A detailed look at the most obscured galactic nuclei in the mid-infrared

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Fig. 11.

Histogram of the nuclear fraction, β, for LIRGs in the GOALS sample selected as CONs via the PAH EW method (red) and the nuclear optical depth (black). This shows that the nuclear optical depth identifies additional sources that are more heavily diluted by the host galaxy.

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