activity
20182026
most citedThe Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE): a value-added galaxy catalogue for multi-messenger astrophysics

54 citations · 208 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

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)…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Blueberry and Green Pea galaxies live in low density environments

Maitrayee Gupta, Jiří Svoboda, Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis +3

Little is currently known about the large-scale environments of Green Pea (GP) and Blueberry (BB) galaxies, which are low-mass, compact systems with extreme specific star-formation…

astro-ph.GA2026

HECATEv2: An all-sky galaxy catalogue for multimessenger astrophysics

E. Kyritsis, A. Zezas, K. Kovlakas +4

We present HECATEv2, the second release of the Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE), an all-sky, value-added galaxy catalogue comprising 204733 galaxies from the HyperLEDA da…

astro-ph.GA2026

An automated activity classification tool for optical galaxy spectra

C. Daoutis, A. Zezas, E. Kyritsis +2

Reliable, versatile galaxy activity diagnostics are essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Traditional methods frequently necessitate extensive preprocessing, such as starli…

astro-ph.GA2025

XMM-Newton Conclusively Identifies an Active Galactic Nucleus in a Green Pea Galaxy

Peter G. Boorman, Jiří Svoboda, Daniel Stern +23

Green Pea galaxies are a class of compact, low-mass, low-metallicity star-forming galaxies in the relatively local universe. They are believed to be analogues of high-redshift gala…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Gas excitation in galaxies and active galactic nuclei with He IIλ4686 and X-ray emission

K. Kouroumpatzakis, J. Svoboda

The origin of He II emission in galaxies remains a debated topic, requiring ionizing photons with energies exceeding 54 eV. While massive stars, such as Wolf-Rayet stars, have been…

astro-ph.GA2024

From seagull to hummingbird: New diagnostic methods for resolving galaxy activity

C. Daoutis, A. Zezas, E. Kyritsis +2

Context. A major challenge in astrophysics is classifying galaxies by their activity. Current methods often require multiple diagnostics to capture the full range of galactic activ…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

X-ray observations of Blueberry galaxies

B. Adamcová, J. Svoboda, E. Kyritsis +7

Compact star-forming galaxies were dominant galaxy types in the early Universe. Blueberry galaxies (BBs) represent their local analogues being very compact and having intensive sta…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Blueberry galaxies up to 200 Mpc and their optical and infrared properties

K. Kouroumpatzakis, J. Svoboda, A. Zezas +6

Dwarf highly star-forming galaxies (SFGs) dominated the early Universe and are considered the main driver of its reionization. However, direct observations of these distant galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Radio properties of Green Pea galaxies

Abhijeet Borkar, Romana Grossová, Jiří Svoboda +6

Green Peas (GPs) are young, compact, star-forming dwarf galaxies, and local (z~0.3) analogues of the early galaxies (z>6) considered to be mainly responsible for the reionisation o…

astro-ph.HE2024

The extreme coronal line emitter AT 2022fpx: Varying optical polarization properties and late-time X-ray flare

Karri I. I. Koljonen, Ioannis Liodakis, Elina Lindfors +8

Supermassive black holes disrupt passing stars, producing outbursts called tidal disruption events (TDEs). TDEs have recently gained attention due to their unique dynamics and emis…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

A versatile classification tool for galactic activity using optical and infrared colors

Charalampos Daoutis, Elias Kyritsis, Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis +1

(abridged) The overwhelming majority of diagnostic tools for galactic activity are focused on active galaxies. Passive or dormant galaxies are often excluded from these diagnostics…

astro-ph.GA2023

A versatile classification tool for galactic activity using optical and infrared colors

Elias Kyritsis, Charalampos Daoutis, Andreas Zezas +1

We use the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to develop a tool for automated activity classification of galaxies into 5 different classes: Star-forming (SF), AGN, LINER, Composite, and…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 20 cited

Star-formation rate and stellar mass calibrations based on infrared photometry and their dependence on stellar population age and extinction

Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis, Andreas Zezas, Elias Kyritsis +2

The stellar mass () and the star-formation rate (SFR) are among the most important features that characterize galaxies. Measuring these fundamental properties accurately i…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Optical polarization from colliding stellar stream shocks in a tidal disruption event

I. Liodakis, K. I. I. Koljonen, D. Blinov +9

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. Part of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, forming an accretion disk…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 20 cited

The Star Formation Reference Survey-V: the effect of extinction, stellar mass, metallicity, and nuclear activity on star-formation rates based on H emission

Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis, Andreas Zezas, Alexandros Maragkoudakis +5

We present new H photometry for the Star-Formation Reference Survey (SFRS), a representative sample of star-forming galaxies in the local Universe. Combining these data with the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The Star Formation Reference Survey. IV. Stellar mass distribution of local star-forming galaxies

Paolo Bonfini, Andreas Zezas, Matthew L. N. Ashby +5

We constrain the mass distribution in nearby, star-forming galaxies with the Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS), a galaxy sample constructed to be representative of all known c…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 54 cited

The Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE): a value-added galaxy catalogue for multi-messenger astrophysics

Konstantinos Kovlakas, Andreas Zezas, Jeff J. Andrews +6

We present the Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue, or HECATE, an all-sky value-added galaxy catalogue, aiming to facilitate present and future multi-wavelength and multi-messenger s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Metallicity and X-ray luminosity variations in NGC 922

Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis, Andreas Zezas, Anna Wolter +3

We present a systematic study of the metallicity variations within the collisional ring galaxy NGC 922 based on long-slit optical spectroscopic observations. We find a metallicity…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

Sub-galactic scaling relations between X-ray luminosity, star-formation rate, and stellar mass

Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis, Andreas Zezas, Paul Sell +6

X-ray luminosity () originating from high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) is tightly correlated with the host galaxy's star-formation rate (SFR). We explore this connection at sub…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 8 cited

Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources with optical polarimetry: Demonstration of the technique

N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, I. Liodakis +12

The third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) presented the data of the first four years of observations from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. There are 3034 sources, 1010 of whic…