The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR [1st ed.] 9783030603601, 9783030603618

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The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR [1st ed.]
 9783030603601, 9783030603618

Table of contents :
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction (Peter Boorman)....Pages 1-43
IC3639—A New Bona Fide Compton-Thick AGN Unveiled by NuSTAR (Peter Boorman)....Pages 45-80
An Iwasawa–Taniguchi Effect for Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nuclei (Peter Boorman)....Pages 81-121
The NuSTAR Local AGN \(N_{\mathrm {H}}\) Distribution Survey: Prospects for Mitigating Obscuration Bias in Local AGN Selection (Peter Boorman)....Pages 123-141
The NuLANDS \(N_H\) Distribution (Peter Boorman)....Pages 143-179
Summary, Conclusions and Outlook (Peter Boorman)....Pages 181-189
Back Matter ....Pages 191-311

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