The Search for Red AGN with 2MASS 京都大学红色AGN与2MASS的搜索京都大学.pptVIP

The 2MASS Red AGN Survey Is There a Population of Obscured AGN? Red AGN Search Criteria Preliminary 2MASS Search Results Selection Biases Properties of the New 2MASS AGN Properties of the New 2MASS AGN Nature of the 2MASS Red AGN Polarization of 2MASS AGN Chandra Observations of 2MASS AGN Summary 2MASS Overview * R. Cutri, B. Nelson, D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech) M. Skrutskie (U. Virginia) P. Francis (ANU/MSSSO) P. Smith. G. Schmidt, D. Hines (U. Arizona) J. Huchra, B. Wilkes (Harvard/Smithsonian) Far-IR and Radio surveys suggest 50-80% of AGN in local universe are missed by optical/UV surveys because of dust obscuration IRAS QSOs (Low et al. 1997) Red QSOs from radio surveys (Webster et al. 1995; Francis et al. 1999) Very red, luminous, high-z FIRST/2MASS AGN (Gregg et al. 2002) May account for at least part of XRB (e.g. Comastri et al. 1995) But UV-excess/optical color-selected surveys appear to be 80-90% complete 2dF complete spectroscopic survey - 16.5bj19.7 (Meyer et al. 2001) SDSS QSO survey (Ivezic et al. 2002) Conduct a large-scale, uniform IR survey for reddened AGN Uniform all-sky photometry of 2MASS provides basis to search for and characterize a population of obscured or intrinsically red AGN 95% of known optical/UV/radio-selected QSOs have J-Ks 2.0 2MASS Red AGN candidate selection 3 band detection, J-Ks 2 |b|30o, exclude SMC/LMC to avoid AGB stars 20,400 deg2 16,997 candidates Brightest candidates are high-latitude AGB stars 5% are known AGN Histograms of J-Ks color (from 2MASS) for (top-to-bottom) PG, northern and southern Hamburg, LBQS and FIRST Bright QSO samples Spectroscopic follow-up of 704 (4.1%) candidates 69% of observed candidates are Type 1 or Type 2 AGN Remainder are starburst or normal galaxies, AGB stars and L-dwarfs ~5% unclassifiable because of low SNR Most of the AGN are Type 1 (e.g. broad-line - QSO/Sy1.x) N(type 1)/N(type 2) ~ 4 Color selection biases search Red