Bibcode
DOI
Hatziminaoglou, E.; Pérez-Fournon, I.; Polletta, M.; Afonso-Luis, A.; Hernán-Caballero, A.; Montenegro-Montes, F. M.; Lonsdale, C.; Xu, C. K.; Franceschini, A.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Babbedge, T.; Smith, H. E.; Surace, J.; Shupe, D.; Fang, F.; Farrah, D.; Oliver, S.; González-Solares, E. A.; Serjeant, S.
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 129, Issue 3, pp. 1198-1211.
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2005
Citations
101
Refereed citations
90
Description
We present a mid-infrared (MIR) analysis of 35 quasars with
spectroscopic redshifts selected from the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared
Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE). We discuss their optical and MIR colors
and show that these quasars occupy well-defined regions in MIR
color-color space. We examine the issue of type 1 active galactic nuclei
candidate selection in detail and propose new selection methods based on
MIR colors. The available multiband data allow us to construct two new,
well-sampled quasar templates, covering wavelengths from the ultraviolet
to the MIR.