Host galaxies phot. for WISE-selected AGNs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Barrows R.S.
  2. Comerford J.M.
  3. Stern D.
  4. Assef R.J.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of physical properties for galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). By fitting broadband spectral energy distributions of sources in the WISE AGN Catalog with empirical galaxy and AGN templates, we derive photometric redshifts, AGN bolometric luminosities, measures of AGN obscuration, host galaxy stellar masses, and host galaxy star formation rates (SFRs) for 695,273 WISE AGN. The wide-area nature of this catalog significantly augments the known number of obscured AGN out to redshifts z~3 and will be useful for studies focused on AGN or their host galaxy physical properties. We first show that the most likely non-AGN contaminants are galaxies at redshifts z=0.2-0.3, with relatively blue W1-W2 colors, and with high specific SFRs for which the dust continuum emission is elevated in the W2 filter. Toward increasingly lower redshifts, WISE AGN host galaxies have systematically lower specific SFRs relative to those of normal star-forming galaxies, likely due to decreased cold gas fractions and the time delay between global star formation and AGN triggering. Finally, WISE AGN obscuration is not strongly correlated with AGN bolometric luminosity but shows a significant negative correlation with the Eddington ratio. This result is consistent with a version of the receding torus model in which the obscuring material is located within the supermassive black hole gravitational sphere of influence and the dust inner radius increases due to radiation pressure.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. redshifted
  3. spectral-energy-distribution
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. Wide-band photometry
  7. galaxies
  8. infrared-sources
  9. catalogs
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...922..179B
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/922/179
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19220179

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History

2023-05-02T14:10:33Z
Resource record created
2023-05-02T14:10:33Z
Created
2023-11-03T13:08:38Z
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