A New Method for Selecting Compton Thick AGN Above 10 keV with NuSTAR and Swift BAT
Abstract
We present NuSTAR observations of a new sample of heavily obscured AGN identified based on their Swift BAT spectra above 10 keV. We use the 70 month Swift Bat all-sky maps with a scheme optimized to detect nearby, heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGN using the Compton curvature which have excesses between 24-50 keV and decrements in the 14-20 keV band. We demonstrate that these targets are among the brightest examples of reflection-dominated AGN available across the sky, providing a detailed study of nearby Compton-thick AGN.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #225
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AAS...22543208K