Study of the mid-infrared properties of obscured AGN

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Oct 2008

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Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on AGN, held in Torino, Italy, May 19-22, 2008. Edited by L. Lanteri, C.M. Raiteri,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The comprehension of the physical properties of obscured AGNs is one of the main goals of the high energy astronomy given their key role in tracing the accretion history of the Universe. Although X-ray and infrared data of AGN with a different level of absorption could provide a direct tool to test the predictions of the AGN models, only few sparse SED of obscured AGN are available so far. We present here the results obtained from Spitzer observations of a statistically complete sample of obscured AGN drawn from the XMM-Newton Hard Bright Sample. This is the largest hard X-ray sample with a complete spectroscopic identification. The Spitzer data, combined with good X-ray and optical spectroscopic data, has allowed us to define powerful diagnostic plots to select heavily obscured AGNs and to build up their spectral energy distributions.

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