Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR Era VI: The Observed Compton-thick Fraction in the Local Universe

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1c73" target="_blank" >10.3847/1538-4357/ac1c73</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR Era VI: The Observed Compton-thick Fraction in the Local Universe
Original language description
We present the analysis of simultaneous Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and XMM-Newton data of eight Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT-AGN) candidates selected in the Swift-BAT 100 month catalog. This work is part of an ongoing effort to find and characterize all CT-AGN in the Local (z <= 0.05) Universe. We used two physically motivated models, MYTorus and borus02, to characterize the sources in the sample, finding five of them to be confirmed CT-AGN. These results represent an increase of similar to 19% over the previous NuSTAR-confirmed, BAT-selected CT-AGN at z <= 0.05, bringing the total number to 32. This corresponds to an observed fraction of similar to 8% of all AGN within this volume-limited sample, although it increases to 20% +/- 5% when limiting the sample to z <= 0.01. Out of a sample of 48 CT-AGN candidates, selected using BAT and soft (0.3-10 keV) X-ray data, only 24 are confirmed as CT-AGN with the addition of the NuSTAR data. This highlights the importance of NuSTAR when classifying local obscured AGN. We also note that most of the sources in our full sample of 48 Seyfert 2 galaxies with NuSTAR data have significantly different lines of sight and average torus column densities, favoring a patchy torus scenario.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ19-05599Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-05599Y: Unification of Black Holes across the Mass Scale</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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