Silver, R.R.SilverTorres-Albà, N.N.Torres-AlbàZhao, X.X.ZhaoMARCHESI, STEFANOSTEFANOMARCHESIPizzetti, A.A.PizzettiCox, I.I.CoxAjello, M.M.AjelloCUSUMANO, GiancarloGiancarloCUSUMANOLA PAROLA, VALENTINAVALENTINALA PAROLASEGRETO, ALBERTOALBERTOSEGRETO2025-02-282025-02-2820220004-637Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/36310We present the results of the broadband X-ray spectral analysis of simultaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of four nearby Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates selected from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope 150 month catalog. This work is part of a larger effort to identify and characterize all Compton-thick (N H ≥ 1024 cm−2) AGN in the local universe (z ≤ 0.05). We used three physically motivated models—MYTorus, borus02, and UXClumpy—to fit and characterize these sources. Of the four candidates analyzed, 2MASX J02051994-0233055 was found to be an unobscured (N H < 1022 cm−2) AGN, 2MASX J04075215-6116126 and IC 2227 to be Compton-thin (1022 cm−2 < N H < 1024 cm−2) AGN, and one, ESO 362−8, was confirmed to be a Compton-thick AGN. Additionally, every source was found to have a statistically significant difference between their line-of-sight and average torus hydrogen column density, further supporting the idea that the obscuring material in AGN is inhomogeneous. Furthermore, half of the sources in our sample (2MASX J02051994-0233055 and 2MASX J04075215-6116126) exhibited significant luminosity variation in the last decade, suggesting that this might be a common feature of AGN.STAMPAenArticle10.3847/1538-4357/ac9bf82-s2.0-85143739785https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9bf8/pdf2022ApJ...940..148SFIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICAERC sectors::Physical Sciences and Engineering::PE9 Universe sciences: astro-physics/chemistry/biology; solar systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, planetary systems, cosmology, space science, instrumentation::PE9_10 High energy and particle astronomy – X-rays, cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos