Angle-dependent Compton reflection of X-rays and gamma-rays
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This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The article was published on 1995-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1538 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compton scattering & Gamma ray.read more
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A Unified, Merger-driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids
Philip F. Hopkins,Lars Hernquist,Thomas J. Cox,Tiziana Di Matteo,Brant Robertson,Volker Springel +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, an evolutionary model for starbursts, quasars, and spheroidal galaxies is presented, in which mergers between gas-rich galaxies drive nuclear inflows of gas, producing starburst and feeding the buried growth of supermassive black holes (BHs) until feedback expels gas and renders a briefly visible optical quasar.
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THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY (NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION
Fiona A. Harrison,William W. Craig,William W. Craig,Finn Erland Christensen,Charles J. Hailey,William W. Zhang,Steven E. Boggs,Daniel Stern,W. Rick Cook,Karl Forster,Paolo Giommi,Brian W. Grefenstette,Yunjin Kim,Takao Kitaguchi,Jason E. Koglin,Kristin K. Madsen,Peter H. Mao,Hiromasa Miyasaka,Kaya Mori,M. Perri,Michael J. Pivovaroff,Simonetta Puccetti,Vikram Rana,Niels Jørgen Stenfeldt Westergaard,J. L. Willis,Andreas Zoglauer,Hongjun An,Matteo Bachetti,Matteo Bachetti,Nicolas M. Barrière,Eric C. Bellm,Varun Bhalerao,Varun Bhalerao,Nicolai Brejnholt,Felix Fuerst,Carl Christian Liebe,Craig B. Markwardt,Melania Nynka,Julia Vogel,Dominic J. Walton,Daniel R. Wik,David M. Alexander,L. R. Cominsky,Ann Hornschemeier,Allan Hornstrup,Victoria M. Kaspi,Greg Madejski,Giorgio Matt,S. Molendi,David M. Smith,John A. Tomsick,Marco Ajello,David R. Ballantyne,Mislav Baloković,Didier Barret,Didier Barret,Franz E. Bauer,Roger Blandford,W. Niel Brandt,Laura Brenneman,James Chiang,Deepto Chakrabarty,Jérôme Chenevez,Andrea Comastri,Francois Dufour,Martin Elvis,Andrew C. Fabian,Duncan Farrah,Chris L. Fryer,Eric V. Gotthelf,Jonathan E. Grindlay,D. J. Helfand,Roman Krivonos,David L. Meier,Jon M. Miller,Lorenzo Natalucci,Patrick Ogle,Eran O. Ofek,Andrew Ptak,Stephen P. Reynolds,Jane R. Rigby,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Stephen E. Thorsett,Ezequiel Treister,C. Megan Urry +84 more
TL;DR: The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) as discussed by the authors is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit, which operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV.
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Local supermassive black holes, relics of active galactic nuclei and the X-ray background
Alessandro Marconi,Guido Risaliti,Guido Risaliti,Roberto Gilli,L. K. Hunt,Roberto Maiolino,M. Salvati +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the importance of mass accretion during AGN phases in the growth of supermassive black holes (BH) by comparing the mass function of black holes in the local universe with that expected from AGN relics, which are black holes grown entirely with mass accumulation during AGNs phases.
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Cosmological evolution of the hard X-ray active galactic nucleus luminosity function and the origin of the hard X-ray background
TL;DR: In this article, the cosmological evolution of the hard X-ray luminosity function (HXLF) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the 2-10 keV luminosity range of 1041.5-1046.5 ergs s-1 was investigated.
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An Observational Determination of the Bolometric Quasar Luminosity Function
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine a large set of quasar luminosity function (QLF) measurements from the rest-frame optical, soft and hard X-ray, and near and mid-IR bands to determine the bolometric QLF in the redshift interval z = 0-6.
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