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We characterize the incidence of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is 0.3 < z < 1 star-forming galaxies by applying multi-wavelength AGN diagnostics (X-ray, optical, mid-infrared, radio) to a sample of galaxies selected at 70-micron from the…

We present the surface density of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) associated with a uniformly selected galaxy cluster sample identified in the 8.5 square degree Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. The clusters are…

With the advent of GRAVITY+, the upgrade to the beam combiner GRAVITY at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), fainter and higher redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are becoming observable, opening an unprecedented opportunity…

We explore the relationship between X-ray absorption and optical obscuration within the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) which has been collecting and analyzing the optical and X-ray spectra for 641 hard X-ray selected ($E>14$ keV)…

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is providing an unprecedented view of local AGNs (<z> = 0.03) and their host galaxy properties. In this paper, we present an analysis of the optical spectra of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lisa M. Winter , Karen T. Lewis , Michael Koss , Sylvain Veilleux , Brian Keeney , Richard F. Mushotzky

Context: A long-standing challenge of observational AGN research is to find type 2 quasars, the luminous analogues of Seyfert-2 galaxies. Aims: We search for luminous narrow-line type 2 AGN, characterise their properties, and compare them…

We have performed HST imaging of a sample of 23 high-redshift (1.8<z<2.75) AGN, drawn from the COMBO-17 survey. The sample contains moderately luminous quasars (M_B ~ -23). The data are part of the GEMS imaging survey that provides high…

We present a sample of 290 24-micron-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mostly at z ~ 0.3 -- 2.5, within 5.2 square degrees distributed as 25' X 25' fields around each of 30 galaxy clusters in the Local Cluster Substructure Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Lei Xu , G. H. Rieke , E. Egami , M. J. Pereira , C. P. Haines , G. P. Smith

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 provide constraints on optically faint (I>=24) X-ray sources, z>6 AGN, Very Red Objects (VROs; I-K>=4), and optically faint radio sources using the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North survey. We argue that the majority of the optically faint…

We study a combined sample of 264 star-forming, 51 composite, and 73 active galaxies using optical spectra from SDSS and mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. We examine optical and mid-IR spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , D. Schiminovich , M. O'Dowd , B. Bertincourt

Hard X-ray surveys are an important tool for the study of active galactic nuclei (AGN): they provide almost an unbiased view of absorption in the extragalactic population, allow the study of spectral features such as reflection and high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-12 Loredana Bassani , M. Molina , A. Malizia , F. Panessa , R. Landi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini , A. J. Bird , J. B. Stephen

We present optical spectra for a representative sample of 27 nearby (z < 0.2) 2MASS-selected AGN with red near-IR colours (J-K 2.0). The spectra were taken with the ISIS spectrograph on the WHT with the aim of determining the nature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marvin Rose , Clive Tadhunter , Joanna Holt , Javier Rodríguez Zaurín

Recent observations have revealed an interesting active galactic nuclei (AGN) subclass that shows strong activity at large scales ($\sim1$ kpc) but weaker at small scales ($<10$ pc), suggesting a strong change in the mass accretion rate of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 J. Pflugradt , K. Ichikawa , M. Akiyama , M. Kokubo , B. Vijarnwannaluk , H. Noda , X. Chen

We analyze morphologies of the host galaxies of 35 X-ray selected active galactic nucleus (AGNs) at $z\sim2$ in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field using Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 imaging taken from the Cosmic Assembly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Lulu Fan , Guanwen Fang , Yang Chen , Jinrong Li , Xuanyi Lv , Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen , Xu Kong

We report the discovery of 13 broad-line AGNs at $z = 5 - 8$ from the first 10% data of the JWST Cycle 3 Treasury Program COSMOS-3D. These AGNs are identified by their broad H$\alpha$ or H$\beta$ emission lines through the NIRCam grism…

An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

We present X-ray and optical analysis of 188 AGN identified from 497 hard X-ray (f (2.0-8.0 keV) > 2.7x10^-15 erg cm^-2 s^-1) sources in 20 Chandra fields (1.5 deg^2) forming part of the Chandra Multi-wavelength Project. These medium depth…

We report the results of a Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV eBOSS program to target X-ray sources and mid-infrared-selected WISE AGN candidates in a 36.8 deg$^2$ region of Stripe 82. About half this survey (15.6 deg$^2$) covers the largest…