Green Bean galaxies and the fading echoes of AGN activity
Abstract
Green Bean is a rare type of galaxy which represents a shortlived phase in the life cycle of active galactic nuclei (AGN), characterised by large-scale, powerful ionised clouds in the circumgalactic medium.Recent studies demonstrate that these extended ionised structures may reflect fading signatures of past AGN activity, often manifested in the form of largescale ionisation cones.The analysis of their observational properties provides unique constraints on AGN lifetimes, feedback mechanisms, and transitions between radiative and kinetic modes of activity.In this paper we announce the first results of the project dedicated to the long-slit spectroscopic and scanning Fabry-Perot interferometric observations of Green Bean galaxies at the Russian 6-m telescope with SCORPIO-2 multi-mode instrument.We describe the data reduction and spectral fitting procedures that allow one to characterise ionisation conditions in extended gaseous regions of the galaxy SDSSJ095100.54+051026.7.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Galaxies: Formation
Evolution
Phenomena
Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Stellar
planetary
and galactic studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026