Identifying Compton-thick active galactic nuclei in the COSMOS. II. Searching among mid-infrared selected AGNs

Xiaotong Guo, Qiusheng Gu, Guanwen Fang +7

Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT-AGNs), defined by column density ${\mathrm{N}}_{\mathrm{H}}⩾1.5\times 10^{24}{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}$, are so heavily absorbed that their X-ray e…