2021PASP..133g4102Y -
Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 133, part no 7, 4102-74102 (2021/July-0)
Infrared emission properties of active galactic nuclei from Swift-BAT hard X-ray Survey.
YANG X.-H.
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The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 105-month survey detected 1632 hard X-ray sources in the 14-195 keV band, which includes 1105 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are unbiased against Compton-thin obscuration. We use a series of two-color diagrams to analyze the near, mid (MIR), and far-infrared properties of the Swift/BAT AGNs, based on data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer and the AKARI satellite. The two-color diagrams imply that a Fλ∝λ^-α^ power-law spectrum of α< 0 can be used to describe the 1.25-22 µm spectra of most of the Swift/BAT AGNs and that, for some Swift/BAT AGNs, the power-law spectrum can extend to 90 µm. Of the Swift/BAT AGNs, type-1 AGNs and QSOs have similar MIR spectral indexes (α) on average. Type-2 AGNs have redder MIR colors than type-1 sources on average. For 50% of type-2 Swift/BAT AGNs, their near-infrared emissions are dominated by thermal emission of the stars in host galaxies. For 83% of type-1 Swift/BAT AGNs, their near-infrared emissions may be dominated by multi-temperature thermal emissions from an optically thick accretion disk around the central black holes. The spectral index of blazars is smaller than that of other Swift/BAT AGNs, which indicates that blazars/FSRQ have flatter 4-22 µm spectra compared to other Swift/BAT AGNs on average.
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