The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2022)
BASS. XXII. The BASS DR2 AGN Catalog and Data
- Michael J. Koss,
- Claudio Ricci,
- Benny Trakhtenbrot,
- Kyuseok Oh,
- Jakob S. den Brok,
- Julian E. Mejía-Restrepo,
- Daniel Stern,
- George C. Privon,
- Ezequiel Treister,
- Meredith C. Powell,
- Richard Mushotzky,
- Franz E. Bauer,
- Tonima T. Ananna,
- Mislav Baloković,
- Rudolf E. Bär,
- George Becker,
- Patricia Bessiere,
- Leonard Burtscher,
- Turgay Caglar,
- Enrico Congiu,
- Phil Evans,
- Fiona Harrison,
- Marianne Heida,
- Kohei Ichikawa,
- Nikita Kamraj,
- Isabella Lamperti,
- Fabio Pacucci,
- Federica Ricci,
- Rogério Riffel,
- Alejandra F. Rojas,
- Kevin Schawinski,
- Matthew J. Temple,
- C. Megan Urry,
- Sylvain Veilleux,
- Jonathan Williams
Affiliations
- Michael J. Koss
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- Eureka Scientific , 2452 Delmer Street, Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA ; [email protected]; Space Science Institute , 4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
- Claudio Ricci
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- Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales , Av. Ejército Libertador 441, Santiago 22, Chile; Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
- Benny Trakhtenbrot
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Kyuseok Oh
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- Korea Astronomy & Space Science institute , 776, Daedeokdae-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34055, Republic of Korea; Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University , Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Jakob S. den Brok
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics , ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland; Argelander Institute for Astronomy , Auf dem Hügel 71, D-53231, Bonn, Germany
- Julian E. Mejía-Restrepo
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- European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
- Daniel Stern
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 169-224, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- George C. Privon
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Florida , P.O. Box 112055, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Ezequiel Treister
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- Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile
- Meredith C. Powell
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- Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University , 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Richard Mushotzky
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- Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Franz E. Bauer
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- Space Science Institute , 4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301, USA; Instituto de Astrofísica and Centro de Astroingeniería , Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile; Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) , Nuncio Monseñor Sótero Sanz 100, Providencia, Santiago, Chile
- Tonima T. Ananna
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy , Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
- Mislav Baloković
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- Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics and Department of Physics, Yale University , P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520-8120, USA
- Rudolf E. Bär
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- Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics , ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- George Becker
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California , Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Patricia Bessiere
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- Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile
- Leonard Burtscher
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- Leiden Observatory , P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Turgay Caglar
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- Leiden Observatory , P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Enrico Congiu
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- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile , Camino del Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
- Phil Evans
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester , Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Fiona Harrison
- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Marianne Heida
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- European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
- Kohei Ichikawa
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- Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8578, Japan; Astronomical Institute, Graduate School of Science Tohoku University , 6-3 Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei Müunchen, Germany
- Nikita Kamraj
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Isabella Lamperti
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Cra. de Ajalvir Km. 4, E-28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
- Fabio Pacucci
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- Center for Astrophysics , Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Federica Ricci
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- Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile; Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna , via Gobetti 93/2, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
- Rogério Riffel
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- Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Alejandra F. Rojas
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- Centro de Astronomía (CITEVA), Universidad de Antofagasta , Avenida Angamos 601, Antofagasta, Chile
- Kevin Schawinski
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- Modulos AG, Technoparkstrasse 1, CH-8005 Zurich, Switzerland
- Matthew J. Temple
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- Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales , Av. Ejército Libertador 441, Santiago 22, Chile
- C. Megan Urry
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- Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics and Department of Physics, Yale University , P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520-8120, USA
- Sylvain Veilleux
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- Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Jonathan Williams
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- Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6c05
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 261,
no. 1
p. 2
Abstract
We present the active galactic nucleus (AGN) catalog and optical spectroscopy for the second data release of the Swift BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). With this DR2 release we provide 1449 optical spectra, of which 1182 are released for the first time, for the 858 hard-X-ray-selected AGNs in the Swift BAT 70-month sample. The majority of the spectra (801/1449, 55%) are newly obtained from Very Large Telescope (VLT)/X-shooter or Palomar/Doublespec. Many of the spectra have both higher resolution ( R > 2500, N ∼ 450) and/or very wide wavelength coverage (3200–10000 Å, N ∼ 600) that are important for a variety of AGN and host galaxy studies. We include newly revised AGN counterparts for the full sample and review important issues for population studies, with 47 AGN redshifts determined for the first time and 790 black hole mass and accretion rate estimates. This release is spectroscopically complete for all AGNs (100%, 858/858), with 99.8% having redshift measurements (857/858) and 96% completion in black hole mass estimates of unbeamed AGNs (722/752). This AGN sample represents a unique census of the brightest hard-X-ray-selected AGNs in the sky, spanning many orders of magnitude in Eddington ratio ( L / L _Edd = 10 ^−5 –100), black hole mass ( M _BH = 10 ^5 –10 ^10 M _⊙ ), and AGN bolometric luminosity ( L _bol = 10 ^40 –10 ^47 erg s ^−1 ).
Keywords
- X-ray active galactic nuclei
- Active galactic nuclei
- Seyfert galaxies
- X-ray quasars
- X-ray surveys
- Surveys
