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most citedChaotic cold accretion onto black holes

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124 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Quantum Oscillations across Hole Crystallization in Rhombohedral Graphene

Daniele Guerci, Enrico Rossi

Recent quantum-oscillation measurements in rhombohedral graphene reveal an abrupt increase in the dominant frequency and the emergence of additional frequencies as the carrier dens…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the density distribution of the cold Circumgalactic Medium of quasars at z>2 through Lya, HeII and Ha emission

Andrea Travascio, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Titouan Lazeyras +16

Extended Lya emission is routinely detected around high-redshift quasars, revealing large reservoirs of cool circumgalactic medium (CGM). Its resonant nature complicates interpreta…

astro-ph.GA2026

The WISSH quasars project XIII. A multi-epoch study of ultra-fast broad absorption line outflows at cosmic noon

A. Deconto-Machado, G. Vietri, E. Piconcelli +22

Ultra-fast broad absorption line outflows (uBAL, ~0.1-0.2c) represent some of the most extreme manifestations of quasar-driven winds. We aim to investigate the variability of uBALs…

astro-ph.CO2026

CHEX-MATE: X-ray surface brightness discontinuities across a representative cluster sample

Maria Giulia Campitiello, Stefano Ettori, Lorenzo Lovisari +20

We analyze the presence of X-ray surface brightness (SB) discontinuities, such as shocks and cold fronts, in the intracluster medium (ICM) of the 116 galaxy clusters from the CHEX-…

astro-ph.GA2026

Reigniting the FUSE II: O VI Emission in Massive Elliptical Galaxies

Michael Reefe, Michael McDonald, Greg L. Bryan +6

This is the second paper in a series where we examine archival far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of 29 massive elliptical galaxies from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays -- SUBWAYS. III. A population study on ultra-fast outflows

V. E. Gianolli, S. Bianchi, P-O Petrucci +44

The detection of blue-shifted absorption lines likely associated with ionized Iron K-shell transitions in the X-ray spectra of many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suggests the presen…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 7 cited

CHEX-MATE: A non-parametric deep learning technique to deproject and deconvolve galaxy cluster X-ray temperature profiles

A. Iqbal, G. W. Pratt, J. Bobin +21

Temperature profiles of the hot galaxy cluster intracluster medium (ICM) have a complex non-linear structure that traditional parametric modelling may fail to fully approximate. Fo…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Still alive and kicking: A significant outburst in changing-look AGN Mrk 1018

R. Brogan, M. Krumpe, D. Homan +13

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN) have been observed to change optical spectral type. Mrk 1018 is unique: first classified as a type 1.9 Seyfert galaxy, it transitioned…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

CHEX-MATE: CLUster Multi-Probes in Three Dimensions (CLUMP-3D), I. Gas Analysis Method using X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Data

Junhan Kim, Jack Sayers, Mauro Sereno +23

Galaxy clusters are the products of structure formation through myriad physical processes that affect their growth and evolution throughout cosmic history. As a result, the matter…

astro-ph.GA2023

X-ray Cavity Dynamics and their Role in the Gas Precipitation in Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) Selected Clusters

V. Olivares, Y. Su, W. Forman +7

We study active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in nearby (z<0.35) galaxy clusters from the Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sample using Chandra observations. This nearly unbiased ma…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR Era X: Analysing seven local CT-AGN candidates

Dhrubojyoti Sengupta, Stefano Marchesi, Cristian Vignali +14

We present the broad-band X-ray spectral analysis (0.6-50 keV) of seven Compton-Thick active galactic nuclei (CT-AGN; line-of-sight, l.o.s., column density cm) ca…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Inferences from surface brightness fluctuations of Zwicky 3146 via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and X-ray observations

Charles E. Romero, Massimo Gaspari, Gerrit Schellenberger +16

The galaxy cluster Zwicky 3146 is a sloshing cool core cluster at that in SZ imaging does not appear to exhibit significant pressure substructure in the intracluster me…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 27 cited

CHEX-MATE: Constraining the origin of the scatter in galaxy cluster radial X-ray surface brightness profiles

I. Bartalucci, S. Molendi, E. Rasia +25

We investigate the statistical properties and the origin of the scatter within the spatially resolved surface brightness profiles of the CHEX-MATE sample, formed by 118 galaxy clus…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Physical cool-core condensation radius in massive galaxy clusters

Lei Wang, Paolo Tozzi, Heng Yu +2

We investigate the properties of cool cores in an optimally selected sample of 37 massive and X-ray-bright galaxy clusters, with regular morphologies, observed with Chandra. We mea…

astro-ph.GA2023

Dynamical complexity in micro-scale disk-wind systems

Fabrizio Fiore, Massimo Gaspari, Alfredo Luminari +2

Powerful winds at accretion-disk scales have been observed in the past 20 years in many AGN. These are the so-called ultrafast outflows (UFOs). Outflows are intimately related to m…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Unraveling Baroclinicity in Black Hole Weather Storms

Denis Wittor, Massimo Gaspari

In the intracluster, intragroup, and circumgalactic medium (ICM, IGrM, CGM), turbulence plays a vital role in the self-regulated feedback and feeding cycle of central supermassive…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 31 cited

The fraction and kinematics of broad absorption line quasars across cosmic time

Manuela Bischetti, Fabrizio Fiore, Chiara Feruglio +17

Luminous quasars are powerful targets to investigate the role of feedback from supermassive black-holes (BHs) in regulating the growth phases of BHs themselves and of their host ga…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Multiple shock fronts in RBS 797: the Chandra window on shock heating in galaxy clusters

F. Ubertosi, M. Gitti, F. Brighenti +11

Using 427 ks of Chandra observations, we present a study of shock heating and ICM cooling in the galaxy cluster RBS 797. We discover three nested pairs of weak shocks at roug…

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.GA2022★ 8 cited

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). A parsec scale multi-phase outflow in the super-Eddington NLS1 Mrk 1044

Nico Winkel, Bernd Husemann, Mainak Singha +8

The interaction between Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies is scarcely resolved. Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are believed to represent AGN at early stag…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

Does absorption against AGN reveal supermassive black hole accretion?

Tom Rose, B. R. McNamara, F. Combes +7

Galaxies often contain large reservoirs of molecular gas which shape their evolution. This can be through cooling of the gas -- which leads to star formation, or accretion onto the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

The evolving cluster cores: Putting together the pieces of the puzzle

S. Molendi, S. De Grandi, M. Rossetti +4

In this work we address the issue of whether the division of clusters in cool cores (CCs) and non-cool cores (NCCs) is due to a primordial difference or to how clusters evolve acro…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

Directly tracing cool filamentary accretion over >100 kpc into the interstellar medium of a quasar host at z=1

Sean D. Johnson, Joop Schaye, Gregory L. Walth +11

We report the discovery of giant (50-100 kpc) [O II] emitting nebulae with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) in the field of TXS 0206-048, a luminous quasar at z=1.13. D…