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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 753, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/1/30
关键词
galaxies: active; infrared: galaxies
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- NASA [NAS 5-26555]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [909159] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is an extremely capable and efficient black hole finder. We present a simple mid-infrared color criterion, W1 - W2 >= 0.8 (i.e., [3.4]-[4.6] >= 0.8, Vega), which identifies 61.9 +/- 5.4 active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates per deg(2) to a depth of W2 similar to 15.0. This implies a much larger census of luminous AGNs than found by typical wide-area surveys, attributable to the fact that mid-infrared selection identifies both unobscured (type 1) and obscured (type 2) AGNs. Optical and soft X-ray surveys alone are highly biased toward only unobscured AGNs, while this simple WISE selection likely identifies even heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGNs. Using deep, public data in the COSMOS field, we explore the properties of WISE-selected AGN candidates. At the mid-infrared depth considered, 160 mu Jy at 4.6 mu m, this simple criterion identifies 78% of Spitzer mid-infrared AGN candidates according to the criteria of Stern et al. and the reliability is 95%. We explore the demographics, multiwavelength properties and redshift distribution of WISE-selected AGN candidates in the COSMOS field.
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