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PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field V: Unraveling X-ray Spectral Variability
Samantha Creech, Francesca Civano, Daniel Wik +13
As one of the first deep time-domain surveys in the hard X-ray band, the NuSTAR campaign in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (NEP-TDF) offers a prime opportunity to m…
A Population of Little Red Dot-like Quasars in SDSS
Quinn O. Casey, Ryan C. Hickox, Nikko J. Cleri +6
Compact and red sources in the high redshift () Universe, known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), are among JWST's most intriguing discoveries. These sources have broad Balmer e…
Population synthesis of active galactic nuclei based on the radiation-regulated unification model
D. Gerolymatou, S. Paltani, C. Ricci +1
X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide direct constraints on the properties of individual AGNs, such as their emission, obscuration, and accretion rate. Previous AG…
Obscured AGN at z < 1.5: X-ray to Far-Infrared SEDs and Host Galaxy Morphologies in the GOODS Fields
William W. H. Jarvis, Connor Auge, David Sanders +9
We present an analysis of spectral energy distributions (SEDs), galaxy light profiles, and visual morphological classifications for 194 X-ray luminous AGN (intrinsic absorption-cor…
Scalable and Robust Multiband Modeling of AGN Light Curves in Rubin-LSST
Weixiang Yu, John J. Ruan, Colin J. Burke +22
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will monitor tens of millions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) for a period of 10 years with an average caden…
The Distribution of Hard X-ray Selected AGN in the NEP Field
Samantha Creech, Francesca Civano, Daniel R. Wik +9
X-ray surveys are one of the most unbiased methods for detecting Compton Thick (CT; cm) AGN, which are thought to comprise up to of AGN…
VAR-PZ: Constraining the Photometric Redshifts of Quasars using Variability
S. Satheesh-Sheeba, R. J. Assef, T. Anguita +33
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST is expected to discover tens of millions of new Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). The survey's exceptional cadence and sensitivity will enable UV/op…
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…
Automatic Machine Learning Framework to Study Morphological Parameters of AGN Host Galaxies within in the Hyper Supreme-Cam Wide Survey
Chuan Tian, C. Megan Urry, Aritra Ghosh +8
We present a composite machine learning framework to estimate posterior probability distributions of bulge-to-total light ratio, half-light radius, and flux for Active Galactic Nuc…
Stripe 82-XL: the 54.8 deg and 18.8 Ms Chandra and XMM-Newton point source catalog and number of counts
Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, Stephanie LaMassa +9
We present an enhanced version of the publicly-available Stripe 82X catalog (S82-XL), featuring a comprehensive set of 22,737 unique X-ray point sources identified with a significa…
Stacking X-ray Observations of "Little Red Dots": Implications for their AGN Properties
Minghao Yue, Anna-Christina Eilers, Tonima Tasnim Ananna +3
Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed a population of compact extragalactic objects at with red near-infrared colors, which have been dubb…
Stripe 82X Data Release 3: Multiwavelength Catalog with New Spectroscopic Redshifts and Black Hole Masses
Stephanie M. LaMassa, Alessandro Peca, C. Megan Urry +10
We present the third catalog release of the wide-area (31.3 deg) Stripe 82 X-ray survey. This catalog combines previously published X-ray source properties with multiwavelength…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Bringing the Cosmic X-ray Background into Focus
Francesca Civano, Xiurui Zhao, Peter Boorman +29
Since the discovery of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB), astronomers have strived to understand the accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) contributing to its peak in the 10-4…
The Accretion History of AGN: The Spectral Energy Distributions of X-ray Luminous AGN
Connor Auge, David Sanders, Ezequiel Treister +17
Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from X-ray to far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths are presented for a sample of 1246 X-ray luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN; $L_{0.5-10\rm{keV}}…
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 (…
A High Fraction of Heavily X-ray Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher M. Carroll, Tonima T. Ananna, Ryan C. Hickox +5
We present new estimates on the fraction of heavily X-ray obscured, Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to a redshift of 0.8. From a sample of 540 AGNs se…
Using Machine Learning to Determine Morphologies of AGN Host Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Wide Survey
Chuan Tian, C. Megan Urry, Aritra Ghosh +9
We present a machine-learning framework to accurately characterize morphologies of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) host galaxies within . We first use PSFGAN to decouple host ga…
On the cosmic evolution of AGN obscuration and the X-ray luminosity function: XMM-Newton and Chandra spectral analysis of the 31.3 deg Stripe 82X
Alessandro Peca, Nico Cappelluti, Meg Urry +11
We present X-ray spectral analysis of XMM and Chandra observations in the 31.3 deg Stripe-82X (S82X) field. Of the 6181 X-ray sources in this field, we analyze a sample of 2937…
Probing the Structure and Evolution of BASS AGN through Eddington Ratios
Tonima Tasnim Ananna, C. Megan Urry, Claudio Ricci +23
We constrain the intrinsic Eddington ratio (\lamEdd ) distribution function for local AGN in bins of low and high obscuration (log NH <= 22 and 22 < log NH < 25), using the Swift-B…
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 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…
GaMPEN: A Machine Learning Framework for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors of Galaxy Morphological Parameters
Aritra Ghosh, C. Megan Urry, Amrit Rau +11
We introduce a novel machine learning framework for estimating the Bayesian posteriors of morphological parameters for arbitrarily large numbers of galaxies. The Galaxy Morphology…
Accretion History of AGN: Estimating the Host Galaxy Properties in X-ray Luminous AGN from z=0-3
Brandon Coleman, Allison Kirkpatrick, Kevin C. Cooke +10
We aim to determine the intrinsic far-Infrared (far-IR) emission of X-ray-luminous quasars over cosmic time. Using a 16 deg^2 region of the Stripe 82 field surveyed by XMM-Newton a…