Advances in optical/infrared interferometry

F Eisenhauer, JD Monnier… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
After decades of fast-paced technical advances, optical/infrared (O/IR) interferometry has
seen a revolution in recent years:▪ The GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope …

High-energy neutrinos from the vicinity of the supermassive black hole in NGC 1068

P Padovani, E Resconi, M Ajello, C Bellenghi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We present a comprehensive multi-messenger study of NGC 1068, the prototype Seyfert II
galaxy associated with high-energy neutrinos following a detection by the IceCube Neutrino …

Hidden hearts of neutrino active galaxies

K Murase - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent multimessenger studies have provided evidence for high-energy neutrino sources
that are opaque to GeV–TeV gamma rays. We present model-independent studies on the …

MATISSE, the VLTI mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer

B Lopez, S Lagarde, RG Petrov, W Jaffe… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Optical interferometry is at a key development stage. The Very Large Telescope
Interferometer (VLTI) has established a stable, robust infrastructure for long-baseline …

The dusty heart of Circinus-I. Imaging the circumnuclear dust in N-band

JW Isbell, K Meisenheimer, JU Pott, M Stalevski… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Active galactic nuclei play a key role in the evolution of galaxies, but their inner
workings and physical connection to the host are poorly understood due to a lack of angular …

High-energy neutrinos from the Inner Circumnuclear Region of NGC 1068

K Fang, EL Rodriguez, F Halzen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-energy neutrinos are detected by the IceCube Observatory in the direction of NGC
1068, the archetypical type II Seyfert galaxy. The neutrino flux, surprisingly, is more than an …

The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS)-III. Revealing the inner icy structure in local active galactic nuclei

I García-Bernete, A Alonso-Herrero… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We use JWST/MIRI MRS spectroscopy of a sample of six local obscured type 1.9/2 active
galactic nuclei (AGN) to compare their nuclear mid-IR absorption bands with the level of …

The near infrared imager and Slitless spectrograph for the James Webb space telescope. IV. Aperture masking interferometry

A Sivaramakrishnan, P Tuthill, JP Lloyd… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless
Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such …

Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution and Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei: Clues to the Structure of Circumnuclear Material

J Lyu, G Rieke - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomenon results from a supermassive black hole
accreting its surrounding gaseous and dusty material. The infrared (IR) regime provides …

BASS. XLII. The Relation between the Covering Factor of Dusty Gas and the Eddington Ratio in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei

C Ricci, K Ichikawa, M Stalevski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at the centers of galaxies are typically
surrounded by large quantities of gas and dust. The structure and evolution of this …