Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21441703t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #417.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.684
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has made it possible to identify the first samples of active galaxies with estimated black hole masses below 106 solar masses. We have obtained Spitzer IRS low-resolution spectra, covering 5-30 microns, of a sample of 41 Seyfert galaxies with low-mass black holes. Our sample includes SDSS-selected objects from the low-mass Seyfert 1 sample of Greene & Ho (2004) and the low-mass Seyfert 2 sample of Barth et al. (2008), as well as NGC 4395 and POX 52. The goals of this work are to examine the dust emission properties of these objects and investigate the relationship between Type 1 and Type 2 AGNs at low luminosities and low masses, to search for evidence of star formation, and to use emission-line diagnostics to constrain physical conditions within the narrow-line regions. We will present preliminary results from this project, including measurements of continuum shapes and dust temperatures, narrow-line region diagnostics, and PAH features, derived using the IDL code PAHFIT (Smith et al. 2007).
Barth Aaron J.
Greene Jenny E.
Ho Luis C.
Thornton Carol E.
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