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20122026
most citedEvidence for CO shock excitation in NGC 6240 from Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy

149 citations · 615 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

The Millimeter/X-ray Relation in Rapidly Accreting Supermassive Black Holes at

Sophie M. Venselaar, Claudio Ricci, Santiago Del Palacio +12

A tight correlation between nuclear millimeter and X-ray emission has recently been found in nearby () and low-Eddington ratio () radio-quiet Active Ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

Compact near infrared sources in the center of the extraordinary galaxy IC 860

J. S. Gallagher, L. Schisgal, G. C. Privon +7

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images are used to study the structure of the central regions of the luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) IC 860. IC 860 is of special interest as a system…

astro-ph.GA2025

Clumpy, dense gas in the outflow of NGC 1266

Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +23

Outflows are one of the most spectacular mechanisms through which active galactic nuclei (AGN) impact their host galaxy, though the role of AGN-driven outflows in global star forma…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

ALMA discovery of Punctum -- a highly polarized mm source in nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 4945

E. Shablovinskaia, C. Ricci, C-S. Chang +9

We report the discovery of a highly polarized millimeter (mm) continuum source in the central region of NGC 4945, identified through ALMA Band 3 observations. This starburst Seyfer…

astro-ph.GA2025

High-Resolution Optical IFU Spectroscopy of the Complex Galaxy Merger II Zw 096

C. Riesco, E. Treister, G. Venturi +20

Luminous and Ultra-luminous IR galaxies ((U)LIRGs) are critical for investigating feedback mechanisms due to a combination of intense star formation (SF) episodes and active galact…

astro-ph.GA2025

High resolution ALMA observations of HS in LIRGS (Dense gas and shocks in outflows and CNDs)

M. T. Sato, S. Aalto, S. König +14

Molecular gas plays a critical role in regulating star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies. Sulphur bearing molecules, such as H2S, are sensitive to the physical and chemica…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

ALMA polarimetry of radio-quiet AGNs

E. Shablovinskaia, C. Ricci, R. Paladino +10

The compact mm emission ubiquitously found in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (RQ AGN) exhibits properties consistent with synchrotron radiation from a small region (1 lig…

astro-ph.GA2025

Searching for Compact Obscured Nuclei in Compton Thick AGN

Makoto A. Johnstone, George C. Privon, Loreto Barcos-Munoz +16

Compact Obscured Nuclei (CONs) are heavily obscured infrared cores that have been found in local (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs). They show bright emission from vibrati…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Millimeter emission from supermassive black hole coronae

S. del Palacio, C. Yang, S. Aalto +28

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The accretion can lead to the formation of a hot, X-ray emitting corona close to the SMBH capable of a…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Census of the Most Obscured Galaxy Nuclei over Cosmic Time to be revealed by PRIMA

Fergus R. Donnan, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Ismael García-Bernete +2

Characterizing the growth of supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) is critical to the evolution of galaxies, however the majority of this activity is obscured, rendering traditional tra…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

On unveiling Buried Nuclei with JWST: a technique for hunting the most obscured galaxy nuclei from local to high redshift

I. García-Bernete, F. R. Donnan, D. Rigopoulou +12

We analyze JWST NIRSpec+MIRI/MRS observations of the infrared (IR) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) features in the central regions (0.26'' at 6 micron; 50-440 pc…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

A High-resolution Far-infrared Survey to Probe Black Hole-Galaxy Co-evolution

Matteo Bonato, David Leisawitz, Gianfranco De Zotti +10

Far-infrared (FIR) surveys are critical to probing the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies, since of order half the light from accreting black holes and active star formation…

astro-ph.GA2024

Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS

Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +21

We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a p…

astro-ph.GA2024

GOALS-JWST: Constraining the Emergence Timescale for Massive Star Clusters in NGC 3256

Sean T. Linden, Thomas Lai, Aaron S. Evans +28

We present the results of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam and NIRSpec investigation into the young massive star cluster (YMC) population of NGC 3256, the most cluster-ri…

astro-ph.GA2024

LeMMINGs. Multi-wavelength constraints on the co-existence of nuclear star clusters and AGN in nucleated galaxies

B. T. Dullo, J. H. Knapen, R. D. Baldi +16

[Abridged] The relation between nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and the growth of the central SMBHs, as well as their connection to the properties of the host galaxies, is crucial for…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

An Imaging and Spectroscopic Exploration of the Dusty Compact Obscured Nucleus Galaxy Zw~049.057

J. S. Gallagher, R. Kotulla, L. Laufman +9

Zw~049.057 is a moderate mass, dusty, early-type galaxy that hosts a powerful compact obscured nucleus (CON, L10~L). The resolution of HST enabled…

astro-ph.GA2024

The fountain of the luminous infrared galaxy Zw049.057 as traced by its OH megamaser

Boy Lankhaar, Susanne Aalto, Clare Wethers +15

High resolution (0."037-0."13 [10-35 pc]) e-MERLIN ( cm) and (0."024 [6.5 pc]) ALMA ( mm) observations have been used to image OH (hydroxyl) and HCO (formald…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 13 cited

Joint ALMA/X-ray monitoring of the radio-quiet type 1 AGN IC 4329A

E. Shablovinskaya, C. Ricci, C-S. Chang +20

The origin of a compact millimeter (mm, 100-250 GHz) emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (RQ AGN) remains debated. Recent studies propose a connection with self-absorbed…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

A spectacular galactic scale magnetohydrodynamic powered wind in ESO 320-G030

M. D. Gorski, S. Aalto, S. König +23

How galaxies regulate nuclear growth through gas accretion by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is one of the most fundamental questions in galaxy evolution. One potential way to re…

astro-ph.GA2024

GOALS-JWST: The Warm Molecular Outflows of the Merging Starburst Galaxy NGC 3256

Thomas Bohn, Hanae Inami, Aditya Togi +26

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Integral Field Spectrograph observations of NGC 3256, a local infrared-luminous late-stage merging system with two nuclei roughly 1$\;\…

astro-ph.GA2024

Double, double, toil, and trouble: The tails, bubbles, and knots of the local compact obscured nucleus galaxy NGC4418

C. F. Wethers, S. Aalto, G. C. Privon +20

Compact obscured nuclei (CONs) are an extremely obscured (N >10 cm) class of galaxy nuclei thought to exist in 20-40 per cent of nearby (ultra-)luminous infrar…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

CON-quest II. Spatially and spectrally resolved HCN/HCO+ line ratios in local luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies

Y. Nishimura, S. Aalto, M. D. Gorski +24

Nuclear regions of ultraluminous and luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs) are powered by starbursts and/or active galactic nuclei (AGNs). These regions are often obscured by extrem…

astro-ph.GA2023

GOALS-JWST: Mid-Infrared Molecular Gas Excitation Probes the Local Conditions of Nuclear Star Clusters and the AGN in the LIRG VV 114

Victorine A. Buiten, Paul P. van der Werf, Serena Viti +19

The enormous increase in mid-IR sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution provided by the JWST spectrographs enables, for the first time, detailed extragalactic studies of mo…

astro-ph.GA2023

The first ground-based detection of the 752 GHz water line in local ultra-luminous infrared galaxies using APEX-SEPIA

Daysi Quinatoa, Chentao Yang, Edo Ibar +10

We report the first ground-based detection of the water line p-H2O (211-202) at 752.033 GHz in three z < 0.08 ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs): IRAS 06035-7102, IRAS 17207…