Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample Selection

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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High-res version at http://isc.astro.cornell.edu/~haol/agn/paper1.pdf . 29 pages; To appear in AJ (April 2005). See astro-ph/0

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10.1086/428485

We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since emission lines are often contaminated by stellar absorption lines, we developed an objective and efficient method of subtracting the stellar continuum from every galaxy spectrum before making emission line measurements. The distribution of the measured H$\alpha$ Full Width at Half Maxima values of emission line galaxies is strongly bimodal, with two populations separated at about 1,200km s$^{-1}$. This feature provides a natural separation between narrow-line and broad-line AGN. The narrow-line AGN are identified using standard emission line ratio diagnostic diagrams. 1,317 broad-line and 3,074 narrow-line AGN are identified from about 100,000 galaxy spectra selected over 1151 square degrees. This sample is used in a companion paper to determine the emission-line luminosity function of AGN.

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