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Exploring the observed properties of JWST Little Red Dots with cosmological simulations and dust radiative transfer
Saksham Chandna, Fabio Di Mascia, Simona Gallerani +6
JWST has uncovered compact high-redshift (z>=4) sources, dubbed Little Red Dots (LRDs), characterised by a distinct V-shaped continuum. Their nature remains debated since broad-lin…
Multi-tracer constraints on quasar outflows. Acceleration from BLR to galactic scales
M. Brazzini, M. Bischetti, S. Hagen +14
Black hole-driven outflows are a fundamental component of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) paradigm, and may play a major role in regulating the evolution of both supermassive blac…
The Multiphase CGM in the Epoch of Reionization: CII and CIV absorbers around [OIII] Emitters
C. Piscitelli, V. D'Odorico, M. Galbiati +17
We investigate the multiphase circumgalactic medium (CGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, ) by cross-correlating cool- CII and warm-ionized CIV absorption systems with…
Super-Eddington Accretion and Early-Stage Feedback in Ton S180
Pierpaolo Condò, Giacomo Venturi, Eleonora Parlanti +15
Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies are key laboratories for studying rapid supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback at high accretion ra…
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…
HYPERION. The cold ISM of rapidly growing quasars: diverse gas reservoirs, dust enrichment, and feedback signatures
Claudia Maria Pierro, Roberta Tripodi, Laura Pentericci +11
Luminous QSOs at host some of the most rapidly assembled SMBHs in the early Universe. Characterizing their cold ISM is essential to determine their evolution. We investigate…
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 ()…
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…
The WISSH quasar project. XII. X-ray view of the most luminous quasi-stellar objects at Cosmic Noon
C. Degli Agosti, C. Vignali, E. Piconcelli +25
To improve our knowledge of nuclear emission in luminous QSOs at Cosmic Noon, we studied the X-ray emission of the WISE/SDSS-selected hyper-luminous (WISSH) QSO sample: 85 broad-li…
How similar are narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and high-z type 1 AGN?
Marco Berton, Emilia Järvelä, Alessia Tortosa +1
The recent observations of highly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBH) at very high redshift (4) with the James Webb Space Telescope (\textit{JWST}) allowed us to shed lig…
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…
Molecular gas and dust properties in quasar hosts
Francesco Salvestrini, Chiara Feruglio, Roberta Tripodi +12
Observational campaigns hunting the elusive reservoirs of cold gas in the host galaxies of quasars at the epoch of reionization (EoR) are crucial for studying the formation and evo…
HYPERION: broad-band X-ray-to-near-infrared emission of Quasars in the first billion years of the Universe
I. Saccheo, A. Bongiorno, E. Piconcelli +41
We aim at characterizing the X-ray-to-optical/near-infrared broad-band emission of luminous QSOs in the first Gyr of cosmic evolution to understand whether they exhibit differences…
HYPERION. Shedding light on the first luminous quasars: A correlation between UV disc winds and X-ray continuum
A. Tortosa, L. Zappacosta, E. Piconcelli +41
One of the main open questions in the field of luminous () quasars (QSOs) at is the rapid formation (Gyr) of their superm…
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…
HYPERION. Coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies at and the build-up of massive galaxies
R. Tripodi, C. Feruglio, F. Fiore +22
We used low- to high-frequency ALMA observations to investigate the cold gas and dust in ten QSOs at . Our analysis of the CO(6-5) and CO(7-6) emission lines in the sel…
Co-evolution and Nuclear Structure in the Dwarf Galaxy POX 52 Studied by Multi-wavelength Data From Radio to X-ray
Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Satoshi Yamada +4
The nearby dwarf galaxy POX 52 at hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a black-hole (BH) mass of and an Eddington ratio of $\s…
HYPerluminous quasars at the Epoch of ReionizatION (HYPERION). A new regime for the X-ray nuclear properties of the first quasars
L. Zappacosta, E. Piconcelli, F. Fiore +40
The existence of luminous quasars (QSO) at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR; i.e. z>6) powered by supermassive black holes (SMBH) with masses challenges models…
The extreme properties of the nearby hyper-Eddington accreting Active Galactic Nucleus in IRAS 04416+1215
Alessia Tortosa, Claudio Ricci, Francesco Tombesi +6
The physical properties of the accretion flow and of the X-ray emitting plasma, in supermassive black holes accreting at extreme Eddington rates, are still very unclear. Here we pr…
X-ray obscuration from a variable ionized absorber in PG 1114+445
R. Serafinelli, V. Braito, P. Severgnini +9
Photoionized absorbers of outflowing gas are commonly found in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN). While most of these absorbers are seldom significantly variable, s…
The NuSTAR view of the Seyfert Galaxy HE 0436-4717
Riccardo Middei, Fausto Vagnetti, Francesco Tombesi +4
We present the multi epoch spectral analysis of HE 0436-4717, a bright Seyfert 1 galaxy serendipitously observed by the high energy satellite NuSTAR four times between December 201…
A NuSTAR census of coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies
A. Tortosa, S. Bianchi, A. Marinucci +2
We discuss the results on the hot corona parameters of Active Galactic Nuclei that have been recently measured with NuSTAR. The values taken from the literature of a sample of nine…