Astrophysical: Supermassive black holes

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    Quiescent Host Galaxies of Extended Quasars Revealed by Spectrophotometric Decomposition
    Previous works of low-redshift quasar host galaxies have focused on compact quasars and found that their host galaxies are mainly star-forming galaxies. Here...
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    Revealing the inner workings of the lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310: Insights from microlensing analysis
    Aims. We aim to unveil the structure of the continuum and broad-emission line (BEL) emitting regions in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310 by...
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    Revealing the structure of the lensed quasar Q 0957+561. II. Supermassive black hole mass via gravitational redshift
    Aims: We intend to use the impact of microlensing on the Fe III λλ2039−2113 emission line blend along with a measure of its gravitational redshift to estimate...
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    ReveaLLAGN 1: JWST Emission-line Spectra Reveal Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus with Ultraviolet-deficient Spectral Energy Distributions and Warm Molecular Gas
    We present near- and mid-infrared spectra of eight low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN), spanning nearly 4 orders of magnitude in black hole mass and...
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    Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
    The researchers Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity-Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548
    In this contribution, we achieve the primary goal of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) STORM campaign by recovering velocity-delay maps for the prominent broad...
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    The Accretion Mode in Sub-Eddington Supermassive Black Holes: Getting into the Central Parsecs of Andromeda
    The inner kiloparsec regions surrounding sub-Eddington (luminosity less than 10 -3 in Eddington units, L Edd) supermassive black holes (BHs) often show a...
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    The Black Hole Mass-Color Relations for Early- and Late-type Galaxies: Red and Blue Sequences
    The tight correlations between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass (M BH) and the properties of the host galaxy have useful implications for our understanding...
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    The First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes
    We investigate the environment in which direct-collapse black holes may form by analysing a cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation that is part of the First...