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Título:
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Infrared Excess sources: Compton thick QSOs, low-luminosity Seyferts or starbursts?
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Autores:
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Georgakakis, A. ;
Rowan-Robinson, M. ;
Nandra, K. ;
Digby-North, J. ;
Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo ;
Barro, G.
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Tipo de documento:
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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Wiley, 2010-07-21
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Dimensiones:
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application/pdf
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Nota general:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Palabras clave:
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Estado = Publicado
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Astrofísica
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Astronomía
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Tipo = Artículo
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Resumen:
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We explore the nature of Infrared Excess sources (IRX), which are proposed as candidates for luminous [L_X(2–10 keV) > 10^43 erg s^?1] Compton thick (NH > 2 × 1024 cm?2) QSOs at z? 2. Lower redshift, z? 1, analogues of the distant IRX population are identified by first redshifting to z= 2 the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of all sources with secure spectroscopic redshifts in the AEGIS (6488) and the GOODS-North (1784) surveys and then selecting those that qualify as IRX sources at that redshift. A total of 19 galaxies are selected. The mean redshift of the sample is z? 1. We do not find strong evidence for Compton thick QSOs in the sample. For nine sources with X-ray counterparts, the X-ray spectra are consistent with Compton thin active galactic nucleus (AGN). Only three of them show tentative evidence for Compton thick obscuration. The SEDs of the X-ray undetected population are consistent with starburst activity. There is no evidence for a hot dust component at the mid-infrared associated with AGN heated dust. If the X-ray undetected sources host AGN, an upper limit of L_X(2–10 keV) = 10^43 erg s^?1 is estimated for their intrinsic luminosity. We propose that a large fraction of the z? 2 IRX population is not Compton thick quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) but low-luminosity [L_X(2–10 keV)
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/38541/1/perezgonzalez45libre.pdf
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