Poster abstract details

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is providing an unprecedented view of local AGNs (< z >≈ 0.03) and their host galaxy properties. We present the X-ray and optical spectral properties of a uniform sample of sources detected in the first 9-months of the survey. Among our results, we compare luminosities and accretion rates derived from the X-ray and [OIII]. We also present properties of the host galaxy measured from stellar absorption features. We find that the luminosities of the unabsorbed sources are lower than the absorbed sources and that the host properties also differ.