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X-rays provide a robust method in identifying AGN. However, in the high-redshift Universe, their space density is relatively low, and, in combination with the small areas covered by X-ray surveys, the selected AGN are poorly sampled. Deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 E. Pouliasis , A. Ruiz , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , N. A. Webb , F. J. Carrera , S. Mateos , A. Nebot , M. G. Watson , F. X. Pineau , C. Motch

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The Second LAT AGN Catalog (2LAC) includes 1017 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

Type II quasars are luminous AGNs whose central engines and broad-line regions are obscured by intervening material; such objects only recently have been discovered in appreciable numbers. We study the multiwavelength properties of 291 type…

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 the statistical evaluation of a count rate and area limited complete sample of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) comprising 674 sources. The RASS sources are located in six study areas outside the galactic plane (|b^II| >= 20 deg)…

In order to answer some of the major open questions in the fields of supermassive black hole (SMBH) and galaxy evolution, a complete census of SMBH growth, i.e., active galactic nuclei (AGN), is required. Thanks to deep all-sky surveys,…

We systematically investigate the near- (NIR) to far-infrared (FIR) photometric properties of a nearly complete sample of local active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected in the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky ultra hard X-ray (14-195…

Presented in this work is the most comprehensive INTEGRAL AGN sample: it includes 272 active galaxies for which optical identifications and redshifts are available. 2-10 keV fluxes and column density measurements are also collected for all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-22 A. Malizia , L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , F. Panessa

Recently, Zakamska et al. (2003) selected 291 high-ionization narrow emission-line AGN in the redshift range 0.3-0.83 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic data. The sample includes both Seyfert II galaxies and their higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Vignali , D. M. Alexander , A. Comastri

We present the results of our search for highly variable active galactic nuclei (AGNs) the X-ray flux from which changed by more than an order of magnitude during the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. Using the eROSITA data obtained in the period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavel Medvedev , Marat Gilfanov , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev , Georgii Khorunzhev

We report results of a serendipitous hard X-ray (3--20 keV), nearly all-sky (|b|>10deg) survey based on RXTE/PCA observations performed during satellite reorientations in 1996--2002. The survey is 80% (90%) complete to a 4$\sigma$ limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , K. Jahoda , M. Gilfanov

We present an analysis of a sample of robust high redshift galaxies selected photometrically from the `blank' fields of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization Science (PEARLS) survey and Early Release Observations (ERO) data of the…

Past studies of compact active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the dominant population at high radio frequencies, selected them using flat spectral index criteria. This biases the sample due to the steepening of AGN spectra at high radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 R. Chhetri , A. Kimball , R. D. Ekers , E. K. Mahony , E. M. Sadler , T. Jarrett

Pairs of galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powerful probes of merger-driven supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth as they can resolve individual AGN and trace mergers over a large range of physical separations. To exploit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , Daniel Stern , Roberto J. Assef

To understand the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) phenomenon and their impact on the evolution of galaxies, a complete AGN census is required; however, finding heavily obscured AGNs is observationally challenging. Here we use the deep and…

Mateos et al. (2012) presented a highly reliable and efficient mid-infrared (MIR) colour-based selection technique for luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey. Here we evaluate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Mateos , A. Alonso-Herrero , F. J. Carrera , A. Blain , P. Severgnini , A. Caccianiga , A. Ruiz

We have identified a population of blank field sources (or `blanks') among the ROSAT bright unidentified X-ray sources with faint optical counterparts. The extreme X-ray over optical flux ratio of blanks is not compatible with the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ilaria Cagnoni , Martin Elvis , Dong-Woo Kim , Fabrizio Nicastro , Annalisa Celotti

We present the results of a program of optical and near-infrared spectroscopic follow-up of candidate Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) selected in the mid-infrared. This survey selects both normal and obscured AGN closely matched in luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Lacy , S. E. Ridgway , E. L. Gates , D. M. Nielsen , A. O. Petric , A. Sajina , T. Urrutia , S. Cox Drews , C. Harrison , N. Seymour , L. J. Storrie-Lombardi

The four-year X-ray all-sky survey (eRASS) of the eROSITA telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma satellite will detect ~3 million active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a median redshift of z~1 and a typical luminosity of L_(0.5-2.0 keV) ~…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 Alexander Kolodzig , Marat Gilfanov , Gert Hütsi , Rashid Sunyaev

We present a large sample of infrared-luminous candidate active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that lack X-ray detections in Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR fields. We selected all optically detected SDSS sources with redshift measurements,…

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