Browsing by Author "Cicone, Claudia"

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    ALMA [C i]3P1–3P0 Observations of NGC 6240: A Puzzling Molecular Outflow, and the Role of Outflows in the Global αCO Factor of (U)LIRGs
    (2018) Cicone, Claudia; Ezequiel Treister; Severgnini, Paola; Papadopoulos, Padelis P.; Maiolino, Roberto; Feruglio, Chiara; Privon, George C.; Zhang, Z.; Della Ceca, Roberto; Fiore, Fabrizio
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    BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. XX. Molecular Gas in Nearby Hard-X-Ray-selected AGN Galaxies
    (2021) Koss, Michael J. ; Strittmatter, Benjamin ; Lamperti, Isabella; Shimizu, Taro ; Trakhtenbrot, Benny ; Saintonge, Amelie ; Treister, Ezequiel ; Cicone, Claudia; Mushotzky, Richard ; Oh, Kyuseok; Ricci, Claudio ; Stern, Daniel ; Tasnim Ananna, Tonima ; Bauer, Franz Erik; Privon, George C. ; Bär, Rudolf ; De Breuck, Carlos; Harrison, Fiona ; Ichikawa, Kohei ; Powell, Meredith C. ; Rosario, David ; Sanders, David B. ; Schawinski, Kevin ; Shao, Li ; Urry, C. Megan ; Veilleux, Sylvain
    We present the host-galaxy molecular gas properties of a sample of 213 nearby (0.01.<.z.<.0.05) hard-X-rayselected active galactic nucleus (AGN) galaxies, drawn from the 70-month catalog of Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), with 200 new CO(2-1) line measurements obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope. We find that AGN in massive galaxies (log(M*/M-circle dot) > 10.5) tend to have more molecular gas and higher gas fractions than inactive galaxies matched in stellar mass. When matched in star formation, we find AGN galaxies show no difference from inactive galaxies, with no evidence that AGN feedback affects the molecular gas. The higher molecular gas content is related to AGN galaxies hosting a population of gas-rich early types with an order of magnitude more molecular gas and a smaller fraction of quenched, passive galaxies (similar to 5% versus 49%) compared to inactive galaxies. The likelihood of a given galaxy hosting an AGN (L-bol > 10(44) erg s(-1)) increases by similar to 10-100 between a molecular gas mass of 10(8.7)M(circle dot) and 10(10.2)M(circle dot). AGN galaxies with a higher Eddington ratio (log(L/L-Edd) > -1.3) tend to have higher molecular gas masses and gas fractions. The log(N-H/cm(-2)) > 23.4) of AGN galaxies with higher column densities are associated with lower depletion timescales and may prefer hosts with more gas centrally concentrated in the bulge that may be more prone to quenching than galaxy-wide molecular gas. The significant average link of host-galaxy molecular gas supply to supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth may naturally lead to the general correlations found between SMBHs and their host galaxies, such as the correlations between SMBH mass and bulge properties, and the redshift evolution of star formation and SMBH growth.
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    How to fuel an AGN: mapping circumnuclear gas in NGC 6240 with ALMA
    (2019) Medling, Anne M.; Privon, George C.; Barcos Muñoz, Loreto; Treister, Ezequiel; Cicone, Claudia; Messias, Hugo; Sanders, David B.; Scoville, Nick Z.; U, Vivian; Bauer, Franz Erik; Armus, Lee; Chang, Chin-Shin; Comerford, Julia M.; Evans, Aaron S.; Max, Claire E.; Müller-Sánchez, Francisco; Nagar, Neil; Sheth, Kartik
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    Molecular Gas in Major Mergers Hosting Dual and Single AGNs at
    (2025) Johnstone, Makoto A.; Treister, Ezequiel; Bauer, Franz E.; Chin-Shin Chang; Cicone, Claudia; Koss, Michael J.; Del Moral Castro, Ignacio; Muller Sanchez, Francisco; Privon, George C.; Ricci, Claudio; Scoville, Nick; Venturi, Giacomo; Barcos Muñoz, Loreto; Armus, Lee; Blecha, Laura; Casey, Caitlin; Comerford, Julia; Evans, Aaron; Kawamuro, Taiki; Medling, Anne M.; Messias, Hugo; Nagar, Neil; Rojas, Alejandra; Sanders, David; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; U, Vivian; Urry, Meg
    We present high-resolution (∼50–100 pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of 12CO(2–1) or 12CO(1–0) emission in seven local (z ≲ 0.05) major mergers—five of which are dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) systems, and two of which are single AGN systems. We model the molecular gas kinematics through rotating disk profiles using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach. The residuals were then used to isolate nonrotating components of the molecular gas—the most likely contributor to future supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. We find that more-massive SMBHs have higher surface densities of nonrotating molecular gas within their sphere of influence. This potential molecular gas supply, however, does not correlate with the current accretion efficiency of the SMBHs, suggesting that only a fraction of the observed nonrotating gas is currently reaching the SMBH. Finally, we tentatively find no significant differences in the nuclear molecular gas masses of single-AGN and dual-AGN hosts, both within the SMBH sphere of influence and within the central kiloparsec. Our results indicate that the probability of occurrence of the dual AGN phenomenon is likely dependent on AGN variability and/or obscuration rather than the availability of molecular gas in the nuclear regions.
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    The Molecular Gas in the NGC 6240 Merging Galaxy System at the Highest Spatial Resolution
    (2020) Treister, Ezequiel; Messias, Hugo; Privon, George C.; Nagar, Neil; Medling, Anne M.; U, Vivian; Bauer, Franz Erik; Cicone, Claudia; Barcos Muñoz, Loreto; Venturi, Giacomo