Beware of fake AGNs

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2010-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/1001.2520v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

to be published in "Co-evolution of central black holes and galaxies: feeding and feed-back" Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 267

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In the BPT diagram, the distribution of the emission-line galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) evokes the wings of a seagull. Traditionally, galaxies in the right wing are considered to host AGNs. Our study of the stellar populations of SDSS galaxies showed that about1/4 of galaxies thought to host LINERS are in fact "retired galaxies", i.e. galaxies that stopped forming stars and are ionized by hot post-AGB stars and white dwarfs (Stasinska et al. 2008). When including the galaxies that lack some of the lines needed to place them in the BPT diagram the fraction of retired galaxies is even larger (Cid Fernandes et al., 2009, arXiv:0912.1376)

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