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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 154, Issue 1, Pages 155-159Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/422976
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galaxies : active; galaxies : fundamental parameters; infrared : galaxies; X-rays : galaxies
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We investigate the luminous X-ray sources in the Lockman Hole (LH) and the extended Groth strip (EGS) detected at 24 mum using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) and also with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. We assemble optical/infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 45 X-ray/24 mum sources in the EGS and LH. Only about one-quarter of the hard X-ray/24 mum sources show pure type 1 active galactic nucleus (AGN) SEDs. More than half of the X-ray/24 mum sources have stellar emission-dominated or obscured SEDs, similar to those of local type 2 AGN and spiral/starburst galaxies. One-third of the sources detected in hard X-rays do not have a 24 mum counterpart. Two such sources in the LH have SEDs resembling those of S0/elliptical galaxies. The broad variety of SEDs in the optical-to-Spitzer bands of X-ray-selected AGNs means that AGNs selected according to the behavior in the optical/infrared will have to be supplemented by other kinds of data (e.g., X-ray) to produce unbiased samples of AGNs.
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