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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…
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…
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 (…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chandra and Magellan/FIRE follow-up observations of PSO167-13: an X-ray weak QSO at
Fabio Vito, William Nielsen Brandt, Federica Ricci +19
The discovery of hundreds of QSOs in the first Gyr of the Universe powered by already grown SMBHs challenges our knowledge of SMBH formation. In particular, investigations of …
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey-XXIII. A New Mid-Infrared Diagnostic for Absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei
Ryan W. Pfeifle, Claudio Ricci, Peter G. Boorman +15
In this study, we use the SWIFT/BAT AGN sample, which has received extensive multiwavelength follow-up analysis as a result of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS), to develop a…
Probing black hole accretion tracks, scaling relations and radiative efficiencies from stacked X-ray active galactic nuclei
Francesco Shankar, David H. Weinberg, Christopher Marsden +25
The masses of supermassive black holes at the centres of local galaxies appear to be tightly correlated with the mass and velocity dispersions of their galactic hosts. However, the…
Constraining black hole-galaxy scaling relations from the large-scale clustering of Active Galactic Nuclei and implied mean radiative efficiency
Francesco Shankar, Viola Allevato, Mariangela Bernardi +11
A supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of nearly every galaxy observed with sufficient sensitivity. The masses of these black holes are observed to increase with ei…
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- XIII. The nature of the most luminous obscured AGN in the low-redshift universe
Rudolf E. Bär, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Kyuseok Oh +18
We present a multi wavelength analysis of 28 of the most luminous low-redshift narrow-line, ultra-hard X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) drawn from the 70 month Swift/BAT…
Black hole scaling relations of active and quiescent galaxies: Addressing selection effects and constraining virial factors
Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Kayleigh Richardson +9
Local samples of quiescent galaxies with dynamically measured black hole masses (Mbh) may suffer from an angular resolution-related selection effect, which could bias the observed…
NGC 1275: an outlier of the black hole-host scaling relations
Eleonora Sani, Federica Ricci, Fabio La Franca +7
The active galaxy NGC 1275 lies at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, being an archetypal BH-galaxy system that is supposed to fit well with the M_BH-host scaling relat…
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN: III. On the relation of type 2 AGN
F. Ricci, F. La Franca, A. Marconi +10
Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the majority of the AGN population. However, due to the difficulties in measuring their black hole (BH) masses, it is still unknown wh…
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN: II. On the measurement of the BH mass of type 2 AGN and the unified model
F. Onori, F. Ricci, F. La Franca +8
We report the virial measurements of the BH mass of a sample of 17 type 2 AGN, drawn from the Swift/BAT 70-month 14-195 keV hard X-ray catalogue, where a faint BLR component has be…
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN: I. Near infrared observations and spectral fitting
F. Onori, F. La Franca, F. Ricci +8
We present medium resolution near infrared spectroscopic observations of 41 obscured and intermediate class AGN (type 2, 1.9 and 1.8; AGN2) with redshift 0.1, selected…