Selection of Compton-thick AGN from a hard photometric sample using XMM-Newton observations

Reham Mostafa, Matteo Guainazzi, Alaa Ibrahim

We present a selection technique to detect Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the 3XMM/SDSS-DR7 cross-correlation. A subsample of 3481 X-ray sources that are detec…