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20202026
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42 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Decade-Scale Ionization Echo of Black-Hole Accretion in Galactic Nuclei

Wei-Jian Guo, Shuo Zhai, Chen Hu +16

Circumnuclear structures in active galactic nuclei respond to accretion variability over different spatial and temporal scales, but whether compact narrow-line gas responds on deca…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio Quasars in the Cosmic Dawn: A Spectroscopic Sample from the DESI Survey

Anniek J. Gloudemans, Jinyi Yang, David M. Alexander +55

We present the largest statistical spectroscopic sample of radio quasars at 4.7<z<6.7 to date. These have been selected from a dedicated Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) target…

astro-ph.GA2026

Linking neutral gas inflows and outflows to offsets in the star-forming main sequence and mass-metallicity relation

S. Weng, M. Pieri, A. Saintonge +40

Gas inflows and outflows regulate galaxy growth, but direct observational links between measured gas flows and galaxy scaling relations remain limited. Using ~6,000 star-forming ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio-dust connection in quasars driven by powerful ionised outflows

V. A. Fawcett, C. M. Harrison, T. Costa +8

Feedback from dusty quasars is thought to be a key driver in galaxy evolution. Multiple studies have reported a link between dust extinction and radio emission in quasars, possibly…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis

M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +100

We present the validation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest full-shape analysis. This analysis combines three-dimensi…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

We present a systematic census of dual and offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) using spectroscopic data from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrumen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stacked Reverberation Mapping of High Redshift Quasars in DESI. I. Feasibility Analysis

Rahma Alfarsy, R. E. A. Canning, Eva-Maria Mueller +49

The broad line region of quasars has long been probed by reverberation mapping techniques that measure time lags between continuum and broad emission line variations. Stacked rever…

astro-ph.GA2026

AGN radiative feedback as the main regulator of [O III] outflow activity and obscuration in X-ray AGN

Carolina Andonie, Andrea Merloni, Catarina Aydar +12

Large-scale ionised outflows and nuclear obscuration are fundamental manifestations of AGN activity, yet direct observational evidence linking these phenomena remains scarce. We us…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio Activity Across Accretion State Changes in Changing-look AGNs: Insights from FIRST and VLASS over Two Decades

Zhi-Qiang Chen, Wei-Jian Guo, Victoria A. Fawcett +8

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) provide a unique opportunity to probe the coupling between accretion flows and relativistic jets in supermassive black holes. We inve…

astro-ph.GA2026

A New Record Census of Dwarf AGN and a Bimodal - Scaling Relation with DESI DR1

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, M. Mezcua +48

Using the first spectroscopic data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI DR1), we conduct the largest systematic search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) signa…

astro-ph.GA2026

A striking excess of red quasars with steep radio spectral slopes: a dusty blow-out phase revealed through AGN-driven shocks?

Ciera L. Sargent, David M. Alexander, Claire L. Greenwell +5

Red quasars exhibit a higher incidence of compact (galaxy-scale or smaller) radio emission than blue quasars, arising from systems near the radio-loud/radio-quiet threshold. In thi…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Quasar Feedback Survey: Revealing the importance of sensitive radio imaging for AGN identification deeper into the radio-quiet regime

Ann Njeri, Chris M. Harrison, Preeti Kharb +8

We present new sub-arcsecond (0.3-1 arcsec; 1--3\,kpc) VLA imaging at 1.4\,GHz and 6\,GHz of 29 optically-selected, [O~{\sc iii}] luminous ( > 10$^{42.…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

GATOS XI : Excess dust heating in the Narrow Line Regions of nearby AGN revealed with JWST/MIRI

Houda Haidar, David J. Rosario, Ismael García-Bernete +38

We present JWST/MIRI imaging of eight nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the GATOS survey to investigate the physical conditions of extended dust in their narrow line regions…

astro-ph.HE2026

Early results in the search for extreme coronal line emitters with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Peter Clark, Joseph Callow, Or Graur +44

Here we present the results of our search through the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) - a rare…

astro-ph.GA2025

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. IV. Broad Emission Line Evolution Sequence Among Hα, Mg II, and Hβ

Wei-Jian Guo, Victoria A. Fawcett, Małgorzata Siudek +15

From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 29 cited

Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306

In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connection between steep radio spectral slopes and dust extinction in QSOs: evidence for outflow-driven shocks in dusty QSO

V. A. Fawcett, C. M. Harrison, D. M. Alexander +9

Recent studies have found a striking positive correlation between the amount of dust obscuration and enhanced radio emission in quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). However, what causes t…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

DESI Mg II Absorbers: Extinction Characteristics & Quasar Redshift Accuracy

Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Vicky Fawcett +32

In this paper, we study how absorption-line systems affect the spectra and redshifts of quasars (QSOs), using catalogs of Mg II absorbers from the early data release (EDR) and firs…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. II. Statistical Properties from the First Data Release

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Claire L. Greenwell +33

We present the identification of changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument First Data Release and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data R…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: the 80-month catalog and source properties of the high-energy emitting AGN and quasar population

Claire L. Greenwell, Lizelke Klindt, George B. Lansbury +32

We present a catalog of hard X-ray serendipitous sources detected in the first 80 months of observations by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The NuSTAR serendipi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Identifying Quasars from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

S. Juneau, R. Canning, D. M. Alexander +56

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) cosmology survey includes a Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) which will yield spectra for over ten million bright galaxies (r<20.2 AB mag)…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

How does the radio enhancement of broad absorption line quasars relate to colour and accretion rate?

J. W. Petley, L. K. Morabito, A. L. Rankine +8

The origin of radio emission in different populations of radio-quiet quasars is relatively unknown, but recent work has uncovered various drivers of increased radio-detection fract…