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The incidence of obscuration in active galactic nuclei | | A. Merloni
; A. Bongiorno
; M. Brusa
; K. Iwasawa
; V. Mainieri
; B. Magnelli
; M. Salvato
; S. Berta
; N. Cappelluti
; A. Comastri
; F. Fiore
; R. Gilli
; A. Koekemoer
; E. Le Floc'h
; E. Lusso
; D. Lutz
; T. Miyaji
; F. Pozzi
; L. Riguccini
; D.J. Rosario
; J. Silverman
; M. Symeonidis
; E. Treister
; C. Vignali
; G. Zamorani
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6 Nov 2013 | | Abstract: | We study the incidence of nuclear obscuration on a complete sample of 1310
AGN selected on the basis of their rest-frame 2-10 keV X-ray flux from the
XMM-COSMOS survey, in the redshift range 0.3<z<3.5. We classify the AGN as
obscured or un-obscured on the basis of either the optical spectral properties
and the overall SED or the shape of the X-ray spectrum. The two classifications
agree in about 70% of the objects, and the remaining 30% can be further
subdivided into two distinct classes: at low luminosities X-ray un-obscured AGN
do not always show signs of broad lines or blue/UV continuum emission in their
optical spectra, most likely due to galaxy dilution effects; at high
luminosities broad line AGN may have absorbed X-ray spectra, which hints at an
increased incidence of small-scale (sub-parsec) dust-free obscuration. We
confirm that the fraction of obscured AGN is a decreasing function of the
intrinsic X-ray luminosity, while the incidence of absorption shows significant
evolution only for the most luminous AGN, which appear to be more commonly
obscured at higher redshift. We find no significant difference between the mean
stellar masses and star formation rates of obscured and un-obscured AGN hosts.
We conclude that the physical state of the medium responsible for obscuration
in AGN is complex, and mainly determined by the radiation environment (nuclear
luminosity) in a small region enclosed within the gravitational sphere of
influence of the central black hole, but is largely insensitive to the wider
scale galactic conditions. | | Source: | arXiv, 1311.1305 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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