Browsing by Author "Marchesi, S."

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    Accretion history of AGNs. III. Radiative efficiency and AGN contribution to reionization
    (2020) Ananna, T. T.; Urry, C. M.; Treister, Ezequiel; Hickox, R. C.; Shankar, F.; Ricci, Claudio; Cappelluti, N.; Marchesi, S.; Turner, T. J.
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    An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the COSMOS field : The extent of the radio-emitting region revealed by 3 GHz imaging with the Very Large Array
    (2017) Miettinen, O.; Novak, M.; Smolčić, V.; Delvecchio, I.; Aravena, M.; Brisbin, D.; Karim, A.; Murphy, E.; Schinnerer, E.; Padilla, Nelson; Albrecht, M.; Aussel, H.; Bertoldi, F.; Capak, P.; Casey, C.; Civano, F.; Hayward, C.; Herrera Ruiz, N.; Ilbert, O.; Jiang, C.; Laigle, C.; Le Fèvre, O.; Magnelli, B.; Marchesi, S.; McCracken, H.; Middelberg, E.; Muñoz Arancibia, A.; Navarrete, F.; Riechers, D.; Salvato, M.; Scott, K.; Sheth, K.; Tasca, L.; Bondi, M.; Zamorani, G.
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    An X-ray fading, UV brightening QSO at z ≈ 6
    (2022) Vito, F.; Mignoli, M.; Gilli, R.; Brandt, W. N.; Shemmer, O.; Bauer, F. E.; Bisogni, S.; Luo, B.; Marchesi, S.; Nanni, R.; Zamorani, G.; Comastri, A.; Cusano, F.; Gallerani, S.; Vignali, C.; Lanzuisi, G.
    Explaining the existence of super massive black holes (SMBHs) with M-BH greater than or similar to 10(8) M-circle dot at z greater than or similar to 6 is a persistent challenge to modern astrophysics. Multiwavelength observations of z greater than or similar to 6 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) reveal that, on average, their accretion physics is similar to that of their counterparts at lower redshift. However, QSOs showing properties that deviate from the general behavior can provide useful insights into the physical processes responsible for the rapid growth of SMBHs in the early universe. We present X-ray (XMM-Newton, 100 ks) follow-up observations of a z approximate to 6 QSO, J1641+3755, which was found to be remarkably X-ray bright in a 2018 Chandra dataset. J1641+3755 is not detected in the 2021 XMM-Newton observation, implying that its X-ray flux decreased by a factor greater than or similar to 7 on a notably short timescale (i.e., approximate to 115 rest-frame days), making it the z > 4 QSO with the largest variability amplitude. We also obtained rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic and photometric data with the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). Surprisingly, comparing our LBT photometry with archival data, we found that J1641+3755 became consistently brighter in the rest-frame UV band from 2003 to 2016, while no strong variation occurred from 2016 to 2021. Its rest-frame UV spectrum is consistent with the average spectrum of high-redshift QSOs. Multiple narrow absorption features are present, and several of them can be associated with an intervening system at z = 5 :67. Several physical causes can explain the variability properties of J1641+3755, including intrinsic variations of the accretion rate, a small-scale obscuration event, gravitational lensing due to an intervening object, and an unrelated X-ray transient in a foreground galaxy in 2018. Accounting for all of the z > 6 QSOs with multiple X-ray observations separated by more that ten rest-frame days, we found an enhancement of strongly (i.e., by a factor >3) X-ray variable objects compared to QSOs at later cosmic times. This finding may be related to the physics of fast accretion in high-redshift QSOs.
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    Inferring Compton-thick AGN candidates at z > 2 with Chandra using the > 8 keV rest-frame spectral curvature.
    (2017) Baronchelli, Linda; Ricci, Claudio; Treister, Ezequiel; Koss, M.; Schawinski, K.; Cardamone, C.; Civano, F.; Comastri, A.; Elvis, M.; Lanzuisi, G.; Marchesi, S.
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    NuSTAR observations of four nearby X-ray faint AGNs: low luminosity or heavy obscuration?
    (OUP, 2020) Annuar, A.; Alexander, D. M.; Gandhi, P.; Lansbury, G. B.; Asmus, D.; Balokovic, M.; Ballantyne, D. R.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Boorman, P. G.; Brandt, W. N.; Brightman, M.; Chen, C. T. J.; Del Moro, A.; Farrah, D.; Harrison, F. A.; Koss, M. J.; Lanz, L.; Marchesi, S.; Masini, A.; Nardini, E.; Ricci, Claudio; Stern, D.; Zappacosta, L.
    We present NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) observations of four active galactic nuclei (AGNs) located within 15 Mpc. These AGNs, namely ESO 121-G6, NGC 660, NGC 3486, and NGC 5195, have observed X-ray luminosities of L 2–10 keV,obs ≲ 10 39 erg s −1 , classifying them as low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN). We perform broad-band X-ray spectral analysis for the AGN by combining our NuSTAR data with Chandra or XMM–Newton observations to directly measure their column densities (N H ) and infer their intrinsic power. We complement our X-ray data with archival and new high-angular resolution mid-infrared (mid-IR) data for all objects, except NGC 5195. Based on our X-ray spectral analysis, we found that both ESO 121-G6 and NGC 660 are heavily obscured (N H > 10 23 cm −2 ; L 2–10 keV,int ∼ 10 41 erg s −1 ), and NGC 660 may be Compton thick. We also note that the X-ray flux and spectral slope for ESO 121-G6 have significantly changed over the last decade, indicating significant changes in the obscuration and potentially accretion rate. On the other hand, NGC 3486 and NGC 5195 appear to be unobscured and just mildly obscured, respectively, with L 2–10 keV,int < 10 39 erg s −1 , i.e. genuine LLAGN. Both of the heavily obscured AGNs have L bol > 10 41 erg s −1 and λ Edd ≳ 10 −3 , and are detected in high-angular resolution mid-IR imaging, indicating the presence of obscuring dust on nuclear scale. NGC 3486, however, is undetected in high-resolution mid-IR imaging, and the current data do not provide stringent constraints on the presence or absence of obscuring nuclear dust in the AGN.
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    The Accretion History of AGN : A Newly Defined Population of Cold Quasars
    (2020) Kirkpatrick, A.; Urry, C. M.; Brewster, J.; Cooke, K. C.; Estrada, M.; Glikman, E.; Hamblin, K.; Ananna, T. T.; Carlile, C.; Treister, Ezequiel; Coleman, B.; Johnson, J.; Kartaltepe, J. S.; LaMassa, S. M.; Marchesi, S.; Powell, M.; Sanders, D.; Turner, T. J.
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    The deep Chandra survey in the SDSS J1030+0524 field
    (2020) Nanni, R.; Gilli, R.; Vignali, C.; Mignoli, M.; Peca, A.; Marchesi, S.; Annunziatella, M.; Brusa, M.; Calura, F.; Cappelluti, N.; Chiaberge, M.; Comastri, A.; Iwasawa, K.; Lanzuisi, G.; Liuzzo, E.; Marchesini, D.; Prandoni, I.; Tozzi, P.; Vito, F.; Zamorani, G.; Norman, C.
    We present the X-ray source catalog for the similar to 479 ks Chandra exposure of the SDSS J1030+0524 field, which is centered on a region that shows the best evidence to date of an overdensity around a z > 6 quasar, and also includes a galaxy overdensity around a Compton-thick Fanaroff-Riley type II (FRII) radio galaxy at z = 1.7. Using wavdetect for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for source photometry and significance assessment, we create preliminary catalogs of sources that are detected in the full (0.5-7.0 keV), soft (0.5-2.0 keV), and hard (2-7 keV) bands, respectively. We produce X-ray simulations that mirror our Chandra observation to filter our preliminary catalogs and achieve a completeness level of > 91% and a reliability level of similar to 95% in each band. The catalogs in the three bands are then matched into a final main catalog of 256 unique sources. Among them, 244, 193, and 208 are detected in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively. The Chandra observation covers a total area of 335 arcmin(2) and reaches flux limits over the central few square arcmins of similar to 3 x 10(-16), 6 x 10(-17), and 2 x 10(-16) erg cm(-2) s(-1) in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively This makes J1030 field the fifth deepest extragalactic X-ray survey to date. The field is part of the Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC), and is also covered by optical imaging data from the Large Binocular Camera (LBC) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), near-infrared imaging data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope WIRCam (CFHT/WIRCam), and Spitzer IRAC. Thanks to its dense multi-wavelength coverage, J1030 represents a legacy field for the study of large-scale structures around distant accreting supermassive black holes. Using a likelihood ratio analysis, we associate multi-band (r, z, J, and 4.5 mu m) counterparts for 252 (98.4%) of the 256 Chandra sources, with an estimated reliability of 95%. Finally, we compute the cumulative number of sources in each X-ray band, finding that they are in general agreement with the results from the Chandra Deep Fields.