The topic of the talk is “HectoSpec Redshift survey for SWIRE/FLS MIR Sources.” First, there are two unfamiliar nouns to me, namely HectoSpec and SWIRE/FLS. I just checked google, which told me that:

Hectospec is a moderate-resolution, multiobject optical spectrograph fed by 300 optical fibers. The instrument is composed of a robotic positioner and a large, bench-mounted spectrograph, joined by a bundle of 25m long optical fibers.

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The Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey is one of six very large programs undertaken as Legacy surveys during the first year of the Spitzer Space Telescope. SWIRE has imaged nearly 50 square degrees divided among 6 different directions on the sky.

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The First Look Survey is a set of 32 MOSAIC images covering the entire extragalactic First Look Survey region using four nights of NOAO Director’s Discretionary time at the Kitt Peak 4m telescope. This region is now part of the SWIRE Legacy program. MASKS are also included in this release.

So that’s the reason why the topic is written as “SWIRE/FLS.” The Fibers of the HectoSpec are located on the 6.5m MMT, having a wavelength coverage from to , and the limit magnitude of the fiber is down to 22.5. And then the topic came to the science part. Why did they select from Spitzer Catalog (SWIRE/FLS)? That’s because the SED of galaxies contains two peaks in optical and FIR, respectively. Each part shares roughly half the total energy coming from the source. So if we observe those sources from the optical instruments, we would miss half of the information, which is the motivation. You can see the figure on the right clearly expressing this opinion. So they chose 24-micron sources from SWIRE/FLS and observed them using HectoSpec.
We need to know some basic lines for the observation, such as , OIII, OII(375 nm), Mg(280 nm), and Lyman emission, while Ca H&K are famous absorption lines. And Lyman is very important in the study of QSOs. He showed some spectrum having a P Cygni profile, which was supposed to be the expanding shell around the Black Hole. Next, he mentioned the K+A galaxy, which means the galaxy’ SED has both the features (line features) of K-type and A-type stars. This kind of feature may indicate that the galaxy is ongoing a post-starburst stage of evolution. And he also talked about a basic technique for separating AGN and starburst galaxies from spectral observation using the line ratio: OIII/ and NII/. Dividing the parameter space made by these two ratios using a solid line and a dashed line, we can tell the type of the sources in different regions of the parameter space.
The recent figure of the physical process of galaxy evolution tells us we should expect an IR suppression in the AGN stage due to the feedback (M. Haas et al., 2003, A&A). As shown in the figure below, the luminosity decreases as time goes by. In the end, it will become a giant elliptical galaxy with very weak FIR luminosity, namely the dead quasar with little gas and dust.

The different stages of the evolution model (M. Haas et al., 2003)

And then he put a figure on the slide about the relation between and , which I do not understand very well. Also, he showed the relation of and which I saw the similar one in L. Dunne et al. 2000 before.
He and his student’s work tells that the FIR radiation does not vary in the different kinds of quasars they selected. And this is controversial from Martin’s model above. People believe that the FIR radiation comes from the star-forming activity of the host galaxies. But Herschel team find some high rotational CO lines from the galaxies which are unlikely (can not) to be excited by the Star Formation but likely to be excited by the AGN activity. So the questions remain open.