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The sharpest view of the local AGN population at mid-infrared wavelengths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2014

Daniel Asmus ,
Sebastian F. Hönig ,
Poshak Gandhi ,
Alain Smette  and
Wolfgang J. Duschl
Daniel Asmus
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: asmus@mpifr.de Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian- Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstr. 15, 24098 Kiel, Germany
Sebastian F. Hönig
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian- Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstr. 15, 24098 Kiel, Germany Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark UCSB Department of Physics, Broida Hall 93106-9530, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Poshak Gandhi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan, Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan
Alain Smette
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
Wolfgang J. Duschl
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian- Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstr. 15, 24098 Kiel, Germany Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Abstract

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We present the largest mid-infrared (MIR) atlas of active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec spatial scales containing 253 objects with a median redshift of 0.016. It comprises all available ground-based high-angular resolution MIR observations performed to date with 8-meter class telescopes and includes 895 photometric measurements. All types of AGN are present in the atlas, which also includes 80 per cent of the 9-month BAT AGN sample. Therefore, this atlas and its subsamples are very well-suited for AGN unification studies. A first application of the atlas is the extension of the MIR–X-ray luminosity correlation for AGN.

Keywords

galaxies: active – galaxies: nuclei – infrared: galaxies

References

Asmus, D., Hönig, S. F., Gandhi, P., Smette, A., & Duschl, W. J. 2014, MNRAS, 439, 1648Google Scholar
Asmus, D., Gandhi, P., Hönig, S. F., Smette, A., & Duschl, W. J. 2014, MNRAS, in prep.Google Scholar