168 research outputs found
The Iron Line Background
We investigate the presence of iron line emission among faint X-ray sources
identified in the 1Ms Chandra Deep Field South and in the 2Ms Chandra Deep
Field North. Individual source spectra are stacked in seven redshift bins over
the range z=0.5-4. We find that iron line emission is an ubiquitous property of
X-ray sources up to z~3. The measured line strengths are in good agreement with
those expected by simple pre-Chandra estimates based on X-ray background
synthesis models. The average rest frame equivalent width of the iron line does
not show significant changes with redshift.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Letters in press (include emulateapj.sty
When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants' agency in the Italian Alps
Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. The territorial context in fact, especially in rural and mountainous areas such as the Alpine ones analysed here, seems in many ways to represent a limit to the development of capacities and exercise of rights. Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities.
In this article, with reference to the action-research activities carried out in 2020-22 by the Horizon2020 MATILDE project in the Italian Alpine areas of South Tyrol and the Metropolitan City of Turin, attention is focused on the policies that could favour the effective migrantsâ agency in mountain territories.The paper is published by the European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD).
The previous version of the journal was host by Nordregio
When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants' agency in the Italian Alps
Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. The territorial context in fact, especially in rural and mountainous areas such as the Alpine ones analysed here, seems in many ways to represent a limit to the development of capacities and exercise of rights. Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities.
In this article, with reference to the action-research activities carried out in 2020-22 by the Horizon2020 MATILDE project in the Italian Alpine areas of South Tyrol and the Metropolitan City of Turin, attention is focused on the policies that could favour the effective migrantsâ agency in mountain territories.The paper is published by the European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD).
The previous version of the journal was host by Nordregio
X-ray spectroscopy of the z=6.4 quasar J1148+5251
We present the 78-ks Chandra observations of the quasar SDSS
J1148+5251. The source is clearly detected in the energy range 0.3-7 keV with
42 counts (with a significance ). The X-ray spectrum is
best-fitted by a power-law with photon index absorbed by a gas
column density of .
We measure an intrinsic luminosity at 2-10 keV and 10-40 keV equal to , comparable with luminous local and
intermediate-redshift quasar properties. Moreover, the X-ray to optical
power-law slope value () of J1148 is consistent
with the one found in quasars with similar rest-frame 2500 \AA ~luminosity
(\AA). Then we use Chandra data
to test a physically motivated model that computes the intrinsic X-ray flux
emitted by a quasar starting from the properties of the powering black hole and
assuming that X-ray emission is attenuated by intervening, metal-rich () molecular clouds distributed on kpc scales in the host
galaxy. Our analysis favors a black hole mass and a molecular hydrogen mass , in good agreement with estimates obtained from previous studies. We
finally discuss strengths and limits of our analysis.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, MNRAS in pres
Vom Lernprozess des Ărztenetzwerks xundart: Innovative und wissenschaftlich fundierte QualitĂ€tsentwicklung
Systemische und reflexive QualitÀtsentwicklung ist ein Anliegen des Ostschweizer
Ărztenetzwerks xundart. Gerade nicht-quantitative QualitĂ€tsarbeit erfordert von
den Mitgliedern einer Organisation Vertrauen, Offenheit zur Selbst- und Fremdbeobachtung und die Bereitschaft, aus den eigenen Komfortzonen herauszutreten.
Vonseiten der Verantwortlichen sind sorgfĂ€ltige Kommunikationsarbeit, FingerspitzengefĂŒhl und Geduld gefragt
The Obscured Fraction of AGN in the XMM-COSMOS Survey: A Spectral Energy Distribution Perspective
The fraction of AGN luminosity obscured by dust and re-emitted in the mid-IR
is critical for understanding AGN evolution, unification, and parsec-scale AGN
physics. For unobscured (Type-1) AGN, where we have a direct view of the
accretion disk, the dust covering factor can be measured by computing the ratio
of re-processed mid-IR emission to intrinsic nuclear bolometric luminosity. We
use this technique to estimate the obscured AGN fraction as a function of
luminosity and redshift for 513 Type-1 AGN from the XMM-COSMOS survey. The
re-processed and intrinsic luminosities are computed by fitting the 18-band
COSMOS photometry with a custom SED-fitting code, which jointly models emission
from: hot-dust in the AGN torus, the accretion disk, and the host-galaxy. We
find a relatively shallow decrease of the luminosity ratio as a function of
Lbol, which we interpret as a corresponding decrease in the obscured fraction.
In the context of the receding torus model, where dust sublimation reduces the
covering factor of more luminous AGN, our measurements require a torus height
which increases with luminosity as h ~ Lbol^{0.3-0.4}. Our obscured
fraction-luminosity relation agrees with determinations from SDSS censuses of
Type-1 and Type-2 quasars, and favors a torus optically thin to mid-IR
radiation. We find a much weaker dependence of obscured fraction on 2-10 keV
luminosity than previous determinations from X-ray surveys, and argue that
X-ray surveys miss a significant population of highly obscured Compton-thick
AGN. Our analysis shows no clear evidence for evolution of obscured fraction
with redshift.Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures, ApJ accepte
The Hard X-Ray Luminosity Function of High-Redshift () Active Galactic Nuclei
We present the hard-band () X-ray luminosity function
(HXLF) of band selected AGN at high redshift. We have
assembled a sample of 141 AGN at from X-ray surveys of different
size and depth, in order to sample different regions in the plane.
The HXLF is fitted in the range with standard
analytical evolutionary models through a maximum likelihood procedure. The
evolution of the HXLF is well described by a pure density evolution, with the
AGN space density declining by a factor of from to 5. A
luminosity-dependent density evolution model which, normally, best represents
the HXLF evolution at lower redshift, is also consistent with the data, but a
larger sample of low-luminosity (), high-redshift AGN is
necessary to constrain this model. We also estimated the intrinsic fraction of
AGN obscured by a column density to be ,
with no strong dependence on luminosity. This fraction is higher than the value
in the Local Universe, suggesting an evolution of the luminous
() obscured AGN fraction from
to .Comment: MNRAS, Accepted 2014 September 23. Received 2014 September 10; in
original form 2014 August 5; 19 pages, 11 figures, 5 table
When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrantsâ agency in the Italian Alps
Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. The territorial context in fact, especially in rural and mountainous areas such as the Alpine ones analysed here, seems in many ways to represent a limit to the development of capacities and exercise of rights. Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities.
In this article, with reference to the action-research activities carried out in 2020-22 by the Horizon2020 MATILDE project in the Italian Alpine areas of South Tyrol and the Metropolitan City of Turin, attention is focused on the policies that could favour the effective migrantsâ agency in mountain territories
When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrantsâ agency in the Italian Alps
Even when they have access to housing and employment, international migrants struggle to develop their own agency, i.e. the capacity to act in their own life contexts, exercising citizenship rights within substantive inclusion processes in the wider communities. The territorial context in fact, especially in rural and mountainous areas such as the Alpine ones analysed here, seems in many ways to represent a limit to the development of capacities and exercise of rights. Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities.
In this article, with reference to the action-research activities carried out in 2020-22 by the Horizon2020 MATILDE project in the Italian Alpine areas of South Tyrol and the Metropolitan City of Turin, attention is focused on the policies that could favour the effective migrantsâ agency in mountain territories
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