# The X-Ray to Mid-Infrared Relation of AGN at High Luminosity

**Authors:** Daniel Stern  
**arXiv:** [1506.00162](https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00162)  
**Date:** 2015-05-30  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/1506.00162v1/

## Abstract

The X-ray and mid-IR emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are strongly correlated. However, while various published parameterizations of this correlation are consistent with the low-redshift, local Seyfert galaxy population, extrapolations of these relations to high luminosity differ by an order of magnitude at nuL(nu)(6um) = 1e47 erg/s. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, we determine the mid-IR luminosities of the most luminous quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and present a revised formulation of the X-ray to mid-IR relation of AGN which is appropriate from the Seyfert regime to the powerful quasar regime.