Issue |
A&A
Volume 477, Number 2, January II 2008
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Page(s) | 473 - 479 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078727 | |
Published online | 12 November 2007 |
Optical spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei in SA57*
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy e-mail: dario.trevese@roma1.infn.it
2
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
4
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Received:
24
September
2007
Accepted:
17
October
2007
Context.The cosmological evolution of X-ray-selected and optically selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show different behaviours interpreted in terms of two different populations. The difference is evident mainly for low luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs), many of which are lost by optical photometric surveys.
Aims.We are conducting a spectroscopical study of a composite sample of AGN candidates selected in SA57 following different searching techniques, to identify low luminosity AGNs and break down the sample into different classes of objects.
Methods.AGN candidates were obtained through optical variability and/or X-ray emission. Of special interest are the extended variable objects, which are expected to be galaxies hosting LLAGNs.
Results.Among the 26 classified objects a fair number (9) show typical AGN spectra. Ten objects show Narrow Emission Line Galaxy spectra, and in most of them (8/10) optical variability suggests the presence of LLAGNs.
Key words: galaxies: active / galaxies: nuclei / galaxies: Seyfert / X-rays: galaxies
Based on observations made with the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), operated by the ING, and with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), operated on the island of La Palma by the Fundación Galileo Galilei of the INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), both at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.
© ESO, 2007
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