Mid-infrared selection of active galactic nuclei with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. I. Characterizing WISE-selected active galactic nuclei in cosmos

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 753, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stern, Daniel ^a   Assef, Roberto J ^a   Benford, Dominic J ^b   Blain, Andrew ^c   Cutri, Roc ^d   Dey, Arjun ^e   Eisenhardt, Peter ^a   Griffith, Roger L ^d   Jarrett, T H ^d   Lake, Sean ^f   Masci, Frank ^d   Petty, Sara ^f   Stanford, S A ^g,h   Tsai, Chao Wei ^d   Wright, E L ^f   Yan, Lin ^d   Harrison, Fiona ^d   Madsen, Kristin ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: active; infrared: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862569624     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/1/30     Document Type: Article

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