BAT AGN spectroscopic survey. V. X-ray properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN catalog

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, MJ Koss, Y Ueda… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard X-ray (≥ 10 keV) observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can shed light on some
of the most obscured episodes of accretion onto supermassive black holes. The 70-month …

The nustar extragalactic surveys: overview and catalog from the COSMOS field

F Civano, RC Hickox, S Puccetti… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10
keV, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is performing extragalactic surveys …

Properties of AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era

AC Fabian, A Lohfink, E Kara, ML Parker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The focusing optics of NuSTAR have enabled high signal-to-noise ratio spectra to be
obtained from many X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galactic black hole …

Compton-thick accretion in the local universe

C Ricci, Y Ueda, MJ Koss, B Trakhtenbrot… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavily obscured accretion is believed to represent an important stage in the growth of
supermassive black holes and to play an important role in shaping the observed spectrum of …

Obscuration-dependent evolution of active galactic nuclei

J Buchner, A Georgakakis, K Nandra… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We aim to constrain the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as a function of
obscuration using an X-ray-selected sample of∼ 2000 AGNs from a multi-tiered survey …

Toward the standard population synthesis model of the x-ray background: Evolution of X-ray luminosity and absorption functions of active galactic nuclei including …

Y Ueda, M Akiyama, G Hasinger, T Miyaji… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the most up to date X-ray luminosity function (XLF) and absorption function of
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the redshift range from 0 to 5, utilizing the largest, highly …

The accretion history of AGNs. I. Supermassive black hole population synthesis model

TT Ananna, E Treister, CM Urry, C Ricci… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As matter accretes onto the central supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei
(AGNs), X-rays are emitted. We present a population synthesis model that accounts for the …

The subarcsecond mid-infrared view of local active galactic nuclei–II. The mid-infrared–X-ray correlation

D Asmus, P Gandhi, SF Hönig, A Smette… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present an updated mid-infrared (MIR) versus X-ray correlation for the local active
galactic nuclei (AGN) population based on the high angular resolution 12 and 18μm …

The Chandra deep fields: Lifting the veil on distant active galactic nuclei and X-ray emitting galaxies

YQ Xue - New Astronomy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chandra Deep Fields (CDFs), being a major thrust among extragalactic X-ray
surveys and complemented effectively by multiwavelength observations, have critically …

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey–XII. The relation between coronal properties of active galactic nuclei and the Eddington ratio

C Ricci, LC Ho, AC Fabian… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The bulk of the X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is produced very close to the
accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH), in a corona of hot electrons which up scatters …