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We report on optical searches in the error circles of 93 ROSAT survey sources located at low galactic latitudes (|b| < 20 deg). These sources were extracted from the ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey using various selection criteria on hardness…

We used random forest algorithms to classify all objects in a large portion of the sky, using optical light curves obtained, or built from images provided, by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We compare different selection sets based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-25 S. Bernal , P. Sánchez-Sáez , P. Arévalo , F. E. Bauer , P. Lira , B. Sotomayor

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

We used data from the QUEST-La Silla Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability survey to construct light curves for 208,583 sources over $\sim 70$ deg$^2$, with a a limiting magnitude $r \sim 21$. Each light curve has at least 40 epochs and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 P. Sánchez-Sáez , P. Lira , R. Cartier , N. Miranda , L. C. Ho , P. Arévalo , F. E. Bauer , P. Coppi , C. Yovaniniz

We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), and both optical imaging and…

We present results of an all-sky hard X-ray survey based on almost four years of observations with the IBIS telescope on board the INTEGRAL observatory. The dead time-corrected exposure of the survey is ~33 Ms. Approximately 12% and 80% of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Krivonos , M. Revnivtsev , A. Lutovinov , S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

Mid-IR colour selection techniques have proved to be very efficient in finding AGN. This is because the AGN heats the surrounding dust producing warm mid-IR colours. Using the WISE 3.6, 4.5 and 12 $\mu m$ colours, the largest sample of IR…

The COSMOS survey is a multiwavelength survey aimed to study the evolution of galaxies, AGN and the large scale structure. The XMM-COSMOS is a deep X-ray survey over the full 2 deg2 of the COSMOS area. It consists of 55 XMM-Newton pointings…

We present the first INTEGRAL AGN catalog, based on observations performed from launch of the mission in October 2002 until January 2004. The catalog includes 42 AGN, of which 10 are Seyfert 1, 17 are Seyfert 2, and 9 are intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Beckmann , N. Gehrels , C. R. Shrader , S. Soldi

We present spectroscopy of 76 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) in CDF-S taken with the LDSS3 spectrograph on Magellan Telescope. These galaxies are selected to have emission lines with ACS grism data in the Hubble Space Telescope Probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lifang Xia , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Norbert Pirzkal , Zhenya Zheng , Gerhardt Meurer , Amber Straughn , Norman Grogin , David Floyd

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

The connection between AGN and their host galaxies has been widely studied over recent years, showing it to be of great importance for providing answers to some fundamental questions related with AGN fueling mechanisms, their formation and…

We classify the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 431,038 sources in the 9 sq. deg Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS). There are up to 17 bands of data available per source, including ultraviolet (GALEX), optical…

In this Master's project, the X-ray nuclear properties of a sample of bright nearby galaxies are explored. This is done by matching their comprehensive optical spectroscopic classification to the latest available XMM-Newton catalogue -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-10 Ivayla E. Kalcheva

We select a sample of 90 obscured (type2) AGN with 1.45<z<3.05 from the zCOSMOS-deep galaxy sample by 5 sigma-detection of the high-ionization CIV {\lambda}1549 narrow emission line. The presence of this feature in a galaxy spectrum is…

The 9-month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog provides the first unbiased (log N_H < 24) look at local (<z> = 0.03) AGN. In this paper, we present the collected X-ray properties (0.3 - 12keV) for the 153 AGN detected. In addition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. M. Winter , R. Mushotzky , C. S. Reynolds , J. Tueller

We calculate the angular correlation function for a sample of 170,000 AGN extracted from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) catalog, selected to have red mid-IR colors (W1 - W2 > 0.8) and 4.6 micron flux densities brighter than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 E. Donoso , Lin Yan , D. Stern , R. J. Assef

We use Chandra data to study the incidence and properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in 16 intermediate redshift ($0.5 < z < 1.1$) X-ray-selected galaxy groups in the Chandra Deep Field-South. We measure an AGN fraction of $f(L_{X,H} >…

We present results of optical identifications for Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) radio sources using the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS). A cross-match between UNIONS and VLASS Epoch 2 catalogs yields 146,212…

We have cross-correlated X-ray catalogs derived from archival Chandra ACIS observations with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 2 (DR2) galaxy catalog to form a sample of 42 serendipitously X-ray detected galaxies over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Hornschemeier , T. M. Heckman , A. F. Ptak , C. A. Tremonti , E. J. M. Colbert