The X-ray and mid-IR emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are strongly correlated. However, while various published parameterizations of this correlation are consistent with the low-redshift, local Seyfert galaxy population, extrapolations of these relations to high luminosity differ by an order of magnitude at nuL(nu)(6um) = 1e47 erg/s. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, we determine the mid-IR luminosities of the most luminous quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and present a revised formulation of the X-ray to mid-IR relation of AGN which is appropriate from the Seyfert regime to the powerful quasar regime.
@article{arxiv.1506.00162,
title = {The X-Ray to Mid-Infrared Relation of AGN at High Luminosity},
author = {Daniel Stern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00162},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ