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20182026
most citedEvolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies

65 citations · 546 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

On the Detectability and Measurement of Galactic Bars as a Function of Redshift

Yi-Xiao Lyu, Luis C. Ho, Zhao-Yu Li +1

The cosmic evolution of galactic bars offers key insights into the dynamical history of disk galaxies. However, studies of high-redshift bars are severely hampered by observational…

astro-ph.GA2026

Pushing HST to the limit: Detection completeness and morphology robustness of faint galaxies in the EGS field

Limin Lai, Zhao-Yu Li, Chao Ma +3

Reliable catalogs at the faint limit are essential for statistical studies of galaxy evolution. However, detection and structural measurements of faint galaxies remain challenging.…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cold Gas Infall onto A Brightest Group Galaxy via A Gas-Rich Minor Merger

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Jinyi Shangguan, Yuan Bian +6

Dust and cold gas are not uncommon in nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs), and represent an important aspect of their evolution. However, their origin has been debated for decades. P…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Influence of Barlens on the Bulge Parameters in the 2D Image Decomposition

Xinyang Li, Zhao-Yu Li, Yang A. Li +2

Recent observations and simulations have shown that a buckled bar in the face-on view can be considered as a combination of a long flat bar and a short round barlens (corresponding…

astro-ph.GA2025

From Non-Detection to Detection: Atacama Compact Array Mosaic Observations of Faint Extended [C I] Emission in NGC 7679

Tomonari Michiyama, Toshiki Saito, Kouichiro Nakanishi +8

We report the detection of [C I] -- emission in the nearby galaxy NGC 7679 using the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Host Galaxy (If Any) of the Little Red Dots

Chang-Hao Chen, Luis C. Ho, Ruancun Li +1

We investigate the host galaxy properties of eight little red dots (LRDs) selected from the JWST UNCOVER survey, applying a new technique ({\tt\string GalfitS}) to simultaneously f…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

The PSF Smoothing Effect on Concentration-Related Parameters of High Redshift Galaxies in HST and JWST

Jia-Hui Wang, Zhao-Yu Li, Ming-Yang Zhuang +2

We perform a comprehensive investigation of the PSF smoothing effect on the measurement of concentration-related parameters (, Gini, ) of high redshift galaxies in the H…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

Tip of the iceberg: overmassive black holes at 4<z<7 found by JWST are not inconsistent with the local - relation

Junyao Li, John D. Silverman, Yue Shen +8

JWST is revealing a new remarkable population of high-redshift (), low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) in deep surveys and detecting the host galaxy stellar lig…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Structure and Morphology of Galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization Revealed by JWST

Wen Sun, Luis C. Ho, Ming-Yang Zhuang +3

We analyze 347 galaxies at redshift using JWST observations from the CEERS program by fitting a two-dimensional parametric model simultaneously to the seven-filter NIRCam…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 65 cited

Evolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho

The tight correlations between the masses of supermassive black holes (BHs) and the properties of their host galaxies suggest that BHs coevolve with galaxies. However, what is the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Panchromatic Photometry of Low-redshift, Massive Galaxies Selected from SDSS Stripe 82

Yang A. Li, Luis C. Ho, Jinyi Shangguan +2

The broadband spectral energy distribution of a galaxy encodes valuable information on its stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), dust content, and possible fractional energy con…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

JWST Confirms the Nature of CID-42

Junyao Li, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Yue Shen

The galaxy CID-42 (CXOC J100043.1+020637.2) at z=0.359 has been proposed to contain a promising candidate for a gravitational wave (GW) recoiling supermassive black hole (SMBH), a…

astro-ph.GA2023

Discovery and Characterization of Galactic-scale Dual Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time

Yue Shen, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Yu-Ching Chen +10

The hierarchical structure formation paradigm predicts the formation of pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies. When both (or one) members of the SMBH pair are unobs…

astro-ph.GA2023

Nobeyama 45-m CO J=1-0 Observations of Luminous Type 1 AGNs at

Tomonari Michiyama, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Jinyi Shangguan +3

We have performed CO J =1-0 observations of ten galaxies hosting luminous () type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the Nobeyama 45-m r…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

An Elusive Population of Massive Disk Galaxies Hosting Double-lobed Radio-loud AGNs

Zihao Wu, Luis C. Ho, Ming-Yang Zhuang

It is commonly accepted that radio-loud active galactic nuclei are hosted exclusively by giant elliptical galaxies. We analyze high-resolution optical Hubble Space Telescope images…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

The Star-forming Main Sequence of the Host Galaxies of Low-redshift Quasars

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho

We investigate the star-forming main sequence of the host galaxies of a large, well-defined sample of 453 redshift 0.3 quasars with previously available star formation rates…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Ionized Outflows in Nearby Quasars are Poorly Coupled to their Host Galaxies

Juan Molina, Luis C. Ho, Ran Wang +6

We analyze Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer observations of nine low-redshift (z < 0.1) Palomar-Green quasar host galaxies to investigate the spatial distribution and kinematics o…

astro-ph.GA2021

Evidence for the connection between star formation rate and evolutionary phases of quasars

Zhifu Chen, Zhicheng He, Luis C. Ho +5

Both theory and observations suggest that outflows driven by an active central supermassive black hole (SMBH) has a feedback effect on shaping the global properties of the host gal…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

The Relation between Morphological Asymmetry and Nuclear Activity in Low-redshift Galaxies

Yulin Zhao, Yang A. Li, Jinyi Shangguan +2

The morphology of galaxies reflects their assembly history and ongoing dynamical perturbations from the environment. Analyzing i-band images from the Pan-STARRS1 Survey, we study t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

An ACA Survey of [CI] , CO , and Dust Continuum in Nearby U/LIRG

Tomonari Michiyama, Toshiki Saito, Ken-ichi Tadaki +11

We present the results of surveying [CI] , CO , and 630 m dust continuum emission for 36 nearby ultra/luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs) using the B…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

The Infrared Emission and Vigorous Star Formation of Low-redshift Quasars

Yanxia Xie, Luis C. Ho, Ming-Yang Zhuang +1

The star formation activity of the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provides valuable insights into the complex interconnections between black hole growth and galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 55 cited

The Interplay Between Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion in Nearby Active Galaxies

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho

Black hole accretion is widely thought to influence star formation in galaxies, but the empirical evidence for a physical correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and the prop…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 48 cited

Black Hole Accretion Correlates with Star Formation Rate and Star Formation Efficiency in Nearby Luminous Type 1 Active Galaxies

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho, Jinyi Shangguan

We investigate the relationship between black hole accretion and star formation in a sample of 453 type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We use available CO observati…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Discovery of a [CI]-faint, CO-bright Galaxy: ALMA Observations of the Merging Galaxy NGC 6052

Tomonari Michiyama, Junko Ueda, Ken-ichi Tadaki +9

We report sensitive [\ion{C}{1}]~-- and CO~=4--3 observations of the nearby merging galaxy NGC 6052 using the Morita (Atacama Compact) Array of ALMA. We det…