Heavily obscured AGN in the local Universe
Cusumano, G.; Moretti, A.; Vignali, C.; La Parola, V.; Caccianiga, A.; Severgnini, P.; Della Ceca, R.
Italy
Abstract
We present here a new powerful diagnostic plot to select heavily obscured AGN in the local universe by combining infrared (Spitzer, IRAS) and X-ray (XMM) information. On the basis of this plot, we selected a sample of X-ray obscured sources in the 2XMM catalogue and found seven newly discovered Compton-thick AGN candidates.