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An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

We present new estimates on the fraction of heavily X-ray obscured, Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to a redshift of $z \leq$ 0.8. From a sample of 540 AGNs selected by mid-IR (MIR) properties in observed X-ray survey…

We present the results of X-ray spectral analysis of 22 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a small scattering fraction selected from the Second XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue using hardness ratios. They are candidates of buried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kazuhisa Noguchi , Yuichi Terashima , Hisamitsu Awaki

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method captures different subsets of AGN due to signal-to-noise (SNR)…

We describe improved modelling of the emission by dust in a toroidal--like structure heated by a central illuminating source within Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We chose a simple but realistic torus geometry, a flared disc, and a dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Fritz , A. Franceschini , E. Hatziminaoglou

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 combined NuSTATR and XMM-Newton 0.6-79 keV spectral analysis of a Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1358, which we selected as a candidate Compton thick (CT-) active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the basis of previous Swift/BAT and Chandra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 X. Zhao , S. Marchesi , M. Ajello , L. Marcotulli , G. Gusumano , V. La Parola , C. Vignali

The nature of the broad-band spectra of supermassive accreting black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still unknown. The hard X-ray spectra of Seyferts as well as of Galactic stellar-mass black holes (GBHs) are well represented by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Alexandra Veledina , Indrek Vurm , Juri Poutanen

We presented the multiwavelength analysis of a heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 449. We first constructed a broadband X-ray spectrum using the latest NuSTAR and XMM-Newton data. Its column density ($\simeq 10^{24}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Xiaotong Guo , Qiusheng Gu , Jun Xu , Guanwen Fang , Xue Ge , Yongyun Chen , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding

X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide direct constraints on the properties of individual AGNs, such as their emission, obscuration, and accretion rate. Previous AGN population synthesis models have not addressed such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 D. Gerolymatou , S. Paltani , C. Ricci , T. T. Ananna

Most Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe are obscured. In these obscured AGN an excess is usually observed in the soft X-rays below ~2 keV above the absorbed X-ray continuum. This spectral component is associated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-18 Jeffrey McKaig , Claudio Ricci , Stéphane Paltani , K. K. Gupta , Nicholas P. Abel , Y. Ueda

A thermal active galactic nucleus (AGN) consist of a powerful, broad-band continuum source that is surrounded by several reprocessing media with different geometries and compositions. Here we investigate the expected spectropolarimetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-05 Frederic Marin , Rene W. Goosmann

We analyze observations obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of bright Compton thick active galactic nuclei (AGNs), those with column densities in excess of 1.5 x 10^{24} cm^{-2} along the lines of sight. We therefore view the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 N. A. Levenson , T. M. Heckman , J. H. Krolik , K. A. Weaver , P. T. Zycki

We present the most up-to-date X-ray luminosity function (XLF) and absorption function of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) over the redshift range from 0 to 5, utilizing the largest, highly complete sample ever available obtained from surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yoshihiro Ueda , Masayuki Akiyama , Guenther Hasinger , Takamitsu Miyaji , Michael G. Watson

We aim to constrain the evolution of AGN as a function of obscuration using an X-ray selected sample of $\sim2000$ AGN from a multi-tiered survey including the CDFS, AEGIS-XD, COSMOS and XMM-XXL fields. The spectra of individual X-ray…

The physics of active super massive black holes (BHs) is governed by their mass (M_BH), spin (a*) and accretion rate ($\dot{M}$). This work is the first in a series of papers with the aim of testing how these parameters determine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel M. Capellupo , Hagai Netzer , Paulina Lira , Benny Trakhtenbrot , Julían Mejía-Restrepo

Reverberation mapping (RM) is one of the most efficient ways to investigate the broad-line region around the central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A common way of performing the RM is to perform a long term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Joonho Kim , Myungshin Im , Changsu Choi , Sungyong Hwang

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) unification, which implies a large number of obscured AGN, can explain the optical, infrared and X-ray content of deep multiwavelength surveys. Here, we show that the same model also successfully explains the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ezequiel Treister , C. M. Urry

We present a census of the Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nucleus (AGN) population and the column density ($N_{\rm{H}}$) distribution of AGN in our cosmic backyard using a mid-infrared selected AGN sample within 15 Mpc. The column…

We present results from a coordinated $XMM$-$Newton$+$NuSTAR$ observation of the type 1.8 Seyfert galaxy IRAS 13197-1627. This is a highly complex source, with strong contributions from relativistic reflection from the inner accretion disk,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 D. J. Walton , M. Brightman , G. Risaliti , A. C. Fabian , F. Fuerst , F. A. Harrison , A. Lohfink , G. Matt , G. Miniutti , M. L. Parker , D. Stern