A mid-IR selected changing-look quasar and physical scenarios for abrupt AGN fading

D Stern, B McKernan, MJ Graham… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new changing-look quasar, WISE J105203. 55+ 151929.5 at z= 0.303, found by
identifying highly mid-IR-variable quasars in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer …

[HTML][HTML] NuSTAR Observations of AGNs with Low Observed X-Ray to [O iii] Luminosity Ratios: Heavily Obscured AGNs or Turned-off AGNs?

ML Saade, M Brightman, D Stern… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show signatures of accretion onto a supermassive
black hole through strong, high-ionization, narrow emission lines extended on scales of …

CO Emission in Infrared-selected Active Galactic Nuclei

A Kirkpatrick, C Sharon, E Keller… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to better understand how active galactic nuclei (AGNs) affect the interstellar media
of their host galaxies, we perform a meta-analysis of the CO emission for a sample of z= 0.01 …

SDSS-IV MaNGA: identification of active galactic nuclei in optical integral field unit surveys

D Wylezalek, NL Zakamska, JE Greene… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we investigate 2727 galaxies observed by MaNGA as of 2016 June to develop
spatially resolved techniques for identifying signatures of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We …

X-ray AGNs with SRG/eROSITA: multiwavelength observations reveal merger triggering and post-coalescence circumnuclear blowout

RW Bickley, SL Ellison, M Salvato… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Major mergers between galaxies are predicted to fuel their central supermassive black holes
(SMBHs), particularly after coalescence. However, determining the prevalence of active …

Discovery of Dying Active Galactic Nucleus in Arp 187: Experience of Drastic Luminosity Decline within 104 yr

K Ichikawa, J Ueda, HJ Bae, T Kawamuro… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Arp 187 is one of the fading active galactic nuclei (AGNs), whose AGN activity is currently
decreasing in luminosity. We investigate the observational signatures of AGN in Arp 187 …

Modeling the infrared reverberation response of the circumnuclear dusty torus in agns: An investigation of torus response functions

T Almeyda, A Robinson, M Richmond… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The size and structure of the dusty circumnuclear torus in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can
be investigated by analyzing the temporal response of the torus's infrared (IR) dust emission …

Dust Destruction by Drift-induced Sputtering in Active Galactic Nuclei

R Tazaki, K Ichikawa - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent mid-infrared high spatial resolution observations have revealed that active galactic
nuclei (AGNs) may host a polar dust region with the size of several pc, and such dust may be …

Massive outflow properties suggest AGN fade slowly

K Zubovas - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Massive large-scale active galactic nucleus (AGN) outflows are an important element of
galaxy evolution, being a way through which the AGN can affect most of the host galaxy …

Rapid luminosity decline and subsequent reformation of the innermost dust distribution in the changing-look AGN Mrk 590

M Kokubo, T Minezaki - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We examine the long-term optical/near-infrared (NIR) flux variability of a 'changing-
look'active galactic nucleus (AGN) Mrk 590 between 1998 and 2007. Multiband multi-epoch …