Publications

Publications that make use of these resources must acknowledge funding from PRIN MIUR, e.g. “Author X acknowledges support from PRIN MIUR project “Black Hole winds and the Baryon Life Cycle of Galaxies: the stone-guest at the galaxy evolution supper”, contract #2017PH3WAT”.

A list of recent publications by our team related to AGN feedback

Longinotti, Anna Lia; Salomé, Q.; Feruglio, C. and 10 more NOEMA spatially resolved view of the multiphase outflow in IRAS17020+4544: a shocked wind in action? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 521, Issue 2, pp.2134-2148,10.1093/mnras/stad540 

Tozzi, Giulia; Maiolino, Roberto;Cresci, Giovanni  and 5 more Unveiling hidden active nuclei in MaNGA star-forming galaxies with He II λ4686 line emission,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 521, Issue 1, pp.1264-1276 10.1093/mnras/stad506

Kakkad, D.;  Mainieri, V.; Vietri, G. and 19 more SUPER VII. morphology and kinematics of H α emission in AGN host galaxies at cosmic noon using SINFONI  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 520, Issue 4, pp.5783-5802, 10.1093/mnras/stad439

Tripodi, Roberta; Feruglio, Chiara; Kemper, Francisca  and 14 more Accurate dust temperature and star formation rate in the most luminous z>6 quasar in the HYPerluminous quasars at the Epoch of ReionizatION (HYPERION) sample, ApJ Letters in press, eprint arXiv:2303.11961

Tripodi, R.;  Lelli, F.;  Feruglio, C. and 4 more Dynamical signature of a stellar bulge in a quasar-host galaxy at z ≃ 6,   Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 671, id.A44, 8 pp. 10.1051/0004-6361/202245202 

Saccheo, I.; Bongiorno, A.; Piconcelli, E.  and 20 more The WISSH quasars project. XI. The mean spectral energy distribution and bolometric corrections of the most luminous quasars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 671, id.A34, 19 pp., 10.1051/0004-6361/202244296

Fiore, Fabrizio; Ferrara, Andrea; Bischetti, Manuela  and 2 more Dusty-wind-clear JWST Super-early Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 943, Issue 2, id.L27, 5 pp.   10.3847/2041-8213/acb5f2 

Gianolli, V. E.;  Kim, D. E.; Bianchi, S. and 105 more Uncovering the geometry of the hot X-ray corona in the Seyfert galaxy NGC4151 with IXPE, eprint arXiv:2303.12541, arXiv:2303.12541

Grafton-Waters, S.; Mao, J.; Mehdipour, M  and 13 more Transient obscuration event captured in NGC 3227 IV. Origin of the obscuring cloud variabilityeprint arXiv:2303.04717,   10.48550/arXiv.2303.04717

Matzeu, G. A.; Brusa, M.;  Lanzuisi, G. and 49 more Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS. I. Ultra-fast outflows in quasars beyond the local Universe, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 670, id.A182, 28 pp., 10.1051/0004-6361/202245036 

Mehdipour, M.; Kriss, G. A.;  Brusa, M.  and 35 more Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS. I. Ultra-fast outflows in quasars beyond the local Universe, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 670, id.A183, 23 pp. 10.1051/0004-6361/202245047 

Bischetti, Manuela; Fiore, Fabrizio; Feruglio, Chiara and 15 more The fraction and kinematics of broad absorption line quasars across cosmic time, eprint arXiv:2301.09731, ApJ in press

Vietri, G.; Misawa, T.; Piconcelli, E.  and 16 more The WISSH quasars project. X. Discovery of a multi-component and highly variable UV ultra-fast outflow in a z = 3.6 quasar,  Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 668, id.A87, 14 pp. 10.1051/0004-6361/202243285 

Bertola, E.; Vignali, C.; Lanzuisi, G and 7 more The properties of the X-ray corona in the distant (z = 3.91) quasar APM 08279+5255, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 662, id.A98, 14 pp.,  10.1051/0004-6361/202142642 

Bischetti, M.; Feruglio, C.; D’Odorico, V.  and 23 more, Suppression of black-hole growth by strong outflows at redshifts 5.8-6.6, Nature, Volume 605, Issue 7909, p.244-247, 10.1038/s41586-022-04608-1

Papers published since November 2020  


Tozzi, P.; Pentericci, L.; Gilli, R. et al. The 700 ks Chandra Spiderweb Field I: evidence for widespread nuclear activity in the Protocluster, 2022arXiv220302208T, eprint arXiv:2203.02208

Ramos Almeida, C.; Bischetti, M.; García-Burillo, S. and 8 moreThe diverse cold molecular gas contents, morphologies, and kinematics of type-2 quasars as seen by ALMA, 2022A&A…658A.155R, DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202141906

Ilaria Ruffa,  Isabella Prandoni et al. The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies – IV. Molecular gas conditions and jet-ISM interaction in NGC 3100, 2022MNRAS.510.4485R, DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab3541 

G. Tozzi, G. Cresci, A. Marasco, E. Nardini et al., Connecting X-ray nuclear winds with galaxy-scale ionised outflows in two z ∼ 1.5 lensed quasars, A&A 648, A99 (2021), DOI 0004-6361/202040190

Ricci, F.; Treister, E.; Bauer F., E. ApJ (special issue), accepted: “BASS XXIX: The near-infrared view of the BLR: the effects of obscuration in BLR characterisation2021arXiv211113720R, pre-proof version accepted for publication on ApJ (to appear on the BASS DR2 ApJ Special Issue)

Valentini, Milena; Gallerani, Simona ; Ferrara, Andrea – Host galaxies of high-redshift quasars: SMBH growth and feedback – MNRAS, Volume 507, 2021 – DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1992 

Di Mascia, F. ; Gallerani, S. ; Ferrara, A. ; Pallottini, A.; Maiolino, R. ; Carniani, S.; D’Odorico, V. – The dust attenuation law in z~6 quasars – MNRAS, 2021, Volume 506 – DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1876 

Di Mascia, F. ; Gallerani, S. ; Behrens, C. ; Pallottini, A.; Carniani, S.; Ferrara, A. ; Barai, P.; Vito, F.; Zana, T. – Infrared emission of z ∼ 6 galaxies: AGN imprints – MNRAS, Volume 503, pp.2349-2368 – DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab528 

Zana T.; Gallerani S.; Carniani S.; Vito F.; Ferrara A.; Lupi A.; Di Mascia F., Barai P. – “Enhanced star formation in z∼6 quasar companions”, submitted to MNRAS on 18th Oct 2021

Zanchettin, M. V.; Feruglio, C.; Bischetti, M. et al. The IBISCO survey. I. Multiphase discs and winds in the Seyfert galaxy Markarian 509, 2021, A&A, 655A, 25, doi 10.1051/0004-6361/202039773

Bischetti, M.; Feruglio, C.; Piconcelli, E. et al. The WISSH quasars project. IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at z ∼ 2.4-4.7, 2021A&A…645A..33B, doi 10.1051/0004-6361/202039057

Middei, R. Matzeu, G. A., Bianchi, S. ; Braito, V. ; Reeves, J. ; De Rosa, A.; Dadina, M. ; Marinucci, A. ; Perri, M. ; Zaino, A.,  “X-ray emission of Seyfert 2 galaxy MCG-01-24-12”,  Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 647, 2021, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039984, arxiv;

Venturi, G. et al. MAGNUM survey: Compact jets causing large turmoil in galaxies. Enhanced line widths perpendicular to radio jets as tracers of jet-ISM interaction, 2021 A&A 648. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039869


Xu, Y. ; Pinto, C. ; Bianchi, S. et al.  Wind-luminosity evolution in NLS1 AGN 1H 0707-495 “, MNRAS,  Volume 508, 2021, doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2984, arxiv;

Wang, Y., […], Bianchi S. et al., “Transient obscuration event captured in NGC~3227 II. Warm absorbers and obscuration events in archival XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations”, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics;


Camilloni F., Bianchi S., Amato R., Ferland G., and Grinberg V., “Cloudy in the Microcalorimeter Era: Improved Energies for Si and S Kα Fluorescence Lines“, Research notes for the AAS, Volume 5, 2021,https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac0cff

Laurenti, M. ; Piconcelli, E. ; Zappacosta, L. ; Tombesi, F. ; Vignali, C. ; Bianchi, S. ; Marziani, P. ; Vagnetti, F.; Bongiorno, A. ; Bischetti, M. ; del Olmo, A. ; Lanzuisi, G. ; Luminari, A. ; Middei, R. ; Perri, M. ; Ricci, C. ; Vietri, G., ” X-ray spectroscopic survey of highly-accreting AGN “, A&A 657, A57 (2022), DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202141829

M. Laurenti, E. Piconcelli, L. Zappacosta, F. Tombesi, C. Vignali, S. Bianchi, P. Marziani, F. Vagnetti, A. Bongiorno, M. Bischetti, A. del Olmo, G. Lanzuisi, A. Luminari, R. Middei, M. Perri, C. Ricci, G. Vietri, X-ray spectroscopic survey of highly accreting AGN, 2021, A&A, Forthcoming article arXiv 2110.06939

Saturni, F. G.; Vietri, G.; Piconcelli, E.; Vignali, C.; Bischetti, M.; Bongiorno, A.; Cazzoli, S.; Feruglio, C.; Fiore, F.; Husemann, B.; Ramos Almeida, C. Capturing dual AGN activity and kiloparsec-scale outflows in IRAS 20210+1121, 2021 A&A 654 A154, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141389

Serafinelli, R.; Braito, V.; Severgnini, P.; Tombesi, F.; Giani, G.; Piconcelli, E.; Della Ceca, R.; Vagnetti, F.; Gaspari, M.; Saturni, F. G.; Middei, R.; Tortosa, A., X-ray obscuration from a variable ionized absorber in PG 1114+445, 2021A&A…654A..32S, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141474

Luminari, A.; Nicastro, F.; Elvis, M.; Piconcelli, E.; Tombesi, F.; Zappacosta, L.; Fiore, F.Speed limits for radiation-driven SMBH winds,  2021 A&A 646 A111, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039396

Laurenti, M.; Luminari, A.; Tombesi, F.; Vagnetti, F.; Middei, R.; Piconcelli, E., Location and energetics of the ultra-fast outflow in PG 1448+273, 2021 A&A 645 A118 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039409

Boutsia, Konstantina et al. The Luminosity Function of Bright QSOs at z ∼ 4 and Implications for the Cosmic Ionizing Background, 2021 ApJ 912 111B, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abedb5

Tozzi, G. et al. Connecting X-ray nuclear winds with galaxy-scale ionised outflows in two z 1.5 lensed quasars. 2021, A&A 648. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202040190

Lamperti, I.; Harrison, C. M.; Mainieri, V.  et al. SUPER. V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation, A&A 654, 90,  doi 10.1051/0004-6361/202141363

Mainieri, V.; Circosta, C.; Kakkad, D. et al. SUPER — AGN Feedback at Cosmic Noon: a Multi-phase and Multi-scale Challenge,  2021Msngr.182…45M, doi 10.18727/0722-6691/5222

Circosta, C.; Mainieri, V.; Lamperti, I.  et al.  SUPER. IV. CO(J = 3-2) properties of active galactic nucleus hosts at cosmic noon revealed by ALMA, 2021A&A…646A..96C, doi 10.1051/0004-6361/202039270

Salomé, Q.; Longinotti, A. L.; Krongold, Y. et al. Evidence of galaxy interaction in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 17020+4544 seen by NOEMA, 2021MNRAS.501..219S, doi 10.1093/mnras/staa3626

Capetti, A., Balmaverde, B., Tadhunter, C., and 13 colleagues, The MURALES survey. V. Jet-induced star formation in 3C 277.3 (Coma A), arXiv e-prints, 2021

Marasco, A., Cresci, G., Posti, L., and 5 colleagues, A universal relation between the properties of supermassive black holes, galaxies, and dark matter haloes, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 2021, DOI:10.1093/mnras/stab2317

Lusso, E., Nardini, E., Bisogni, S., and 12 colleagues, The most luminous blue quasars at 3.0 < z < 3.3. II. C IV/X-ray emission and accretion disc physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 653, 2021, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202141356
Speranza, G., Balmaverde, B., Capetti, A., and 13 colleagues, The MURALES survey. IV. Searching for nuclear outflows in 3C radio galaxies at z < 0.3 with MUSE observations, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 653, 2021, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202140686

Fluetsch, A., Maiolino, R., Carniani, S., and 14 colleagues, Properties of the multiphase outflows in local (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, 2021, DOI:10.1093/mnras/stab1666

Lee, M.M., Nagao, T., De Breuck, C., and 11 colleagues, Dense and Warm Neutral Gas in BR 1202-0725 at z = 4.7 as Traced by the [O I] 145 μm Line, The Astrophysical Journal, 913, 2021, DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/abe7ea

Vietri, G., Mainieri, V., Kakkad, D., and 27 colleagues, SUPER. III. Broad line region properties of AGNs at z ∼ 2, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, 2020, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202039136

Ilaria Ruffa, Robert A. Laing,  Isabella Prandoni, et al. The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies III. 3D relative orientations of radio jets and CO discs and their interaction”, MNRAS, 499, 5719, 2020; DOI 10.1093/mnras/staa3166; Open Access  arXiv:2010.04685v1

Marasco, A.; Cresci, G.; Nardini, E.; Mannucci, F.; Marconi, A.; Tozzi, P.; Tozzi, G.; Amiri, A.; Venturi, G.; Piconcelli, E.; Lanzuisi, G.; Tombesi, F.; Mingozzi, M.; Perna, M.; Carniani, S.; Brusa, M.; di Serego Alighieri, S. Galaxy-scale ionised winds driven by ultra-fast outflows in two nearby quasars, 2020, A&A 644, A15 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038889

Chakraborty P., Ferland G., Bianchi S., and Chatzikos M., “Cloudy in the Microcalorimeter Era: Improved Energies for Kα TransitionsCloudy in the Microcalorimeter Era: Improved Energies for Kα Transitions”, Research notes for the AAS, Volume 4, 2020, doi:10.3847/2515-5172/abc1dd

Previous Publications

Pensabene, A. et al. The ALMA view of the high-redshift relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, 2020, A&A, 637, id A84

Venturi G.  et al. The physical properties and impact of AGN outflows from high to low redshift, invited review in Proceeding IAU Symposium No. 359, 2020, “Galaxy evolution and feedback across different environments”, Eds. T. Storchi-Bergmann, R. Overzier, W. Forman and R. Riffel

Arav, N. et al. Multi-wavelength campaign on NGC 7469. V. Analysis of the HST/COS observations: Super solar metallicity, distance, and trough variation models, A&A, 633, 61, 10.1051/0004-6361/201935342

Grafton-Waters, S. et al. Multi-wavelength campaign on NGC 7469. VI. Photoionisation modelling of the emission line regions and the warm absorber, A&A, 633, 17, 10.1051/0004-6361/201935815

Chakraborty, P. et al.  Cloudy in the Microcalorimeter Era: Improved Energies for Kα Transitions, 2020, RNAAS, 4, 10, 10.3847/2515-5172/abc1dd

Shankar, F. et al.  Costraining black-hole scaling relations and radiative efficiency from galaxy clustering, 2020, Nature Astronomy, 4, 282

Duras, F. et al. Universal bolometric corrections for active galactic nuclei over seven luminosity decades, 2020,  A&A, 636, A73

Chartas, G. et al. Linking the small scale relativistic winds and the large scale molecular outflows in the z= 1.51 lensed  quasarHS 0810+2554, 2020, MNRAS 496, 598,  https:/doi.irg/10.1093/mnras/staa1534

Ruffa, I. et al., The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies III. 3D relative orientations of radio jets and CO discs and their interaction, 2020, MNRAS, in press, arXiv:2010.04685v1

Bischetti, M. Feruglio, C. , Piconcelli, E. et al. The WISSH QSOs project IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at Cosmic noon, submitted to A&A, arXiv:2009.01112 

D’Amato, Q. et al.,  Discovery of molecular gas fueling galaxy growth in a protocluster at z = 1.7,  2020, A&A Letters, 641, L6; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038711open access arXiv:2008.13665

Marasco, A. et al., Galaxy-scale ionised winds driven by ultra-fast outflows in two nearby quasars, A&A, in press, eprint arXiv:2009.11294

Fabio Fontanot, Gabriella De Lucia, Michaela Hirschmann, Lizhi Xie, Pierluigi Monaco, Nicola Menci, Fabrizio Fiore, Chiara Feruglio, Stefano Cristiani, Francesco Shankar, The Rise of Active Galactic Nuclei in the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly semi-analytic model, 2020 MNRAS in press.

Zappacosta, L. et al. The WISSH quasars project VII. The impact of extreme radiative field in the accretion disc and X-ray corona interplay A&A 635, L5 (2020)

Feruglio, C.;Fabbiano, G.;Bischetti, M.;Elvis, M.;Travascio, A.;Fiore, F. Multiphase gas flows in the nearby Seyfert galaxy ESO428-G14, 2020ApJ…890…29F

Travascio, A.;Zappacosta, L.;Cantalupo, S.; et al. The WISSH quasars project VII. Outflows and metals in the circumgalactic medium around the hyper-luminous z~3.6 quasar J1538+08 eprint arXiv:2001.07218

Carniani, S.;Gallerani, S.;Vallini, L.; et al. Constraints on high-J CO emission lines in z ∼ 6 quasars 2019MNRAS.489.3939C

Bruni, G.;Piconcelli, E.;Misawa, T. et al. The WISSH quasars project. VI. Fraction and properties of BAL quasars in the hyper-luminosity regime 2019A&A…630A.111B

Bischetti, M.;Piconcelli, E.;Feruglio, C.; et al. The gentle monster PDS 456. Kiloparsec-scale molecular outflow and its implications for QSO feedback 2019A&A…628A.118B

Bischetti, M.; Maiolino, R.; Carniani, S. Widespread QSO-driven outflows in the early Universe 2019A&A…630A..59B

Menci, N.;Fiore, F.;Feruglio, C.; Outflows in the Disks of Active Galaxies 2019ApJ…877…74M

Kriss, Gerard A.;Brusa, Marcella; Kraemer, Steven B.; Supermassive Black Hole Winds in X-rays (SUBWAYS): Building the HST Line with FUV Spectroscopy 2019hst..prop15890K

Ruffa et al. 2019, The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies – II. Kinematics of the molecular gas 2019MNRAS.489.3739R

Ruffa et al. 2019, The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies I. ALMA observations and early results 2019MNRAS.484.4239R 

Mingozzi, M.;Cresci, G.;Venturi, G.; The MAGNUM survey: different gas properties in the outflowing and disc components in nearby active galaxies with MUSE 2019A&A…622A.146M

Circosta, C.;Mainieri, V.;Padovani, P.; SUPER. I. Toward an unbiased study of ionized outflows in z ̃ 2 active galactic nuclei: survey overview and sample characterization 2018A&A…620A..82C

Venturi, Giacomo;Nardini, Emanuele;Marconi, Alessandro; MAGNUM survey: A MUSE-Chandra resolved view on ionized outflows and photoionization in the Seyfert galaxy NGC1365 2018A&A…619A..74V 

Feruglio, C.;Fiore, F.;Carniani, S.; The dense molecular gas in the z ̃ 6 QSO SDSS J231038.88+185519.7 resolved by ALMA 2018A&A…619A..39F

Zappacosta, L.;Piconcelli, E.;Duras, F.; The hyperluminous Compton-thick z ̃ 2 quasar nucleus of the hot DOG W1835+4355 observed by NuSTAR 2018A&A…618A..28Z

Brusa, M.;Cresci, G.;Daddi, E.; Molecular outflow and feedback in the obscured quasar XID2028 revealed by ALMA 2018A&A…612A..29B

Bischetti, M.;Piconcelli, E.;Feruglio, C. The WISSH quasars project. V. ALMA reveals the assembly of a giant galaxy around a z = 4.4 hyper-luminous QSO 2018A&A…617A..82B

Vietri, G.;Piconcelli, E.;Bischetti, M.; The WISSH quasars project. IV. Broad line region versus kiloparsec-scale winds 2018A&A…617A..81V

Talia, M.;Pozzi, F.;Vallini, L.; ALMA view of a massive spheroid progenitor: a compact rotating core of molecular gas in an AGN host at z = 2.226 2018MNRAS.476.3956T

Perna, M.;Sargent, M. T.;Brusa, M.; Molecular gas content in obscured AGN at z > 1 2018A&A…619A..90P

Concas, A.;Popesso, P.;Brusa, M.; Two-face(s): ionized and neutral gas winds in the local Universe 2019A&A…622A.188C

Cresci, Giovanni;Maiolino, Roberto Observing positive and negative AGN feedback 2018NatAs…2..179C

Decarli, Roberto;Mignoli, Marco;Gilli, Roberto; Testing the paradigm: First spectroscopic evidence of a quasar-galaxy Mpc-scale association at cosmic dawn 2019A&A…631L..10D 

Gilli, R.;Mignoli, M.;Peca, A.; Discovery of a galaxy overdensity around a powerful, heavily obscured FRII radio galaxy at z = 1.7: star formation promoted by large-scale AGN feedback? 2019A&A…632A..26G