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There is X-ray, optical, and mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopic evidence that the late-stage ultraluminous infrared galaxy merger Mrk 273 hosts a powerful active galactic nucleus (AGN). However, the exact location of the AGN and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vivian U , Anne Medling , David Sanders , Claire Max , Lee Armus , Kazushi Iwasawa , Aaron Evans , Lisa Kewley , Giovanni Fazio

The all-sky hard X-ray survey performed by Swift/BAT allowed the detection of many heavily obscured Compton-thick AGN. In our previous work, we have identified more than 50 candidate Compton-thick AGN in the local Universe, corresponding to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas

We studied the broadband X-ray spectra of {\it Swift}/BAT selected low-accreting AGNs using the observations from {\it XMM-Newton}, {\it Swift}, and {\it NuSTAR} in the energy range of $0.5-150$~keV. Our sample consists of 30 AGNs with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Arghajit Jana , Arka Chatterjee , Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Prantik Nandi , Rubinur K. , Neeraj Kumari , Sachindra Naik , Samar Safi-Harb , Claudio Ricci

We report results from Chandra observations of the X-ray jet of 3C~273 during the calibration phase in 2000 January. The zeroeth-order images and spectra from two 40-ks exposures with the HETG and LETG+ACIS-S show a complex X-ray structure.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rita M. Sambruna , C. Megan Urry , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , R. Scarpa , G. Chartas , T. Muxlow

The origin of X-ray emission from the resolved kiloparsec-scale jets and hotspots of many active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains uncertain, particularly where the X-ray emission is separate from the radio-optical synchrotron component.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Aamil Shaik , Eileen T. Meyer , Karthik Reddy , Sibasish Laha , Markos Georganopoulos

The X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to come from a combination of inverse Compton scattering of photons from the accretion disk and reprocessing of the direct X-ray emission by reflection. We present hard (10-80…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-01 Cora A. DeFrancesco , Xinyu Dai , Mark Mitchell , Abderahmen Zoghbi , Christopher W. Morgan

The Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) produce copious amounts of X-rays through the corona that is the hot gas that lies close to the accretion disk. The temperature of the corona can be accurately determined by the cut-off signature in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 A. Akylas , I. Georgantopoulos

We identify sources with extremely hard X-ray spectra (i.e., with photon indices of Gamma<0.6 in the 13 sq. deg. NuSTAR serendipitous survey, to search for the most highly obscured AGNs detected at >10 keV. Eight extreme NuSTAR sources are…

In this paper we discuss the broad-band X-ray characteristics of a complete sample of 36 type 1 AGN, detected by INTEGRAL in the 20-40 keV band above the 5.5sigma level. We present, for all the objects in the sample, the broad-band (1-110…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Molina , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen , A. J. Bird , A. J. Dean , F. Panessa , A. De Rosa , R. Landi

The primary X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) originates in a compact region called the corona located very close to the super-massive black hole and the accretion disk. The knowledge of the cut-off energy ($E_{cut}$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Priyanka Rani , C. S. Stalin , K. D. Goswami

We present a detailed spectral analysis of the joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy ESO 362-G18. The broadband ($0.3\mbox{--}79$ keV) spectrum shows the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-20 Yerong Xu , Javier A. García , Dominic J. Walton , Riley M. T. Connors , Kristin Madsen , Fiona A. Harrison

3C 264 is one of the few FRI radio galaxies with detected TeV emission. It is a low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) and is generally associated with a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF). Earlier multiwavelength studies suggest that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-11 Ka-Wah Wong , Colin M. Steiner , Allison M. Blum , Dacheng Lin , Rodrigo Nemmen , Jimmy A. Irwin , Daniel R. Wik

X-ray emission from AGN is believed to be produced via Comptonization of optical/UV seed photons emitted by the accretion disk, up-scattered by hot electrons in a corona surrounding the black hole. A critical compactness vs. temperature…

MCG-5-23-16 was targeted in early 2015 with a half mega-seconds observing campaign using NuSTAR. Here we present the spectral analysis of these datasets along with an earlier observation and study the relativistic reflection and the primary…

The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of the broadband spectrum of one of the brightest and nearest quasars 3C 273. We analyze the data obtained during quasi-simultaneous INTEGRAL and XMM monitoring of the blazar 3C 273 in…

(Abridged) Soft and hard X-ray excesses, compared to the continuum power-law shape between ~2-10 keV, are common features observed in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are associated with the accretion disc-corona system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 D. Porquet , J. N. Reeves , N. Grosso , V. Braito , A. Lobban

Context. Supermassive black holes in the centres of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) can produce collimated relativistic outflows (jets). Magnetic fields are thought to play a key role in the formation and collimation of these jets,…

Context. Compact jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are commonly assumed to be in equipartition between particle and magnetic-field energy densities at the regions where the radio emission dominates at centimetre wavelengths. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 V. Pérez-Díez , I. Martí-Vidal , E. Albentosa-Ruiz , R. Bachiller

We report on the \nustar{} observation of the atoll type neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary GX~3+1 performed on 17 October 2017. The source was found in a soft X-ray spectral state with $3-70$keV luminosity of $L_\text{X}\sim3\times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-17 Aditya S. Mondal , G. C. Dewangan , B. Raychaudhuri

We present a detailed analysis of the most luminous and obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) detected in the ultra-hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) by Swift/BAT. Our sample comprises 21 X-ray luminous (log $L_X/{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}>44.6$, 2-10…