWAYS. III. A population study on ultra-fast outflows
V. E. Gianolli, S. Bianchi, P-O Petrucci +44
The detection of blue-shifted absorption lines likely associated with ionized Iron K-shell transitions in the X-ray spectra of many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suggests the presen…
The most obscured AGN in the COSMOS field
G. Lanzuisi, M. Perna, I. Delvecchio +11
Highly obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) are common in nearby galaxies, but are difficult to observe beyond the local Universe, where they are expected to significantly contrib…
GA-NIFS: Dissecting the multiple sub-structures and probing their complex interactions in the \Lyalpha emitter galaxy CR7 at z = 6.6 with JWST/NIRSpec
C. Marconcini, F. D'Eugenio, R. Maiolino +16
We present JWST/NIRSpec integral field spectroscopic (IFS) observations of the \Lyalpha emitter CR7 at z ~ 6.6, observed as part of the GA-NIFS program. Using low-resolution PRISM…
Physics of ULIRGs with MUSE and ALMA: PUMA IV. No tight relation between cold molecular outflow rates and AGN luminosities
I. Lamperti, M. Pereira-Santaella, M. Perna +11
We study molecular outflows in a sample of 25 nearby (z< 0.17, d<750 Mpc) ULIRG systems (38 individual nuclei) as part of the "Physics of ULIRGs with MUSE and ALMA" (PUMA) survey,…
The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): The first archetypal Quasar in the feedback phase discovered by eROSITA
M. Brusa, T. Urrutia, Y. Toba +18
Theoretical models of galaxy-AGN co-evolution ascribe an important role for the feedback process to a short, luminous, obscured, and dust-enshrouded phase during which the accretio…
Are local ULIRGs powered by AGN? The sub-kpc view of the 220 GHz continuum. PUMA II
M. Pereira-Santaella, L. Colina, S. GarcÃa-Burillo +11
We analyze high-resolution (400pc) 220GHz continuum and CO(2-1) ALMA observations of a representative sample of 23 local (z<0.165) ULIRG systems (34 individual nuclei) as part of t…
Blowin' in the wind: both `negative' and `positive' feedback in an obscured high-z Quasar
G. Cresci, V. Mainieri, M. Brusa +13
Quasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench star formation in galaxies, preventing massive galaxies to over-grow and producing the red…
SUPER I. Toward an unbiased study of ionized outflows in z~2 active galactic nuclei: survey overview and sample characterization
C. Circosta, V. Mainieri, P. Padovani +36
Theoretical models of galaxy formation suggest that the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is required to regulate the growth of its host galaxy through feedback mechanis…
There Is More to Outshining: 2D Dust Effects on Stellar Mass Estimates at with JWST in the JADES Field
M. Hamed, P. G. Pérez-González, M. Annunziatella +15
Dust attenuation modifies the observed spectral energy distribution (SED), leading to biases in the properties inferred from integrated SED fitting. As spatially resolved SED model…
The ALMA view of the high-redshift relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
A. Pensabene, S. Carniani, M. Perna +4
This work aims at studying the relation of a sample of quasars by constraining their host galaxy masses through full kinematical modeling of the cold gas k…
CIV and CIII] reverberation mapping of the luminous quasar PG 1247+267
D. Trevese, M. Perna, F. Vagnetti +2
So far the masses of about 50 active galactic nuclei have been measured through the reverberation mapping technique (RM). Most measurements have been performed for objects of moder…
SUPER-II: Spatially resolved ionized gas kinematics and scaling relations in z~2 AGN host galaxies
D. Kakkad, V. Mainieri, G. Vietri +27
The SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative feedback (SUPER) aims at tracing and characterizing ionized gas outflows and their impact on star formation in…
GA-NIFS: The interplay between feedback and star formation at 3 < z < 9 probed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU
L. Ulivi, M. Perna, S. Arribas +24
The study of starburst- and AGN-driven feedback is fundamental for understanding the processes that shape galaxy growth, quench star formation, and drive the co-evolution of galaxi…