Study of the AGN population at intermediate redshifts in the SHARDS survey

Hernán-Caballero, A.; Alonso-Herrero, A.,; Pérez-González, P. G.; Cava, A.; Barro, G.; Balcells, M.; Cardiel, N.; Cenarro, J.; Cepa, J.; Charlot, S.; Cimatti, A.; Conselice, C. J.; Daddi, E.; Donley, J.; Elbaz, D.; Ferreras, I.; Gallego, J.; Gobat, R.; Guzmán, R.; Renzini, A.; Rieke, G.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Tresse, L.; Trujillo, I.; Villar, V.; Zamorano, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Masegosa, J.; Muñoz-Tuñon, C.; Prieto, M.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 - 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.442-442

Fecha de publicación:
5
2013
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31
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8
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Descripción
We present the first results of a program aimed to study the stellar populations of moderate luminosity X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at intermediate redshifts. We use observations taken as part of the Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources (SHARDS) with the optical instrument OSIRIS on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). SHARDS is an on-going ESO/GTC Large Programme that is observing the GOODS-North cosmological field with 24 medium-band filters (22 of 17nm and 3 of 25nm) in the spectral range 500-950nm. Although SHARDS was originally designed to select and study the properties of high-z massive and passively evolving galaxies, it can also provide very valuable information about AGN at intermediate redshifts. We show that the SHARDS observations provide sufficiently high spectral resolution (R˜50) to detect broad absorption stellar features (e.g., the 4000Å{} break) as well as emission lines and to estimate accurate photometric redshifts. Together with the SHARDS observations we use the wealth of multi-wavelength data from the UV to radio available for this cosmological field to study the stellar populations and star formation histories of AGN at z˜0.5-1.2.