Study of Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback with X-ray Observations

• Project/Area Number: 26400228
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Astronomy
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Ueda Yoshihiro 京都大学, 理学研究科, 准教授 (10290876)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 活動銀河核 / ブラックホール / X線

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We systematically analyzed the X-ray spectra of many active galactic nuclei in the local universe observed with Suzaku and XMM-Newton. We have found that (1) about half of radio galaxies have ultra fast outflows, (2) the mean solid angle of tori increases with luminosity at low luminosities, and (3) a key parameter that determines AGN feedback is the Eddington ratio. By optical spectroscopic observations of ultra-luminous X-ray sources, we have revealed that they are in the supercritical accretion state, ejecting a large amount of gas via disk winds.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Study of Swift/Bat Selected Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei Observed with Suzaku (2017)
  • Author(s): Kawamuro, T., Ueda, Y., Tazaki, F., Terashima, Y., & Mushotzky, R.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 831 Issue: 1 Pages: 3742-3742
  • DOI: 10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/37
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The Complete Infrared View of Active Galactic Nuclei from the 70 Month Swift/BAT Catalog (2017)
  • Author(s): Ichikawa, K., Ricci, C., Ueda, Y., Matsuoka, K., Toba, Y., Kawamuro, T., Trakhtenbrot, B., Koss, M. J.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 835 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-19
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/74
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Shedding Light on the Compton-thick Active Galactic Nucleus in the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy UGC 5101 with Broadband X-Ray Spectroscopy (2017)
  • Author(s): Oda, S., Tanimoto, A., Ueda, Y., Imanishi, M., Terashima, Y., & Ricci, C.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 835 Issue: 2 Pages: 179-179
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/179
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Feeding and Feedback in the Powerful Radio Galaxy 3C 120 (2017)
  • Author(s): Tombesi, F. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 838 Issue: 1 Pages: 16-16
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6342
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The dust covering factor in active galactic nuclei (2016)
  • Author(s): Stalevski, M., Ricci, C., Ueda, Y., et al.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 458 Issue: 3 Pages: 2288-2302
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw444
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] An Optically Thick Disk Wind in GRO J1655-40? (2016)
  • Author(s): Shidatsu, M., Done, C., Ueda, Y.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 823 Issue: 2 Pages: 159-159
  • DOI: 10.3847/0004-637x/823/2/159
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Suzaku confirms NGC 3660 is an unabsorbed Seyfert 2 (2016)
  • Author(s): Rivers, E., Brightman, M., Bianchi, S., Matt, G., Nandra, K., Ueda, Y.
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 68 Issue: SP1
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psv137
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] A soft X-ray lag detected in Centaurus A (2016)
  • Author(s): Y Tachibana, T Kawamuro, Y Ueda, M Shidatsu, M Arimoto, Ti Yoshii, Y Yatsu, Y Saito, S Pike, N Kawai
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 68 Issue: SP1
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psw001
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Suzaku follow-up of heavily obscured active galactic nuclei detected in Swift/BAT survey: NGC 1106, UGC 03752, and NGC 2788A (2016)
  • Author(s): Tanimoto, A., Ueda, Y., Kawamuro, T., Ricci, C.
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 68 Issue: SP1
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psw008
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Suzaku Observations of Moderately Obscured (Compton-thin) Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Survey (2016)
  • Author(s): Kawamuro, T., Ueda, Y., Tazaki, F., Ricci, C., & Terashima, Y.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Volume: 225 Issue: 1 Pages: 1436-1436
  • DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/225/1/14
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The quiescent intracluster medium in the core of the Perseus cluster (2016)
  • Author(s): Hitomi Collaboration et al.
  • Journal Title: Nature Volume: 535 Issue: 7610 Pages: 117-121
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature18627
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Hard X-ray luminosity function of tidal disruption events: First results from the MAXI extragalactic survey (2016)
  • Author(s): Kawamuro, T., Ueda, Y., Shidatsu, M., Hori, T., Kawai, N., Negoro, H., Mihara, T.
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Pages: 5874-5874
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psw056
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni (2016)
  • Author(s): Kimura, M. et al.
  • Journal Title: Nature Volume: 529 Issue: 7584 Pages: 54-58
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature16452
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The Differences in the Torus Geometry between Hidden and Non-hidden Broad Line Active Galactic Nuclei (2015)
  • Author(s): Ichikawa, Kohei; Packham, Christopher; Ramos Almeida, Cristina; Asensio Ramos, Andres; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Gonzalez-Martin, Omaira; Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Diaz-Santos, Tanio; Elitzur, Moshe; Honig, Sebastian F.; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Levenson, Nancy A.; Mason, Rachel E. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 803 Issue: 2 Pages: 57-57
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/803/2/57
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Detailed Shape and Evolutionary Behavior of the X-Ray Luminosity Function of Active Galactic Nuclei (2015)
  • Author(s): Miyaji, T. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 804 Issue: 2 Pages: 104-104
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/804/2/104
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A Compton-thick AGN in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4785 (2015)
  • Author(s): Gandhi, P. et al.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 449 Issue: 2 Pages: 1845-1855
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv344
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes in galactic centers unveiled by hard X-ray observations (2015)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B Volume: 91 Issue: 5 Pages: 175-192
  • DOI: 10.2183/pjab.91.175
  • NAID: 130005069526
  • ISSN: 0386-2208, 1349-2896
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Supercritical accretion disks in ultraluminous X-ray sources and SS 433 (2015)
  • Author(s): Fabrika, S., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: Nature Physics Volume: 11 Issue: 7 Pages: 551-553
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3348
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The Subaru-XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS). VIII. Multi-wavelength identification, optical/NIR spectroscopic properties, and photometric redshifts of X-ray sources (2015)
  • Author(s): Akiyama, M., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 67 Issue: 5
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psv050
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Hyper-luminous dust-obscured galaxies discovered by the Hyper Suprime-Cam on Subaru and WISE (2015)
  • Author(s): Toba, Yoshiki; Nagao, Tohru; Strauss, Michael A.; Aoki, Kentaro; Goto, Tomotsugu; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Kawaguchi, Toshihiro; Terashima, Yuichi; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Bosch, James; Bundy, Kevin; Doi, Yoshiyuki; Inami, Hanae; Komiyama, Yutaka; Lupton, Robert H.; Matsuhara, Hideo; Matsuoka, Yoshiki; Miyazaki, Satoshi et al.
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: 67 Issue: 5 Pages: 8615-8615
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psv057
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] [O iii] λ5007 and X-Ray Properties of a Complete Sample of Hard X-Ray Selected AGNs in the Local Universe (2015)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 815 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-14
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/815/1/1
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Compton-thick Accretion in the Local Universe (2015)
  • Author(s): Ricci, C., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume: 815 Issue: 1 Pages: L13-L13
  • DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/815/1/l13
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] BAT AGN spectroscopic survey-II. X-ray emission and high-ionization optical emission lines (2015)
  • Author(s): Berney, S. et al.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 454 Issue: 4 Pages: 3622-3634
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2181
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Chandra survey in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Deep Field - I. X-ray data, point-like source catalogue, sensitivity maps, and number counts (2015)
  • Author(s): Krumpe, M.; Miyaji, T.; Brunner, H.; Hanami, H.; Ishigaki, T.; Takagi, T.; Markowitz, A. G.; Goto, T.; Malkan, M. A.; Matsuhara, H.; Pearson, C.; Ueda, Y.; Wada, T.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 446 Issue: 1 Pages: 911-931
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2010
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] MAXI Investigation into the Long-term X-Ray Variability from the Very-high-energy γ-Ray Blazar Mrk 421 (2015)
  • Author(s): Isobe Naoki, Sato Ryosuke, Ueda Yoshihiro, Hayashida Masaaki, Shidatsu Megumi, Kawamuro Taiki, Ueno Shiro, Sugizaki Mutsumi, Sugimoto Juri, Mihara Tatehiro, Matsuoka Masaru, Negoro Hitoshi
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: Volume 798 Issue: 1 Pages: 27-27
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/798/1/27
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] AKARI infrared camera observations of the 3.3 um PAH feature in Swift/BAT AGNs (2015)
  • Author(s): A. Castro, T. Miyaji, M. Shirahata, K. Ichikawa, S. Oyabu, D. M. Clark, M. Imanishi, T. Nakagawa, Y. Ueda
  • Journal Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Volume: Volume 66, Issue 6 Issue: 6
  • DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psu096
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Suzaku Observation of IRAS 00521-7054, a Peculiar Type-II AGN with a Very Broad Feature at 6 keV (2014)
  • Author(s): Ricci, C., Tazaki, F., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 795 Issue: 2 Pages: 147-147
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/795/2/147
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] AKARI IRC 2.5-5 um Spectroscopy of Infrared Galaxies over a Wide Luminosity Range (2014)
  • Author(s): K. Ichikawa, M. Imanishi, Y. Ueda, T. Nakagawa, M. Shirahata, H. Kaneda, S. Oyabu
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: Volume 794, Issue 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 139-139
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/794/2/139
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Ultrafast outflows in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (2014)
  • Author(s): Tombesi, F., Tazaki, F., Mushotzky, R. F., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 443 Issue: 3 Pages: 2154-2182
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1297
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Iron Kalpha emission in type-I and type-II active galactic nuclei (2014)
  • Author(s): Ricci, C., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume: 441 Issue: 4 Pages: 3622-3633
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu735
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] SUZAKU Observation of the Black Hole Binary 4U 1630-47 in the Very High State (2014)
  • Author(s): Takafumi Hori, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu, Taiki Kawamuro, Aya Kubota, Chris Done, Satoshi Nakahira, Kohji Tsumura, Mai Shirahata, and Takahiro Nagayama
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: Volume 790 Issue: 1 Pages: 20-30
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/790/1/20
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Spectral and Timing Properties of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary H1743-322 in the Low/Hard State Studied with Suzaku (2014)
  • Author(s): M. Shidatsu, Y. Ueda, S. Yamada, C. Done, T. Hori, K. Yamaoka, A. Kubota, T. Nagayama, and Y. Moritani
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: Volume 789 Issue: 2 Pages: 100-111
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/789/2/100
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The narrow Fe Kalpha line and the molecular torus in active galactic nuclei: an IR/X-ray view (2014)
  • Author(s): Ricci, C., Ueda, Y. et al.
  • Journal Title: Astronomy & Astrophysics Volume: 567 Pages: A142-A142
  • DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322701
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Toward the Standard Population Synthesis Model of the X-Ray Background: Evolution of X-Ray Luminosity and Absorption Functions of Active Galactic Nuclei Including Compton-thick Populations (2014)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y., Akiyama, M., Hasinger, G., Miyaji, T., Watson, M.G.
  • Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Volume: 786 Issue: 2 Pages: 104-104
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/786/2/104
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] X-ray View of Obscured Accretion (2016)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y.
  • Organizer: European Weeek of Astronomy and Space Science 2016
  • Place of Presentation: The Eugenides Foundation and the Metropolitan hotel, Athens (Greece)
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-04
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Broadband X-ray Spectra of AGNs and Synthesis of the X-ray Background (2015)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y
  • Organizer: Prospects, challenges and evolution of AGN modeling in the Astro-H Era
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-21
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Cosmological Evolution of X-ray Selected AGNs and Synthesis of the X-ray Background (2015)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y.
  • Organizer: Torus 2015
  • Place of Presentation: Winchester, UK
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-14
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] X-RAY VIEW of ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (2015)
  • Author(s): Ueda, Y.
  • Organizer: 10th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics
  • Place of Presentation: Srebrno jezero, Serbia
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-15
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited