- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/822/109
- Title:
- MIR view of polar dust emission in local AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/822/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent mid-infrared (MIR) interferometric observations have shown that in a few active galactic nuclei (AGNs) the bulk of the infrared emission originates from the polar region above the putative torus, where only a little dust should be present. Here, we investigate whether such strong polar dust emission is common in AGNs. Out of 149 Seyferts in the MIR atlas of local AGNs, 21 show extended MIR emission on single-dish images. In 18 objects, the extended MIR emission aligns with the position angle (PA) of the system axis, established by [O III], radio, polarization, and maser-based PA measurements. The relative amount of resolved MIR emission is at least 40% and scales with the [O IV] fluxes, implying a strong connection between the extended continuum and [O IV] emitters. These results together with the radio-quiet nature of the Seyferts support the scenario that the bulk of MIR emission is emitted by dust in the polar region and not by the torus, which would demand a new paradigm for the infrared emission structure in AGNs. The current low detection rate of polar dust in the AGNs of the MIR atlas is explained by the lack of sufficient high-quality MIR data and the requirements on the orientation, strength of narrow-line region, and distance of the AGNs. The James Webb Space Telescope will enable much deeper nuclear MIR studies with comparable angular resolution, allowing us to resolve the polar emission and surroundings in most of the nearby AGNs.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/321
- Title:
- Morphology of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/321
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the nuclear morphology of a sample of narrow- and broad-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s and BLS1s, respectively) based on broadband images in the Hubble Space Telescope archives. In our previous study we found that large-scale stellar bars at >1kpc from the nucleus are more common in NLS1s than BLS1s. In this paper we find that NLS1s preferentially have grand-design dust spirals within ~1kpc of their centers. We also find that NLS1s have a higher fraction of nuclear star-forming rings than BLS1s. We find that many of the morphological differences are due to the presence or absence of a large-scale stellar bar within the spiral host galaxy. In general, barred Seyfert 1 galaxies tend to have grand-design dust spirals at their centers, confirming the results of other researchers. The high fraction of grand-design nuclear dust spirals and stellar nuclear rings observed in NLS1s' host galaxies suggests a means for efficient fueling of their nuclei to support their high Eddington ratios.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/633/A163
- Title:
- Mrk 231 CO(1-0) and CN(1-0) line observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/633/A163
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present interferometric observations of the CN(1-0) line emission in Mrk 231 and combine them with previous observations of CO and other H_2_ gas tracers to study the physical properties of the massive molecular outflow. We find a strong boost of the CN/CO(1-0) line luminosity ratio in the outflow of Mrk 231, which is unprecedented compared to any other known Galactic or extragalactic astronomical source. For the dense gas phase in the outflow traced by the HCN and CN emissions, we infer X_CN_=[CN]/[H_2_]>X_HCN_ by at least a factor of three, with H_2_ gas densities of n_H2_~10^5-6^cm^-3^. In addition, we resolve for the first time narrow spectral features in the HCN(1-0) and HCO^+^(1-0) high-velocity line wings tracing the dense phase of the outflow. The velocity dispersions of these spectral features, {sigma}_v_~7-20km/s, are consistent with those of massive extragalactic giant molecular clouds detected in nearby starburst nuclei. The H_2_ gas masses inferred from the HCN data are quite high, M_mol_~0.3-5x10^8^M_{sun}_. Our results suggest that massive complexes of denser molecular gas survive embedded into the more diffuse H_2_ phase of the outflow, and that the chemistry of these outflowing dense clouds is strongly aected by UV radiation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/573/A76
- Title:
- Multifrequency study of NL Seyfert 1 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/573/A76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-energy {gamma}-rays, which are produced by powerful relativistic jets, are usually associated with blazars and radio galaxies. In the current active galactic nuclei (AGN) paradigm, such jets are almost exclusively launched from massive elliptical galaxies. Recently, however, Fermi/LAT detected {gamma}-rays from a few narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and thus confirmed the presence of relativistic jets in them. Since NLS1 galaxies are assumed to be young evolving AGN, they offer a unique opportunity to study the production of relativistic jets in late-type galaxies. Our aim is to estimate by which processes the emission of various kinds is produced in NLS1 galaxies and to study how emission properties are connected to other intrinsic AGN properties. We have compiled the so far largest multiwavelength database of NLS1 sources. This allowed us to explore correlations between different wavebands and source properties using, for example, Pearson and Spearman correlations and principal component analysis. We did this separately for radio-loud and radio-quiet sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/3042
- Title:
- Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies from SDSS EDR
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/124/3042
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 150 narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1's) found within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Early Data Release (EDR) (Stoughton et al., 2002AJ....123..485S), only two of which were previously identified as such. This substantially increases the known number of NLS1's and provides a basic method by which to identify many more with subsequent releases of SDSS data. With its large size and homogeneous, well-defined selection criteria, this sample will help alleviate two major problems that have plagued NLS1 research in the past; namely, their relative rarity and significant differences in selection algorithms between the known samples. Forty-five of these SDSS-selected NLS1's are detected at energies of 0.1-2keV in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and are found to have ultrasoft X-ray spectra with photon indices of {Gamma}>~2, in agreement with previous results for NLS1's. However, about 10-20 of those NLS1's that were not detected by ROSAT have optical properties very similar to the detected objects and so should also have been detected by the RASS. This may be due to either significant intrinsic absorption in many NLS1's, or a significant subclass of NLS1's that have uncharacteristic, intrinsically flatter (hence harder) X-ray spectral energy distributions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/1948
- Title:
- Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the FBQS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/1948
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from the analysis of the optical spectra of 47 radio-selected narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies. These objects are a subset of the First Bright Quasar Survey (Cat. <J/AJ/112/407>) and were initially detected at 20cm (flux density limit 1Jy) in the VLA FIRST Survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/509/2377
- Title:
- Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 IR Survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/509/2377
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a near-infrared spectroscopic survey of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the southern hemisphere (using the SOFI instrument on the ESO-NTT telescope), sampled from optical surveys. We examine the kinematics of the broad-line region, probed by the emission line width of hydrogen (Paschen{alpha} and H{beta}). We observed 57 objects, of which we could firmly measure Paschen{alpha} in 49 cases. We find that a single Lorentzian fit (preferred on theoretical grounds) is preferred over multi-component Gaussian fits to the line profiles; a lack of narrow-line region emission, overwhelmed by the pole-on view of the broad line region (BLR) light, supports this. We recompute the catalog black hole (BH) mass estimates, using the values of FWHM and luminosity of H{beta}, both from catalog values and re-fitted Lorentzian values. We find a relationship slope greater than unity compared to the catalog values. We ascribe this to contamination by galactic light or difficulties with line flux measurements. However, the comparison of masses computed by the fitted Lorentzian and Gaussian measurements show a slope close to unity. Comparing the BH masses estimated from both Paschen{alpha} and H{beta}, the line widths and fluxes shows deviations from expected; in general, however, the computed BH masses are comparable. We posit a scenario where an intermixture of dusty and dust-free clouds (or alternately a structured atmosphere) differentially absorbs the line radiation of the BLR, due to dust absorption and hydrogen bound-free absorption.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/4512
- Title:
- Nearby Seyfert galaxies FIR emissions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/4512
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present far-infrared (FIR) 70-500{mu}m imaging observations obtained with Herschel/Photodetector Array Camera (PACS) and Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) of 33 nearby (median distance of 30Mpc) Seyfert galaxies from the Revised Shapley-Ames (RSA) catalogue. We obtain the FIR nuclear (r=1kpc and r=2kpc) and integrated spectral energy distributions (SEDs). We estimate the unresolved nuclear emission at 70{mu}m and we fit the nuclear and integrated FIR SEDs with a grey body model. We find that the integrated FIR emission of the RSA Seyferts in our sample is dominated by emission from the host galaxy, with dust properties similar to those of normal galaxies (non-AGN). We use four criteria to select galaxies whose nuclear 70{mu}m emission has a significant AGN contribution: (1) elevated 70/160{mu}m flux ratios, (2) spatially resolved, high dust temperature gradient, (3) 70{mu}m excess emission with respect to the fit of the FIR SEDs with a grey body, and (4) excess of nuclear SFR obtained from 70{mu}m over SFR from mid-infrared indicators. 16 galaxies (48 per cent of the initial sample) satisfy at least one of these conditions, whereas 10 satisfy half or more. After careful examination of these, we select six bona fide candidates (18 per cent of the initial sample) and estimate that ~40-70 per cent of their nuclear (r=1-2kpc) 70{mu}m emission is contributed by dust heated by the AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/742/66
- Title:
- New Fermi/LAT extragalactic sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/742/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of 2.1 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data on 491 Seyfert galaxies detected by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey. Only the two nearest objects, NGC 1068 and NGC 4945, which were identified in the Fermi first year catalog (Abdo et al. 2010, Cat. J/ApJ/715/429), are detected. Using Swift/BAT and radio 20cm fluxes, we define a new radio-loudness parameter R_X,BAT_ where radio-loud objects have logR_X,BAT_> -4.7. Based on this parameter, only radio-loud sources are detected by Fermi/LAT. An upper limit to the flux of the undetected sources is derived to be ~2x10^-11^photons/cm^2^/s, approximately seven times lower than the observed flux of NGC 1068. Assuming a median redshift of 0.031, this implies an upper limit to the {gamma}-ray (1-100GeV) luminosity of <~3x10^41^erg/s. In addition, we identified 120 new Fermi/LAT sources near the Swift/BAT Seyfert galaxies with significant Fermi/LAT detections. A majority of these objects do not have Swift/BAT counterparts, but their possible optical counterparts include blazars, flat-spectrum radio quasars, and quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/621/A83
- Title:
- NGC 1566 ALMA and Gemini-GMOS/IFU datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/621/A83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Tracing nuclear inflows and outflows in AGNs, determining the mass of gas involved in them, and their impact on the host galaxy and nuclear black hole requires 3-D imaging studies of both the ionized and molecular gas. We map the distribution and kinematics of molecular and ionized gas in a sample of active galaxies to quantify the nuclear inflows and outflows. Here, we analyze the nuclear kinematics of NGC 1566 via ALMA observations of the CO J:2-1 emission at 24pc spatial and ~2.6km/s spectral resolution, and Gemini-GMOS/IFU observations of ionized gas emission lines and stellar absorption lines at similar spatial resolution, and 123km/s of intrinsic spectral resolution. The morphology and kinematics of stellar, molecular (CO), and ionized ([NII]) emission lines are compared to the expectations from rotation, outflows, and streaming inflows. While both ionized and molecular gas show rotation signatures, there are significant non-circular motions in the innermost 200pc and along spiral arms in the central kpc (CO). The nucleus shows a double-peaked CO profile (full width at zero intensity of 200km/s), and prominent (~80km/s) blue- and redshifted lobes are found along the minor axis in the inner arcseconds. Perturbations by the large-scale bar can qualitatively explain all features in the observed velocity field. We thus favor the presence of a molecular outflow in the disk with true velocities of ~180km/s in the nucleus and decelerating to 0 by ~72pc. The implied molecular outflow rate is 5.6M_{Sun}_/yr, with this gas accumulating in the nuclear 2" arms. The ionized gas kinematics support an interpretation of a similar but more spherical outflow in the inner 100pc, with no signs of deceleration. There is some evidence of streaming inflows of ~50km/s along specific spiral arms, and the estimated molecular mass inflow rate, ~0.1M_{Sun}_/yr, is significantly higher than the SMBH accretion rate (dM/dt=4.8x10^-5^M_{Sun}_/yr).
