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Title: | X-Ray Spectral Properties of Seven Heavily Obscured Seyfert 2 Galaxies | Authors: | MARCHESI, STEFANO Ajello, M. COMASTRI, Andrea CUSUMANO, GIANCARLO LA PAROLA, VALENTINA SEGRETO, ALBERTO |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 836 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 116 | Abstract: | We present the combined Chandra and Swift-BAT spectral analysis of seven Seyfert 2 galaxies selected from the Swift-BAT 100 month catalog. We selected nearby (z ≤ 0.03) sources lacking a ROSAT counterpart that never previously been observed with Chandra in the 0.3-10 keV energy range, and targeted these objects with 10 ks Chandra ACIS-S observations. The X-ray spectral fitting over the 0.3-150 keV energy range allows us to determine that all the objects are significantly obscured, with N_H≥ 10^23cm^-2 at a >99% confidence level. Moreover, one to three sources are candidate Compton-thick Active Galactic Nuclei (CT-AGNs; I.e., N_H ≥ 10^24 cm^-2). We also test the recent spectral curvature method developed by Koss et al. to find candidate CT-AGNs, finding a good agreement between our results and their predictions. Because the selection criteria we adopted were effective in detecting highly obscured AGNs, further observations of these and other Seyfert 2 galaxies selected from the Swift-BAT 100 month catalog will allow us to create a statistically significant sample of highly obscured AGNs, therefore providing a better understanding of the physics of the obscuration processes. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30730 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/116 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/116 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017ApJ...836..116M | Fulltext: | open |
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