A New Compton-thick AGN in our Cosmic Backyard: Unveiling the Buried Nucleus in NGC 1448 with NuSTAR

A. Annuar, D. M. Alexander, P. Gandhi +22

NGC 1448 is one of the nearest luminous galaxies ($L_{8-1000\mu m}>$ 10${}^9{L}_{\odot }$) to ours ($z$ $=$ 0.00390), and yet the active galactic nucleus (AGN) it hosts was only recent…