A Hard Look at NGC 5347: Revealing a Nearby Compton-thick AGN

Authors

E. S. Kammoun, University of MichiganFollow
J. M. Miller, University of Michigan
A. Zoghbi, University of Michigan
K. Oh, Kyoto University
M. Koss, Eureka Scientific
R. F. Muchotzky, University of Maryland
L. W. Brenneman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
W. N. Brandt, The Pennsylcania State University
Daniel Proga, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
A. M. Lohfink, Montana State University
J. S. Kaastra, SRON Netherlands Institute
D. Barret, Université de Toulouse
E. Behar, Technion
D. Stern, Califonia Institute of Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-31-2019

Publication Title

Astrophysical Journal

Publisher

American Astronomical Society

Volume

877

Issue

2

First page number:

1

Last page number:

9

Abstract

Current measurements show that the observed fraction of Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGN) is smaller than the expected values needed to explain the cosmic X-ray background. Prior fits to the X-ray spectrum of the nearby Seyfert-2 galaxy NGC 5347 (z = 0.00792, D = 35.5 Mpc ) have alternately suggested a CT and Compton-thin source. Combining archival data from Suzaku, Chandra, and—most importantly—new data from NuSTAR, ... See full text for complete abstract

Keywords

Galxies: active; Galaxies: individual (NGC 5347); Galaxies: Seyfert; X-rays: general

Disciplines

Astrophysics and Astronomy

File Format

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File Size

2.272 KB

Language

English

Repository Citation

Kammoun, E. S., Miller, J. M., Zoghbi, A., Oh, K., Koss, M., Muchotzky, R. F., Brenneman, L. W., Brandt, W. N., Proga, D., Lohfink, A. M., Kaastra, J. S., Barret, D., Behar, E., Stern, D. (2019). A Hard Look at NGC 5347: Revealing a Nearby Compton-thick AGN. Astrophysical Journal, 877(2), 1-9. American Astronomical Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1c5f