Mid-infrared selection of active galaxies

D Stern, P Eisenhardt, V Gorjian… - The Astrophysical …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy Evolution Survey. On the basis of this spectroscopic sample, we find that … mid-infrared
color criteria provide remarkably robust separation of active galaxies from normal galaxies

Mid-infrared selection of active galactic nuclei with the wide-field infrared survey explorer. i. characterizing wise-selected active galactic nuclei in cosmos

D Stern, RJ Assef, DJ Benford, A Blain… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
mid-infrared color criterion, W1− W2⩾ 0.8 (ie,[3.4]−[4.6]⩾ 0.8, Vega), which identifies 61.9±5.4
active … , attributable to the fact that mid-infrared selection identifies both unobscured (type 1…

A large population of mid-infrared-selected, obscured active galaxies in the Boötes field

RC Hickox, C Jones, WR Forman… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
… To illustrate the S05 color-color selection, we show in Figure 1 the IRAC ½3:6 À½4:5 and
½5:8 À½8:0 colors for a twocomponent template spectrum consisting of a starburst galaxy (…

Mid-infrared Selection of active galactic nuclei with the wide-field infrared survey explorer. II. Properties of WISE-selected active galactic nuclei in the NDWFS Boötes …

RJ Assef, D Stern, CS Kochanek, AW Blain… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed to play an important role in several aspects
of galaxy … -dependent AGN selection criterion to several other WISE AGN selection criteria …

… -infrared active galactic nucleus survey. I. Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of obscured candidates and normal active galactic nuclei selected in the mid-infrared

M Lacy, SE Ridgway, EL Gates… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected in the mid-infrared. … a wide range, from Seyfert galaxies
with bolometric luminosities L … Samples of candidate AGNs were selected with mid-infrared

A Comparison of X-ray and Mid-Infrared Selection of Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei

ME Eckart, ID McGreer, D Stern… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
… merits of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selection at X-ray and mid-infrared wavelengths using
… The X-ray-selected AGN sample and associated photometric and spectroscopic optical …

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of candidate active galactic nuclei-dominated submillimeter galaxies

K Coppin, A Pope, K Menéndez-Delmestre… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
mid-infrared. Here we focus on the remaining ≃20% that show signs of harboring powerful
active galactic nuclei … >1.65 works well at selecting mid-infrared energetically dominant AGNs …

Mid-infrared colors of dwarf galaxies: young starbursts mimicking active galactic nuclei

KN Hainline, AE Reines, JE Greene… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… Searching for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in dwarf galaxies is important for our … Here,
we test infrared selection methods for AGN activity at low galaxy masses. Our parent …

Identification of 1.4 million active galactic nuclei in the mid-infrared using WISE Data

NJ Secrest, RP Dudik, BN Dorland… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
… million active galactic nuclei (AGNs) meeting a two-color infrared photometric selection criteria
… We test the AGN selection criteria against a large sample of optically identified stars and …

Morphologies of Radio-, X-ray-, and Mid-infrared-selected Active Galactic Nuclei

RL Griffith, D Stern - The Astronomical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
active galaxies identified at radio, X-ray, and mid-infrared … and 1238 active galactic nucleus
(AGN) host galaxies from Very … AGN host galaxies, split by brightness in their selection band. …