Propiedades de los AGNs oscurecidos y no oscurecidos

TAORMINA MÓNICA; BORNANCINI CARLOS G.

San Juan

Congreso; Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía; 2011

Asociación Argentina de Astronomía

In this work we analyze the properties of obscured and unobscured AGNs selected from the "Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile" (MUSYC). The sample of AGNs was selected base on their mid-infrared colors ([3.6], [4.5], [5.8] y [8.0] μm), from images obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We select obscured and unobscured AGN samples using a simple criterion based on the observed optical to mid-IR color with limits R - [4.5] = 3.04 (AB system) and with redshifts in the range 1 < z < 3. Obscured AGNs are intrinsically optically faint in the R band, suggesting that luminous IR- selected AGNs have significant dust extinction.