Infrared Surveys for AGN
| dc.creator | Smith, Harding E. | |
| dc.date | 2002-03-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:03:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:03:02Z | |
| dc.description | From the earliest extragalactic infrared studies AGN have shown themselves to be strong infrared sources and IR surveys have revealed new populations of AGN. I briefly review current motivations for AGN surveys in the infrared and results from previous IR surveys. The Luminous Infrared Galaxies, which in some cases house dust-enshrouded AGN, submillimeter surveys, and recent studies of the cosmic x-ray and infrared backgrounds suggest that there is a population of highly-obscured AGN at high redshift. ISO Surveys have begun to resolve the infrared background and may have detected this obscured AGN population. New infrared surveys, particularly the SIRTF Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Legacy Survey (SWIRE), will detect this population and provide a platform for understanding the evolution of AGN, Starbursts and passively evolving galaxies in the context of large-scale structure and environment. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in IAU Colloquium 184: AGN Surveys | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203092 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203092 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4248 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Infrared Surveys for AGN | |
| dc.type | text |