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most citedThe Rise of Faint, Red AGN at : A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields

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25 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

XRISM Resolves the Circum-nuclear Environment of NGC 4945

Peter G. Boorman, Poshak Gandhi, Yoshihiro Ueda +31

Compton-thick Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent one of the most elusive phases of massive black hole growth, yet are expected to contribute substantially to the Cosmic X-ray B…

astro-ph.GA2026

An Exploratory Analysis of New Large Gaia-informed Quasar Samples in SDSS-V

Shir Aviram, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Tom Dwelly +22

Quasars are luminous objects that provide insights into the physics and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their accretion flows, galaxy evolution, and even cosmolog…

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

A MIGHTEE robust measurement of the star formation rate-radio correlation

Charlotte L. Jackson, Matt J. Jarvis, Imogen H. Whittam +9

Determining the relationship between star-formation rate (SFR) and the radio luminosity () is critical if we are to trace the star-formation history of the Universe dust-a…

astro-ph.GA2026

SDSS-V: Revealing a weak accretion state in X-ray selected red quasars

Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Amy L. Rankine +17

Red quasars (rQSOs) have been recognized as a short-lived, early stage in the evolutionary cycle of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), with fundamental differences in their intrinsic pr…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

CIV wind properties of the SDSS-V X-ray selected quasars: strong optical-to-UV emission is key regardless of X-ray strength

Amy L. Rankine, David Homan, James Aird +25

We present an investigation of the rest-frame optical/UV and X-ray properties for a sample of 3027 X-ray selected quasars between detected in the deepest Spec…

astro-ph.HE2026

A large population of over-massive black hole quasars at z=0.3-0.8 revealed by eROSITA

Johannes Buchner, Isabelle Gauger, Qiaoya Wu +14

In most galaxies, the central black hole accounts for no more than a percent of the total mass in stars. Recently, however, extremely over-massive black holes with ratios of 10% ha…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Revisiting the X-ray-to-UV relation of Quasars in the era of all-sky surveys

Maria Chira, Antonis Georgakakis, Angel Ruiz +8

The X-ray--to--UV relation of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), commonly parametrized via the monochromatic luminosities at and , reflects the energetic i…

astro-ph.HE2025

Characterising the X-ray variability of QSOs to the highest Eddington ratios and black hole masses with eROSITA light curves

Antonis Georgakakis, Angel Ruiz, Johannes Buchner +9

An important diagnostic of the inner structure of accretion flows onto supermassive black holes are the stochastic flux variations at X-ray wavelengths. Despite its significance, a…

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★ 2 cited

The Relationship at : Big Black Holes in Little Red Dots

Brenda L. Jones, Dale D. Kocevski, Fabio Pacucci +25

JWST has identified a large population of faint, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the early universe that are powered by black holes (BHs) that often appear overmassive r…

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★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

The Average Soft X-ray Spectra of eROSITA Active Galactic Nuclei

Shi-Jiang Chen, Johannes Buchner, Teng Liu +16

Context. AGNs are strong X-ray emitters shaped by disk-corona interactions. The soft excess (0.5-2.0 keV) reveals key information about the "warm corona" bridging the disk and hot…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 9 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS): SDSS spectroscopic observations of X-ray sources

Catarina Aydar, Andrea Merloni, Tom Dwelly +45

We present one of the largest uniform optical spectroscopic surveys of X-ray selected sources to date that were observed as a pilot study for the Black Hole Mapper (BHM) survey. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Searching for supermassive black holes binaries within SRG/eROSITA-De I: Properties of the X-ray selected candidates

D. Tubín-Arenas, M. Krumpe, D. Homan +20

Abridged: Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) separated by (sub)-pc scales represent one of the latest stages of hierarchical galaxy assembly. However, many of these objects…

astro-ph.GA2025

The X-ray statistical properties of dust-obscured galaxies detected by eROSITA

Akatoki Noboriguchi, Kohei Ichikawa, Yoshiki Toba +15

Dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) are considered to be in a co-evolution phase, with the associated active galactic nuclei (AGN) obscured by dust and gas. Although the DOGs are thought…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Retrieving the hot circumgalactic medium physics from the X-ray radial profile from eROSITA with an IlustrisTNG-based forward model

Soumya Shreeram, Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni +9

Recent eROSITA measurements of the radial profiles of the hot CGM in the Milky-Way stellar mass (MW-mass) regime provide us with a new benchmark to constrain the hot gas around MW-…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

PICZL: Image-based Photometric Redshifts for AGN

William Roster, Mara Salvato, Sven Krippendorf +14

Computing photo-z for AGN is challenging, primarily due to the interplay of relative emissions associated with the SMBH and its host galaxy. SED fitting methods, effective in penci…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Systematic Collapse of the Accretion Disc Across the Supermassive Black Hole Population

Scott Hagen, Chris Done, John D. Silverman +7

The structure of the accretion flow onto supermassive black holes (SMBH) is not well understood. Standard disc models match to zeroth order in predicting substantial energy dissipa…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

Genuine Retrieval of the AGN Host Stellar Population (GRAHSP)

Johannes Buchner, Hattie Starck, Mara Salvato +11

The assembly and co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBH) and their host galaxy stellar population is a key open questions in galaxy evolution. Stellar mass () and…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Morphological Evidence for the eROSITA Bubbles Being Giant and Distant Structures

Teng Liu, Andrea Merloni, Jeremy Sanders +13

There are two contradictory views of the eROSITA bubbles: either a 10 kpc-scale pair of giant bubbles blown by the Galactic center (GC), or a 100 pc-scale local structure coinciden…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 23 cited

The Rise of Faint, Red AGN at : A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields

Dale D. Kocevski, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro +54

We present a sample of 341 "little red dots" (LRDs) spanning the redshift range using data from the CEERS, PRIMER, JADES, UNCOVER and NGDEEP surveys. Unlike past use of…