Multicolour Optical Imaging of IR-Warm Seyfert Galaxies. I. Introduction and Sample Selection

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1999-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912198v1

Astrophys.J.Suppl. 131 (2000) 71-94

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages including 3 figures and 5 tables (tables 1,4,5 are included as independent files)

Scientific paper

10.1086/317362

The standard AGN unification models attempt to explain the diversity of observed AGN types by a few fundamental parameters, where orientation effects play a paramount role. Whether other factors, such as the evolutionary stage and the host galaxy properties are equally important parameters for the AGN diversity, is a key issue that we are addressing with the present data. Our sample of IR-selected Seyfert galaxies is based on the important discovery that their integrated IR spectrum contains an AGN signature. This being an almost isotropic property, our sample is much less affected by orientation/obscuration effects compared to most Seyfert samples. It therefore provides a test-bed for the orientation-dependent models of Seyferts, involving dusty tori. We have obtained multi-colour broad and narrow band imaging for a sample of mid-IR ``warm'' Seyferts and for a control sample of mid-IR ``cold'' galaxies. In the present paper we describe the sample selection and briefly discuss their IR properties. We then give an overview of the data collected and present broad-band images for all our objects. Finally, we summarize the main issues that will be addressed with these data in a series of forthcoming papers.

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