A Uniformly Selected, Southern-Sky 6dF, Optical AGN Catalog
Abstract
We have constructed a catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with , based on optical spectroscopy, from the parent sample of galaxies in the 6dF galaxy survey (Final Release of 6dFGS), a census of the Southern hemisphere. This work is an extension of our all sky AGN catalog \citet [ZCF, here after]{ZCF19}. The ZCF is based on 43,533 galaxies with 11.75 () in the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS). The parent catalog of this work, the 6dF catalog, consists of 136,304 publicly available digital spectra for 125,071 galaxies with and (median ). Our AGN catalog consists of 3109 broad line AGNs and 12,156 narrow line AGNs which satisfy the \citet{Kauffmann03} criteria, of which 3865 also satisfy the \citet{Kewley01} criteria. We also provide emission line widths, fluxes, flux errors, and signal-to-noise ratios of all the galaxies in our spectroscopic sample, allowing users to customize the selection criteria. In addition, we provide AGN likelihood for the rest of galaxies based on the availability and quality of their spectra. These likelihood values can be used for rigorous statistical analyses.
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@article{arxiv.2111.13217,
title = {A Uniformly Selected, Southern-Sky 6dF, Optical AGN Catalog},
author = {Yan-Ping Chen and Ingyin Zaw and Glennys R Farrar and Sana Elgamal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13217},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
19 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.03799