Host Mass – Obscuration

• SHOALS
• Perley+15
• Deep follow-up
• ~90% redshift complete
• Hosts?
• Actively star-forming, AGN not necessarily
• Metallicity bias

“Galaxy gas as obscurer: I.” Buchner, Schulze & Bauer (2017)

• NH – M* relation
• Obscurer is host galaxy
• Understand normalisation
• Understand slope
• Understand scatter