Browsing by Author "Urry, C. Megan"

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    Accretion History of AGNs. II. Constraints on AGN Spectral Parameters Using the Cosmic X-Ray Background
    (2020) Ananna, Tonima; Treister, Ezequiel; Urry, C. Megan; Ricci, Claudio; Hickox, R. C.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Marchesi, Stefano; Kirkpatrick, Allison
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    BASS. XXIV. The BASS DR2 Spectroscopic Line Measurements and AGN Demographics
    (2022) Oh, Kyuseok; Koss, Michael J.; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Stern, Daniel; Ricci, Claudio; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Powell, Meredith C.; den Brok, Jakob S.; Lamperti, Isabella; Mushotzky, Richard; Ricci, Federica; Bar, Rudolf E.; Rojas, Alejandra F.; Ichikawa, Kohei; Riffel, Rogerio; Treister, Ezequiel; Harrison, Fiona; Urry, C. Megan; Bauer, Franz E.; Schawinski, Kevin
    We present the second catalog and data release of optical spectral line measurements and active galactic nucleus (AGN) demographics of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on the Swift-BAT hard X-ray detected AGNs. We use spectra from dedicated campaigns and publicly available archives to investigate spectral properties of most of the AGNs listed in the 70 month Swift-BAT all-sky catalog; specifically, 743 of the 746 unbeamed and unlensed AGNs (99.6%). We find a good correspondence between the optical emission line widths and the hydrogen column density distributions using the X-ray spectra, with a clear dichotomy of AGN types for N (H) = 10(22) cm(-2). Based on optical emission-line diagnostics, we show that 48%-75% of BAT AGNs are classified as Seyfert, depending on the choice of emission lines used in the diagnostics. The fraction of objects with upper limits on line emission varies from 6% to 20%. Roughly 4% of the BAT AGNs have lines too weak to be placed on the most commonly used diagnostic diagram, [O iii]lambda 5007/H beta versus [N ii]lambda 6584/H alpha, despite the high signal-to-noise ratio of their spectra. This value increases to 35% in the [O iii]lambda 5007/[O ii]lambda 3727 diagram, owing to difficulties in line detection. Compared to optically selected narrow-line AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the BAT narrow-line AGNs have a higher rate of reddening/extinction, with H alpha/H beta > 5 (similar to 36%), indicating that hard X-ray selection more effectively detects obscured AGNs from the underlying AGN population. Finally, we present a subpopulation of AGNs that feature complex broad lines (34%, 250/743) or double-peaked narrow emission lines (2%, 17/743).
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    BASS. XXIX. The Near-infrared View of the Broad-line Region (BLR): The Effects of Obscuration in BLR Characterization
    (2022) Ricci, Federica ; Treister, Ezequiel ; Bauer, Franz E.; Mejía-Restrepo, Julian E. ; Koss, Michael J. ; den Brok, Jakob S. ; Baloković, Mislav ; Bär, Rudolf ; Bessiere, Patricia ; Caglar, Turgay ; Harrison, Fiona ; Ichikawa, Kohei ; Kakkad, Darshan; Lamperti, Isabella ; Mushotzky, Richard ; Oh, Kyuseok ; Powell, Meredith C. ; Privon, George C. ; Ricci, Claudio ; Riffel, Rogerio ; Rojas, Alejandra F. ; Sani, Eleonora ; Smith, Krista L. ; Stern, Daniel ; Trakhtenbrot, Benny ; Urry, C. Megan ; Veilleux, Sylvain
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    BASS. XXVIII. Near-infrared Data Release 2: High-ionization and Broad Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei
    (2022) den Brok, Jakob S.; Koss, Michael J.; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Stern, Daniel; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Lamperti, Isabella; Ricci, Federica; Ricci, Claudio; Oh, Kyuseok; Bauer, Franz E.; Riffel, Rogerio; Rodriguez-Ardila, Alberto; Baer, Rudolf; Harrison, Fiona; Ichikawa, Kohei; Mejia-Restrepo, Julian E.; Mushotzky, Richard; Powell, Meredith C.; Boissay-Malaquin, Rozenn; Stalevski, Marko; Treister, Ezequiel; Urry, C. Megan; Veilleux, Sylvain
    We present the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) Near-infrared Data Release 2 (DR2), a study of 168 nearby ((z) over bar = 0.04, z < 0.6) active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the all-sky Swift Burst Array Telescope X-ray survey observed with the Very Large Telescope (VLT)/X-shooter in the near-infrared (NIR; 0.8-2.4 mu m). We find that 49/109 (45%) Seyfert 2 and 35/58 (60%) Seyfert 1 galaxies observed with VLT/X-shooter show at least one NIR high-ionization coronal line (CL; ionization potential chi > 100 eV). Comparing the emission of the [Si VI] lambda 1.9640 CL with the X-ray emission for the DR2 AGN, we find a significantly tighter correlation, with a lower scatter (0.37 dex) than that for the optical [O III] lambda 5007 line (0.71 dex). We do not find any correlation between CL emission and the X-ray photon index Gamma. We find a clear trend of line blueshifts with increasing ionization potential in several CLs, such as [Si VI] lambda 1.9640, [Si X] lambda 1.4300, [S VIII] lambda 0.9915, and [S IX] lambda 1.2520, indicating the radial structure of the CL region. Finally, we find a strong underestimation bias in black hole mass measurements of Sy 1.9 using broad H alpha due to the presence of significant dust obscuration. In contrast, the broad Pa alpha and Pa beta emission lines are in agreement with the M-sigma relation. Based on the combined DR1 and DR2 X-shooter sample, the NIR BASS sample now comprises 266 AGN with rest-frame NIR spectroscopic observations, the largest set assembled to date.
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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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    Morphological Parameters and Associated Uncertainties for 8 Million Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Wide Survey
    (Wiley, 2023) Ghosh, Aritra; Urry, C. Megan; Mishra, Aayush; Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence; Natarajan, Priyamvada; Sanders, David B.; Nagai, Daisuke; Tian, Chuan; Cappelluti, Nico; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Powell, Meredith C.; Rau, Amrit; Treister, Ezequiel
    We use the Galaxy Morphology Posterior Estimation Network (GaMPEN) to estimate morphological parameters and associated uncertainties for & SIM;8 million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Wide survey with z & LE; 0.75 and m & LE; 23. GaMPEN is a machine-learning framework that estimates Bayesian posteriors for a galaxy's bulge-to-total light ratio (L ( B )/L ( T )), effective radius (R ( e )), and flux (F). By first training on simulations of galaxies and then applying transfer learning using real data, we trained GaMPEN with <1% of our data set. This two-step process will be critical for applying machine-learning algorithms to future large imaging surveys, such as the Rubin-Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and Euclid. By comparing our results to those obtained using light profile fitting, we demonstrate that GaMPEN's predicted posterior distributions are well calibrated (& LSIM;5% deviation) and accurate. This represents a significant improvement over light profile fitting algorithms, which underestimate uncertainties by as much as & SIM;60%. For an overlapping subsample, we also compare the derived morphological parameters with values in two external catalogs and find that the results agree within the limits of uncertainties predicted by GaMPEN. This step also permits us to define an empirical relationship between the Sersic index and L ( B )/L ( T ) that can be used to convert between these two parameters. The catalog presented here represents a significant improvement in size (& SIM;10x), depth (& SIM;4 mag), and uncertainty quantification over previous state-of-the-art bulge+disk decomposition catalogs. With this work, we also release GaMPEN's source code and trained models, which can be adapted to other data sets.
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    Stripe 82-XL: The ∼54.8 deg2 and ∼18.8 Ms Chandra and XMM-Newton Point-source Catalog and Number of Counts
    (2024) Peca, Alessandro; Cappelluti, Nico; Lamassa, Stephanie; Urry, C. Megan; Moscetti, Massimo; Marchesi, Stefano; Sanders, David; Auge, Connor; Ghosh, Aritra; Ananna, Tonima Tasnim; Torres-Alba, Nuria; Treister, Ezequiel
    We present an enhanced version of the publicly available Stripe 82X catalog (S82-XL), featuring a comprehensive set of 22,737 unique X-ray point sources identified with a significance greater than or similar to 4 sigma. This catalog is four times larger than the original Stripe 82X catalog, by including additional archival data from the Chandra and XMM-Newton telescopes. Now covering similar to 54.8 deg(2 )of nonoverlapping sky area, the S82-XL catalog roughly doubles the area and depth of the original catalog, with limiting fluxes (half-area fluxes) of 3.4 x 10(-16) (2.4 x 10(-15)), 2.9 x 10(-15) (1.5 x 10(-14)), and 1.4 x 10(-15) (9.5 x 10(-15)) erg s(-1) cm(-2) across the soft (0.5-2 keV), hard (2-10 keV), and full (0.5-10 keV) bands, respectively. S82-XL occupies a unique region of flux-area parameter space compared to other X-ray surveys, identifying sources with rest-frame luminosities from 1.2 x 1038 to 1.6 x 1047 erg s(-1) in the 2-10 keV band (median X-ray luminosity, 7.2 x 1043 erg s(-1)), and spectroscopic redshifts up to z similar to 6. By using hardness ratios, we derived the obscuration of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), obtaining a median value of log(NH/cm(-2))=21.6-1.6+1.0 and an overall, obscured fraction ( log(NH/cm-2)>22 ) of similar to 36.9%. S82-XL serves as a benchmark in X-ray surveys and, with its extensive multiwavelength data, is especially valuable for comprehensive studies of luminous AGNs.
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    The Calán-Yale Deep Extragalactic Research (CYDER) Survey: Optical Properties and Deep Spectroscopy of Serendipitous X-Ray Sources
    (2005) Treister, Ezequiel; Gawiser, Eric.; Castander, Francisco J.; Maccarone, Thomas J.; Coppi, Paolo S.; Urry, C. Megan; Maza, José; Herrera, David; Gonzalez, Valentino; Montoya, Carlos; Pineda, Pedro
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    The Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: optical/IR identifications
    (2016) Marchesi, Stefano; Treister, Ezequiel; Civano, Francesca; Elvis, Martin; Salvato, M.; Brusa, Marcella; Comastri, A.; Gilli, R.; Hasinger, G.; Lanzuisi, G.; Miyaji, T.; Urry, C. Megan
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    The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys.
    (2012) Treister, Ezequiel; Urry, C. Megan
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    The extended chandra deep field-south survey : X-Ray point-source catalog.
    (2006) Virani, Shanil; Treister, Ezequiel; Urry, C. Megan; Gawiser, Eric.
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    The Hunt for Red Quasars: Luminous Obscured Black Hole Growth Unveiled in the Stripe 82 X-Ray Survey
    (2017) LaMassa, Stephanie M.; Lira, Paulina; Treister, Ezequiel; Glikman, Eilat; Brusa, Marcella; Rigby, Jane R.; Ananna, Tonima; Stern, Daniel.; Urry, C. Megan; Salvato, M.; Alexandroff, Rachael
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    The Space Density of Compton-thick AGN.
    (2010) Treister, Ezequiel; Gawiser, Eric.; Urry, C. Megan; Cardamone, Carolin N.; Virani, Shanil; Schawinski, Kevin