Revealing Compton-thick luminous AGNs in powerful [OIII] emitters

Details Revealing Compton-thick luminous AGNs in powerful [OIII] emitters Revealing Compton-thick luminous AGNs in powerful [OIII] emitters

Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009xmm..prop...31p&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #06511002

Computer Science

Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Bl-Lac Objects, X-Ray Background, Mrk 477, Iras 15480-0344

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We propose to complete an observing program accepted during the last AO aimed at discovering unquestionable examples of still-elusive, Compton-thick (CT) quasars among the most [OIII] luminous AGNs in the local Universe. We request XMM-Newton observations of two narrow line AGNs at z <0.04. The very large [OIII] luminosity of both sources points out an intrinsic X-ray luminosity typical of quasars, while previous low-quality X-ray data provided strong, although inconclusive, evidence of a reflection dominated spectrum. As demonstrated by the observation of the AO8 accepted target, that has successfully revealed a CT quasar, our observing strategy is designed to minimize the risks of ambiguous results that have affected most of blind searches for CT luminous AGNs performed so far.

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