Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: overview and early data

KS Dawson, JP Kneib, WJ Percival… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS …

The seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 data

N Abdurro'uf, K Accetta, C Aerts, V Silva Aguirre… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - osti.gov
This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky
Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the …

The seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 data

K Accetta, C Aerts, VS Aguirre… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) have been almost continuously observing the skies
for over 20 yr, since the project began with a first phase in 1998 (SDSS-I; York et al. 2000) …

An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5

E Banados, BP Venemans, C Mazzucchelli, EP Farina… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Quasars are the most luminous non-transient objects known and as a result they enable
studies of the Universe at the earliest cosmic epochs. Despite extensive efforts, however, the …

The fourteenth data release of the Sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey and from the second …

B Abolfathi, DS Aguado, G Aguilar… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
It is now 16 years since the first data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York
et al. 2000). This Early Data Release, or EDR, occurred in 2001 June (Stoughton et al …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release

BW Lyke, AN Higley, JN McLane… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data
Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog …

The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey-IX. The fourth XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue

NA Webb, M Coriat, I Traulsen, J Ballet… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Sky surveys produce enormous quantities of data on extensive regions of the sky.
The easiest way to access this information is through catalogues of standardised data …

[HTML][HTML] The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey-I. Survey description and preliminary data release

TW Shimwell, HJA Röttgering, PN Best… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120–168 MHz imaging survey that will
eventually cover the entire northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be observed for 8 h …

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of advanced LIGO and Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences allow for the direct
measurement of the luminosity distance to their source. This makes them standard-distance …