The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: the faint type-1 AGN sample
/ Authors
I. Gavignaud, A. Bongiorno, S. Paltani, G. Mathez, G. Zamorani, P. Møller, J. Picat, V. Brun, B. Marano, O. Fèvre
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D. Bottini, B. Garilli, D. Maccagni, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, M. Arnaboldi, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, H. McCracken, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, R. Pelló, A. Pollo, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, E. Zucca, M. Bondi, G. Busarello, O. Cucciati, O. Cucciati, S. D. Torre, L. Gregorini, F. Lamareille, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, V. Ripepi, D. Rizzo, D. Vergani
/ Abstract
We present the type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) sample extracted from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey first observations of 21000 spectra in 1.75 square degree. This sample, which is purely magnitude limited, free of morphological or color selection biases, contains 130 broad line AGN (BLAGN) spectra with redshift up to 5. Our data are divided into a wide (Iab 3000 A. We interpret this as due to significant contamination from emission of the host galaxies, as expected from the faint absolute magnitudes sampled by our survey.
Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics