The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR [1st ed.]
9783030603601, 9783030603618
This thesis describes the application of state-of-the-art high-energy X-ray studies to the astronomical quest for unders
Table of contents : Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Introduction (Peter Boorman)....Pages 1-43 IC3639—A New Bona Fide Compton-Thick AGN Unveiled by NuSTAR (Peter Boorman)....Pages 45-80 An Iwasawa–Taniguchi Effect for Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nuclei (Peter Boorman)....Pages 81-121 The NuSTAR Local AGN \(N_{\mathrm {H}}\) Distribution Survey: Prospects for Mitigating Obscuration Bias in Local AGN Selection (Peter Boorman)....Pages 123-141 The NuLANDS \(N_H\) Distribution (Peter Boorman)....Pages 143-179 Summary, Conclusions and Outlook (Peter Boorman)....Pages 181-189 Back Matter ....Pages 191-311