Half of the Most Luminous Quasars May Be Obscured: Investigating the Nature of WISE-Selected Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxies

Roberto J. Assef, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Daniel Stern +9

The WISE mission has unveiled a rare population of high-redshift ($z=1-4.6$), dusty, hyper-luminous galaxies, with infrared luminosities $L_{\mathrm{IR}}>10^{13}{L}_{\odot }$, and somet…