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NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of Luminous, Heavily Obscured, WISE-selected Quasars at z ∼ 2

  • Authors: D. Stern, G. B. Lansbury, R. J. Assef, W. N. Brandt, D. M. Alexander, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Baloković, F. E. Bauer, D. Benford, A. Blain, S. E. Boggs, C. Bridge, M. Brightman, F. E. Christensen, A. Comastri, W. W. Craig, A. Del Moro, P. R. M. Eisenhardt, P. Gandhi, R. L. Griffith, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, T. H. Jarrett, M. Koss, S. Lake, S. M. LaMassa, B. Luo, C.-W. Tsai, C. M. Urry, D. J. Walton, E. L. Wright, J. Wu, L. Yan, and W. W. Zhang

Stern et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 794 102.

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Caption: Figure 4.

Rest-frame X-ray luminosity against rest-frame 6 μm luminosity for: (left) 2–10 keV luminosities calculated using XMM-Newton data; and (right) 10–40 keV luminosities calculated using NuSTAR data. The X-ray luminosities are not corrected for absorption, and upper limits correspond to 3σ values to aid literature comparisons. WISE J1814+3412, WISE J2207+1939, and WISE J2357+0328 are shown as black, blue, and red circles, as indicated. We compare with NuSTAR observations from the serendipitous survey (Alexander et al. 2013; triangles), a survey of three SDSS type-2 quasars at z ~ 0.5 (Lansbury et al. 2014; diamonds), and an interesting source at z ≈ 2 detected by NuSTAR in the ECDFS (Del Moro et al. 2014; star); in the left panel, we also show soft X-ray data on Compton-thick quasars from Alexander et al. (2008; squares). We compare with three published intrinsic relations for the 2–10 keV band calibrated using various AGN samples, as indicated. The relations are extrapolated to the 10–40 keV band assuming Γ = 1.8 and in both panels the dashed lines show the result of obscuration by NH = 1024 cm−2. Assuming the low X-ray luminosities are due to absorption, sources that lie below the NH = 1024 cm−2 tracks may be Compton-thick.

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