Incidence of WISE-Selected Obscured AGNs in Major Mergers and Interactions from the SDSS

Madalyn E. Weston, Daniel H. McIntosh, Mark Brodwin +4

We use the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to confirm a connection between dust-obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and galaxy…