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A New Sample of Closely Separated Dual and Binary AGN Candidates Revealed with the Radio Fundamental Catalog
Emma Schwartzman, Ryan Pfeifle, Tracy Clarke +3
The Big Multi-AGN Catalog (BigMAC) provides the first literature-complete compilation of confirmed and candidate dual, binary, and recoiling active galactic nuclei (AGN). The BigMA…
The Accretion Explorer Interferometer (AEI) Phase I NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Final Report
Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann, Kenneth Carpenter +30
We must create superb X-ray images to understand the detailed physical processes behind some of the most powerful astronomical objects. The need to achieve this capability has been…
XMM-Newton and Swift Unveil Another X-Ray Transient in NGC 4945, XMM J130514.64-493311.27
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann +2
NGC 4945 hosts a Compton-thick, low luminosity AGN and a nuclear starburst in its core and has been the subject of many previous X-ray investigations of the AGN emission structure,…
Two Peas in a Pod: The First Confirmed Dual Active Galactic Nucleus within a Green Pea Galaxy System
Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis, Peter G. Boorman, Jiří Svoboda +5
The growth of galaxies in the early Universe is thought to be dominated by compact, intensely star-forming systems, yet the corresponding growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs)…
The Hunt for Red Dual AGNs I: Spatially-Resolved Mid-IR Dual AGNs in the DeCam Legacy Survey
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Kimberly A. Weaver, Barry Rothberg +13
Theoretical studies predict that dual AGNs are a critical stage of galaxy merger-driven supermassive black hole growth. Systematic searches for dual AGNs typically target late-stag…
The Need for Ultra High Resolution X-ray Imaging
Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann, Ryan Pfeifle +20
This paper discusses the broad science case for obtaining milliarcsecond to microarcsecond astronomical imaging resolution in the soft to medium-energy X-ray band (~0.5 to ~8 keV).…
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book
Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395
The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…
A High Resolution Search for Dual AGN Candidates in Mergers: A Pre-Selection Strategy using Keck AO
Camilo Vazquez, S. Satyapal, G. Canalizo +20
Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy mergers with separations 1 kpc are crucial to our understanding of SMBH growth, galaxy evolution, and SMBH binary evolution…
Varstrometry for Dual AGN using Radio interferometry: VaDAR with the VLBA
Emma Schwartzman, Paula Fudolig, Tracy Clarke +6
Multiple active galactic nuclei (multi-AGN) are a known result of galaxy mergers. Therefore, they are an important tool for studying the formation and dynamical evolution of galaxi…
Super-Size Me: The Big Multi-AGN Catalog (The Big MAC), Data Release 1: The Source Catalog
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Kimberly A. Weaver, Nathan J. Secrest +2
Galaxy mergers represent the most transformative and dramatic avenue for galaxy and supermassive black hole (SMBH) evolution. Multi-active galactic nuclei (multi-AGNs) are expected…
An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Hidden Behind Thick Obscuration
Peter G. Boorman, Daniel Stern, Roberto J. Assef +12
Recent models suggest approximately half of all accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs; 10 M) are expected to undergo intense growth phase…
Active Galaxy Science with the Line Emission Mapper: The Case for High-Resolution Soft X-ray Spectroscopy
Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann, Ryan W. Pfeifle +11
This white paper discusses the breadth of science related to active galactic nuclei (AGN) and associated phenomena to be enabled by a mission with microcalorimeter energy resolutio…
Kpc-Scale Neutral Iron K Emission in the Starburst-AGN NGC 4945: a Relic AGN Outflow?
Kimberly A. Weaver, Jenna M. Cann, Lynne Valencic +8
NGC 4945 contains a well-known heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) at its core, with prior reports of strong nuclear and off-nuclear neutral Fe K emission due to the…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Bringing the Cosmic X-ray Background into Focus
Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao, Peter Boorman +29
Since the discovery of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB), astronomers have strived to understand the accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) contributing to its peak in the 10-4…
BASS XLII: The relation between the covering factor of dusty gas and the Eddington ratio in nearby active galactic nuclei
C. Ricci, K. Ichikawa, M. Stalevski +25
Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at the center of galaxies are typically surrounded by large quantities of gas and dust. The structure and evolution of this circu…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): The Future of Hard X-ray Dual AGN Science
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Peter G. Boorman, Kimberly A. Weaver +15
A fundamental goal of modern-day astrophysics is to understand the connection between supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth and galaxy evolution. Merging galaxies offer one of the…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): The Circum-nuclear Environment of Growing Supermassive Black Holes
P. G. Boorman, N. Torres-Albà, A. Annuar +32
Ever since the discovery of the first Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), substantial observational and theoretical effort has been invested into understanding how massive black holes ha…
LEM All-Sky Survey: Soft X-ray Sky at Microcalorimeter Resolution
Ildar Khabibullin, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Akos Bogdan +23
The Line Emission Mapper (LEM) is an X-ray Probe with with spectral resolution ~2 eV FWHM from 0.2 to 2.5 keV and effective area >2,500 cm at 1 keV, covering a 33 arcmin diamet…
Exploring X-ray Properties of Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies
Jenna M. Cann, Kimberly A. Weaver, Ryan W. Pfeifle +3
One of the primary outstanding questions in extragalactic astronomy is the formation and early evolution of the supermassive black holes that are seen in nearly every massive galax…
BASS XXXIV: A Catalog of the Nuclear Mm-wave Continuum Emission Properties of AGNs Constrained on Scales 100--200 pc
Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Richard F. Mushotzky +25
We present a catalog of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum properties of 98 nearby ( 0.05) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the 70-month Swift/BAT hard X-ray c…
NuSTAR Observations of Four Mid-IR Selected Dual AGN Candidates in Galaxy Mergers
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Kimberly Weaver, Shobita Satyapal +5
Mergers of galaxies are a ubiquitous phenomenon in the Universe and represent a natural consequence of the ``bottom-up'' mass accumulation and galaxy evolution cosmological paradig…
VaDAR: Varstrometry for Dual AGN using Radio interferometry
Emma Schwartzman, Tracy E. Clarke, Kristina Nyland +5
Binary and dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important observational tool for studying the formation and dynamical evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs)…
The Messy Nature of Fiber Spectra: Star-Quasar Pairs Masquerading as Dual Type 1 AGNs
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Barry Rothberg, Kimberly A. Weaver +5
Theoretical studies predict that the most significant growth of supermassive black holes occurs in late-stage mergers, coinciding with the manifestation of dual active galactic nuc…
NuSTAR Observes Two Bulgeless Galaxies: No Hard X-ray AGN Detected in NGC 4178 or J0851+3926
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Shobita Satyapal, Claudio Ricci +5
The discovery over the last several decades of moderate luminosity AGNs in disk-dominated galaxies - which show no "classical" bulges - suggests that secular mechanisms represent a…