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We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of a complete sample of hard X-ray selected AGN in the Northern Galactic Cap of the 58-month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift/BAT) catalog, consisting of 100 AGN with b>50deg. This region has…

Context: Redshifts are fundamental for our understanding of extragalactic X-ray sources. Ambiguous counterpart associations, expensive optical spectroscopy and/or multimission multiwavelength coverage to resolve degeneracies make estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Charlotte Simmonds , Johannes Buchner , Mara Salvato , Li-Ting Hsu , Franz Erik Bauer

We analyse high-quality NuSTAR observations of the local (z = 0.011) Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 3639, in conjunction with archival Suzaku and Chandra data. This provides the first broadband X-ray spectral analysis of the…

We present the joint NuSTAR and XMM-Newton spectral analysis in the 0.6-70 keV band of three candidate Compton thick (CT-) AGN selected in the 100-month Swift-BAT catalog. These objects were previously classified as CT-AGNs based on low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Stefano Marchesi , Marco Ajello , Xiurui Zhao , Andrea Comastri , Valentina La Parola , Alberto Segreto

This paper investigates what constraints can be placed on the fraction of Compton-thick (CT) AGN in the Universe from the modeling of the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray background (XRB). We present a model for the synthesis of the XRB that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Akylas , A. Georgakakis , I. Georgantopoulos , M. Brightman , K. Nandra

We present Chandra ACIS-S X-ray imaging spectroscopy for five dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates. Our targets were drawn from a sample of 1286 [O III]-selected AGN pairs systematically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Meicun Hou , Xin Liu , Hengxiao Guo , Zhiyuan Li , Yue Shen , Paul J. Green

We have compared the X-ray--to--optical flux ratios (F_x/F_opt) of absorbed active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) with those of nearby, optically classified Seyfert 2 galaxies. The comparison provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Carolin N. Cardamone , Edward C. Moran , Laura E. Kay

Current measurements show that the observed fraction of Compton-thick (CT) AGN is smaller than the expected values needed to explain the cosmic X-ray background. Prior fits to the X-ray spectrum of the nearby Seyfert-2 galaxy NGC 5347…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 E. S. Kammoun , J. M. Miller , A. Zoghbi , K. Oh , M. Koss , R. F. Mushotzky , L. W. Brenneman , W. N. Brandt , D. Proga , A. M. Lohfink , J. S. Kaastra , D. Barret , E. Behar , D. Stern

We present a comprehensive analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of 198 newly identified active galactic nuclei (AGNs), leveraging archival data from the {\it Chandra} X-ray Observatory. All these AGNs exhibit a powerlaw spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Samrat Ghosh , Samir Mandal , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Shivam Kumaran

We present first results of the X-ray spectral analysis of the 500 ksec deep survey obtained with XMM-Newton on the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). Statistical distributions of spectral index and intrinsic absorption are derived for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Streblyanska , J. Bergeron , H. Brunner , A. Finoguenov , G. Hasinger , V. Mainieri

We have analyzed the broadband X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in two "non-merging" luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) UGC 2608 and NGC 5135, utilizing the data of NuSTAR, Suzaku, XMM-Newton, and Chandra. Applying the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Satoshi Yamada , Yoshihiro Ueda , Atsushi Tanimoto , Saeko Oda , Masatoshi Imanishi , Yoshiki Toba , Claudio Ricci

X-rays offer a reliable method to identify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). However, in the high-redshift Universe X-ray AGN are poorly sampled due to their relatively low space density and the small areas covered by X-ray surveys. In addition…

Deep X-ray surveys are providing crucial information on the evolution of AGN and galaxies. We review some of the latest results based on the X-ray spectral analysis of the sources detected in the Chandra Deep Field South, namely: i)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Tozzi , R. Gilli , the CDFS Team

XMM-Newton spectra of five red, 2MASS AGN, selected from a sample observed by Chandra to be relatively X-ray bright and to cover a range of hardness ratios, confirm the presence of substantial absorbing material in three sources with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 B. J. Wilkes , K. A. Pounds , G. D. Schmidt , P. S. Smith , R. M. Cutri , H. Ghosh , B. Nelson , D. C. Hines

We investigate the contribution made by active galactic nuclei (AGN) to the high-redshift, luminous, submillimetre (submm) source population using deep (< 2 mJy/beam) Large Apex Bolometer Camera (LABOCA) 870 um observations within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-31 R. M. Bielby , M. D. Hill , N. Metcalfe , T. Shanks

The physical parameters of galaxies and/or AGNs can be derived by fitting their multi-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs). By using CIGALE code, we perform multi-band SED fitting (from ultraviolet to infrared) for 791 X-ray sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-08 Xiaotong Guo , Qiusheng Gu , Nan Ding , E. Contini , Yongyun Chen

We have analyzed archival \textit{Chandra} and \textit{XMM-Newton} data for two nearly complete homogeneously selected samples of type 2 Seyfert galaxies (Sy2s). These samples were selected based on intrinsic Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , L. Martins , V. Wild , P. Sonnentrucker , A. Hornschemeier

We investigate the spatial clustering of X-ray selected sources in the two deepest X-ray fields to date, namely the 2Msec Chandra Deep Field North (CDFN) and the 1Msec Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). The projected correlation function…

This paper presents a survey of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) with optical spectroscopic follow-up in a $\sim 18\, \rm{deg^2}$ area of the equatorial XMM-XXL north field. A sample of 8445 point-like X-ray sources detected by…

We present $NuSTAR$ X-ray observations of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 7674. The source shows a flat X-ray spectrum, suggesting that it is obscured by Compton-thick gas columns. Based upon long-term flux dimming, previous work…