The origin of radio emission from radio-quiet active galactic nuclei

F Panessa, RD Baldi, A Laor, P Padovani, E Behar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The central nuclei of galaxies, where supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are thought to
reside, can experience phases of activity when they become active galactic nuclei (AGNs) …

Nuclear activity in nearby galaxies

LC Ho - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
A significant fraction of nearby galaxies show evidence of weak nuclear activity unrelated to
normal stellar processes. Recent high-resolution, multiwavelength observations indicate that …

Piecing together the X‐ray background: bolometric corrections for active galactic nuclei

RV Vasudevan, AC Fabian - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The X‐ray background can be used to constrain the accretion history of supermassive black
holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN), with the SMBH mass density related to the …

A synthesis model for AGN evolution: supermassive black holes growth and feedback modes

A Merloni, S Heinz - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We present a comprehensive synthesis model for the active galactic nuclei (AGN) evolution
and the growth of supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Universe. We assume that black …

Bulgeless giant galaxies challenge our picture of galaxy formation by hierarchical clustering

J Kormendy, N Drory, R Bender… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
To better understand the prevalence of bulgeless galaxies in the nearby field, we dissect
giant Sc–Scd galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry and Hobby–Eberly …

The radio emission in radio-quiet quasars: the VLBA perspective

S Chen, A Laor, E Behar, RD Baldi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The origin of the radio emission in radio-quiet quasars (RQQ) is not established yet. We
present new VLBA observations at 1.6 and 4.9 GHz of 10 RQQ (9 detected), which together …

Using the Fundamental Plane of black hole activity to distinguish X-ray processes from weakly accreting black holes

RM Plotkin, S Markoff, BC Kelly… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Fundamental Plane of black hole activity is a relation between X-ray luminosity,
radio luminosity and black hole mass for hard-state Galactic black holes and their …

CAIXA: a catalogue of AGN in the XMM-Newton archive-I. Spectral analysis

S Bianchi, M Guainazzi, G Matt, NF Bonilla… - Astronomy & …, 2009 - aanda.org
Aims. We present CAIXA, a Catalogue of AGN In the XMM-Newton Archive. It consists of all
the radio-quiet X-ray unobscured ($ N_\mathrm {H}< 2\times10^{22} $ cm-2) active galactic …

Radiative efficiency, variability and Bondi accretion on to massive black holes: the transition from radio AGN to quasars in brightest cluster galaxies

HR Russell, BR McNamara, AC Edge… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We examine unresolved nuclear X-ray sources in 57 brightest cluster galaxies to study the
relationship between nuclear X-ray emission and accretion on to supermassive black holes …

On the origin of radio emission in radio-quiet quasars

A Laor, E Behar - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The radio emission in radio-loud quasars originates in a jet carrying relativistic electrons. In
radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) the relative radio emission is∼ 103 times weaker, and its origin …