Decoupled Kinematics and Excitation in the Compton-thick AGN NGC 6552: Spatially Resolved KOOLS-IFU Observations

Kyuseok Oh, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kanta Fujiwara +7

Hard X-ray selected Compton-thick AGNs provide a relatively obscuration-resistant census of accretion, but optical line diagnostics can be strongly shaped by extinction and geometr…