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NuSTAR and Keck Observations of Heavily Obscured Quasars Selected by WISE
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WoS WOS:000454914900006
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85059862935
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/AAEED4
Año 2019
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Abstract



A primary aim of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission is to find and characterize heavily obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Based on mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and optical photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys, we have selected a large population of luminous obscured AGNs (i.e., "obscured quasars"). Here we report NuSTAR observations of four WISE-selected heavily obscured quasars for which we have optical spectroscopy from the Southern African Large Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory. Optical diagnostics confirm that all four targets are AGNs. With NuSTAR hard X-ray observations, three of the four objects are undetected, while the fourth has a marginal detection. We confirm that these objects have observed hard X-ray (10-40 keV) luminosities at or below similar to 10(43) erg s(-1). We compare X-ray and IR luminosities to obtain estimates of the hydrogen column densities (N-H) based on the suppression of the hard X-ray emission. We estimate N-H of these quasars to be at or larger than 10(25) cm(-2), confirming that WISE and optical selection can identify very heavily obscured quasars that may be missed in X-ray surveys, and they do not contribute significantly to the cosmic X-ray background. From the optical Balmer decrements, we found that our three extreme obscured targets lie in highly reddened host environments. This galactic extinction cannot adequately explain the more obscured AGNs, but it may imply a different scale of obscuration in the galaxy.

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Astrophysical Journal 0004-637X

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Yan, Wei - Dartmouth Coll - Estados Unidos
Dartmouth College - Estados Unidos
2 Hickox, R. Hombre Dartmouth Coll - Estados Unidos
Dartmouth College - Estados Unidos
3 Hainline, Kevin N. Hombre UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
4 Stern, Daniel Hombre CALTECH - Estados Unidos
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
Georgia Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Estados Unidos
5 Lansbury, George Benjamin Hombre UNIV CAMBRIDGE - Reino Unido
Institute of Astronomy - Reino Unido
6 Alexander, David M. Hombre Univ Durham - Reino Unido
University of Durham - Reino Unido
Durham University - Reino Unido
7 Hviding, Raphael E. Hombre UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
8 ASSEF-TREBILCOCK, ROBERTO JOSE JAVIER Hombre Universidad Diego Portales - Chile
9 Ballantyne, David R. Hombre Georgia Inst Technol - Estados Unidos
Georgia Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
10 DiPompeo, Michael A. Hombre Dartmouth Coll - Estados Unidos
Dartmouth College - Estados Unidos
11 Lanz, L. Mujer Dartmouth Coll - Estados Unidos
Dartmouth College - Estados Unidos
12 Carroll, Christopher M. Hombre Dartmouth Coll - Estados Unidos
Dartmouth College - Estados Unidos
13 Koss, Michael J. Hombre Eureka Sci Inc - Estados Unidos
Eureka Scientific, Inc. - Estados Unidos
14 Lamperti, Isabella Mujer UCL - Reino Unido
University College London - Reino Unido
15 Civano, F. Mujer Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys - Estados Unidos
Yale University - Estados Unidos
16 Del Moro, Agnese Mujer Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys - Alemania
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics - Alemania
17 Gandhi, Poshak - Univ Southampton - Reino Unido
University of Southampton - Reino Unido
18 Myers, Adam D. - UNIV WYOMING - Estados Unidos

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Financiamiento



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FONDECYT
National Science Foundation
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
W. M. Keck Foundation
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica
National Science Foundation CAREER Award

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This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). The data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. Some of the observations reported in this paper were obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). R.C.H. acknowledges support from NASA grant NNX15AP24G and National Science Foundation CAREER Award number 1554584. R.J.A. was supported by FONDECYT grant number 1151408.
This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). The data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. Some of the observations reported in this paper were obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). R.C.H. acknowledges support from NASA grant NNX15AP24G and National Science Foundation CAREER Award number 1554584. R.J.A. was supported by FONDECYT grant number 1151408.

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