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Buried AGNs in Advanced Mergers: Mid-infrared Color Selection as a Dual AGN Candidate Finder
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WoS WOS:000413525700008
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85032742031
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/AA88CA
Año 2017
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Abstract



A direct consequence of hierarchical galaxy formation is the existence of dual supermassive black holes, which may be preferentially triggered as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) during galaxy mergers. Despite decades of searching, however, dual AGNs are extremely rare, and most have been discovered serendipitously. Using the all-sky WISE survey, we identified a population of over 100 morphologically identified interacting galaxies or mergers that display red mid-infrared colors often associated in extragalactic sources with powerful AGNs. The vast majority of these advanced mergers are optically classified as star-forming galaxies, which suggests that they may represent an obscured population of AGNs that cannot be found through optical studies. In this work, we present Chandra/ACIS observations and near-infrared spectra with the Large Binocular Telescope of six advanced mergers with projected pair separations less than similar to 10 kpc. The combined X-ray, near-infrared, and mid-infrared properties of these mergers provide confirmation that four out of the six mergers host at least one AGN, with four of the mergers possibly hosting dual AGNs with projected separations less than similar to 10 kpc, despite showing no firm evidence for AGNs based on optical spectroscopic studies. Our results demonstrate that (1) optical studies miss a significant fraction of single and dual AGNs in advanced mergers, and (2) mid-infrared pre-selection is extremely effective in identifying dual AGN candidates in late-stage mergers. Our multi-wavelength observations suggest that the buried AGNs in these mergers are highly absorbed, with intrinsic column densities in excess of similar to N-H > 10(24) cm(-2), consistent with hydrodynamic simulations.

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Astrophysical Journal 0004-637X

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1 Satyapal, Shobita - George Mason Univ - Estados Unidos
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - Estados Unidos
George Mason University - Estados Unidos
2 Secrest, Nathan J. Hombre George Mason Univ - Estados Unidos
NRC Res Associate - Estados Unidos
Naval Res Lab - Estados Unidos
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - Estados Unidos
National Academy of Sciences - Estados Unidos
Naval Research Laboratory - Estados Unidos
George Mason University - Estados Unidos
3 Ricci, C. Hombre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Chinese Acad Sci South Amer Ctr Astron & China Ch - Chile
Peking Univ - China
Chinese Academy of Sciences - China
Peking University - China
4 Ellison, Sara L. Mujer Univ Victoria - Canadá
University of Victoria - Canadá
5 Rothberg, B. Hombre George Mason Univ - Estados Unidos
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - Estados Unidos
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
George Mason University - Estados Unidos
6 Blecha, L. Mujer UNIV MARYLAND - Estados Unidos
University of Maryland - Estados Unidos
University of Maryland, College Park - Estados Unidos
7 Constantin, A. Mujer James Madison Univ - Estados Unidos
James Madison University - Estados Unidos
8 Gliozzi, Mario Hombre George Mason Univ - Estados Unidos
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - Estados Unidos
George Mason University - Estados Unidos
9 McNulty, Paul Hombre George Mason Univ - Estados Unidos
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus - Estados Unidos
George Mason University - Estados Unidos
10 Ferguson, Jason Hombre James Madison Univ - Estados Unidos
James Madison University - Estados Unidos

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Fuente
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Office of Naval Research
Naval Research Laboratory
JMU
National Auronautics and Space Administration
Mason 4-VA grant

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Agradecimiento
This research was performed while N.J.S. held an NRC Research Associateship award at the Naval Research Laboratory. Basic research in astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory is funded by the Office of Naval Research.
We gratefully acknowledge the anonymous referee for a very thorough and insightful review that improved this manuscript. N.J.S. and S.S. gratefully acknowledge support by the Chandra Guest Investigator Program under NASA Grant G01-12126X. P.M. gratefully acknowledges support from a Mason 4-VA grant. A.C. and J.F. gratefully acknowledge support from a JMU 4-VA Collaborative grant. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support of Raj Kiran Koju, for his help in assembling the initial sample of advanced mergers, without which this work would never have begun. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of Seth Mowry for his meticulous assembly of the initial compilation of confirmed duals included in this work. We are very grateful to Peter Edmonds, Ryan Hickox, and Vinay Kashyap for their insight on source significance estimates in the low count regime used in this paper.

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