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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 756, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/756/1/95
Keywords
galaxies: active; galaxies: ISM; galaxies: starburst; infrared: galaxies
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Funding
- Mid-career Research Program through NRF
- MEST [2010-0013875]
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- American Museum of Natural History
- Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
- University of Basel
- University of Cambridge
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Chicago
- Drexel University
- Fermilab
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Johns Hopkins University
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
- New Mexico State University
- Ohio State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of Washington
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0013875] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We present the AKARI near-infrared (NIR; 2.5-5 mu m) spectroscopic study of 36 (ultra) luminous infrared galaxies ((U) LIRGs) at z = 0.01-0.4. We measure the NIR spectral features including the strengths of 3.3 mu m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission and hydrogen recombination lines (Br alpha and Br beta), optical depths at 3.1 and 3.4 mu m, and NIR continuum slope. These spectral features are used to identify optically elusive, buried active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We find that half of the (U) LIRGs optically classified as non-Seyferts show AGN signatures in their NIR spectra. Using a combined sample of (U) LIRGs with NIR spectra in the literature, we measure the contribution of buried AGNs to the infrared luminosity from the spectral energy distribution fitting to the IRAS photometry. The contribution of these buried AGNs to the infrared luminosity is 5%-10%, smaller than the typical AGN contribution of (U) LIRGs including Seyfert galaxies (10%-40%). We show that NIR continuum slopes correlate well with WISE [3.4]-[4.6] colors, which would be useful for identifying a large number of buried AGNs using the WISE data.
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