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most citedGrowing supermassive black holes in the late stages of galaxy mergers are heavily obscured

208 citations · 504 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Extreme Variability Reveals How the Eddington Ratio Regulates Coronal Power in Active Galactic Nuclei

Arghajit Jana, Claudio Ricci, Franz E. Bauer +13

The bolometric luminosity () of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a key tracer of accretion physics, but its direct determination is often hindered by limited spectral…

astro-ph.GA2026

AGNFormer I: Reconstruction of AGN spectra using a probabilistic transformer model

Benedict L. Rouse, Franz E. Bauer, Tomasz Różański +8

We explore how an uncertainty-aware transformer-based architecture can leverage information embedded across the entire observed optical spectra of AGN, focusing on the algorithm's…

astro-ph.GA2026

Resolved UV-Optical HST Imaging and Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling of Nearby BAT Active Galactic Nuclei

Connor Auge, Michael Koss, Kriti K. Gupta +17

We use high-resolution UV-to-optical imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to construct spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for seven nearby ()…

astro-ph.GA2026

BASS. LI. Cool gas supply of HI-massive local Seyfert galaxies

Jeein Kim, Aeree Chung, O. Ivy Wong +19

We present neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) imaging observations of 22 HI-rich (), hard X-ray-selected local Seyferts to explore how cool gas is su…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

16 new quasars at the end of the reionization unveiled by self-supervised learning

L. N. Martínez-Ramírez, Julien Wolf, Silvia Belladitta +8

Luminous quasars at are key probes of early supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth, massive galaxy evolution, and intergalactic medium properties during cosmic reionization.…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evidence of Gas Depletion in Quasars with Moderate Radio Emission

Yuhan Wen, Ran Wang, Luis C. Ho +4

The energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered to have a profound impact on the cold gas properties of their host galaxies, potentially heating or removing the…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 5 cited

Multi-wavelength properties of changing-state active galactic nuclei: I. the evolution of soft excess and X-ray continuum

Arghajit Jana, Claudio Ricci, Alessia Tortosa +11

Changing-state active galactic nuclei (CSAGNs) exhibit rapid variability, with mass accretion rates that can change by several orders of magnitude in a few years. This provides us…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

BASS.L. Near-infrared Data Release 3: A Spectral Atlas and Characterization of AGN

Jarred Gillette, Michael J. Koss, Darshan Kakkad +18

We present an analysis of near-infrared (NIR) emission-line properties, AGN diagnostics, and circumnuclear gas dynamics for 453 hard X-ray selected (14195 keV) AGN from the BAT…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei in SDSS-V: Host-Galaxy Properties and Black-Hole Scaling Relations

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +23

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) exhibit dramatic spectral variability on unexpectedly short timescales, challenging standard accretion flow models. Despite growing s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Molecular Gas in Major Mergers Hosting Dual and Single AGN at <10 kpc Nuclear Separations

Makoto A. Johnstone, Ezequiel Treister, Franz E. Bauer +24

We present high-resolution (50100 pc) Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO(2-1) or CO(1-0) emission in seven local ( 0.05)…

astro-ph.GA2025

BASS LIV. Physical Properties of AGN-Hosting Galaxy Mergers from Multiwavelength SED Fitting

Marco Troncoso, Ezequiel Treister, Alejandra Rojas +17

Galaxy mergers are believed to play an important role in triggering rapid supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. As merging nuclei approach each other, the physical properties of t…

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

BASS LII: The prevalence of double-peaked broad lines at low accretion rates among hard X-ray selected AGN

Charlotte Ward, Michael J. Koss, Michael Eracleous +18

A fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have double-peaked H, H and Mg II broad lines attributed to emission from rotating gas in the accretion disk. Using optical spectro…

astro-ph.GA2025

BASS LIII: The Eddington Ratio as the Primary Regulator of the Fraction of X-ray Emission in Active Galactic Nuclei

Kriti Kamal Gupta, Claudio Ricci, Alessia Tortosa +20

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) emit radiation via accretion across the entire energy spectrum. While the standard disk and corona model can somewhat describe this emission, it fails…

astro-ph.GA2025

BASS XLVIII: [Ne v] λ3427 Emission in Powerful Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei

Tomer Reiss, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci +14

We investigate the high-ionization, narrow [Ne v] 3427 emission line in a sample of over 340 ultrahard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) drawn from the BA…

astro-ph.GA2025

Insights for Early Massive Black Hole Growth from JWST Detection of the [Ne v] λ3427 Emission Line

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci, Ezequiel Treister +7

We use the narrow [Ne v] 3427 emission line detected in the recently published JWST spectra of two galaxies, at z = 6.9 and 5.6, to study the key properties of the active galact…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

BASS. XLIV. Morphological preferences of local hard X-ray selected AGN

Miguel Parra Tello, Franz E. Bauer, Demetra De Cicco +20

We present morphological classifications for the hosts of 1189 hard X-ray selected (14-195 keV) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Swift-BAT 105-month catalog as part of the BA…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

ALMA observation of evolving magnetized corona in the radio-quiet changing-state AGN NGC 1566

Arghajit Jana, Claudio Ricci, Sophie M. Venselaar +9

The origin of compact millimeter (mm) continuum emission from radio-quiet AGNs (RQAGNs) is still not fully understood. Changing-state AGNs (CSAGNs) display rapid and strong variabi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Searching for Compact Obscured Nuclei in Compton Thick AGN

Makoto A. Johnstone, George C. Privon, Loreto Barcos-Munoz +16

Compact Obscured Nuclei (CONs) are heavily obscured infrared cores that have been found in local (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs). They show bright emission from vibrati…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

BASS XLVII: 22 GHz Radio Atlas of Swift-BAT Selected AGN

Macon Magno, Krista L. Smith, O. Ivy Wong +16

We present the third phase of the largest high-frequency, high-resolution imaging survey of 231 nearby, hard X-ray selected AGN, with a very high detection fraction. T…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Intervening nuclear obscuration changing the X-ray look of the QSO CFHQS J164121+375520

Fabio Vito, William Nielsen Brandt, Andrea Comastri +16

X-ray observations of the optically selected QSO CFHQS J164121+375520 (hereafter J1641) revealed that its flux dropped by a factor from 2018, when it was a bri…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

BASS XLV: Quantifying AGN Selection Effects in the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey with BASS

Yarone M. Tokayer, Michael J. Koss, C. Megan Urry +11

Deep extragalactic X-ray surveys, such as the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy field (CCLS), are prone to be biased against active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high column densities due to thei…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The NuSTAR Local AGN Distribution Survey (NuLANDS) I: Towards a Truly Representative Column Density Distribution in the Local Universe

Peter G. Boorman, Poshak Gandhi, Johannes Buchner +33

Hard X-ray-selected samples of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) provide one of the cleanest views of supermassive black hole accretion, but are biased against objects obscured by Compt…

astro-ph.GA2024

Constraining Quasar Feedback from Analysis of the Hydrostatic Equilibrium of the Molecular Gas in Their Host Galaxies

Qinyue Fei, Ran Wang, Juan Molina +4

We investigate the kinematics and dynamics of the molecular and ionized gas in the host galaxies of three Palomar-Green quasars at low redshifts, benefiting from the archival milli…