Spitzer power-law galaxies in EGS Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Park S.Q.
  2. Barmby P.
  3. Willner S.P.
  4. Ashby M.L.N.
  5. Fazio G.G.,Georgakakis A.
  6. Ivison R.J.
  7. Konidaris N.P.
  8. Miyazaki S.
  9. Nandra K.,Rosario D.J.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

This paper analyzes a sample of 489 Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) sources in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS), whose spectral energy distributions fit a red power law (PL) from 3.6 to 8.0um. The median redshift for sources with known redshifts is <z>=1.6. Though all or nearly all of the sample galaxies are likely to be active galactic nuclei (AGNs), only 33% were detected in the EGS X-ray survey (AEGIS-X) using 200ks Chandra observations. The detected sources are X-ray luminous with L_X_>10^43^erg/s and moderately to heavily obscured with N_H_>10^22^cm^-2^. Stacking the X-ray-undetected sample members yields a statistically significant X-ray signal, suggesting that they are on average more distant or more obscured than sources with X-ray detections. The ratio of X-ray to mid-infrared fluxes suggests that a substantial fraction of the sources undetected in X-rays are obscured at the Compton-thick level, in contrast to the X-ray-detected sources, all of which appear to be Compton thin.

Keywords
  1. Active galactic nuclei
  2. Infrared photometry
  3. X-ray sources
  4. Astronomical object identification
  5. Redshifted
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2010ApJ...717.1181P
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2012-06-25T12:08:10Z
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