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[abridged] The properties of galaxies with the reddest observed R-K colors (Extremely Red Objects, EROs), including their apparent division into passive and obscured active objects with roughly similar number densities, are a known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabio Fontanot , Pierluigi Monaco

In this paper we investigate the properties of low X-ray-to-optical flux ratio sources detected in a wide area (2.5deg^2) shallow (f(0.5-8keV)~10e-14cgs) XMM-Newton survey. We find a total of 26 sources (5% of the total X-ray selected…

The Spitzer GLIMPSE survey has revealed a number of "Extended Green Objects" (EGOs) which display extended emission at 4.5 micron. These EGOs are potential candidates for high mass protostellar outflows. We have used high resolution (< 1")…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hsu-Tai Lee , Michihiro Takami , Hao-Yuan Duan , Jennifer Karr , Yu-Nung Su , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Dirk Froebrich , Cosmos C. Yeh

We determine the nature, redshift, stellar populations and dust properties of optically faint or non-detected extremely red objects (ERO) found from our survey of the lensing clusters A1835 and AC114. We perform SED fitting and use deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Schaerer , A. Hempel , E. Egami , R. Pello , J. Richard , J. F. Le Borgne , J. -P. Kneib , M. Wise , F. Boone

We investigate Extremely Red Objects (EROs) using near- and mid-infrared observations in five passbands (3.6 to 24 micron) obtained from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and deep ground-based R and K imaging. The great sensitivity of the IRAC…

We present a measurement of the star formation properties of a uniform sample of mid-IR selected, unobscured and obscured quasars (QSO1s and QSO2s) in the Bo\"otes survey region. We use an spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis for…

The limited angular resolution of gamma-ray telescopes prevents a direct identification of the majority of sources detected so far. This is particularly true for the low latitude, probably galactic, ones only 10 % of which has been…

Although absorbed quasars are extremely important for our understanding of the energetics of the Universe, the main physical parameters of their central engines are still poorly known. In this work we present and study a complete sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Ballo , P. Severgnini , R. Della Ceca , A. Caccianiga , C. Vignali , F. J. Carrera , A. Corral , S. Mateos

We use photometric data from Spitzer to explore the mid- and far-IR properties of 10 red QSOs (J-K>2, R-K>5) selected by combining the 2MASS in the NIR with the SDSS at optical wavelengths. Optical and/or near-infrared spectra are available…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Georgakakis , D. L. Clements , G. Bendo , M. Rowan-Robinson , K. Nandra , M. S. Brotherton

The sources discovered in deep hard X-ray surveys with 2-8 keV fluxes of 10^-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 make up the bulk of the X-ray background at these energies. We present here detailed multi-wavelength observations of three such sources from the…

We present a sample of twenty-one ROSAT bright active galactic nuclei (AGN), representing a range of spectral classes, and selected for follow-up snap-shot observations with XMM-Newton. The typical exposure was between 5-10 ks. The objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. Gallo , I. Lehmann , W. Pietsch , Th. Boller , W. Brinkmann , P. Friedrich , D. Grupe

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

We present quasi-simultaneous multi-colour optical/near-IR photometry for 157 radio selected quasars, forming an unbiassed sub-sample of the Parkes Flat-Spectrum Sample. Data are also presented for 12 optically selected QSOs, drawn from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul J. Francis , Matthew T. Whiting , Rachel L. Webster

We previously identified an excess of mostly red galaxies around 31 RLQs at z=1-2. These fields have an ERO (extremely red object, R-K>6) density 2.7 times higher than the field. Assuming the EROs are passively evolved galaxies at the…

Insensitive to dust obscuration, radio wavelengths are ideal to study star-forming galaxies free of dust induced biases. Using data from the Phoenix Deep Survey, we have identified a sample of star-forming extremely red objects (EROs).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Afonso , A. M. Hopkins , M. Sullivan , B. Mobasher , A. Georgakakis , L. E. Cram

An all-sky comprehensive catalog of calculated radio and X-ray associations to optical objects is presented. Included are X-ray sources from XMM-Newton, Chandra and ROSAT catalogs, radio sources from NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS catalogs, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Eric Flesch

The spectral energy distributions and infrared (IR) spectra of a sample of obscured AGNs selected in the mid-IR are modeled with recent clumpy torus models to investigate the nature of the sources, the properties of the obscuring matter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 M. Polletta , D. Weedman , S. Hoenig , C. J. Lonsdale , H. E. Smith , J. Houck

We have assembled a sample of 5 X-ray-absorbed and submm-luminous type 1 QSOs at $z \sim 2$ which are simultaneously growing their central black holes through accretion and forming stars copiously. We present here the analysis of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Khan-Ali , F. J. Carrera , M. J. Page , J. A. Stevens , S. Mateos , M. Symeonidis , J. M. Cao Orjales

The properties of the relativistically broadened Fe K alpha line emitted in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are still debated among the AGN community. Recent works seem to exclude that the broad Fe line is a common feature of AGN. The analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-04 A. L. Longinotti , I. de La Calle , S. Bianchi , M. Guainazzi , M. Dovciak

The combination of optical and mid-infrared (MIR) photometry has been extensively used to select red active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our aim is to explore the obscuration properties of these red AGNs with both X-ray spectroscopy and spectral…