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NuSTAR时代的康普顿厚AGN

Compton thick AGN in the NuSTAR era

Stefano Marchesi, Marco Ajello, Lea Marcotulli, Andrea Comastri, Giorgio Lanzuisi, Cristian Vignali

摘要:

本文对Swift-BAT 100个月巡天中选出的30个康普顿厚度(CT-)活动星系核(AGN)进行了2-100 keV的光谱分析。这些天体的平均红移为$\langle z\rangle\sim$ 0.03,它们都位于$\sim$ 500 Mpc范围内。我们使用MyTorus(Murphy等人,2009年)模型进行X射线光谱拟合,在3-50 keV能量范围内,不使用和使用NuSTAR数据。当NuSTAR数据被添加到拟合中时,30个对象中的14个(整个样本的47%)在$>$ 3 $σ$置信水平下具有固有吸收N $_{\rm H}<10^{24}$ cm $^{-2}$,即,它们从康普顿厚重新分类为康普顿薄。因此,我们推断整体观察到的部分CT-AGN相对于整个AGN人口低于在以前的作品中报道的,低至$\sim$ 4%。我们发现的证据表明,这种过度估计的N $_{\rm H}$可能是由于低质量的子样本的光谱,无论是在2-10千电子伏波段或在Swift-BAT的。

英文摘要:

We present the 2-100 keV spectral analysis of 30 candidate Compton thick (CT-) active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected in the Swift-BAT 100-month survey. The average redshift of these objects is $\langle z\rangle\sim$0.03 and they all lie within $\sim$500 Mpc. We used the MyTorus (Murphy et al. 2009) model to perform X-ray spectral fitting both without and with the contribution of the NuSTAR data in the 3-50 keV energy range. When the NuSTAR data are added to the fit, 14 out of 30 of these objects (47% of the whole sample) have intrinsic absorption N$_{\rm H}<10^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$ at the $>$3$σ$ confidence level, i.e., they are re-classified from Compton thick to Compton thin. Consequently, we infer an overall observed fraction of CT-AGN with respect to the whole AGN population lower than the one reported in previous works, and as low as $\sim$4%. We find evidence that this over-estimation of N$_{\rm H}$ is likely due to the low quality of a subsample of spectra, either in the 2-10 keV band or in the Swift-BAT one.

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