Towards a complete census of the Compton-thick AGN population in the local universe
Many studies have shown that the majority of accretion onto supermassive black holes; i.e., active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are hidden from our view by obscuring "torus" of gas and dust with column densities of N_H ≥ 10²² cm⁻². Arguably, the most efficient method of identifying AGNs is in th...
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Durham University
2017
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.725796 |