The simultaneous optical-to-X-ray SED of AGNs

DOI

We report Swift observations of a sample of 92 bright soft X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This sample represents the largest number of AGNs observed to study the spectral energy distribution (SED) of AGNs with simultaneous optical/UV and X-ray data. The principal motivation of this study is to understand the SEDs of AGNs in the optical/UV to X-ray regime and to provide bolometric corrections which are important in determining the Eddington ratio L/L_Edd_. In particular, we rigorously explore the dependence of the UV-EUV contribution to the bolometric correction on the assumed EUV spectral shape. We find strong correlations of the spectral slopes {alpha}X and {alpha}UV with L/L_Edd_.

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21870064
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/187/64
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/187/64
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/187/64
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Provenance
Creator Grupe D.; Komossa S.; Leighly K.M.; Page K.L.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2010
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics