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20232026
most citedSurveying the onset and evolution of supermassive black holes at high-z with AXIS

9 citations · 30 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

MUSE spectroscopy of the compact dual AGN in the radio-loud gravitational lens MG B2016+112

Jianghao Huyan, Júlia M. Sisk-Reynés, Daniel A. Schwartz +4

Dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) are unique laboratories for studying how galaxy mergers trigger accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, at redshifts , only…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Investigating the Multiwavelength Emission of Binary SMBH Candidate SDSS J095036.75+512838.1

Cassandra Daniele, Adi Foord, Jessie Runnoe +2

We present results from a multiwavelength study of the binary AGN candidate SDSS J095036.75+512838.1, which was identified as a candidate binary SMBH system due to its significant…

astro-ph.GA2026

Rapid growth in a dual AGN during a gas-rich merger at z~4.5

Hyewon Suh, Roberto Decarli, Emanuele Paolo Farina +15

The late stages of galaxy mergers - when two supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reach kiloparsec-scale separations - represent a critical phase for understanding SMBH growth, galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connecting current and future dual AGN searches to LISA and PTA gravitational wave detections

Nianyi Chen, Yihao Zhou, Ekaterine Dadiani +10

Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) mark an observable stage of massive black hole (MBH) pairing in galaxy mergers and are precursors to the MBH binaries that generate low-frequency…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Evidence for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Martin G. H. Krause, Martin A. Bourne, Silke Britzen +10

We review the state of the evidence for the existence and observational appearance of supermassive black hole binaries. Such objects are expected from standard hierarchical galaxy…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Black Hole Mass and Photometric Components of NGC 4826

Kayhan Gültekin, Karl Gebhardt, John Kormendy +6

We present IR photometry and HST imaging and spectroscopy of Sab galaxy NGC 4826. Schwarzschild dynamical modeling is used to measure its central black hole mass . Photometric d…

astro-ph.HE2024

Chandra Discovery of a Candidate Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source in MCG+11-11-032

Adi Foord, Francesca Civano, Julia M. Comerford +9

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of MCG+11-11-032, a nearby AGN with the unique classification of both a binary and a dual AGN candidate. With new Chandra observations we aim…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

A Multiwavelength Portrait of the 3C 220.3 Lensed System

Sóley Ó. Hyman, Belinda J. Wilkes, S. P. Willner +10

The 3C 220.3 system is a rare case of a foreground narrow-line radio galaxy ("galaxy A," ) lensing a background submillimeter galaxy (). New spe…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Searching for the Highest-z Dual AGN in the Deepest Chandra Surveys

Brandon Sandoval, Adi Foord, Steven W. Allen +9

We present an analysis searching for dual AGN among 62 high-redshift () X-ray sources selected from publicly available deep Chandra fields. We aim to quantify the fr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Hot Gas Outflow Properties of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 4945

Natalia Porraz Barrera, Sebastian Lopez, Laura A. Lopez +5

We analyze 330 ks of {\it Chandra} X-ray imaging and spectra of the nearby, edge-on starburst and Seyfert Type 2 galaxy NGC 4945 to measure the hot gas properties along the galacti…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

AGN in overdense environments at high- with AXIS

Fabio Vito, Paolo Tozzi, Roberto Gilli +3

Overdense regions at high redshift () are perfect laboratories to study the relations between environment and SMBH growth, and the AGN feedback processes on the surrou…

astro-ph.GA2023

Uncovering the First AGN Jets with AXIS

Thomas Connor, Eduardo Bañados, Nico Cappelluti +1

Jets powered by AGN in the early Universe () have the potential to not only define the trajectories of the first-forming massive galaxies but to enable the accelerated…

astro-ph.GA2023

Detecting Wandering Intermediate-Mass Black Holes with AXIS in the Milky Way and Local Massive Galaxies

Fabio Pacucci, Bryan Seepaul, Yueying Ni +2

This white paper explores the detectability of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) wandering in the Milky Way (MW) and massive local galaxies, with a particular emphasis on the r…

astro-ph.HE2023

Prospects for AGN Studies with AXIS: AGN Fueling -- Resolving Hot Gas inside Bondi Radius of SMBHs

Ka-Wah Wong, Helen Russell, Jimmy Irwin +2

Hot gas around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) should be captured within the gravitational "sphere of influence", characterized by the Bondi radius. Deep Chandra observations have…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

X-ray Redshifts for Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei with AXIS Deep and Intermediate Surveys

Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, Stefano Marchesi +2

This study presents the capabilities of the AXIS telescope in estimating redshifts from X-ray spectra alone (X-ray redshifts, XZs). Through extensive simulations, we establish that…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

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…