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We present results of our analysis of NuSTAR data of the luminous infrared galaxy Mrk 266, which contains two nuclei, SW and NE, resolved in previous Chandra imaging. Combining with the Chandra data, we intepret the hard X-ray spectrum…

We present results from two observations of the wind-accreting X-ray pulsar 4U 1907+09 using the Suzaku observatory. The broadband time-averaged spectrum allows us to examine the continuum emission of the source and the cyclotron resonance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Rivers , A. Markowitz , K. Pottschmidt , S. Roth , L. Barragán , F. Fürst , S. Suchy , I. Kreykenbohm , J. Wilms , R. Rothschild

We present the analysis of four NuSTAR observations of the luminous infrared galaxy merger NGC 6240, hosting a close pair of highly obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). Over a period of about two years, the source exhibits hard X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Emanuele Nardini

In this paper we report the results of an X-ray monitoring campaign on the heavily obscured Seyfert galaxy Markarian 3 carried out between the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015 with NuSTAR, Suzaku and XMM-Newton. The hard X-ray spectrum…

We present the XMM-Newton observation of the merging system IRAS 19254-7245, also known as The Superantennae, whose southern nucleus is classified as a Seyfert 2 galaxy. The XMM-Newton data have allowed us to perform a detailed X-ray…

We performed near-diffraction-limited (~0.4 FWHM) N-band imaging of one of the nearest Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in M51 with 8.2m Subaru telescope to study the nuclear structure and spectral energy distribution (SED) at 8-13 um. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Youichi Ohyama , Satoki Matsushita , Nagisa Oi , Ai-Lei Sun

In 2006 June, the obscured low luminosity active galactic nucleus in the nearby Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 4258 was observed with Suzaku for ~ 100 ks. Utilizing the XIS and the HXD, the nucleus emission was detected over 2 to 40 keV range, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shin'ya Yamada , Takeshi Itoh , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Here we present the results of a Suzaku observation of the Broad Line Radio Galaxy 3C 445. We confirm the results obtained with the previous X-ray observations which unveiled the presence of several soft X-ray emission lines and an overall…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Braito , J. N. Reeves , R. M. Sambruna , J. Gofford

The X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1.5 source NGC 6860 is among the most complex of the sources detected in the Swift Burst Alert Telescope all-sky survey. A short XMM-Newton follow-up observation of the source revealed a flat spectrum both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Lisa M. Winter , Richard Mushotzky

In this work, the analysis of multi-epoch (1995-2010) X-ray observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy H0557-385 is presented. The wealth of data presented in this analysis show that the source exhibits dramatic spectral variability, from a…

We present an analysis of five Suzaku observations of the bright Seyfert1 galaxy IC 4329A. The broad energy band and high signal-to-noise ratio of the data give new constraints on the iron K alpha line profile and its relationship with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Giulia Mantovani , Kirpal Nandra , Gabriele Ponti

The wide-band energy spectrum of NGC6240 over the range 0.5-200keV is investigated using the RXTE and ASCA data. The RXTE data provide the spectrum beyond the ASCA range (0.5-10 keV) with significant detection of signals up to 20keV and the…

We report the discovery of kpc-scale diffuse emission in both the hard continuum (3-6 keV) and in the Fe K alpha line in the Compton Thick (CT) Seyfert galaxy ESO428-G014. This extended hard component contains at least ~24% of the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis , A. Paggi , M. Karovska , W. P. Maksym , J. Raymond , G. Risaliti , Junfeng Wang

Long-exposure Suzaku X-ray observations of the active galaxy NGC 4051 from 2005 and 2008 are analysed, in an attempt to reach a self-consistent understanding of the spectral variability on long timescales and at high time resolution.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Miller , T. J. Turner , J. N. Reeves , A. Lobban , S. B. Kraemer , D. M. Crenshaw

We present results from a 200 ks Suzaku observation of 1H 0419-577 taken during 2007 July. The source shows a strong excess of counts above 10 keV compared to the extrapolation of models based on previous data in the 0.5-10 keV band. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. J. Turner , L. Miller , S. B. Kraemer , J. N. Reeves , K. A. Pounds

X-ray unabsorbed Seyfert 2 galaxies appear to have X-ray absorption column densities that are too low (NH < 10^22 cm-2) to explain the absence of broad emission lines in their optical spectra, challenging the standard AGN unification model.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-25 Xing-Xing Huang , Jun-Xian Wang , Ying Tan , Huan Yang , Ya-Fang Huang

We systematically analyze the broadband (0.5--200 keV) X-ray spectra of hard X-ray ($>10$ keV) selected local low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) observed with {\it Suzaku} and {\it Swift}/BAT. The sample consists of ten LLAGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Taiki Kawamuro , Yoshihiro Ueda , Fumie Tazaki , Yuichi Terashima , Richard Mushotzky

Using a suite of X-ray, mid-IR and optical active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity indicators, we search for Compton-thick (CT) AGNs with intrinsic L_X>10^42erg/s at z~0.03-0.2, a region of parameter space which is currently poorly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Andy Goulding , David Alexander , James Mullaney , Jonathan Gelbord , Ryan Hickox , Martin Ward , Mike Watson

The type I Seyfert galaxy NGC 3227 was observed by Suzaku six times in 2008, with intervals of $\sim1$ week and net exposures of $\sim50$ ksec each. Among the six observations, the source varied by nearly an order of magnitude, being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hirofumi Noda , Kazuo Makishima , Shin'ya Yamada , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Soki Sakurai , Katsuma Miyake

The 70-month Swift/BAT catalogue provides a sensitive view of the extragalactic X-ray sky at hard energies (>10 keV) containing about 800 Active Galactic Nuclei. We explore its content in heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGN by combining the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 A. Akylas , I. Georgantopoulos , P. Ranalli , E. Gkiokas , A. Corral , G. Lanzuisi