X-ray & MIR AGNs in Stripe 82 with eBOSS spectra Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. LaMassa S.M.
  2. Georgakakis A.
  3. Vivek M.
  4. Salvato M.
  5. Ananna T.T.
  6. Urry C.M.,MacLeod C.
  7. Ross N.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report the results of a Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV eBOSS program to target X-ray sources and mid-infrared-selected Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates in a 36.8deg^2^ region of Stripe 82. About half this survey (15.6deg^2^) covers the largest contiguous portion of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey. This program represents the largest spectroscopic survey of AGN candidates selected solely by their WISE colors. We combine this sample with X-ray and WISE AGNs in the field identified via other sources of spectroscopy, producing a catalog of 4847 sources that is 82% complete to r~22. Based on X-ray luminosities or WISE colors, 4730 of these sources are AGNs, with a median sample redshift of z~1. About 30% of the AGNs are optically obscured (i.e., lack broad lines in their optical spectra). BPT analysis, however, indicates that 50% of the WISE AGNs at z<0.5 have emission line ratios consistent with star-forming galaxies, so whether they are buried AGNs or star-forming galaxy contaminants is currently unclear. We find that 61% of X-ray AGNs are not selected as mid-infrared AGNs, with 22% of X-ray AGNs undetected by WISE. Most of these latter AGNs have high X-ray luminosities (Lx>10^44^erg/s), indicating that mid-infrared selection misses a sizable fraction of the highest luminosity AGNs, as well as lower luminosity sources where AGN-heated dust is not dominating the mid-infrared emission. Conversely, ~58% of WISE AGNs are undetected by X-rays, though we do not find that they are preferentially redder than the X-ray-detected WISE AGNs.

Keywords
  1. Active galactic nuclei
  2. Surveys
  3. Optical astronomy
  4. Spectroscopy
  5. Redshifted
  6. Sloan photometry
  7. Infrared photometry
  8. X-ray sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...876...50L
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2020-10-27T12:58:19Z
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