BASS. XXIV. DR2 spectral line measurements of AGNs

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We present the second catalog and data release of optical spectral line measurements and active galactic nucleus (AGN) demographics of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on the Swift-BAT hard X-ray detected AGNs. We use spectra from dedicated campaigns and publicly available archives to investigate spectral properties of most of the AGNs listed in the 70 month Swift-BAT all-sky catalog; specifically, 743 of the 746 unbeamed and unlensed AGNs (99.6%). We find a good correspondence between the optical emission line widths and the hydrogen column density distributions using the X-ray spectra, with a clear dichotomy of AGN types for N_H_=10^22^cm^-2^. Based on optical emission-line diagnostics, we show that 48%-75% of BAT AGNs are classified as Seyfert, depending on the choice of emission lines used in the diagnostics. The fraction of objects with upper limits on line emission varies from 6% to 20%. Roughly 4% of the BAT AGNs have lines too weak to be placed on the most commonly used diagnostic diagram, [OIII]{lambda}5007/H{beta} versus [NII]{lambda}6584/H{alpha}, despite the high signal-to-noise ratio of their spectra. This value increases to 35% in the [OIII]{lambda}5007/[OII]{lambda}3727 diagram, owing to difficulties in line detection. Compared to optically selected narrow-line AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the BAT narrow-line AGNs have a higher rate of reddening/extinction, with H{alpha}/H{beta}>5 (~36%), indicating that hard X-ray selection more effectively detects obscured AGNs from the underlying AGN population. Finally, we present a subpopulation of AGNs that feature complex broad lines (34%, 250/743) or double-peaked narrow emission lines (2%, 17/743).

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/261/4/lines (Optical spectra (Table 2), emission line classification (Table 4) and emission line measurements from HeII{lambda}3203 to [SVIII]{lambda}9913 (Tables 7-11))

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22610004
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Provenance
Creator Oh K.; Koss M.J.; Ueda Y.; Stern D.; Ricci C.; Trakhtenbrot B.; Powell M.C.,den Brok J.S.; Lamperti I.; Mushotzky R.; Ricci F.; Bar R.E.; Rojas A.F.,Ichikawa K.; Riffel R.; Treister E.; Harrison F.; Urry C.M.; Bauer F.E.,Schawinski K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2022
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy