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We present the results obtained from a detailed X-ray timing and spectral analysis of Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 6300 by using observations with the {\it Suzaku}, {\it Chandra} and {\it NuSTAR} observatories between 2007 and 2016. We calculate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Arghajit Jana , Arka Chatterjee , Neeraj Kumari , Prantik Nandi , Sachindra Naik , Dusmanta Patra

We report the discovery of a Compton-thick Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) at z=4.76 in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field South. This object was selected as a V-band dropout in HST/ACS images and previously recognized as an AGN from optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Gilli , J. Su , C. Norman , C. Vignali , A. Comastri , P. Tozzi , P. Rosati , M. Stiavelli , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , B. Luo , M. Castellano , A. Fontana , F. Fiore , V. Mainieri , A. Ptak

We have carried out an extensive X-ray spectral study of the bare Seyfert-1 galaxy MCG--02--58--22 to ascertain the nature of the X-ray reprocessing media, using observations from Suzaku (2009) and simultaneous observations from XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Sibasish Laha , Ritesh Ghosh

We present a spectral and imaging analysis of the XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the Seyfert 2 galaxy ESO138-G001, with the aim of characterizing the circumnuclear material responsible for the soft (0.3-2.0 keV) and hard (5-10 keV)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 M. De Cicco , A. Marinucci , S. Bianchi , E. Piconcelli , G. Violino , C. Vignali , F. Nicastro

We analyse the properties of the X-ray emission from Seyfert 2 NGC 7172 which are based on the 32 ks observational data from NuSTAR in 2014. This source showed a constant Compton-thin obscuration $N_{H}\approx 8\cdot 10^{22} cm^{-2}$, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Anatoliy Vasylenko

We have obtained a broad-band spectrum of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2273 with Suzaku. The spectrum reveals the first detection of hard X-rays above ~10 keV from NGC 2273. The broad-band spectrum is well represented by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 H. Awaki , Y. Terashima , Y. Higaki , Y. Fukazawa

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…

The presence of an obscuring torus around the nucleus of Seyfert galaxies, as supposed in the popular unification scheme, can strongly modify the X--ray spectrum for both type 1 and 2 Seyfert galaxies. We find that if the torus is Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriele Ghisellini , Francesco Haardt , Giorgio Matt

A joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observation was conducted for the bright, local Seyfert 1.9 galaxy, NGC 1194. The hard spectral form of this AGN was modeled using the toroidal reprocessor MYTORUS. The decoupled model form provides a good…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 T. J. Turner , J. N. Reeves , V. Braito , T. Yaqoob , S. B. Kraemer , P. Severgnini

A subparsec-scale dense plasma torus around an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is unveiled. We report on very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at 2.3, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz towards the active galaxy NGC 1052. The convex spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Kameno , S. Sawada-Satoh , M. Inoue , Z. -Q. Shen , K. Wajima

We present spectral analysis of two Suzaku observations of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 2110. This source has been known to show complex, variable absorption which we study in depth by analyzing these two observations set seven years apart and…

We report the broadband X-ray spectra of the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) UGC 5101 in the 0.25-100 keV band observed with Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), NuSTAR, Suzaku, XMM-Newton, and Chandra. A Compton-thick AGN obscured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Saeko Oda , Atsushi Tanimoto , Yoshihiro Ueda , Masatoshi Imanishi , Yuichi Terashima , Claudio Ricci

We have analyzed a Suzaku long-look of the active galactic nucleus MCG-2-58-22, a type 1.5 Seyfert with very little X-ray absorption in the line of sight and prominent features arising from reflection off circumnuclear material: the Fe line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elizabeth Rivers , Alex Markowitz , Richard Rothschild

We report the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the heavily absorbed Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4945, which confirm the large column density of the absorber, corresponding to the optical depth to Thomson scattering of about 2.4. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Madejski , P. T. Zycki , C. Done , A. Valinia , P. Blanco , R. Rothschild , B. Turek

(abridged)The majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suffer from significant obscuration by surrounding dust and gas. X-ray surveys in the 2-10 keV band will miss the most heavily-obscured AGN in which the absorbing column density exceeds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , Timothy M. Heckman , Andrew A. Ptak , Ann Hornschemeier , Lucimara Martins , Paule Sonnentrucker , Christy Tremonti

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 report on X-ray observations of the radio-intermediate, X-ray bright Seyfert 1 galaxy, III Zw 2, obtained with XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and Swift over the past 17-years. The source brightness varies significantly over yearly time scales, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-05 Adam G. Gonzalez , Sophia G. H. Waddell , Luigi C. Gallo

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 X-ray observations of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 4785. The source is a local Seyfert 2 which has not been studied so far in much detail. It was recently detected with high significance in the 15-60 keV band in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Gandhi , S. Yamada , C. Ricci , D. Asmus , R. F. Mushotzky , Y. Ueda , Y. Terashima , V. La Parola

NGC 7582 is a well-studied X-ray bright Seyfert 2 with moderately heavy ($N_{\text{H}}\sim10^{23}-10^{24}$~cm$^{-2}$), highly variable absorption and strong reflection spectral features. The spectral shape changed around the year 2000,…