Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 32, Abril 2008

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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The Nuclear Region, Host Galaxy and Environment of Active Galaxies

Huatulco, Oaxaca, México, Abril 18 - 20, 2007
Proceedings Editors: Erika Benítez, Irene Cruz-González, & Yair Krongold

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
E. Benítez, I. Cruz-González, & Y. Krongold Mario Armando Higuera Garzón & Santiago Vargas Domínguez
Deborah Dultzin
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

The Central Engine: Variability, BH Mass and Accretion

• Accretion Disks and the Nature and Origin of AGN Continuum Variability
  C. M. Gaskell
• Near-infrared observations of Sagittarius A*
  S. Trippe, T. Paumard, S. Gillessen, T. Ott, F. Eisenhauer, F. Martins, & R. Genzel
• Quasar Optical Variability and Black Hole Mass
  M. Wold, M. S. Brotherton, & Z. Shang
• Accretion model of a rotating gas sphere onto a Schwarzschild black hole
  S. Mendoza & E. A. Huerta
• MAGIC and AGNs
  A. Sillanpää
• OJ287: a binary black hole system
  M. J. Valtonen
• INTEGRAL and Swift Observations of Blazars in Outburst
  E. Pian
• Multiwavelength modeling of TeV AGN observed by H.E.S.S.
  J.-P. Lenain
• Observations of BL Lacertae with MAGIC telescope
  E. J. Lindfors
• AGN Surveys via Optical Variability, X-ray, and mid-IR Detection in HST Fields
  V. L. Sarajedini
• Investigation of forbidden line variability in Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei at Crimean observatory in 1971-2006
  I. I. Pronik
• Searching for distant blazars with GLAST and the Large Millimeter Telescope
  A. Carramiñana & G. M. Rodríguez Liñán
• How to accurately estimate BH masses of AGN with double-peaked emission lines
  X.-G. Zhang, D. Dultzin, & T.-G. Wang
• Spectral microvariability in Quasars
  A. Ramírez, D. Dultzin, & J. A. de Diego
• Night to night variability of the emission lines in the nuclear spectrum of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3227
  I. I. Pronik, L. P. Metik, & L. M. Sharipova
• Testing the connections in the BH-disk-jet system
  J. Torrealba, V. H. Chavushyan, T. G. Arshakian, I. Cruz-González, E. Ros, A. Zensus, E. Bertone, & D. Rosa-González
• Double-Peaked Emitters: a transition phase in the evolution of AGN?
  J. León-Tavares, V. H. Chavushyan, & T. G. Arshakian
• Double- (and Single-) Peaked Emission Lines as Probes of the Structure of the Outer Accretion Disks in AGN
  H. M. L. G. Flohic & M. Eracleous

Emission Regions and Circumnuclear Starbursts

• Our Search for an H-R Diagram of Quasars
  J. W. Sulentic, S. Zamfir, P. Marziani, & D. Dultzin
• FeII emission in AGN
  M. Joly, M. Véron-Cetty, & P. Véron
• FERO (Finding Extreme Relativistic Objects): statistics of relativistic broad Fe K$ \alpha$ lines in AGN
  A. L. Longinotti, I. de La Calle, S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, & M. Dovciak
• High-Redshift Quasars as Early Star Formation Probes
  M. Dietrich & F. Hamann
• The Broad Line Region of Quasars
  P. Marziani, J. W. Sulentic, & D. Dultzin
• On the Iwasawa-Taniguchi effect of radio-quiet AGN
  S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, G. Matt, & N. Fonseca Bonilla
• A Near-infrared view of the Narrow Line Region of AGN
  A. Rodríguez-Ardila, R. Riffel, & E. A. Carvalho
• Near Infrared (0.8-2.3 $ \mu$ m) Coronal Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei
  J. G. Portilla, A. Rodríguez-Ardila, & J. M. Tejeiro
• Microlensing probes the AGN structure of the lensed quasar J1131-1231
  D. Sluse, J.-F. Claeskens, D. Hutsemékers, & J. Surdej
• Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
  S. Komossa
• The density of the narrow-line region of type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei
  D. Xu, S. Komossa, & H. Zhou
• The X-ray view of the ionization cone in NGC 5252
  M. Guainazzi, S. Bianchi, M. Cappi, M. Dadina, & G. Malaguti
• The Broad Emission Lines in AGN: Hidden Disk Emission
  L. C. Popovic, E. Bon, & N. Gavrilovic
• Temperature diagnostics of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei
  D. Ilic, L. C. Popovic, S. Ciroi, & P. Rafanelli
• Is the Baldwin Effect due to Quasar Evolution?
  P. Marziani, D. Dultzin, & J. W. Sulentic
• Modeling of the broad band X-ray spectra of the Seyfert 1 Mrk 841
  P. O. Petrucci, C. Boisson, A. L. Longinotti, M. Mouchet, G. Ponti, G. Matt, L. Maraschi, J. Malzac, K. Nandra, & P. Ferrando
• Near-IR spectroscopy of high redshift quasars
  Y. Juárez, R. Maiolino, & R. Mújica
• Spectroscopic Study of C IV $ \lambda$1549 and its Relation with Optical Parameters in Active Galactic Nuclei
  C. A. Negrete, J. W. Sulentic, R. Bachev, P. Marziani, & D. Dultzin
• The interaction between jets and clouds in the 3CR galaxies
  G. F. Hägele, C. Feinstein, F. D. Macchetto, & M. F. Montero

Absorbing Regions and Obscuration

• Imaging spectroscopy of the centers of nearby AGN: Molecular gas streaming and obscuring the active nucleus of NGC1068
  F. Müller Sánchez, R. I. Davies, R. Genzel, L. J. Tacconi, E. Hicks, & S. Friedrich
• X-ray Eclipse of the AGN in NGC 1365: Measuring the Source Size
  G. Risaliti
• The Nature of the Far-UV Break in the Energy Distribution of Quasars
  L. Binette, S. Haro-Corzo, Y. Krongold, & A. C. Andersen
• CHANDRA LETGS spectroscopy of ionized absorbers: The quasar MR 2251-178
  J. M. Ramírez, S. Komossa, V. Burwitz, & S. Mathur
• Can Ionized Outflows in AGN Produce Important Feedback Effects? The Case of NGC 4051
  Y. Krongold, F. Nicastro, M. Elvis, N. Brickhouse, E. Jiménez-Bailón, L. Binette, & S. Mathur
• The big blue bump and soft X-ray excess of individual quasars
  S. A. R. Haro-Corzo, L. Binette, & Y. Krongold
• X-ray properties of a sample of polar-scattered Seyfert galaxies
  E. Jiménez-Bailón, M. Guainazzi, G. Matt, S. Bianchi, Y. Krongold, E. Piconcelli, M. Santos Lleó, & N. Schartel
• The Warm Absorber of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548
  M. Andrade, Y. Krongold, M. Elvis, F. Nicastro, L. Binette, & N. Brickhouse
• A search for spectral features in the XMM-Newton observation of UGC 11763
  M. V. Cardaci, M. Santos-Lleó, Y. Krongold, P. Rodríguez-Pascual, G. F. Hägele, & A. I. Díaz
• PAH Emission in AGNs and Starbursts, and their relation with the mid-infrared continuum emission
  M A. Higuera-G., A. Rodríguez-Ardila, & J. M. Tejeiro
• Gemini Mid-IR Polarimetry of NGC 1068
  R. E. Mason, C. Packham, S. Young, R. S. Fisher, K. Volk, J. H. Hough, P. F. Roche, M. Elitzur, J. Radomski, & E. Perlman

Host Galaxy and Environment

• Observational Overview of the Feeding of Active Galactic Nuclei
  T. Storchi-Bergmann
• Dynamics of the interacting galaxy pair KPG 302 (NGC 3893/96)
  M. Rosado, I. Fuentes-Carrera, R. Gabbasov, P. Repetto, & P. Amram
• Feedback between host galaxy and nuclear activity
  I. Márquez & J. Masegosa
• Case Studies of Interacting QSO Host Galaxies
  J. Scharwächter, A. Eckart, J. Zuther, S. Pfalzner, I. Saviane, V. D. Ivanov, L. E. Tacconi-Garman, J. K. Kotilainen, J. Reunanen, & R. Schödel
• Nuclear to host galaxy relation of high redshift quasars
  J. K. Kotilainen
• The stellar content of low redshift BL Lac host galaxies from multicolour imaging
  T. Hyvönen, J. K. Kotilainen, R. Falomo, & T. Pursimo
• AGN Population in Compact Groups Galaxies
  M. A. Martínez, A. del Olmo, R. Coziol, & J. Perea
• Quasar Host Orientation and Polarization: Insights into the Type 1/Type 2 Dichotomy
  B. Borguet, D. Hutsemékers, G. Letawe, Y. Letawe, & P. Magain
• Induced Activity in Mixed-Morphology Galaxy Pairs
  J. J. González, Y. Krongold, D. Dultzin, H. M. Hernández-Toledo, E. M. Huerta, L. Olguín, P. Marziani, & I. Cruz-González
• Black Hole Mass estimates in nearby AGN from Host-Bulge Properties
  E. Benítez, A. Franco-Balderas, I. Cruz-González, L.López-Martin, & V. H. Chavushyan
• Spectral Classification and Analysis of Nuclear Activity in the UZC-Compact Group Sample
  A. del Olmo, M. A. Martínez, P. Focardi, & J. Perea
• The IDILICO Project. Dynamical Evolution of Compact Groups. Supercomputer Simulations
  J. Perea, E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, C. García-Gómez, J. C. Lambert, A. del Olmo, J. M. Solanes, & M. C. Toribio
• Characterization of Isolated Galaxies in the Local Universe from SDSS (DR5)
  J. A. Vázquez, H. M. Hernández-Toledo, & C. Park
• The Gemini library of late spectral templates for stellar kinematics analysis in the CO 2.3 m$ \mu$ region
  C. Winge, R. A. Riffel, & T. Storchi-Bergmann
• BVRI Surface Photometry of Isolated Galaxies in the Local Universe
  J. Zendejas-Domínguez, S. Ortega-Esbrí, J. R Salazar-Contreras, & H. M. Hernández-Toledo

Closing Remarks

• Concluding Remarks
  J. J. Perry

  Author Index