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- ItemEnhanced star formation rates in AGN hosts with respect to inactive galaxies from PEP-Herschel observations(2012) Santini, P.; Rosario, D. J.; Shao, L.; Lutz, D.; Maiolino, R.; Alexander, D. M.; Altieri, B.; Andreani, P.; Aussel, H.; Bauer, F. E.; Berta, S.; Bongiovanni, A.; Brandt, W. N.; Brusa, M.; Cepa, J.; Cimatti, A.; Daddi, E.; Elbaz, D.; Fontana, A.; Schreiber, N. M. Foerster; Genzel, R.; Grazian, A.; Le Floc'h, E.; Magnelli, B.; Mainieri, V.; Nordon, R.; Garcia, A. M. Perez; Poglitsch, A.; Popesso, P.; Pozzi, F.; Riguccini, L.; Rodighiero, G.; Salvato, M.; Sanchez-Portal, M.; Sturm, E.; Tacconi, L. J.; Valtchanov, I.; Wuyts, S.We compare the average star formation (SF) activity in X-ray selected AGN hosts with a mass-matched control sample of inactive galaxies, including both star forming and quiescent sources, in the 0.5 < z < 2.5 redshift range. Recent observations carried out by PACS, the 60-210 mu m photometric camera on board the Herschel Space Observatory, in GOODS-S, GOODS-N and COSMOS allow us to obtain an unbiased estimate of the far-IR luminosity, and hence of the SF properties, of the two samples. Accurate AGN host stellar mass estimates are obtained by decomposing their total emission into the stellar and the nuclear components. We report evidence of a higher average SF activity in AGN hosts with respect to the control sample of inactive galaxies. The level of SF enhancement is modest (similar to 0.26 dex at similar to 3 sigma confidence level) at low X-ray luminosities (L-X less than or similar to 10(43.5) erg s(-1)) and more pronounced (0.56 dex at >10 sigma confidence level) in the hosts of luminous AGNs. However, when comparing to star forming galaxies only, AGN hosts are found broadly consistent with the locus of their "main sequence". We investigate the relative far-IR luminosity distributions of active and inactive galaxies, and find a higher fraction of PACS detected, hence normal and highly star forming systems among AGN hosts. Although different interpretations are possible, we explain our findings as a consequence of a twofold AGN growth path: faint AGNs evolve through secular processes, with instantaneous AGN accretion not tightly linked to the current total SF in the host galaxy, while the luminous AGNs co-evolve with their hosts through periods of enhanced AGN activity and star formation, possibly through major mergers. While an increased SF activity with respect to inactive galaxies of similar mass is expected in the latter, we interpret the modest SF offsets measured in low-L-X AGN hosts as either a) generated by non-synchronous accretion and SF histories in a merger scenario or b) due to possible connections between instantaneous SF and accretion that can be induced by smaller scale (non-major merger) mechanisms. Far-IR luminosity distributions favour the latter scenario.
- ItemGRAVITATIONAL LENS MODELS BASED ON SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY IMAGING OF HERSCHEL-SELECTED STRONGLY LENSED SUB-MILLIMETER GALAXIES AT z > 1.5(2013) Bussmann, R. S.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Amber, S.; Calanog, J.; Gurwell, M. A.; Dannerbauer, H.; De Bernardis, F.; Fu, Hai; Harris, A. I.; Krips, M.; Lapi, A.; Maiolino, R.; Omont, A.; Riechers, D.; Wardlow, J.; Baker, A. J.; Birkinshaw, M.; Bock, J.; Bourne, N.; Clements, D. L.; Cooray, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dunne, L.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Farrah, D.; Gavazzi, R.; Nuevo, J. Gonzalez; Hopwood, R.; Ibar, E.; Ivison, R. J.; Laporte, N.; Maddox, S.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Michalowski, M.; Negrello, M.; Oliver, S. J.; Roseboom, I. G.; Scott, Douglas; Serjeant, S.; Smith, A. J.; Smith, Matthew; Streblyanska, A.; Valiante, E.; van der Werf, P.; Verma, A.; Vieira, J. D.; Wang, L.; Wilner, D.Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical spectroscopy of strong lens candidates discovered in the two widest extragalactic surveys conducted by the Herschel Space Observatory: the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). From a sample of 30 Herschel sources with S-500 > 100 mJy, 21 are strongly lensed (i.e., multiply imaged), 4 are moderately lensed (i.e., singly imaged), and the remainder require additional data to determine their lensing status. We apply a visibility-plane lens modeling technique to the SMA data to recover information about the masses of the lenses as well as the intrinsic (i.e., unlensed) sizes (r(half)) and far-infrared luminosities (L-FIR) of the lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). The sample of lenses comprises primarily isolated massive galaxies, but includes some groups and clusters as well. Several of the lenses are located at z(lens) > 0.7, a redshift regime that is inaccessible to lens searches based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. The lensed SMGs are amplified by factors that are significantly below statistical model predictions given the 500 mu m flux densities of our sample. We speculate that this may reflect a deficiency in our understanding of the intrinsic sizes and luminosities of the brightest SMGs. The lensed SMGs span nearly one decade in L-FIR (median L-FIR = 7.9 x 10(12) L-circle dot) and two decades in FIR luminosity surface density (median Sigma(FIR) = 6.0 x 10(11) L-circle dot kpc(-2)). The strong lenses in this sample and others identified via (sub-) mm surveys will provide a wealth of information regarding the astrophysics of galaxy formation and evolution over a wide range in redshift.
- ItemHerschel FIR counterparts of selected Lyα emitters at z ∼ 2.2 Fast evolution since z ∼ 3 or missed obscured AGNs?(2010) Bongiovanni, A.; Oteo, I.; Cepa, J.; Perez Garcia, A. M.; Sanchez-Portal, M.; Ederoclite, A.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Alfaro, E. J.; Altieri, B.; Andreani, P.; Aparicio-Villegas, M. T.; Aussel, H.; Benitez, N.; Berta, S.; Broadhurst, T.; Cabrera-Cano, J.; Castander, F. J.; Cava, A.; Cervino, M.; Chulani, H.; Cimatti, A.; Cristobal-Hornillos, D.; Daddi, E.; Dominguez, H.; Elbaz, D.; Fernandez-Soto, A.; Schreiber, N. Foerster; Genzel, R.; Gomez, M. F.; Gonzalez Delgado, R. M.; Grazian, A.; Gruppioni, C.; Herreros, J. M.; Iglesias Groth, S.; Infante, L.; Lutz, D.; Magnelli, B.; Magdis, G.; Maiolino, R.; Marquez, I.; Martinez, V. J.; Masegosa, J.; Moles, M.; Molino, A.; Nordon, R.; del Olmo, A.; Perea, J.; Poglitsch, A.; Popesso, P.; Pozzi, F.; Prada, F.; Quintana, J. M.; Riguccini, L.; Rodighiero, G.; Saintonge, A.; Sanchez, S. F.; Santini, P.; Shao, L.; Sturm, E.; Tacconi, L.; Valtchanov, I.Ly alpha emitters (LAEs) are seen everywhere in the redshift domain from local to z similar to 7. Far-infrared (FIR) counterparts of LAEs at different epochs could provide direct clues on dust content, extinction, and spectral energy distribution (SED) for these galaxies. We search for FIR counterparts of LAEs that are optically detected in the GOODS-North field at redshift z similar to 2.2 using data from the Herschel Space Telescope with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS). The LAE candidates were isolated via color-magnitude diagram using the medium-band photometry from the ALHAMBRA Survey, ancillary data on GOODS-North, and stellar population models. According to the fitting of these spectral synthesis models and FIR/optical diagnostics, most of them seem to be obscured galaxies whose spectra are AGN-dominated. From the analysis of the optical data, we have observed a fraction of AGN or composite over source total number of similar to 0.75 in the LAE population at z similar to 2.2, which is marginally consistent with the fraction previously observed at z = 2.25 and even at low redshift (0.2 < z < 0.45), but significantly different from the one observed at redshift similar to 3, which could be compatible either with a scenario of rapid change in the AGN fraction between the epochs involved or with a non detection of obscured AGN in other z = 2-3 LAE samples due to lack of deep FIR observations. We found three robust FIR (PACS) counterparts at z similar to 2.2 in GOODS-North. This demonstrates the possibility of finding dust emission in LAEs even at higher redshifts.
- ItemMAGNUM survey: Compact jets causing large turmoil in galaxies. Enhanced line widths perpendicular to radio jets as tracers of jet-ISM interaction(2021) Venturi, G.; Cresci, G.; Marconi, A.; Mingozzi, M.; Nardini, E.; Carniani, S.; Mannucci, F.; Marasco, A.; Maiolino, R.; Perna, M.; Treister, E.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Gallimore, J.Context. Outflows accelerated by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are commonly observed in the form of coherent, mildly collimated high-velocity gas directed along the AGN ionisation cones and kinetically powerful (greater than or similar to 10(44-45) erg s(-1)) jets. Recent works found that outflows can also be accelerated by low-power (less than or similar to 10(44) erg s(-1)) jets, and the most recent cosmological simulations indicate that these are the dominant source of feedback on sub-kiloparsec scales, but little is known about their effect on the galaxy host.Aims. We study the relation between radio jets and the distribution and kinematics of the ionised gas in IC 5063, NGC 5643, NGC 1068, and NGC 1386 as part of our survey of nearby Seyfert galaxies called Measuring Active Galactic Nuclei Under MUSE Microscope (MAGNUM). All these objects host a small-scale (less than or similar to 1 kpc) low-power (less than or similar to 10(44) erg s(-1)) radio jet that has small inclinations (less than or similar to 45 degrees) with respect to the galaxy disc.Methods. We employed seeing-limited optical integral field spectroscopic observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the Very Large Telescope to obtain flux, kinematic, and excitation maps of the extended ionised gas. We compared these maps with archival radio images and in one case, with Chandra X-ray observations.Results. We detect a strong (up to greater than or similar to 800-1000 km s(-1)) and extended (greater than or similar to 1 kpc) emission-line velocity spread perpendicular to the direction of the AGN ionisation cones and jets in all four targets. The gas excitation in this region of line-width enhancement is entirely compatible with shock ionisation. These broad and symmetric line profiles are not associated with a single coherent velocity of the gas. A 'classical' outflow component with net blueshifted and redshifted motions is also present, but is directed along the ionisation cones and jets.Conclusions. We interpret the observed phenomenon as due to the action of the jets perturbing the gas in the galaxy disc. These intense and extended velocity spreads perpendicular to AGN jets and cones are indeed currently only observed in galaxies hosting a low-power jet whose inclination is sufficiently low with respect to the galaxy disc to impact on and strongly affect its material. In line with cosmological simulations, our results demonstrate that low-power jets are indeed capable of affecting the host galaxy.
- ItemMOONS: The New Multi-Object Spectrograph for the VLT(2020) Cirasuolo, M.; Fairley, A.; Rees, P.; González, O. A.; Taylor, W.; Maiolino, R.; Afonso, J.; Evans, C.; Flores, H.; Lilly, S.; Oliva, E.; Paltani, S.; Vanzi, L.; Abreu, M.; Accardo, M.; Adams, N.; Álvarez Méndez, D.; Amans, J. -P.; Amarantidis, S.; Atek, H.; Atkinson, D.; Banerji, M.; Barrett, J.; Barrientos, F.; Bauer, F.; Beard, S.; Béchet, C.; Belfiore, A.; Bellazzini, M.; Benoist, C.; Best, P.; Biazzo, K.; Black, M.; Boettger, D.; Bonifacio, P.; Bowler, R.; Bragaglia, A.; Brierley, S.; Brinchmann, J.; Brinkmann, M.; Buat, V.; Buitrago, F.; Burgarella, D.; Burningham, B.; Buscher, D.; Cabral, A.; Caffau, E.; Cardoso, L.; Carnall, A.; Carollo, M.; Castillo, R.; Castignani, G.; Catelan, Márcio; Cicone, C.; Cimatti, A.; Cioni, M. -R. L.; Clementini, G.; Cochrane, W.; Coelho, J.; Colling, M.; Contini, T.; Contreras, R.; Conzelmann, R.; Cresci, G.; Cropper, M.; Cucciati, O.; Cullen, F.; Cumani, C.; Curti, M.; Da Silva, A.; Daddi, E.; Dalessandro, E.; Dalessio, F.; Dauvin, L.; Davidson, G.; de Laverny, P.; Delplancke-Ströbele, F.; De Lucia, G.; Del Vecchio, C.; Dessauges-Zavadsky, M.; Di Matteo, P.; Dole, H.; Drass, H.; Dunlop, J.; Dünner, R.; Eales, S.; Ellis, R.; Enriques, B.; Fasola, G.; Ferguson, A.; Ferruzzi, D.; Fisher, M.; Flores, M.; Fontana, A.; Forchi, V.; Francois, P.; Franzetti, P.; Gargiulo, A.; Garilli, B.; Gaudemard, J.; Gieles, M.; Gilmore, G.; Ginolfi, M.; Gomes, J. M.; Guinouard, I.; Gutierrez, P.; Haigron, R.; Hammer, F.; Hammersley, P.; Haniff, C.; Harrison, C.; Haywood, M.; Hill, V.; Hubin, N.; Humphrey, A.; Ibata, R.; Infante, L.; Ives, D.; Ivison, R.; Iwert, O.; Jablonka, P.; Jakob, G.; Jarvis, M.; King, D.; Kneib, J. -P.; Laporte, P.; Lawrence, A.; Lee, D.; Li Causi, G.; Lorenzoni, S.; Lucatello, S.; Luco, Y.; Macleod, A.; Magliocchetti, M.; Magrini, L.; Mainieri, V.; Maire, C.; Mannucci, F.; Martin, N.; Matute, I.; Maurogordato, S.; McGee, S.; Mcleod, D.; McLure, R.; McMahon, R.; Melse, B. -T.; Messias, H.; Mucciarelli, A.; Nisini, B.; Nix, J.; Norberg, P.; Oesch, P.; Oliveira, A.; Origlia, L.; Padilla, N.; Palsa, R.; Pancino, E.; Papaderos, P.; Pappalardo, C.; Parry, I.; Pasquini, L.; Peacock, J.; Pedichini, F.; Pello, R.; Peng, Y.; Pentericci, L.; Pfuhl, O.; Piazzesi, R.; Popovic, D.; Pozzetti, L.; Puech, M.; Puzia, T.; Raichoor, A.; Randich, S.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Reis, S.; Reix, F.; Renzini, A.; Rodrigues, M.; Rojas, F.; Rojas-Arriagada, Á.; Rota, S.; Royer, F.; Sacco, G.; Sanchez-Janssen, R.; Sanna, N.; Santos, P.; Sarzi, M.; Schaerer, D.; Schiavon, R.; Schnell, R.; Schultheis, M.; Scodeggio, M.; Serjeant, S.; Shen, T. -C.; Simmonds, C.; Smoker, J.; Sobral, D.; Sordet, M.; Spérone, D.; Strachan, J.; Sun, X.; Swinbank, M.; Tait, G.; Tereno, I.; Tojeiro, R.; Torres, M.; Tosi, M.; Tozzi, A.; Tresiter, E.; Valenti, E.; Valenzuela Navarro, Á.; Vanzella, E.; Vergani, S.; Verhamme, A.; Vernet, J.; Vignali, C.; Vinther, J.; Von Dran, L.; Waring, C.; Watson, S.; Wild, V.; Willesme, B.; Woodward, B.; Wuyts, S.; Yang, Y.; Zamorani, G.; Zoccali, M.; Bluck, A.; Trussler, J.MOONS is the new Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph currently under construction for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO. This remarkable instrument combines, for the first time, the collecting power of an 8-m telescope, 1000 fibres with individual robotic positioners, and both low- and high-resolution simultaneous spectral coverage across the 0.64-1.8 μm wavelength range. This facility will provide the astronomical community with a powerful, world-leading instrument able to serve a wide range of Galactic, extragalactic and cosmological studies. Construction is now proceeding full steam ahead and this overview article presents some of the science goals and the technical description of the MOONS instrument. More detailed information on the MOONS surveys is provided in the other dedicated articles in this Messenger issue....
- ItemNUCLEAR ACTIVITY IS MORE PREVALENT IN STAR-FORMING GALAXIES(2013) Rosario, D. J.; Santini, P.; Lutz, D.; Netzer, H.; Bauer, F. E.; Berta, S.; Magnelli, B.; Popesso, P.; Alexander, D. M.; Brandt, W. N.; Genzel, R.; Maiolino, R.; Mullaney, J. R.; Nordon, R.; Saintonge, A.; Tacconi, L.; Wuyts, S.We explore the question of whether low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially found in galaxies that are undergoing a transition from active star formation (SF) to quiescence. This notion has been suggested by studies of the UV-optical colors of AGN hosts, which find them to be common among galaxies in the so-called Green Valley, a region of galaxy color space believed to be composed mostly of galaxies undergoing SF quenching. Combining the deepest current X-ray and Herschel/PACS far-infrared (FIR) observations of the two Chandra Deep Fields with redshifts, stellar masses, and rest-frame photometry derived from the extensive and uniform multi-wavelength data in these fields, we compare the rest-frame U - V color distributions and star formation rate distributions of AGNs and carefully constructed samples of inactive control galaxies. The UV-to-optical colors of AGNs are consistent with equally massive inactive galaxies at redshifts out to z similar to 2, but we show that such colors are poor tracers of SF. While the FIR distributions of both star-forming AGNs and star-forming inactive galaxies are statistically similar, we show that AGNs are preferentially found in star-forming host galaxies, or, in other words, AGNs are less likely to be found in weakly star-forming or quenched galaxies. We postulate that, among X-ray-selected AGNs of low and moderate accretion luminosities, the supply of cold gas primarily determines the accretion rate distribution of the nuclear black holes.
- ItemProperties of the multiphase outflows in local (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies(2021) Fluetsch, A.; Maiolino, R.; Carniani, S.; Arribas, S.; Belfiore, F.; Bellocchi, E.; Cazzoli, S.; Cicone, C.; Cresci, G.; Fabian, A. C.; Gallagher, R.; Ishibashi, W.; Mannucci, F.; Marconi, A.; Perna, M.; Sturm, E.; Venturi, G.Galactic outflows are known to consist of several gas phases; however, the connection between these phases has been investigated little and only in a few objects. In this paper, we analyseMulti Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE)/Very Large Telescope (VLT) data of 26 local (U)LIRGs and study their ionized and neutral atomic phases. We also include objects from the literature to obtain a sample of 31 galaxies with spatially resolved multiphase outflow information. We find that the ionized phase of the outflows has on average an electron density three times higher than the disc (n(e,disc) similar to 145 cm(-3) versus n(e,outflow) similar to 500 cm(-3)), suggesting that cloud compression in the outflow is more important than cloud dissipation. We find that the difference in extinction between outflow and disc correlates with the outflow gas mass. Together with the analysis of the outflow velocities, this suggests that at least some of the outflows are associated with the ejection of dusty clouds from the disc. This may support models where radiation pressure on dust contributes to driving galactic outflows. The presence of dust in outflows is relevant for potential formation of molecules inside them. We combine our data with millimetre data to investigate the molecular phase. We find that the molecular phase accounts for more than 60 per cent of the total mass outflow rate in most objects and this fraction is higher in active galactic nuclei (AGN)-dominated systems. The neutral atomic phase contributes of the order of 10 per cent, while the ionized phase is negligible. The ionized-to-molecular mass outflow rate declines slightly with AGN luminosity, although with a large scatter.
- ItemSDSS-IV MaNGA: spatially resolved star formation histories in galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and type(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2017) Goddard, D.; Thomas, D.; Maraston, C.; Westfall, K.; Etherington, J.; Riffel, R.; Mallmann, N. D.; Zheng, Z.; Argudo Fernandez, M.; Lian, J.; Bershady, M.; Bundy, K.; Drory, N.; Law, D.; Yan, R.; Wake, D.; Weijmans, A.; Bizyaev, D.; Brownstein, J.; Lane, R. R.; Maiolino, R.; Masters, K.; Merrifield, M.; Nitschelm, C.; Pan, K.; Roman Lopes, A.; Storchi Bergmann, T.; Schneider, D. P.We study the internal gradients of stellar population propertieswithin 1.5 R-e for a representative sample of 721 galaxies, with stellar masses ranging between 10(9)M circle dot and 10(11.5)M circle dot from the SDSS-IV MaNGA Integral-Field-Unit survey. Through the use of our full spectral fitting code FIREFLY, we derive light-and mass-weighted stellar population properties and their radial gradients, as well as full star formation and metal enrichment histories. We also quantify the impact that different stellar population models and full spectral fitting routines have on the derived stellar population properties and the radial gradient measurements. In our analysis, we find that age gradients tend to be shallow for both early-type and late-type galaxies. Mass-weighted age gradients of early-types arepositive (similar to 0.09 dex/Re) pointing to ` outsidein' progression of star formation, while late-type galaxies have negative light-weighted age gradients (similar to-0.11 dex/R-e), suggesting an ` inside-out' formation of discs. We detect negative metallicity gradients in both early-and late-type galaxies, but these are significantly steeper in late-types, suggesting that the radial dependence of chemical enrichment processes and the effect of gas inflow and metal transport are far more pronounced in discs. Metallicity gradients of both morphological classes correlate with galaxy mass, with negative metallicity gradients becoming steeper with increasing galaxy mass. The correlation with mass is stronger for late-type galaxies, with a slope of d(del[Z/H])/d(logM) similar to -0.2 +/- 0.05, compared to d(del[Z/H])/d(logM) similar to -0.05 +/- 0.05 for early-types. This result suggests that the merger history plays a relatively small role in shaping metallicity gradients of galaxies.
- ItemThe mean star formation rate of X-ray selected active galaxies and its evolution from z ∼ 2.5: results from PEP-Herschel(2012) Rosario, D. J.; Santini, P.; Lutz, D.; Shao, L.; Maiolino, R.; Alexander, D. M.; Altieri, B.; Andreani, P.; Aussel, H.; Bauer, F. E.; Berta, S.; Bongiovanni, A.; Brandt, W. N.; Brusa, M.; Cepa, J.; Cimatti, A.; Cox, T. J.; Daddi, E.; Elbaz, D.; Fontana, A.; Schreiber, N. M. Foerster; Genzel, R.; Grazian, A.; Le Floch, E.; Magnelli, B.; Mainieri, V.; Netzer, H.; Nordon, R.; Garcia, I. Perez; Poglitsch, A.; Popesso, P.; Pozzi, F.; Riguccini, L.; Rodighiero, G.; Salvato, M.; Sanchez-Portal, M.; Sturm, E.; Tacconi, L. J.; Valtchanov, I.; Wuyts, S.We study relationships between star-formation rate (SFR) and the accretion luminosity and nuclear obscuration of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using a combination of deep far-infrared (FIR) and X-ray data in three key extragalactic survey fields (GOODS-South, GOODS-North and COSMOS), as part of the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) program. The use of three fields with differing areas and depths enables us to explore trends between the global FIR luminosity of the AGN hosts and the luminosity of the active nucleus across 4.5 orders of magnitude in AGN luminosity (L-AGN) and spanning redshifts from the Local Universe to z = 2.5. Using imaging from the Herschel/PACS instrument in 2-3 bands, we combine FIR detections and stacks of undetected objects to arrive at mean fluxes for subsamples in bins of redshift and X-ray luminosity. We constrain the importance of AGN-heated dust emission in the FIR and confirm that the majority of the FIR emission of AGNs is produced by cold dust heated by star-formation in their host galaxies.
- ItemThe WISSH quasars project : IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at z ∼2.4-4.7(2021) Bischetti, M.; Feruglio, C.; Piconcelli, E.; Duras, F.; Perez-Torres, M.; Herrero, R.; Venturi, Giacomo; Carniani, S.; Bruni, G.; Gavignaud, I.; Testa, V.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Circosta, C.; Cresci, G.; D'Odorico, V.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Mingozzi, M.; Pappalardo, C.; Perna, M.; Traianou, E.; Travascio, A.; Vietri, G.; Zappacosta, L.; Fiore, F.
- ItemUniversal bolometric corrections for active galactic nuclei over seven luminosity decades(2020) Duras, F.; Bongiorno, A.; Ricci, F.; Piconcelli, E.; Shankar, F.; Lusso, E.; Bianchi, S.; Fiore, F.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Onori, F.; Sani, E.; Schneider, R.; Vignali, C.; La Franca, F.Context. The AGN bolometric correction is a key element for understanding black hole (BH) demographics and computing accurate BH accretion histories from AGN luminosities. However, current estimates still differ from each other by up to a factor of two to three, and rely on extrapolations at the lowest and highest luminosities.