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most citedBASS XXII: The BASS DR2 AGN Catalog and Data

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41 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Probing the co-evolution of SMBHs and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass

Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Daniel Roberts +17

The correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies still defy our understanding from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. Here we per…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 59 cited

Complex AGN feedback in the Teacup galaxy. A powerful ionised galactic outflow, jet-ISM interaction, and evidence for AGN-triggered star formation in a giant bubble

G. Venturi, E. Treister, C. Finlez +10

The ~0.1 type-2 QSO J1430+1339 (the 'Teacup') is a complex galaxy showing a loop of ionised gas ~10 kpc in diameter, co-spatial radio bubbles, a compact (~1 kpc) jet, and outflo…

astro-ph.HE2023

A re-emerging bright soft-X-ray state of the changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES~1927+654: a multi-wavelength view

Ritesh Ghosh, Sibasish Laha, Eileen Meyer +24

1ES1927+654 is a nearby active galactic nucleus that has shown an enigmatic outburst in optical/UV followed by X-rays, exhibiting strange variability patterns at timescales of mont…

astro-ph.GA2023

BASS XXXV. The $M_\rm{BH}$-$σ_\rm{\star}$ Relation of 105-Month Swift-BAT Type 1 AGNs

Turgay Caglar, Michael J. Koss, Leonard Burtscher +21

We present two independent measurements of stellar velocity dispersions ( $σ_\rm{\star}$ ) from the Ca\,H+K \& Mg\,\textsc{i} region (3880--5550~Å) and the Calcium Triplet region (…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Multi-Wavelength Environment of Second Bologna Catalog Sources

A. Paggi, F. Massaro, H. Peña-Herazo +11

We present the first results of the Chandra Cool Targets (CCT) survey of the Second Bologna Catalog (B2CAT) of powerful radio sources, aimed at investigating the extended X-ray emi…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS. II. HST UV spectroscopy of winds at intermediate redshifts

M. Mehdipour, G. A. Kriss, M. Brusa +35

We present a UV spectroscopic study of ionized outflows in 21 active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed with the HST. The targets of the SUBWAYS sample were selected with the aim to p…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 55 cited

Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays -- SUBWAYS. I. Ultra-fast outflows in QSOs beyond the local Universe

G. A. Matzeu, M. Brusa, G. Lanzuisi +48

We present a new X-ray spectroscopic study of luminous () active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at intermed…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 42 cited

BASS XXXIX: Swift-BAT AGN with changing-look optical spectra

Matthew J. Temple, Claudio Ricci, Michael J. Koss +13

Changing-look (CL) AGN are unique probes of accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs), especially when simultaneous observations in complementary wavebands allow investigatio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The cavity of 3CR 196.1: H emission spatially associated with an X-ray cavity

A. Jimenez-Gallardo, E. Sani, F. Ricci +20

We present a multifrequency analysis of the radio galaxy 3CR 196.1 (), associated with the brightest galaxy of the cool core cluster CIZAJ0815.4-0303. This nearby radio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

BASS XXXIII: Swift-BAT blazars and their jets through cosmic time

L. Marcotulli, M. Ajello, C. M. Urry +13

We derive the most up-to-date Swift-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) blazar luminosity function in the 14-195 keV range, making use of a clean sample of 118 blazars detected in the BAT…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 60 cited

BASS XXXVII: The role of radiative feedback in the growth and obscuration properties of nearby supermassive black holes

C. Ricci, T. T. Ananna, M. J. Temple +22

We study the relation between obscuration and supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth using a large sample of hard X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We find a strong decre…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 57 cited

BASS XXXII: Studying the Nuclear Mm-wave Continuum Emission of AGNs with ALMA at Scales 100-200 pc

Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Masatoshi Imanishi +25

To understand the origin of nuclear ( 100 pc) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we systematically analyzed sub-arcsec resolut…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 53 cited

BASS XXVI: DR2 Host Galaxy Stellar Velocity Dispersions

Michael J. Koss, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci +18

We present new central stellar velocity dispersions for 484 Sy 1.9 and Sy 2 from the second data release of the Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). This constitutes the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 148 cited

BASS XXII: The BASS DR2 AGN Catalog and Data

Michael J. Koss, Claudio Ricci, Benny Trakhtenbrot +32

We present the AGN catalog and optical spectroscopy for the second data release of the Swift BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). With this DR2 release we provide 1425 optical…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 65 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXI: The Data Release 2 Overview

Michael J. Koss, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci +24

The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) is designed to provide a highly complete census of the key physical parameters of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that power local active g…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

BASS XXVIII: Near-infrared Data Release 2, High-Ionization and Broad Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei

Jakob den Brok, Michael J. Koss, Benny Trakhtenbrot +20

We present the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) Near-infrared Data Release 2 (DR2), a study of 168 nearby ( = 0.04, < 0.6) active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the all-…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 71 cited

BASS XXV: DR2 Broad-line Based Black Hole Mass Estimates and Biases from Obscuration

Julian E. Mejıa-Restrepo, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael J. Koss +26

We present measurements of broad emission lines and virial estimates of supermassive black hole masses () for a large sample of ultra-hard X-ray selected active galactic nu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 64 cited

BASS XXIV: The BASS DR2 Spectroscopic Line Measurements and AGN Demographics

Kyuseok Oh, Michael J. Koss, Yoshihiro Ueda +17

We present the second catalog and data release of optical spectral line measurements and AGN demographics of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on the of Swift-BAT har…

astro-ph.HE2022

BASS XXX: Distribution Functions of DR2 Eddington-ratios, Black Hole Masses, and X-ray Luminosities

Tonima Tasnim Ananna, Anna K. Weigel, Benny Trakhtenbrot +19

We determine the low-redshift X-ray luminosity function (XLF), active black hole mass function (BHMF), and Eddington-ratio distribution function (ERDF) for both unobscured (Type 1)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

BASS XXXI: Outflow scaling relations in low redshift X-ray AGN host galaxies with MUSE

D. Kakkad, E. Sani, A. F. Rojas +18

Ionised gas kinematics provide crucial evidence of the impact that active galactic nuclei (AGN) have in regulating star formation in their host galaxies. Although the presence of o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

Hidden treasures in the unknown 3CR extragalactic radio sky: a multi-wavelength approach

V. Missaglia, F. Massaro, E. Liuzzo +17

We present the analysis of multi-wavelength observations of seven extragalactic radio sources, listed as unidentified in the Third Cambridge Revised Catalog (3CR). X-ray observatio…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

The Complex Gaseous and Stellar environments of the nearby dual AGN Mrk 739

Dusán Tubín, Ezequiel Treister, Giuseppe D'ago +7

We present Integral Field Spectroscopic (IFS) observations of the nearby () dual Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Mrk 739, whose projected nuclear separation is 3.4~kp…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 32 cited

An optical overview of blazars with LAMOST I: Hunting changing-look blazars and new redshift estimates

Harold A. Peña-Herazo, Francesco Massaro, Minfeng Gu +6

The extragalactic -rays sky observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is dominated by blazars. In the fourth release of the Fermi-LAT Point Source Catalog (4FGL), are sources…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 37 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXVII: Scattered X-Ray Radiation in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei

K. K. Gupta, C. Ricci, A. Tortosa +20

Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), also known as active galactic nuclei (AGN), are generally surrounded by large amounts of gas and dust. This surrounding material reproce…