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We have compiled a sample of 21 low redshift (z < 0.3), luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Balmer decrements (Halpha/Hbeta > 7) using the galaxy and QSO catalogs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release. Using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Xiao-Bo Dong , Hong-Yan Zhou , Ting-Gui Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Cheng Li , You-Yuan Zhou

Infrared surveys have discovered a significant population of bright (K<19) extremely red (R-K>6) objects. Little is known about the properties of these objects on account of their optical faintness (R>24). Here, we report deep infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 James R. Graham , Arjun Dey

We identify a deep sample of 198 extremely red objects (EROs) in (50.4 sq. arcmin of) the Chandra Deep Field South, selected as I-K>3.92 galaxies to a limit K=22. The ERO number counts remain well below the predictions for pure luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nathan Roche , James Dunlop , Omar Almaini

The initial results of a millimeter (CO) survey of infrared-excess, optically-selected quasars from the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) with redshifts in the range 0.04 < z < 0.17 are presented. These observations represent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. S. Evans , D. T. Frayer , J. A. Surace , D. B. Sanders

Red quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are a subset of the luminous end of the cosmic population of active galactic nuclei (AGN), most of which are reddened by intervening dust along the line-of-sight towards their central engines. In recent work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 D. J. Rosario , V. A. Fawcett , L. Klindt , D. M. Alexander , L. K. Morabito , S. Fotopoulou , E. Lusso , G. Calistro Rivera

We have examined the occurrence of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) in the fields of 13 luminous quasars (11 radio-loud and two radio-quiet) at 1.8 < z < 3.0. The average surface density of K_s<=19 mag EROs is two-three times higher than in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Wold , L. Armus , G. Neugebauer , T. H. Jarrett , M. D. Lehnert

We present WISE All-Sky mid-infrared (IR) survey detections of 55% (17/31) of the known QSOs at z>6 from a range of surveys: the SDSS, the CFHT-LS, FIRST, Spitzer and UKIDSS. The WISE catalog thus provides a substantial increase in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew Blain , Robert Assef , Daniel Stern , Chao-Wei Tsai , Peter Eisenhardt , Carrie Bridge , Dominic Benford , Tom Jarrett , Roc Cutri , Sara Petty , Jingwen Wu , Ned Wright

We present optical candidates for 75 X-ray sources in a $\sim 1$ deg$^2$ overlapping region with the medium deep ROSAT survey. These candidates are selected using the multi-color CCD imaging observations made for the T329 field of the…

Spectra of nearly 20000 point-like objects to a Galactic reddening corrected magnitude of i=19.1 have been obtained to test the completeness of the SDSS quasar survey. The spatially-unresolved objects were selected from all regions of color…

Quasar feedback is a key ingredient in shaping galaxy evolution. A rare population of extremely red quasars (ERQs) at $z=2-3$ are often associated with high-velocity [O III]$\lambda5008$ outflows and may represent sites of strong feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-13 Yilun Ma , Andy Goulding , Jenny E. Greene , Nadia L. Zakamska , Dominika Wylezalek , Yan-Fei Jiang

Type II quasars are the long-sought luminous analogs of type II (narrow emission line) Seyfert galaxies, suggested by unification models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and postulated to account for an appreciable fraction of the cosmic…

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has completed its all-sky survey at 3.4-22 micron. We merge the WISE data with optical SDSS data and provide a phenomenological characterization of mid-IR, extragalactic sources. WISE is most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lin Yan , E. Donoso , C. -W. Tsai , D. Stern , R. J. Assef , P. Eisenhardt , A. W. Blain , R. Cutri , T. Jarrett , S. A. Stanford , E. Wright , C. Bridge , D. A. Riechers

We have discovered two low-ionization broad absorption line quasars in programs to obtain optical spectra for radio-selected quasar candidates from the VLA FIRST Survey (Becker, White, & Helfand 1995). Both belong to the extremely rare…

We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We apply modern statistical techniques to combined Spitzer…

We present a sample of mid-infrared detected sources from the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) regions characterised by strong mid-IR radiation with faint near-IR and optical counterparts. These extreme mid-to-near-IR objects (EMNOs)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. H. Johansson , P. Vaisanen , M. Vaccari

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z > 3.6) discovered from ~140 deg^2 of five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) during its commissioning phase. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 SDSS Collaboration , X. Fan

We present a new measurement of the space density of high redshift (3.0<z<4.5), X-ray selected QSOs obtained by exploiting the deep and uniform multiwavelength coverage of the COSMOS survey. We have assembled a statistically large (40…

We present a sample of 120 dust-reddened quasars identified by matching radio sources detected at 1.4 GHz in the FIRST survey with the near-infrared 2MASS catalog and color-selecting red sources. Optical and/or near-infrared spectroscopy…

We have observed a sample of 22 luminous quasars, in the range 2.0<z<2.5, at 1.6 microns with the near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph FSPEC on the Multiple Mirror Telescope. Our sample contains 13 radio-loud and 9 radio-quiet objects. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. H. McIntosh , H. -W. Rix , M. J. Rieke , C. B. Foltz

We construct a parametric SED model which is able to reproduce the average observed SDSS-UKIDSS-WISE quasar colours to within one tenth of a magnitude across a wide range of redshift $(0<z<5)$ and luminosity $(-22>M_i>-29)$. This model is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Matthew J. Temple , Paul C. Hewett , Manda Banerji