Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1304.3664 (Andrea Comastri et al.)

The ultra-deep XMM survey in the CDFS: X-ray spectroscopy of heavily obscured AGN    [PDF]

Andrea Comastri, the XMM-CDFS team
We present selected results on the X-ray spectroscopy of distant, obscured AGN as obtained with the ultra-deep (~3 Ms) XMM-Newton survey in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S). One of the primary goals of the project is to characterize the X-ray spectral properties of heavily obscured and Compton-thick AGN over the range of redshifts and luminosities that are relevant in terms of their contribution to the X-ray background. The ultra-deep exposure, coupled with the XMM detector's spectral throughput, allowed us to accumulate X-ray spectra for more than 100 AGN to investigate the absorption distribution up to z~4.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3664

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