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We aim to determine the intrinsic far-Infrared (far-IR) emission of X-ray-luminous quasars over cosmic time. Using a 16 deg^2 region of the Stripe 82 field surveyed by XMM-Newton and Herschel Space Observatory, we identify 2905 X-ray…

The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is finding previously unidentified, luminous red active galactic nuclei (AGN). This new sample has a space density similar to, or greater than, previously known AGN, suggesting that a large fraction of…

We investigate the use of MIR PAH bands, continuum and emission lines as probes of star-formation and AGN activity in a sample of 100 'normal' and local (z~0.1) emission-line galaxies. The MIR spectra were obtained with the Spitzer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marie Treyer , D. Schiminovich , B. D. Johnson , M. O'Dowd , C. D. Martin , T. Wyder , S. Charlot , T. Heckman , L. Martins , M. Seibert , J. M. van der Hulst

We study the properties of a sample of 211 heavily-obscured Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) candidates in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South selecting objects with f_24/f_R>1000 and R-K>4.5. Of these, 18 were detected in X-rays and found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Treister , C. Cardamone , K. Schawinski , C. M. Urry , E. Gawiser , S. Virani , P. Lira , J. Kartaltepe , M Damen , E. N. Taylor , E. Le Floc'h , Stephen Justham , A. Koekemoer

In the framework of a systematic ALMA study of IR-selected main-sequence and starburst galaxies at z~1-1.7 at typical ~1" resolution, we report on the effects of mid-IR- and X-ray-detected active galactic nuclei (AGN) on the reservoirs and…

We have examined ROSAT soft X-ray observations of a complete, distance-limited sample of Seyfert and LINER galaxies. X-ray data are available for 46 out of 60 such objects which lie within a hemisphere of radius 18 Mpc. We have constructed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eve L. Halderson , Edward C. Moran , Alexei V. Filippenko , Luis C. Ho

We present the results of X-ray spectral analysis of 22 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a small scattering fraction selected from the Second XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue using hardness ratios. They are candidates of buried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kazuhisa Noguchi , Yuichi Terashima , Hisamitsu Awaki

The unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) claims that the properties of AGN depend on the viewing angle of the observer with respect to a toroidal distribution of dust surrounding the nucleus. Both the mid-infrared (MIR) attenuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 O. Gonzalez-Martin , J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa , T. Diaz-Santos , C. Packham , A. Alonso-Herrero , P. Esquej , C. Ramos Almeida , R. Mason , C. Telesco

We study the incidence of nuclear obscuration on a complete sample of 1310 AGN selected on the basis of their rest-frame 2-10 keV X-ray flux from the XMM-COSMOS survey, in the redshift range 0.3<z<3.5. We classify the AGN as obscured or…

We study the X-ray emission of a representative sample of 27 local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). The median IR luminosity of our sample is log L_IR/L_sun = 11.2, thus the low-luminosity end of the LIRG class is well represented. We…

We present the first results from a mid-infrared survey of local Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using the CanariCam (CC) instrument on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We are obtaining sub-arcsecond angular resolution (0.3-0.6…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Almudena Alonso-Herrero

Mid-infrared observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are important for understanding of the physical conditions around the central accretion engines. Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of a 300 arcmin^2 region in the Extended…

The location of warm dust producing the Mid-infrared (MIR) emission in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is complex and not yet fully known. We explore this problem by studying how the MIR covering factor (CF_{MIR} =L_{MIR}/L_{bol})…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , Lin Yan , Xiao-Bo Dong

We explore the connections between the infrared and X-ray properties of AGNs. Using the well constrained infrared SEDs of a sample of local (i.e., z < 0.1) sample of X-ray AGNs, we develop new diagnostics that exploit 24um and 70um flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. R. Mullaney , D. M. Alexander

We use a combination of the XMM-Newton serendipitous X-ray survey with the optical SDSS, and the infrared WISE all-sky survey in order to check the efficiency of the low X-ray to infrared luminosity selection method in finding heavily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , J. Aird , D. M. Alexander , A. Comastri , A. Del Moro , P. Gandhi , A. Georgakakis , C. M. Harrison , J. R. Mullaney

The efficiency of mid-infrared selection methods for finding obscured AGN is investigated using data in the \chandra Deep Field North. It is shown that samples of AGN candidates compiled on the basis of mid-infrared colours only suffer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Georgantopoulos , A. Georgakakis , M. Rowan-Robinson , E. Rovilos

We compare the relative merits of AGN selection at X-ray and mid-infrared wavelengths using data from moderately deep fields observed by both Chandra and Spitzer. The X-ray-selected AGN sample and associated optical follow-up are drawn from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Megan E. Eckart , Ian D. McGreer , Daniel Stern , Fiona A. Harrison , David J. Helfand

We provide a comprehensive census of the near-Infrared (NIR, 0.8-2.4 $\mu$m) spectroscopic properties of 102 nearby (z < 0.075) active galactic nuclei (AGN), selected in the hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) from the Swift-Burst Alert Telescope…

We present results of near-infrared photometry (J, H, K_S) for a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) obtained from hard X-ray surveys with ASCA. The sample covers the AGNs at z=0.1-1 with L(2-10keV)=10^42-10^46 erg/s with very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chisato Watanabe , Kouji Ohta , Masayuki Akiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda

X-ray variability is very common in active galactic nuclei (AGN), but these variations may not occur similarly in different families of AGN. We aim to disentangle the structure of low ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Lorena Hernandez-Garcia , Josefa Masegosa , Omaira Gonzalez-Martin , Isabel Marquez , Jaime Perea
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