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NASA ASTRA White Paper : A Chandra Successor in the 2030s
C. S. Reynolds, E. Hodges-Kluck, E. A. Kara +19
Chandra established that soft X-ray spectral imaging with approximately 1 arcsec angular resolution is an essential tool for almost every area of astrophysics, from the early Unive…
Multi-epoch Detection of an Ultra-fast Inflow in ESP 39607: Evidence for an Accretion Cascade
Alessandro Peca, Michael J. Koss, Roberto Serafinelli +10
We present simultaneous XRISM, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR observations of ESP 39607, a Seyfert 2 galaxy at . XRISM/Resolve reveals two absorption features near 4.7 and 4.9 k…
AGN-DB: A Unified Multi-Wavelength Database of Active Galactic Nuclei
Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, C. Megan Urry +29
We present the Active Galactic Nuclei Database (AGN-DB), a comprehensive, multi-wavelength catalog compiled from more than 100 publicly available AGN catalogs and samples released…
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…
Hector Galaxy Survey: Optical IFU and Chandra Reveal a Low-Luminosity AGN Behind Extended LINER Emission
Kyuseok Oh, Gabriella Quattropani, Pratyush Kumar Das +25
We present evidence that the Hector Galaxy Survey galaxy C901005481609968 (), which exhibits spatially extended LINER-like emission in optical integral-field spe…
The Millimeter/X-ray Relation in Rapidly Accreting Supermassive Black Holes at
Sophie M. Venselaar, Claudio Ricci, Santiago Del Palacio +12
A tight correlation between nuclear millimeter and X-ray emission has recently been found in nearby () and low-Eddington ratio () radio-quiet Active Ga…
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 ()…
UGC 2369S: a Kpc Scale Triple Merger Candidate Identified in a Nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxy
Yuanze Ding, Michael J. Koss, Fiona A. Harrison +12
We present high spatial resolution (1.0''), multi-wavelength observations of UGC 2369S, a nearby luminous infrared galaxy showing three distinct cores separated on kpc sc…
Probing Heavily Obscured AGN in Major Galaxy Mergers Using the mm-X-ray Correlation
M. Droguett-Callejas, E. Treister, L. Barcos-Muñoz +10
The study of heavily obscured supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth in late-stage galaxy mergers is challenging: column densities can bloc…
BASS LV. Connecting X-ray variability with AGN physical properties and a new path to Cosmological distances
Matilde Signorini, Federica Ricci, Alessia Tortosa +18
X-ray variability is a well-established characteristic of active galactic nuclei (AGN), known to correlate inversely with both the supermassive black hole mass and luminosity, alth…
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…
An Extremely Luminous Flare Recorded from a Supermassive Black Hole
Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford +17
Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, accreting supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) were recognized as highly variable sources, requiring an extremely…
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book
Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395
The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…
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)…
NuSTAR Detection of an Absorption Feature in ESP 39607: Evidence for an Ultra-Fast Inflow?
Alessandro Peca, Michael J. Koss, Roberto Serafinelli +4
We report the serendipitous discovery of an absorption feature at 4.8 keV in the NuSTAR spectra of ESP 39607, a Seyfert 2 galaxy at , observed in May 2023 and August 202…
Large-scale dual AGN in large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Clara Puerto-Sánchez, Melanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri +10
Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) in observations and understanding theoretically which massive black holes (MBHs) compose them and in which galactic and large-scale env…
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…
Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS
The AXIS Time-Domain, Multi-Messenger Science Working Group, : +19
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) promises revolutionary science in the X-ray and multi-messenger time domain. AXIS will leverage excellent spatial resolution (<1.5 arcse…
Surveying the onset and evolution of supermassive black holes at high-z with AXIS
Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord, Stefano Marchesi +8
The nature and origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain an open matter of debate within the scientific community. While various theoretical scenarios have been proposed, e…
Tracking Supermassive Black Hole Mergers from kpc to sub-pc Scales with AXIS
Adi Foord, Nico Cappelluti, Tingting Liu +8
We present an analysis showcasing how the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), a proposed NASA Probe-class mission, will significantly increase our understanding of supermassiv…
BASS XXIX: The near-infrared view of the BLR: the effects of obscuration in BLR characterisation
Ricci F., Treister E., Bauer F. E. +24
Virial black hole mass () determination directly involves knowing the broad line region (BLR) clouds velocity distribution, their distance from the central supermassive bla…
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - XI. The Covering Factor of Dust and Gas in Swift/BAT Active Galactic Nuclei
Kohei Ichikawa, Claudio Ricci, Yoshihiro Ueda +10
We quantify the luminosity contribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to the 12 m, mid-infrared (MIR; 5-38 m), and the total IR (5-1000 m) emission in the local AGN dete…
The Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- IX. The Clustering Environments of an Unbiased Sample of Local AGN
M. C. Powell, N. Cappelluti, C. M. Urry +9
We characterize the environments of local accreting supermassive black holes by measuring the clustering of AGN in the Swift/BAT Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). With 548 AGN in the re…