Revealing the coronal properties of Seyfert galaxies with NuSTAR
Abstract
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched on June 13, 2012, is the first orbiting telescope to focus high energy X-ray light above 10 keV. Compared to the previous generation of coded aperture observatories, this change in technology provides NuSTAR with 10x sharper images and 100x improved sensitivity. We will present and discuss the key parameters describing the hot corona of AGN that have been recently measured, with unprecedented accuracy, in a number of Seyfert galaxies.
- Publication:
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The X-ray Universe 2014
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014xru..confE.128M