no code implementations • 8 Feb 2021 • Ryan W. Pfeifle, Claudio Ricci, Peter G. Boorman, Marko Stalevski, Daniel Asmus, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael J. Koss, Daniel Stern, Federica Ricci, Shobita Satyapal, Kohei Ichikawa, David J. Rosario, Turgay Caglar, Ezequiel Treister, Meredith Powell, Kyuseok Oh, C. Megan Urry, Fiona Harrison
In this study, we use the SWIFT/BAT AGN sample, which has received extensive multiwavelength follow-up analysis as a result of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS), to develop a diagnostic for nuclear obscuration by examining the relationship between the line-of-sight column densities ($N_{\rm{H}}$), the 2-10 keV-to-$12\,\rm{\mu m}$ luminosity ratio, and WISE mid-infrared colors.
Astrophysics of Galaxies