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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…
Environmental Sculpting of Galaxy Structure at Fixed Stellar Mass: A Multi-Scale Analysis Across Cosmic Time using 3 Million HSC Galaxies
Caitlin Igel, Aritra Ghosh, Andrew J. Connolly +4
The extent to which galaxy structure is shaped by environment beyond the local universe, once stellar mass is controlled, remains an open question in galaxy evolution. We address t…
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 ()…
Obscured AGN at z < 1.5: X-ray to Far-Infrared SEDs and Host Galaxy Morphologies in the GOODS Fields
William W. H. Jarvis, Connor Auge, David Sanders +9
We present an analysis of spectral energy distributions (SEDs), galaxy light profiles, and visual morphological classifications for 194 X-ray luminous AGN (intrinsic absorption-cor…
Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics
Ava Polzin, Katherine E. Whitaker, C. Megan Urry +85
Women are consistently underrepresented in astrophysics yet are simultaneously subject to disproportionate attrition at every career stage. This disparity between demonstrated effi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BASS. XLIX. Characterization of highly luminous and obscured AGNs: local X-ray and [NeV]3426 emission in comparison with the high-redshift Universe
Alessandro Peca, Michael J. Koss, Kyuseok Oh +21
We present a detailed analysis of the most luminous and obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) detected in the ultra-hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) by Swift/BAT. Our sample comprises…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Automatic Machine Learning Framework to Study Morphological Parameters of AGN Host Galaxies within in the Hyper Supreme-Cam Wide Survey
Chuan Tian, C. Megan Urry, Aritra Ghosh +8
We present a composite machine learning framework to estimate posterior probability distributions of bulge-to-total light ratio, half-light radius, and flux for Active Galactic Nuc…
NuSTAR observations of a varying-flux quasar in the Epoch of Reionization
Lea Marcotulli, Thomas Connor, Eduardo Bañados +13
With enough X-ray flux to be detected in a 160s scan by SRG/eROSITA, the quasar CFHQS J142952+544717 is, by far, the most luminous X-ray source known at . We pres…
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…
A High-resolution Far-infrared Survey to Probe Black Hole-Galaxy Co-evolution
Matteo Bonato, David Leisawitz, Gianfranco De Zotti +10
Far-infrared (FIR) surveys are critical to probing the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies, since of order half the light from accreting black holes and active star formation…
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…
BASS. XLIII: Optical, UV, and X-ray emission properties of unobscured Swift/BAT active galactic nuclei
Kriti K. Gupta, Claudio Ricci, Matthew J. Temple +19
We present one of the largest multiwavelength studies of simultaneous optical-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local…
The Extended Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (Ex-MORA) Survey: 5 Source Catalog and Redshift Distribution
Arianna S. Long, Caitlin M. Casey, Jed McKinney +41
One of the greatest challenges in galaxy evolution over the last decade has been constraining the prevalence of heavily dust-obscured galaxies in the early Universe. At , thes…
Denser Environments Cultivate Larger Galaxies: A Comprehensive Study beyond the Local Universe with 3 Million Hyper Suprime-Cam Galaxies
Aritra Ghosh, C. Megan Urry, Meredith C. Powell +5
The relationship between galaxy size and environment has remained enigmatic, with over a decade of conflicting results. We present one of the first comprehensive studies of the var…
Stripe 82-XL: the 54.8 deg and 18.8 Ms Chandra and XMM-Newton point source catalog and number of counts
Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, Stephanie LaMassa +9
We present an enhanced version of the publicly-available Stripe 82X catalog (S82-XL), featuring a comprehensive set of 22,737 unique X-ray point sources identified with a significa…