1302.2920 (Alexander J. Mendez et al.)

PRIMUS: Infrared and X-ray AGN Selection Techniques at 0.2    [PDF]

Alexander J. Mendez, Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu

We present a study of Spitzer/IRAC and X-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selection techniques in order to quantify the overlap, uniqueness, contamination, and completeness of each. We investigate how the overlap and possible contamination of the samples depends on the IR and X-ray depths. We use Spitzer/IRAC imaging, Chandra and XMM X-ray imaging, and PRism MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS) spectroscopic redshifts to construct galaxy and AGN samples at 0.2View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2920