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| Paper: |
What Powers the 12 μm Luminosities in AGNs: Spitzer/IRS Spectroscopic Study of the 12 μm Seyfert Sample |
| Volume: |
408, The Starburst−AGN Connection |
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191 |
| Authors: |
Wu, Y.; Huang, J.; Charmandaris, V. |
| Abstract: |
We present a mid-IR study of the 12 μm Seyfert sample, using 5-35 μm low-resolution spectroscopy from Spitzer/IRS. Sources in this sample display a wide variety of spectral shapes. We perform an analysis of the continuum emission, the strength of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission, as well as fine-structure lines, in order to study the mid-IR properties of the local Seyfert galaxies. We find that the equivalent widths of PAHs decrease with increasing dust temperature. We also propose a method to estimate the AGN contribution to the integrated 12 μm emission of the galaxy. |
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