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most citedA Population of Bona Fide Intermediate Mass Black Holes Identified as Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

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astro-ph.GA2026

CoRGI in MaNGA - II. NGC 5717: cold-gas accretion and disk growth in a BGG

Damir Gasymov, Ivan Yu. Katkov, Eva K. Grebel +6

Large-scale stellar counter-rotation, in which two coplanar stellar components rotate in opposite directions, is usually interpreted as a signature of external gas accretion. Such…

astro-ph.GA2026

Giant Low-Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Global Picture of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Fedor M. Kolganov, Igor V. Chilingarian, Anna S. Saburova +5

Giant low-surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) challenge standard merger-driven galaxy assembly models due to their large, dynamically cold disks, with radii often larger than 100~…

astro-ph.GA2026

Ram-pressure-induced star formation in low-mass galaxies infalling on-to the Coma cluster: insights from DESI

Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian, Gary A. Mamon +2

Ram-pressure stripping is a key driver of galaxy morphological transformation in clusters, contributing to the formation of quenched, especially dwarf, populations. Ram-pressure co…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Optical Emission-Line Properties of eROSITA-selected SDSS-V Galaxies

Nadiia G. Pulatova, Evgenii Rubtsov, Igor V. Chilingarian +21

We present and discuss optical emission line properties obtained from the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra for an X-ray selected sample of 3684 galaxies (0.002 <…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Census of Compact Elliptical Galaxies in the Coma Cluster

Aleksandra V. Sharonova, Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian +3

Compact elliptical (cE) galaxies are compact stellar systems with stellar masses of and radii typically < 0.6 kpc. Here we investigate the prop…

astro-ph.GA2025

Broad line region echo from highly accreting intermediate-mass black hole candidate SDSS J144850.08+160803.1. The first probe of intra-night variability and reverberation mapping

Mariia Demianenko, Anton Afanasiev, Evgenii Rubtsov +8

Elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) can be used as ``time-squeezing'' machines, enabling studies of AGN geometry via reverberation mapping on much shorter timescales than…

astro-ph.GA2025

NGC 3259: A Signal for an Untapped Population of Slowly Accreting Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian, Francoise Combes +4

Low-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can provide important constraints on the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), a central challenge in modern cosmology…

astro-ph.GA2024

Optical spectroscopy of host-galaxies of intermediate mass black holes: evolution of central black holes

V. Goradzhanov, I. Chilingarian, M. Demianenko +6

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses below () are pivotal in understanding the origin and growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes (SMBHs…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z=2.363, and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z=2.243

Kirill A. Grishin, Simona Mei, Igor V. Chilingarian +6

Galaxy clusters, being the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, are a powerful tool to study mass assembly at different epochs. At z2 they give an unique op…

astro-ph.GA2024

A closer look at the extended edge-on low-surface brightness galaxies

Anna S. Saburova, Damir Gasymov, Evgenii V. Rubtsov +13

To understand the origin of extended disks of low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies, we studied in detail 4 such systems with large disks seen edge-on. Two of them are edge-on gian…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Dark matter content and dynamical masses of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster

Igor Chilingarian, Kirill Grishin, Anton V. Afanasiev +6

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are spatially extended, low surface brightness stellar systems with regular elliptical-like morphology found in large numbers in galaxy clusters and g…

astro-ph.GA2023

Dwarf early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster: internal dynamics, stellar populations

Igor Chilingarian, Kirill Grishin, Anton V. Afanasiev +6

We present preliminary results from our spectroscopic survey of low-luminosity early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster conducted with the Binospec spectrograph at the 6.5~m MMT. Fr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

The volume density of giant low surface brightness galaxies

Anna S. Saburova, Igor V. Chilingarian, Andrea Kulier +5

Rare giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) act as a stress test for the current galaxy formation paradigm. To answer the question `How rare are they?' we estimate their vo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

KDG 64: a large dwarf spheroidal or a small ultradiffuse satellite of Messier 81

Anton V. Afanasiev, Igor V. Chilingarian, Kirill A. Grishin +5

Low-mass early-type galaxies, including dwarf spheroidals (dSph) and brighter dwarf ellipticals (dE), dominate the galaxy population in groups and clusters. Recently, an additional…

astro-ph.GA2022

Optical Variability of "Light-weight" Supermassive Black Holes at a Few Percent Level from ZTF Forced-Photometry Light Curves

Mariia Demianenko, Kirill Grishin, Victoria Toptun +4

Large time-domain surveys provide a unique opportunity to detect and explore variability of millions of sources on timescales from days to years. Broadband photometric variability…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

Optical spectroscopic observations of intermediate-mass black holes and their host galaxies: the relation

Vladimir Goradzhanov, Igor Chilingaryan, Ivan Katkov +4

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; ) in galaxy centers are cruciel for painting a coherent picture of the formation and growth of supermassive black…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

Optical light curves of light-weight supermassive black holes produced by the Zwicky Transient Facility Forced Photometry Service

Mariia Demianenko, Igor Chilingarian, Kirill Grishin +4

In this paper, we present an algorithm to correct optical light curves obtained using The Zwicky Transient Facility Forced Photometry Service and its application to the analysis of…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Observational insights on the formation scenarios of giant low surface brightness galaxies

Anna Saburova, Igor Chilingarian, Anastasia Kasparova +4

Giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) with the disk radii of up to 130 kpc represent a challenge for currently accepted theories of galaxy formation and evolution, because…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 32 cited

Transforming gas-rich low-mass disky galaxies into ultra-diffuse galaxies by ram pressure

Kirill Grishin, Igor Chilingarian, Anton Afanasiev +4

Faint extended elliptically-shaped ultra-diffuse galaxies and slightly brighter and more compact dwarf elliptical and lenticular stellar systems are common in galaxy clusters. Thei…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Approximate analytical description of the high latitude extinction

Alexei Nekrasov, Kirill Grishin, Dana Kovaleva +1

The distribution of visual interstellar extinction has been mapped in selected areas over the Northern sky, using available LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR2/EDR3 data. was model…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Search for gas accretion imprints in voids: II. The galaxy Ark 18 as a result of a dwarf-dwarf merger

E. S. Egorova, O. V. Egorov, A. V. Moiseev +3

The low-mass low-surface brightness (LSB) disc galaxy Arakelian 18 (Ark 18) resides in the Eridanus void and because of its isolation represents an ideal case to study the formatio…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 35 cited

Observational insights on the origin of giant low surface brightness galaxies

Anna Saburova, Igor Chilingarian, Anastasia Kasparova +4

Giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) with dynamically cold stellar discs reaching the radius of 130 kpc challenge currently considered galaxy formation mechanisms. We ana…

astro-ph.GA2019

Evolutionary link between ultra-diffuse galaxies and dwarf early-type galaxies

Igor V. Chilingarian, Kirill A. Grishin, Anton V. Afanasiev +2

Spectroscopic studies of low-luminosity early-type galaxies are essential to understand their origin and evolution but remain challenging because of low surface brightness levels.…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 2 cited

Reconstructing star formation histories of recently formed ultra-diffuse galaxies

Kirill A. Grishin, Igor V. Chilingarian, Anton V. Afanasiev +1

Observational studies of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) represent a significant challenge because of their very low surface brightnesses. A feasible approach is to identify "future"…