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A New Look at Quasar Accretion Disks

A model for AGN variability on multiple time-scales

A new catalog of type 1 AGNs and its implications on the AGN unified model ⬇️

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A new class of flares from accreting supermassive black holes

scientific article published in January 2019

A new population of Compton-thick AGNs identified using the spectral curvature above 10 kev ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers

scientific article published in Nature

A view of the narrow-line region in the infrared: active galactic nuclei with resolved fine-structure lines in the Spitzer archive ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

AGN Evolution from the Galaxy Evolution Viewpoint. II

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

AGN evolution from a galaxy evolution viewpoint ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

AGNs and Their Host Galaxies in the Local Universe: Two Mass-independent Eddington Ratio Distribution Functions Characterize Black Hole Growth

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ALMA Observations Show Major Mergers Among the Host Galaxies of Fast-growing, High-redshift, Supermassive Black Holes ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ALMA Observations of Quasar Host Galaxies at <i>z</i> ≃ 4.8

scientific article published in 2020

Active galactic nuclei at z ∼ 1.5 – I. Spectral energy distribution and accretion discs ⬇️

scientific article

Active galactic nuclei atz ∼ 1.5 – III. Accretion discs and black hole spin ⬇️

scholarly article by D. M. Capellupo et al published 21 April 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Active galactic nuclei atz∼ 1.5 – II. Black hole mass estimation by means of broad emission lines ⬇️

scholarly article by J. E. Mejía-Restrepo et al published 28 March 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Active galactic nucleus X-ray variability in the XMM-COSMOS survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An FMOS Survey of Moderate-luminosity, Broad-line AGNs in COSMOS, SXDS, and E-CDF-S

scientific article

An over-massive black hole in a typical star-forming galaxy, 2 billion years after the Big Bang

scientific article published in Science

Author Correction: A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

BASS XXXI: Outflow scaling relations in low redshift X-ray AGN host galaxies with MUSE

scientific article published in 2022

BASS. XXIII. A New Mid-infrared Diagnostic for Absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei

scientific article published in 2022

BASS. XXVIII. Near-infrared Data Release 2: High-ionization and Broad Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei*

scientific article published in 2022

BASS. XXX. Distribution Functions of DR2 Eddington Ratios, Black Hole Masses, and X-Ray Luminosities

scientific article published in 2022

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) – VI. The ΓX–L/LEdd relation

scientific article

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - IV: Near-Infrared Coronal Lines, Hidden Broad Lines, and Correlation with Hard X-ray Emission ⬇️

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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey – III. An observed link between AGN Eddington ratio and narrow-emission-line ratios ⬇️

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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey – XII. The relation between coronal properties of active galactic nuclei and the Eddington ratio

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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey – XIII. The nature of the most luminous obscured AGN in the low-redshift universe

scholarly article

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. I. Spectral Measurements, Derived Quantities, and AGN Demographics

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog

article by Claudio Ricci et al published 5 December 2017 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. VIII. Type 1 AGN with Massive Absorbing Columns

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. XI. The Covering Factor of Dust and Gas in Swift/BAT Active Galactic Nuclei

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey - XV: the high frequency radio cores of ultra-hard X-ray selected AGN

scientific article published in 2020

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey–II. X-ray emission and high-ionization optical emission lines ⬇️

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Black Hole Mass and Growth Rate at High Redshift ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Black hole growth to z = 2 - I. Improved virial methods for measuring MBH and L/LEdd

scholarly article by Benny Trakhtenbrot & H. Netzer published 21 December 2012 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole mass and growth rate at z =~ 4.8: a short episode of fast growth followed by short duty cycle activity ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Bolometric luminosity black hole growth time and slim accretion discs in active galactic nuclei

scholarly article by Hagai Netzer & Benny Trakhtenbrot published 14 December 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Can we improve C iv-based single-epoch black hole mass estimations?

scholarly article by J E Mejía-Restrepo et al published 1 May 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Compton thick AGN in the XMM-COSMOS survey ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Compton-thick accretion in the local universe ⬇️

scholarly article

Cosmic Evolution of Mass Accretion Rate and Metallicity in Active Galactic Nuclei ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Detection of rest-frame optical lines from X-shooter spectroscopy of weak emission line quasars ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Detection of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at redshifts above 6

scientific article published on 28 June 2023

Determining the radio active galactic nuclei contribution to the radio–far-infrared correlation using the black hole Fundamental Plane relation ⬇️

scholarly article by O. Ivy Wong et al published 26 April 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Discovery and follow-up of the unusual nuclear transient OGLE17aaj

scientific article

ERRATUM: “SCIENCE WITH A WIDE-FIELD UV TRANSIENT EXPLORER” (2014, AJ, 147, 79)

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Enhanced star formation in narrow-line Seyfert 1 active galactic nuclei revealed bySpitzer

scholarly article

Extreme star formation in the host galaxies of the fastest growing supermassive black holes at z = 4.8 ⬇️

scholarly article by Rivay Mor et al published 30 March 2012 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Faint COSMOS AGNs at z~3.3. I. Black hole properties and constraints on early black hole growth ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Fast-Growing SMBHs in Fast-Growing Galaxies, at High Redshifts: The Role of Major Mergers As Revealed by ALMA

scholarly article in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 4, November 2017

Hot-dust clouds with pure-graphite composition around type-I active galactic nuclei ⬇️

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Inferring Compton-thick AGN candidates at z > 2 with Chandra using the >8 keV rest-frame spectral curvature

scholarly article

On the Accretion Rates and Radiative Efficiencies of the Highest-redshift Quasars ⬇️

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Optical variability of AGNs in the PTF/iPTF survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Pan-STARRS1 variability of XMM-COSMOS AGN ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Probing the Evolution of Black Hole Mass Through Cosmic Time

scholarly article by Benny Trakhtenbrot et al published August 2009 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

SDSS1133: an unusually persistent transient in a nearby dwarf galaxy ⬇️

scholarly article

Science with a wide-field UV transient explorer

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Star formation and black hole growth at z =~ 4.8 ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Star formation black hole growth and dusty tori in the most luminous AGNs at z=2-3.5 ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Testing the completeness of the SDSS colour selection for ultramassive, slowly spinning black holes ⬇️

scholarly article by Caroline Bertemes et al published 2 September 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey

scientific article

The Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: clustering of X-ray-selected AGNs at 2.9 {\leq} z {\leq} 5.5 using photometric redshift probability distribution functions ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Chandra COSMOS legacy survey: optical/IR identifications ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Chandra COSMOS-Legacy survey: the z>3 sample ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hunt for Red Quasars: Luminous Obscured Black Hole Growth Unveiled in the Stripe 82 X-Ray Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Investigation of Continuum Lag Dependence on Broad-line Contamination and Quasar Properties

scholarly article published in January 2024

The Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. IX. The Clustering Environments of an Unbiased Sample of Local AGNs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Virial Factor and Biases in Single Epoch Black Hole Mass Determinations

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The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback

scientific article published in September 2017

The complete infrared view of active galactic nuclei from the 70 month Swift/BAT catalog ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The correlation of narrow line emission and X-ray luminosity in active galactic nuclei

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The detection rate of early UV emission from supernovae: a dedicated Galex/PTF survey and calibrated theoretical estimates ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The effect of nuclear gas distribution on the mass determination of supermassive black holes

The evolution of M*/MBH between z= 2 and z= 0

The fraction of AGNs in major merger galaxies and its luminosity dependence

scientific article

The mean star-forming properties of QSO host galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The most massive active black holes at z ~ 1.5-3.5 have high spins and radiative efficiencies ⬇️

scholarly article by Benny Trakhtenbrot published 13 June 2014 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The search for active black holes in nearby low-mass galaxies using optical and mid-IR data ⬇️

scholarly article by Lia F. Sartori et al published 20 October 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The systematic search for z ≳ 5 active galactic nuclei in the Chandra Deep Field South ⬇️

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Tracing the rise of supermassive black holes

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Type 2 AGN Host Galaxies in the Chandra-COSMOS Legacy Survey: No Evidence of AGN-driven Quenching

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Weak line quasars at high redshift: extremely high accretion rates or anemic broad-line regions? ⬇️

[O iii]λ5007 AND X-RAY PROPERTIES OF A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF HARD X-RAY SELECTED AGNs IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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