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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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astro-ph.GA2026

Photometric redshifts for active galactic nuclei with LePHARE for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

R. Shirley, M. Salvato, J. Cohen-Tanugi +31

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a crucial role in galaxy evolution, but they are a minority of extragalactic sources with diverse Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), which depe…

astro-ph.GA2026

The incidence of eROSITA X-ray AGN in the local Universe: from dwarf to massive galaxies

Z. Igo, A. Merloni, A. Georgakakis +22

Combining deep, wide-area X-ray surveys with multi-wavelength catalogues provides insights into rare, highly-accreting AGN and low-mass galaxies at low redshift, the latter potenti…

astro-ph.GA2026

Investigating central star formation in local AGN host galaxies: is there tension between coeval growth and AGN feedback?

Q. Ni, K. Nandra, A. Merloni +3

It has been argued that supermassive black holes (BHs) coevolve with the central parts of galaxies, as a result of the common fuel for both the BH and star formation in the galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

A systematic study of AGN feedback in a disk galaxy using MACER II: predictions of X-ray surface brightness profiles and comparison with eROSITA observations

Yuxuan Zou, Feng Yuan, Suoqing Ji +6

Recently, we have performed a systematic study of AGN feedback in a disk galaxy within the MACER framework. Various model predictions, including the AGN duty cycle, the correlation…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

On the baryon budget in the X-ray-emitting circumgalactic medium of Milky Way-mass galaxies

Yi Zhang, Soumya Shreeram, Gabriele Ponti +6

Recent observations with SRG/eROSITA have revealed the average X-ray surface brightness profile of the X-ray-emitting circumgalactic medium (CGM) around Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxie…

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.GA2025★ 1 cited

Impact of the large-scale cosmic web on the X-ray emitting circumgalactic medium

Soumya Shreeram, Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa, Johan Comparat +9

The hot circumgalactic medium (CGM), probed by X-ray observations, plays a central role in understanding gas flows that drive a galaxy's evolution. While CGM properties have been w…

astro-ph.GA2025

The hot circumgalactic medium in stacked X-rays: observations vs simulations

Skylar Grayson, Evan Scannapieco, Johan Comparat +5

Current cosmological simulations rely on active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback to quench star formation and match observed stellar mass distributions, but models for AGN feedback a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The eROSITA view on the halo mass-temperature relation: From low-mass groups to massive clusters

V. Toptun, P. Popesso, I. Marini +15

Galaxy groups and clusters are among the best probes of structure formation and growth in a cosmological context. Most of their baryonic component is dominated by the intracluster…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Cross-correlation between soft X-rays and galaxies A new benchmark for galaxy evolution models

Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni, Gabriele Ponti +11

This article presents the construction and validation of complete stellar mass-selected, volume-limited galaxy samples using the Legacy Survey (data release 10) galaxy catalogs, co…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cross-correlations between X-ray clusters and the general galaxy population

Johan Comparat, Juan Macias-Perez, Céline Combet +5

This study presents highly precise measurements of the cross-correlation between volume-limited galaxy samples from the DESI legacy survey catalogue and X-ray selected galaxy clust…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

The impact of assembly history on the X-ray detectability of halos. From galaxy groups to galaxy clusters

I. Marini, P. Popesso, K. Dolag +15

Galaxy groups represent a significant fraction of the halo population, playing a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution. However, their detection in X-rays remains challeng…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

The First SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. Characterization of clusters of galaxies misclassified in the eRASS1 point source catalog

F. Balzer, E. Bulbul, M. Kluge +20

The detection of the extended X-ray-emission of the intracluster medium by the first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1), combined with optical and near-infrared follow-up, resulte…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The Jet Paths of Radio AGN and their Cluster Weather

E. Vardoulaki, V. Backöfer, A. Finoguenov +21

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations dat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Average X-ray properties of galaxy groups. From Milky Way-like halos to massive clusters

P. Popesso, I. Marini, K. Dolag +20

This study examines the average X-ray properties of massive halos at z< 0.2, covering the largest halo mass range to date, from Milky Way-like halos to massive clusters. The analys…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

The hot gas mass fraction in halos. From Milky Way-like groups to massive clusters

P. Popesso, A. Biviano, I. Marini +21

By using eROSITA data in the eFEDS area, we provide a measure of the hot gas fraction vs. halo mass relation over the largest halo mass range, from Milky Way-sized halos to massive…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

The perils of stacking optically selected groups in eROSITA data. The Magneticum perspective

P. Popesso, I. Marini, K. Dolag +23

Hydrodynamical simulation predictions are often compared with observational data without fully accounting for systematics and biases specific to observational techniques. Using the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

The hot circumgalactic medium in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey III. Star-forming and quiescent galaxies

Yi Zhang, Johan Comparat, Gabriele Ponti +17

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), as the gas repository for star formation, might contain the answer to the mysterious galaxy quenching and bimodal galaxy population origin. We meas…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

CHANCES, the Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey: Selection and initial characterisation of clusters and superclusters

Cristóbal Sifón, Alexis Finoguenov, Christopher P. Haines +43

CHANCES, the CHileAN Cluster galaxy Evolution Survey, will study the evolution of galaxies in and around 100 massive galaxy clusters from the local Universe out to , and…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Quantifying Observational Projection Effects with a Simulation-based hot CGM model

Soumya Shreeram, Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni +11

The hot phase of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) allows us to probe the inflow and outflow of gas within a galaxy, which is responsible for dictating the evolution of the galaxy. S…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

CircleZ: Reliable Photometric redshifts for AGN computed using only photometry from Legacy Survey Imaging for DESI

A. Saxena, M. Salvato, W. Roster +25

(abridged)Photometric redshifts for AGN (galaxies hosting an accreting supermassive black hole in their center) are notoriously challenging and currently better computed via SED fi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Searching for cold gas traced by MgII quasar absorbers in massive X-ray-selected galaxy clusters

A. Y. Fresco, C. Peroux, A. Merloni +3

Almost 50% of galaxies in the local Universe are in clusters or groups coexisting with both hot and cold gas components. In the present study, we observationally probed the cold-ga…

astro-ph.GA2024

Scrutinising evidence for the triggering of Active Galactic Nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at

Iván Muñoz Rodríguez, Antonis Georgakakis, Francesco Shankar +6

Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Gala…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

AXES-SDSS: comparison of SDSS galaxy groups with all-sky X-ray extended sources

S. Damsted, A. Finoguenov, H. Lietzen +8

We revisit the picture of X-ray emission of groups through the study of systematic differences in the optical properties of groups with and without X-ray emission and study the eff…