IDENTIFYING LUMINOUS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI IN DEEP SURVEYS: REVISED IRAC SELECTION CRITERIA

Spitzer/IRAC selection is a powerful tool for identifying luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). For deep IRAC data, however, the AGN selection wedges currently in use are heavily contaminated by star-forming galaxies, especially at high redshift. Using the large samples of luminous AGNs and high-r...

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Main Authors: Donley, J. L., Koekemoer, A. M., Brusa, M., Capak, P., Civano, F., Ilbert, O., Impey, C. D., Kartaltepe, J. S., Miyaji, T., Salvato, M., Sanders, D. B., Trump, J. R., Zamorani, G., Cardamone, Carolin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95575