Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Contains peer-reviewed research results that featured in a global NASA press release
- A comprehensive introduction into AGN science and state-of-the-art research of obscured supermassive black holes
- Includes a comprehensive step-by-step breakdown of the steps necessary for X-ray spectral extraction from a wide variety of cutting-edge X-ray telescopes
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Beginning with the proof-of-concept application of novel X-ray Monte Carlo codes to the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) spectrum of a known heavily obscured AGN, the thesis establishes the relevant parameters that characterise the AGN spectrum and central black hole growth rate. Next the largest sample of known heavily obscured AGN is compiled, finding the strength of a prominent iron spectral feature to weaken with AGN power. This is puzzling, and suggeststhat there may be more hidden AGN than previously thought. Finally by combining an all-sky infrared selection with NuSTAR follow-up, new heavily obscured AGN are identified. Obscuration emits infrared radiation, meaning that the infrared-selected AGN catalogue should be representative of the underlying AGN population. The absence of such representative catalogues has continually plagued cosmological studies, and the resultant obscured AGN fraction will be strongly constraining for AGN models.
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Book Title: The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
Book Subtitle: First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR
Authors: Peter Boorman
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60361-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60360-1Published: 03 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60363-2Published: 04 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60361-8Published: 02 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 311
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations, 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques