Advances in Astronomy

Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes


Publishing date
15 Apr 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Oct 2011

Lead Editor

1Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

2Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

3Max-Planck-Institüt für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany


Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes

Description

In the past decade, many discoveries such as the correlation between the mass of black holes and the large-scale properties of the host galaxy bulges revealed tight links between the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and galaxy evolution. This established the new paradigm that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are key players in the process of galaxy formation and evolution. However, the role that SMBHs play in shaping galaxies as well as the physical origin of this interdependence remains as major open questions in observational astrophysics, although important pieces of the puzzle have been established by recent large multiwavelength surveys and successful theoretical modeling.

The main focus of this special issue will be on the interplay between the galaxies and their central SMBHs across cosmic time. In this respect, we are seeking for the leading actor that shaped the cosmic structures as we see them today. This Special Issue is open also to review articles in addition to the original research articles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • AGN/galaxy coevolution models
  • AGN host galaxy properties
  • The large-scale structure of AGN

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 625126
  • - Editorial

Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes

Angela Bongiorno | Francesco Shankar | ... | Antonis Georgakakis
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 893984
  • - Erratum

Erratum to “Are Nuclear Star Clusters the Precursors of Massive Black Holes?”

Nadine Neumayer | C. Jakob Walcher
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 138380
  • - Research Article

AGN Triggering in the Infall Regions of Distant X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at

R. Fassbender | R. Šuhada | A. Nastasi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 853701
  • - Review Article

Clustering of X-Ray-Selected AGN

N. Cappelluti | V. Allevato | A. Finoguenov
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 783451
  • - Review Article

The Circumnuclear Environment of IRAS 20551-4250: A Case Study of AGN/Starburst Connection for JWST

E. Sani | E. Nardini
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 782030
  • - Review Article

AGN Obscuration and the Unified Model

Stefano Bianchi | Roberto Maiolino | Guido Risaliti
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 516193
  • - Review Article

The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys

Ezequiel Treister | C. Megan Urry
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 782528
  • - Research Article

The Low-Mass End of the / Relation in Quasars

Roberto Decarli | Renato Falomo | ... | Aldo Treves
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 178060
  • - Research Article

M94 as a Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity at Low Luminosities

Anca Constantin | Anil C. Seth
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 709038
  • - Research Article

Are Nuclear Star Clusters the Precursors of Massive Black Holes?

Nadine Neumayer | C. Jakob Walcher
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