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We present the 3-8 keV and 8-24 keV number counts of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the NuSTAR extragalactic surveys. NuSTAR has now resolved 33-39% of the X-ray background in the 8-24 keV band, directly identifying AGN with…

Measurements of the high-energy cut-off in the coronal continuum of active galactic nuclei have long been elusive for all but a small number of the brightest examples. We present a direct measurement of the cut-off energy in the nuclear…

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…

The hard X-ray sky at energies above 10 keV, has been extensively explored by the Swift and the NuSTAR missions in the 14-195 keV and the 3-24 keV bands respectively. The major population of the hard X-ray detected sources are AGN. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 A. Akylas , I. Georgantopoulos

We discuss the results on the hot corona parameters of Active Galactic Nuclei that have been recently measured with NuSTAR. The values taken from the literature of a sample of nineteen bright Seyfert galaxies are analysed. Aims. The aim of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Tortosa , S. Bianchi , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , P. O. Petrucci

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

A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy

We present the timing and spectral analysis of the Compton Thick Seyfert 2 active galactic nuclei NGC 1068 observed using {\it NuSTAR} and {\it XMM-Newton}. In this work for the first time we calculated the coronal temperature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Indrani Pal , C. S. Stalin , M. L. Parker , Vivek. K. Agrawal , S. Marchesi

To explain X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN), non-thermal activity in AGN coronae such as pair cascade models has been extensively discussed in the past literature. Although X-ray and gamma-ray observations in the 1990s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-20 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Dmitry Khangulyan , Akihiro Doi

We report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by the NuSTAR to provide the first sensitive census of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) source population at >10 keV. We find that these NuSTAR-detected sources…

We present an analysis of a ~160 ks NuSTAR observation of the nearby bright Seyfert galaxy IC4329A. The high-quality broadband spectrum enables us to separate the effects of distant reflection from the direct coronal continuum, and to…

We test the two-corona accretion scenario for active galactic nuclei in the case of the `bare' Seyfert 1 galaxy HE 1143-1810. We perform a detailed study of the broad-band UV--X-ray spectral properties and of the short-term variability. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 F. Ursini , P. -O. Petrucci , S. Bianchi , G. Matt , R. Middei , G. Marcel , J. Ferreira , M. Cappi , B. De Marco , A. De Rosa , J. Malzac , A. Marinucci , G. Ponti , A. Tortosa

The hard X-ray spectral index of some AGN has been observed to steepen with the source flux. This has been interpreted in a Comptonization scenario, where an increase in the soft flux decreases the temperature of the corona, leading to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Samuzal Barua , V. Jithesh , Ranjeev Misra , Gulab C Dewangan , Rathin Sarma , Amit Pathak

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 present the first full catalog and science results for the NuSTAR serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which provide ~20Ms of effective exposure time over 331 fields,…

We present two NuSTAR observations of the local Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) and an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) candidate in NGC 5643. Together with archival data from Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift-BAT, we perform a…

We report on the NuSTAR observations of two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies, namely MCG +8-11-11 (100 ks) and NGC 6814 (150 ks). The main goal of these observations was to investigate the Comptonization mechanisms acting in the innermost regions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-10 A. Tortosa , S. Bianchi , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , R. Middei , E. Piconcelli , L. W. Brenneman , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , A. De Rosa , P. O. Petrucci , F. Ursini , D. J. Walton

We perform the NuSTAR and Swift/XRT joint energy spectral fitting of simultaneous observations from the broad-line Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 5273. When fitted with the combination of an exponential cut-off power-law and a reflection model, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Mayukh Pahari , I. M. McHardy , Labani Mallick , G. C. Dewangan , R. Misra

We present results from a 244\,ks \textit{NuSTAR} observation of 3C\,273 obtained during a cross-calibration campaign with the \textit{Chandra}, \textit{INTEGRAL}, \textit{Suzaku}, \textit{Swift}, and \textit{XMM-Newton} observatories. We…