A multi-wavelength assessment of the role of galaxy mergers in AGN triggering.

n order to understand the hotly debated role of galaxy mergers in the triggeringof nuclear activity it is necessary to obtain a complete multiwavelength censusof AGN, regardless of their dominance over the host galaxy, dust obscuration andline of sight absorption. Our team has previously assessed the optical, midIRand radio AGN properties of a sample of virgul100 postmerger galaxies but thecomplete picture now requires the Xray classifications to complete the AGNcensus. Specifically, the observations proposed here we allow us to compute thefraction of Xray AGN, which can be compared to the fraction inferred fromoptical, radio and midIR diagnostics and also infer the Compton thick fraction,compared to a sample of control galaxies in the public S82X sample. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]