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Name: The Fraction of Heavily-Obscured AGN Amongst Diffuse-Merger ULIRGs
Published: 2013-02-16T00:00:00Z

Proposal ID	067290
Title	The Fraction of Heavily-Obscured AGN Amongst Diffuse-Merger ULIRGs
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-ax05shn
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Ezequiel Treister
Abstract	As was recently established, the energy source in Ultraluminous InfraredGalaxies (ULIRGs) depends on their interaction phase. AGN have been found in thelatest stages, while they are mostly not seen in the early merger phases. Wepropose to use XMM-Newton observations to constrain the fraction ofrecently-triggered AGN in the diffuse merger stage. We will look for a luminoushard (>3 keV) X-ray power-law (indicative of AGN activity not affected byobscuration) in a sample of 5 ULIRGs selected from the IRAS 1 Jy sample that donot show any AGN characteristic so far. These sources are excellent study casesfor the black hole-galaxy evolution paradigm. These proposed snapshotobservations will enable us to perform more extensive X-ray follow-up studies with Chandra and XMM.
Publications	Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift \|Yershov, V. N., \| Ap&SS \| 354-97 \| 2014 \| 2014Ap&SS.354...97Y \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014Ap&SS.354...97Y The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue \|Flesch, Eric W., \| PASA \| 33-52 \| 2016 \| 2016PASA...33...52F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PASA...33...52F Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning \|Zhang, Yanxia, Zhao, Yongheng, \| MNRAS \| 503-5263 \| 2021 \| 2021MNRAS.503.5263Z \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021MNRAS.503.5263Z The XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program (X-LEAP). I. Emission-line Survey of O VII, O VIII, and Fe L-shell Transitions \|Pan, Zeyang, Qu, Zhijie, et al. \| ApJS \| 271-62 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJS..271...62P \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJS..271...62P From Active Stars to Black Holes: A Discovery Tool for Galactic X-Ray Sources \|Rodriguez, Antonio C., \| PASP \| 136-054201 \| 2024 \| 2024PASP..136e4201R \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PASP..136e4201R Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton \|Luque, Pedro De la Torre, Balaji, Shyam, \| PhRvD \| 109-L101305 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j1305L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j1305L Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae \|Luque, Pedro De la Torre, Balaji, Shyam, \| PhRvD \| 109-103028 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j3028L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j3028L Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints \|De la Torre Luque, Pedro, Balaji, Shyam, \| ApJ \| 968-46 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJ...968...46D \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...968...46D
Instrument	EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage	2011-08-29T07:02:05Z/2012-01-27T11:18:15Z
Version	17.56_20190403_1200
Mission Description	The European Space Agencys (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESAs second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earths atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis.
Creator Contact	https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Date Published	2013-02-16T00:00:00Z
Keywords	"triggered agn", "agn characteristic", "XMM", "luminous hard", "extensive xray", "energy source", "agn activity", "jy sample", "diffuse merger stage", "XMM-Newton", "interaction phase", "merger phases", "xmm newton"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Ezequiel Treister, 2013, 'The Fraction of Heavily-Obscured AGN Amongst Diffuse-Merger ULIRGs', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-ax05shn