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Chemical abundance patterns at z=1-7: Carbon, Nitrogen, Neon, Sulphur, and Argon abundances from JWST spectroscopy
E. Cataldi, F. Belfiore, M. Curti +22
The relative abundances of chemical elements in the interstellar medium (ISM) trace the history of star formation and chemical enrichment in galaxies. We investigate the abundance…
Dual and lensed AGN at sub-arcsecond separations uncovered by ERIS
M. V. Zanchettin, F. Mannucci, Q. D'Amato +62
We present the first results of the ongoing INAF GTO program focused on the search of sub-arcsecond dual AGN, carried out with the near-infrared integral-field unit SPIFFIER of the…
Searching for Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with GRAVITY
GRAVITY Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +82
We present a systematic interferometric search for close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in 20 nearby type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed with VLTI/\grav. We inves…
Cosmic Duets II. Growth and accretion in Gaia Multi-Peak dual AGN at Cosmic Noon
M. Scialpi, F. Mannucci, D. Izquierdo-Villalba +36
We present the first statistical characterization of the physical properties of Cosmic Duets: dual AGN in the redshift range 0.5 z 3.0 with projected separations of 1…
GA-NIFS: sRMS, a new method for disentangling resolved and unresolved emission in integral field spectroscopy. Application to distant quasars
Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, Carlota Prieto-Jiménez +28
The interpretation of AGN emission-line profiles in type1 AGN is often complicated by the dominance of bright, spatially unresolved nuclear continuum and broad-line region (BLR) em…
LoTSS of dual AGN: enhanced detectability and prospects for a systematic search
Q. D'Amato, F. Mannucci, E. De Rubeis +25
Context: Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) - systems of two accreting supermassive black holes at kpc-scale separations - trace galaxy mergers and are the progenitors of gravitati…
Low-power jet-ISM coupling and disk-plane perturbations in the edge-on Seyfert galaxy NGC 4388
M. Ceci, G. Venturi, C. Marconcini +26
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) may regulate galaxy evolution through radiatively driven winds and collimated jets, but their relative impact and coupling to the interstellar medium (…
Multi-epoch Detection of an Ultra-fast Inflow in ESP 39607: Evidence for an Accretion Cascade
Alessandro Peca, Michael J. Koss, Roberto Serafinelli +10
We present simultaneous XRISM, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR observations of ESP 39607, a Seyfert 2 galaxy at . XRISM/Resolve reveals two absorption features near 4.7 and 4.9 k…
A new era for Dual AGN science with SHARP
P. Severgnini, C. Vignali, A. De Rosa +21
The search for and the characterization of ultra-compact dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the hottest topics of current extragalactic astrophysics. These systems involve…
No evolution in the number density of little red dots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon
Federica Loiacono, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +24
We present our search for little red dots (LRDs) in the "J1030 field", a region of the sky around the quasar SDSS J1030+0524, observed by the JWST EIGER program. Over 1…
Dual AGN and Multiple SMBH Systems in the Era of SKAO
Q. D'Amato, L. Cui, R. Deane +23
We present a radio-oriented review of current strategies for the detection and characterization of dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) and supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs),…
Enhanced activity in close dual-AGN systems in the local Universe
Lorenzo Battistini, Alessandra De Rosa, Paola Severgnini +16
We present the study of an X-ray selected sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in pairs at projected spatial separations 1 </kpc < 100 at z < 0.1, using XMM-Newton and Chan…
Milky-Way-like stars in a galaxy core 8 billion years ago revealed by gravitational lensing
Quirino D'Amato, Filippo Mannucci, Alessandro Sonnenfeld +40
The assembly of stellar-dominated cores in elliptical galaxies is key to understanding how cosmic structures evolved. Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into the nature o…
Radio selection of heavily obscured AGN in the J1030 field: unraveling a missing Compton-thick population
Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Gilli, Marco Mignoli +21
We tested the effectiveness of radio selection to discover heavily obscured AGNs, particularly at high-z, and we measured their abundance for the first time from a radio perspectiv…
One cloud is not enough: extreme conditions bias chemical abundances in high-redshift galaxies
Bianca Moreschini, Francesco Belfiore, Alessandro Marconi +18
Since its launch, JWST has opened an unprecedented opportunity to characterise the ionised ISM of high-redshift galaxies using well-established rest-frame UV/optical diagnostics fr…
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…
ESO Expanding Horizons White Paper: Electromagnetic counterparts of massive BH mergers with LISA
M. Dotti, F. Mannucci, R. Buscicchio +10
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), adopted by ESA and scheduled for the second half of the next decade, will drive a new revolution in the rapidly growing field of grav…
MIRACLE III. JWST/MIRI expose the hidden role of the AGN outflow in NGC 1068
C. Marconcini, A. Marconi, M. Ceci +27
We present new JWST IFS observations of the active galaxy NGC 1068, combining Mid-IR and optical IFS data from MIRI and MUSE to characterize the multi-phase circumnuclear gas prope…
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.…
Tracing nitrogen enrichment across cosmic time with JWST
E. Cataldi, F. Belfiore, M. Curti +22
We present a comprehensive analysis of the nitrogen-to-oxygen (N/O) abundance ratio in a sample of ~ 660 star-forming galaxies at redshift z ~ 1-6, with a median redshift of z = 3.…
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…
M^3D: Mosaicking M33 with MUSE datacubes I. Unveiling the diversity of HII regions in M33 with MUSE
A. Feltre, F. Belfiore, G. Cresci +23
We present new VLT/MUSE observations of a 3 8 arcmin mosaic along the southern major axis of the Local Group galaxy M33. These data provide an unprecedented view of th…
MARTA: The connection between chemical enrichment, feedback, and dust in a Wolf-Rayet galaxy at z2
Mirko Curti, Elisa Cataldi, Francesco Belfiore +17
We present the analysis of the stellar and interstellar medium (ISM) properties of MARTA-4327, a star-forming galaxy at z=2.224 observed by means of deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy…
MIRACLE II: Unveiling the multi-phase gas interplay in the circumnuclear region of NGC 1365 via multi-cloud modeling
M. Ceci, C. Marconcini, A. Marconi +25
We present a multi-phase study of the gas in the circumnuclear region (~1.1x1.0 kpc^2) of the nearby Seyfert 1.8 galaxy NGC 1365, observed in the context of the Mid-IR Activity of…