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Energy From Active Galactic Nuclei And The Effects On Host Spiral Galaxies, Amanda Schilling
Energy From Active Galactic Nuclei And The Effects On Host Spiral Galaxies, Amanda Schilling
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
I have investigated the energy output of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in order to understand how these objects evolve and the impact they may have on host galaxies. First, I looked at a sample of 96 AGN at redshifts $z \sim 2, 3,$ and $4$ which have imaging and thus luminosity measurements in the $griz$ and $JHK$ observed wavebands. For these galaxies, I have co-epochal data across those bands which accounted for variability in AGN luminosity. I used the luminosity measurements in the five bands to construct spectral energy distributions (SED) in the emitted optical-UV bands for each AGN. I …