The Hunt for Red Quasars: Luminous Obscured Black Hole Growth Unveiled in the Stripe 82 X-ray Survey

We present results of a ground-based near-infrared campaign with Palomar TripleSpec, Keck NIRSPEC, and Gemini GNIRS to target two samples of reddened active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates from the 31 deg^2 Stripe 82 X-ray survey. One sample, which is \sim89\% complete to K<16 (Vega), consists of eight confirmed AGNs, four... Show more