The complete census of optically selected AGNs in the Coma Supercluster:
  the dependence of AGN activity on the local environment
  To investigate the dependence of the occurrence of active galactic nuclei
(AGNs) on local galaxy density, we study the nuclear properties of ~5000
galaxies in the Coma Supercluster whose density spans 2 orders of magnitude
from the sparse filaments to the cores of the rich clusters. We obtained
optical spectra of the nuclei of 177 galaxies using the 1.5m Cassini telescope,
which are added to the 4785 spectra available from SDSS (DR7) to fill-in the
incomplete coverage by SDSS of luminous galaxies. We perform a spectral
classification of the nuclei of galaxies (with a completeness of 98% at
r<17.77), classifying the nuclear spectra in six classes: three of them (SEY,
sAGN, LIN) refer to AGNs and the remaining three (HII, RET, PAS) refer to
different stages of starburst activity. To perform such classification, we use
the WHAN diagnostic, after correcting Halpha by 1.3 A for underlying
absorption. We find that 482 (10%) of 5027 galaxies host an AGN: their
frequency strongly increases with increasing luminosity of the parent galaxies,
such that 32% of galaxies with Log(i-Lum)<10.2 (Solar) harbor an AGN at their
interior. In addition to their presence in luminous galaxies, AGNs are also
found in red galaxies with <g-i> < 1.15 \pm 0.15 mag. The majority of SEY and
sAGN (strong AGNs) are associated with luminous late-type (or S0a) galaxies,
while LIN (weak AGNs) and RET ("retired"), are mostly found among E/S0as. The
number density of AGNs, HII region-like, and retired galaxies is found to
anti-correlate with the local density of galaxies, such that their frequency
drops by a factor of two near the cluster cores, while the frequency of
galaxies containing passive nuclei increases by the same amount towards the
center of rich clusters. The dependence of AGN number density on the local
galaxy density is greater than the one implied by morphology segregation alone.
