Where are Compton-thick radio galaxies? A hard X-ray view of three candidates
Where are Compton-thick radio galaxies? A hard X-ray view of three candidates
We present a broad-band X-ray spectral analysis of the radio-loud active galactic nuclei NGC 612, 4C 73.08 and 3C 452, exploiting archival data from NuSTAR, XMM–Newton, Swift and INTEGRAL. These Compton-thick candidates are the most absorbed sources among the hard X-ray selected radio galaxies studied in Panessa et al. We find an X-ray absorbing column density in every case below 1.5 × 1024 cm−2, and no evidence for a strong reflection continuum or iron K α line. Therefore, none of these sources is properly Compton-thick. We review other Compton-thick radio galaxies reported in the literature, arguing that we currently lack strong evidences for heavily absorbed radio-loud AGNs.
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Ursini, F
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Ursini, F
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Bassani, L.
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Panessa, F.
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Bazzano, A.
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Bird, Antony
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Ursini, F, Bassani, L., Panessa, F., Bazzano, A., Bird, Antony, Malizia, A. and Ubertini, P.
(2017)
Where are Compton-thick radio galaxies? A hard X-ray view of three candidates.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474 (4), .
(doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3159).
Abstract
We present a broad-band X-ray spectral analysis of the radio-loud active galactic nuclei NGC 612, 4C 73.08 and 3C 452, exploiting archival data from NuSTAR, XMM–Newton, Swift and INTEGRAL. These Compton-thick candidates are the most absorbed sources among the hard X-ray selected radio galaxies studied in Panessa et al. We find an X-ray absorbing column density in every case below 1.5 × 1024 cm−2, and no evidence for a strong reflection continuum or iron K α line. Therefore, none of these sources is properly Compton-thick. We review other Compton-thick radio galaxies reported in the literature, arguing that we currently lack strong evidences for heavily absorbed radio-loud AGNs.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2017
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